Mental Kineticist (3.5e Alternate Class Feature)
 | |||||||||
| |||||||||
 | |||||||||
|
Rate this article Discuss this article | |||||||||
Mental Kineticist
This archetype attempts where many failed, making a mental-focused kineticist not reliant on burn. The mental kineticist has a reserve of mental energy and is at her best when it is full, becoming weaker as she burns herself out. A mental kineticist follows an opposite design to the normal kineticist, not being rewarded for accumulating burn. This relative safety comes at the cost of raw powers as they possess a weaker version of elemental overflow.
Class: Kineticist
Level: 1st-20th
Replaces: Burn, Elemental Defense, Internal Buffer, Elemental Overflow
Benefit: A mental kineticist gain the following class features:
Mental Proficiency (Ex): A mental kineticist uses their Intelligence or Wisdom modifier instead of her Constitution modifier to determine her damage with wild talents, the DCs of Constitution-based wild talents, the durations of wild talents with Constitution-based durations, her bonus on concentration checks for wild talents, and other Constitution-based effects of all her wild talents.
Mental Reserve (Ex): A mental kineticist cannot accept burn, instead she has a mental reserve pool equal to 1 + half her Intelligence or Wisdom bonus. Whenever a mental kineticist would accept burn, she instead subtract the amount of burn from her mental reserve. She cannot accept any burn if it would reduce her mental reserve below 0. The mental kineticist refreshes her pool to its maximum value by resting for 8 hours. Whenever a mental kineticist's mental reserve is depleted she become fatigued until the next time she rest and restore her mental reserve, this condition cannot be ended early.
If the kineticist is inflicted burn (such as by failing a concentration check after being struck while using gather energy), it is deducted from her mental reserve. If this inflicted burn reduces her mental reserve below 0, she instead takes 1 point of damage per kineticist level she has per point of burn inflicted which cannot be deducted from her mental reserve. This damage cannot be resisted but may be healed as normal.
If a wild talent has an effect based on how many burns the mental kineticist currently has, she instead treats the remaining point in her mental reserve as her current burn.
At 7th level and each 5 levels thereafter, the mental kineticist gains an additional point to her mental reserve.
This ability alters burn and replaces internal buffer.
Potent Elemental Defense (Ex): A mental kineticist is always treated as having spent a point of burn to improve her elemental defense. If the mental kineticist gain an additional elemental defense, she chooses which elemental defense gain this benefit.
At 9th level she is treated as having spent 2 points of burn to improve her elemental defense, or having spent 1 point for two different elemental defense.
This ability alters Elemental Defense.
Mental Power (Ex): At 3rd level, a mental kineticist gains a +1 bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls with her kinetic blasts, up to a maximum equal to the number of points remaining in her mental reserve. The damage bonus doesn’t apply to kinetic blade, kinetic whip, or other infusions that don’t apply the damage bonus from elemental overflow.
This bonus increases by 1 at 6th level and every 3 levels thereafter.
This ability replaces elemental overflow.
Back to Main Page → 3.5e Homebrew → Character Options → Alternate Class Features
| Leziadv |
|---|
| Author | Leziad + |
| Class | Kineticist + |
| Identifier | 3.5e Alternate Class Feature + |
| Rating | Undiscussed + |
| Summary | This archetype attempts where many failed, … This archetype attempts where many failed, making a mental-focused kineticist not reliant on burn. The mental kineticist has a reserve of mental energy and is at her best when it is full, becoming weaker as she burns herself out. A mental kineticist follows an opposite design to the normal kineticist, not being rewarded for accumulating burn. This relative safety comes at the cost of raw powers as they possess a weaker version of elemental overflow. ss a weaker version of elemental overflow. + |
| Title | Mental Kineticist + |
