Empty Machine: The Conscience Android can use her mecha’s own base HP, DR, Dodge, natural armor, movement speed(s), attack bonus (if any), save bonus (if any) and weapons instead of her own and also counts as having the same amount of energy instead of her own (including the basic 5 energy recovery per turn) as well as any special mecha properties such as transformation and barriers/coats/resistances/Regen/Reactor (do not count arsenal or benefits from others). She can also choose one in-built or arsenal weapon available to her mecha and replicate a normal-scale version on herself as a free action. This demands spending 8 hours of meditation outside her mecha and another 8 if she wishes to reverse the proccess.
Can we change only some of those stats or is it an everything or nothing conversion? The former is practical when some of the android's stats are better than his mecha's.
Also, the mecha weapons acquired are confusing a little. First you use them all instead of your own and then can also choose one. Unless this is meant to allow you to use all the mecha weapons instead of your own (including the one weapon replica chosen) when you choose to attack (a decision made every time an attack is done).
To note is that an android already gets the integrated weapon. Gives me ideas on how it may interact with it. Also, this ability is pretty badass.
Conscience Companion: At 2nd level the Conscience Android always gains the benefits of Friendship or Love as long as the respective target has a soul, is alive and whitin 100 mu, and double them if actually adjacent.
WOah. Double bonus? The benefits of a relationship bonus also includes the ability to do sync attacks. Is this allowing them to do sync attacks when within 100 mu?
Wonder why it shouldn't include the Rival and Devotion feats. Those are as intense in their own way.
Two with the Machine: At 3rd level the Conscience Android can have force one person that she has Friendship or Love to ride along her mecha. They can only use spirits and add their Cha mod to the mecha’s saves, attack and damage rolls. The Consicence Android still benefits from Love/Friendship while they’re both piloting the same mecha. As a swift action the Conscience Android may switch controls to them.
If the android wants to switch the controls back to them, they have to get the companion to relinquish it as a move action and then take them back as a move action of his own?
Synchro Conscience: At 5th level the Conscience Android can perform a Synchro Attack with her Conscience Companion while using Two with the Machine, plus benefit from any of her stances or other on-going self-buffs.
Technically, if they benefit from the relationship feat even when occupying the same mecha, they could already do synchro attacks by swapping the controls.
Protective Conscience: At 6th level with 1 minute of work the Conscience Android can allow somebody else adjacent to benefit from Empty Machine. Only one other person can benefit from this at a time, but they can pass on the bonus to somebody else with another minute of work. The Conscience Android can void this bonus as an immediate action.
Another pretty kickass ability. Pretty handy for a follower/cohort and have them choose you.
Traveling Conscience: At 8th level the Conscience Android gains telepathy 100 mu, or infinite range if towards a non-Soulless beings she has Friendship or Love to. As an immediate action you can instantly teleport yourself adjacent to anybody you have Friendship or Love to.
It is sort of okay. Odd to get so late compared to all the amazing stuff acquired before it.
Synthetic Soul: At 10th level the Conscience Android gains a Soul, losing the Soulless feature (although she still qualifies for this prc). Once per day as a free action 1/hour she may increase her Cha by 10. During this duration she may use Limited Wish (or Wish if she has PL 18+) as a cha-based SLA with CL=PL, but after using this her Cha returns to normal. Either way she must still pay the exp cost if replicating any lasting effect.
Is this meant to say that once per day she can activate it and it lasts one hour?
Losing the Soulless feature this late is pretty weak compared to the stuff acquired from the get go. A little surprised it isn't acquired sooner considering its actual usefulness requires having a good Cha score and level 10 is pretty late to start building in that direction. The temporary +10 to Cha is nice but doesn't have to happen at the same time as Soulless is lost. Otherwise it is mostly useful in simply allowing you to make the loss of Soulless somewhat useful. It would have made more sense if the PRC made having a good Cha score useful. +10 to Cha by itself isn't all that great unless you spent your first 5 levels getting something with Cha-based abilities, but then you've been going through the following 10 levels without being able to use them because taking Soulless off took so long. The limited wish/wish is okay.
The PrC doesn't have Craft skills nor knowledge skills, if that was intentional.
I see that in battle the PrC seems to focus mostly in making relationship feat bonuses stronger. Because it grants little in the area of new offensive tricks, a dedicated character of that PrC would likely rely much on the companion to do those tricks using his own mecha while sharing the piloting around. Kind of feels like Pacific Rim but taking turns. It gives a twist to One With the Machine and sort of makes it less useful too. It relies a lot on having a partner in the same mecha to get benefits, and that partner is the one who needs a high Cha score to make it useful while your own Cha score is useless until the very end. The Conscience Android is thus all about having a good partner rather than having a soul. Optimally I think that PrC is best used on a cohort that would make the Cha-based master strong. Probably a Peace Princess with the ride-along ability to make the most of the control-swapping trick.
