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Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« on: November 09, 2012, 09:22:30 PM »
Are there any full BAB manifesting prestige classes that would be useful to a Monk/PsiWarrior Tashalatora build? War Mind would be good if it advanced manifesting instead of starting over. Slayer or Sanctified Mind would be good if they had any class features that would ever get used in a campaign that isn't crawling with psionic aberrations. And that's pretty much all I could find that are remotely plausible to qualify for.

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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2012, 11:15:35 PM »
IIRC, Ghost Breaker (Ghostwalk?) might be full BAB.
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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2012, 02:49:56 AM »
Ghostbreaker is from the 3rd party Hyperconscious book. And yes, full BAB/manifesting with relatively easy requirements. The psionic adaptation for the Abjurant Champion qualifies as well.

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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2012, 03:09:13 AM »
Thrallherd gets you a full BAB thrall  :sofa
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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2012, 10:07:24 AM »
One evil PC is enough for me for one week Johnny; thanks though.

Vasja, do you know who the publisher on that Hyperconcious book is? It could very well be on my DM's shelf & I could have a look at it tonight.

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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2012, 05:28:40 PM »
Are there any full BAB manifesting prestige classes that would be useful to a Monk/PsiWarrior Tashalatora build? War Mind would be good if it advanced manifesting instead of starting over. Slayer or Sanctified Mind would be good if they had any class features that would ever get used in a campaign that isn't crawling with psionic aberrations. And that's pretty much all I could find that are remotely plausible to qualify for.
The Slayer in the SRD is quite viable in a campaign that is not particularly rife with psionic creatures. In particular, the divination block and the mind-affecting block still works against spells and everything else. It's a fairly small amount of it's total class features, but quality over quantity.
Vasja, do you know who the publisher on that Hyperconcious book is? It could very well be on my DM's shelf & I could have a look at it tonight.
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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2012, 06:53:58 PM »
Thanks Halinn. I'll see if it's on the shelf tonight.

I realized that I can't pull get Tashalatora before Psi War 6 (CL 12) while still using the Monk 6 feat for the pre req, so the entire build is on hold until the party gets far enough to have level 12 be the new replacement character level. At the time that I realized that, I was thinking I'd wind up going Monk 7 / Psi War 8 (don't need the monk levels, but need to avoid the XP penalty) / Sanctified Mind. That keeps me from losing any more BAB than I already have at Monk 6/ Psi War 5 and gets an extra feat.

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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2012, 08:18:45 PM »
Why do you need that much? You need autohypnosis 5, concentration 5, 1st level powers and one prereq feat (that doesn't have prereqs on its own). You aren't of a race that has either psiwar or monk as favored class?

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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2012, 03:16:18 AM »
Kalashtar has favoured Psion unfortunately.

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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2012, 07:17:33 AM »
Is there a specific reason why you need to be a kalashtar? Tashalatora builds generally only want one or two monk levels at most, having defeats the purpose of wanting to advance psionic powers.

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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2012, 11:24:30 AM »
I thought the prereq feat for Tashalatora made monk a favored class also?
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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2012, 11:33:57 AM »
The prereq feat just allows multiclassing in & out of monk. I only really wound up looking at psi war because I was trying to find a way to advance flurry to two extra attacks without being stuck in monk to eleven (I did want the extra feats of staying until six) but couldn't find any prestige classes that actually advance flurry - most don't mention it at all and a couple say they advance the penalty reduction of flurry, but not that they get the extra attacks. This all started when I was reading the FAQ and found out that a flurry can be followed up with offhand armed attacks (with a scorpion kama for example). It seemed like an interesting way to have a ridiculous number of attacks in a single full attack.

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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2012, 12:12:38 PM »
Shou Disciple lets you flurry with weapons, and gives you the basic flurry even if you don't have it. It was in a book (Unapproachable East) that came out just at the 3.0/3.5 conversion, so the terms it uses about stacking with monk are outdated, and it is unclear how exactly it should stack with the 3.5 monk. I think it should advance flurry, but YMMV. It also has full BAB and gives two bonus feats from a specific list.
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Re: Full BAB manifester prestige class?
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2012, 02:47:59 PM »
War Mind would be good if it advanced manifesting instead of starting over.
Try the Psionics Unleashed version then.