Psychic Stalker (3.5e Class)

Summary::A psionic rogue capable of augmenting all it attacks like psionic powers. Minimum Level::1 Class Ability::Psionics Class Ability Progression::Partial

Psychic Stalker
In the realm of psionic, psychic stalker have a interesting role. They occupy a space between the psion and the rogue, using skills, dirty tricks and psionic powers to achieve their end. While most of their powers tend to be bend mind and space they possess improved versatility compared to the standard rogue, although neither as skilled or capable of inflicting debilitating attacks.

Making a Psychic Stalker
Psychic stalkers are excellent scouts and assassins, their psionic powers also make them extremely useful. While they are not on the same level as psions, they are powerful manifesters in their own right. Their most powerful tool is the ability to psionically enhance each of their attacks using their power point reserve, making them far deadlier fighters they otherwise would be.

Abilities: Psychic stalkers need high wisdom for their powers and ability, high dexterity for combat, armor class and sneaking around. They also need good intelligence for skills, constitution for hit points and many want a good charisma for social situations.

Races: Psionic stalkers usually come from races with both psionic potential and capable of sneaking around decently well.

Alignment: Any.

Starting Gold: As rogue.

Starting Age: Simple.

Class Features
All of the following are class features of the Psychic Stalker.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Psychic stalkers are proficient with all simple weapons, plus the hand crossbow, rapier, sap, shortbow, and short sword. Psychic stalkers are proficient with light armor, but not with shields.

Her base daily allotment of power points is given on Table: Psychic Stalker. In addition, she receives bonus power points per day if he has a high wisdom score (see Table: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Power Points). Her race may also provide bonus power points per day, as may certain feats and items.

Psychic Stalkers choose their powers from the following list:

1st&mdash;Aura of poison, cat's feet, compression, control light, crystalize memory, discover weak spot, dimension hopCP, ethereal smoke, inertial armor, float, force screen, manifest blade, mental ping, mind thrust, precognition, defensive, prescience, offensive, precognition, offensive, prevenom, prevenom weapon, primeval fear, psionic scarf, psychic strike, recall agony, sense link, skate, telempathic projection, vigor, weaponkinesis

2nd&mdash;Body adjustment, body equilibrium, body purification, concealing amorpha, damp powerCP, detect hostile intent, dimension swap, emphatic link, harmful, false sensory input, foresee weakness, hustle, manifest trap, phantom flanker, suggestion, psionic, warp light

3rd&mdash;claws of the vampire, ectoplasmic form, empathic feedback,  empathic transfer, hostile, escape detection, dimension slide, fly, psionic, keen edge, psionic, ubiquitous vision, vampiric blade, warp cloak

4th&mdash;claw of energy, dimension door, psionic, freedom of movement, psionic, inhibiting strike, schism, psychic vampire, teleport, psionic, truevenom, truevenom weapon

5th&mdash;Alternate future, arcane replication, anticipatory strike, chakra purification, crisis of life, ethereal jaunt, psionic, recall death, psychic point singularity.

6th&mdash;Astral phantom, divert teleport, hostile schism, psychic halo, mind blank, personal, segment body, teleport, psionic greater

7th&mdash;Bend reality, etherealness, psionic, mind trap



To learn or manifest a power, a psychic stalker must have an wisdom score of at least 10 + the power’s level.

 : A psychic stalker is capable of augmenting her own attack using her psychic potential. as part of an attack action she may augment one of her attack with one or more of the following augment as long as she meet the level requirement. She may not spend more power points augmenting her attack than her manifester level.

For every additional power point spent on the augment she inflict an additional point of bleedout.

For one power points the psychic stalker may have her attack deal an additional 2 points of fire damage, for each additional power point spent the attack deal an additional 2 points of fire damage. If struck the creature must make a reflex save or catch on fire, dealing the bonus fire damage granted by this augment every round until put out.

This augment is available to psychic stalker of 2nd level and above.

This augment is available to psychic stalker of 2nd level and above.

This movement do not provoke attack of opportunity. For each additional 2 power points spent on this augment, the creature is moved additional 10 feet. If an obstacle prevents the completion of the opponent's move, the opponent and the obstacle each take 1d6 points of damage per 5 feet left in the opponent's movement, and the opponent stops in the space adjacent to the obstacle. A successful reflex save halves the movement and negate the prone effect. This augment is available to psychic stalker of 3rd level and above.

For every 2 points spent on this augment the damage increase by 1. This augment is available to psychic stalker of 4th level and above.

For each 3 power point spent on this augment the duration of the exhaustion by 1 round and the fatigue by 2 rounds. This augment is available to psychic stalker of 5th level and above.

For each2 power points spent on this augment, the duration of the staggering improve by 1 round. A successful fortitute save This augment is available to psychic stalker of 7th level and above.

For each 5 power points spent on this augment you deal an additional negative level. This augment is available to psychic stalker of 9th level and above.

For every 2 points spent on this augment the damage increase by 1 This augment is available to psychic stalker of 11th level and above.

This augment is available to psychic stalker of 13th level and above.

For each additional 2 power points spent on this augment the damage increase by 1d6. This augment is available to psychic stalker of 15th level and above.

For each 10 points spent on this augment increase the duration both the blidness and deafness by 1 round. This augment is available to psychic stalker of 17th level and above.

This augment is available to psychic stalker of 19th level and above.



She gain another dice of sneak attack at 5th level and every 3 level afterward.

At 7th level this ability improve to improved evasion. Unlike the rogue she need to be psionically focused to benefit from evasion.



 : Upon selecting this talent, the psychic stalker add her wisdom modifier as a bonus to AC (max +7).


 *  : As an immediate action you can cause any attack that would hit you miss or automatically succeed any one saving throw, doing so however cause 2 points of constitution burn. If you cannot take constitution burn you may not take this talent.




 * : Upon selecting this talent, the psychic stalker may now use her death-attack through her mind thrust instead of a melee attack. A successful save against the mind thrust prevent the death-attack from functioning, essentially granting two save in exchange for range and stealth. You need to have selected deadly mind thrust in order to take this talent.

 : Upon selecting this talent you gain the ability to increase your manifester level by one point plus one per five class level you have for the purpose of using psychic augmentation for one round by expending your psionic focus as a swift action.

 : Upon selecting this talent you fall under a constant deathwatch  effect. At your option you may appear dead to any spell, power or abilities that specifically detect living creature.

 : You gain poison use as an assassin and alchemical mastery as a bonus feat even if you do not meet the prerequisites.


 *  : You gain a special psychic augment; by spending 4 power points you can apply a poison to your current attack as part of the attack action. For every 4 power points you spend on this augment the DC of the poison increase by +1. You need to have selected poison use in order to take this talent.

 : All the weapon you wield (including unarmed attack and natural weapon) have the ghost-touch enhancement. Additionally you gain the ghost domain's granted power.



 : At 3rd level, the psychic stalker gain an ability very similar to the the assassin's death attack except the DC is 10 +1/2 HD + the psychic stalker's dexterity or wisdom modifier (whichever is better) and require the psionic stalker to expend her psionic focus as part of the death attack. During the death attack the psychic stalker's manifester level count as 2 points higher for the purpose of applying psychic augments.

 : At 4th level a psychic stalker add her wisdom's modifier as a insight bonus to her reflex save and initiative modifier.

 : A psychic talker capable of masking her presence and thoughts with uncanny ability, upon attaining 5th level she become under a permanent conceal thoughts effect and gain the benefit of the Darkstalker feat from Lords of Madness as long as she is psionically focused.

At 11th level she fall under the effect of a permanent nondetection efefct as long as she is psionically focused. At 19th level she is under the effect of mind blank while psionically focused as well.

 : At 10th level a psychic stalker can as an immediate action and expending her psionic focus make a single psychic augment cost no power points. The amount of power point she can 'spend' is still limited to her manifester level despite not costing actual power points.

Additionally when psionically focused she appear to teleport instead of moving conventionally, her movement ignore difficult terrain, obstacles and do not provoke attacks of opportunity.