[PoC] Power of Cybernetics Preview

[Garryl]

Last December (wow, almost a year), I got the chance to actually play a Metroid as Incarnum character. This was the first time I had actually sat down and taken a good hard look at how the system worked in practice. Some things looked too strong, others too weak. Some of my design decisions seemed unnecessarily restrictive when dealing with actual characters. Some assumptions I used turned out to be incorrect, thus invalidating things based on them. And then there were just some things that bugged me for other reasons.

So, I've started working on a number of changes to the system. Their scope involves changing enough at the core of the system, combined with separating the fluff of Metroid from the default of the system (to be used as an option, rather than a requirement), that I felt like it also deserved a name change. Hence, Power of Cybernetics (working title). I hope to work on this revision over the next few months. In the meantime, I'll be posting parts that I feel are completed (or close to it) here. Most of the core mechanics, such as the Incarnum-like mechanics, will remain the same. Enjoy.

Conversion Notes
This is just a short list of some of the simpler changes from Metroid as Incarnum.
- Sockets are the new hard-points. It's just a name change.
- Activating is the new suit-forming. It's just a name change.
- Save DCs are 10 + energy + stat, instead of 12+. The extra +2 in the MaI rules came from a misunderstanding I had of Incarnum's save DCs and essentia investment.
- Like Incarnum, energy capacity will probably rise with character level instead of activator level (still undecided, though).
- Power suits are no longer needed to use modules and hard-points, nor are they automatically granted by activating classes. Instead there is a Power Suit module for characters interested in a suit of Cybernetic armor.
- The Cyberneticist is a base class based on the Pirate Trooper, albeit with a healthier balance between modules and sockets. This class has some Intelligence-based abilities, but isn't forced to invest in the ability score, particularly if you primarily use modules that don't allow a save. This class is a master of using modules and sockets, just like the Pirate Trooper.
- The Dreadnought is a new base class that inherits the front line, full BaB activator role from the Federation Marine. With some Charisma-based abilities (which, like the Warblade's Intelligence-based abilities, make the stat helpful but not required) and access to several modules that benefit allies, a Dreadnought also makes for a good leader. Their particular take on activating focuses more on making and using Cybernetic equipment. Battle Talents allow further customization between enhancing the character's melee and ranged combat skill, and other useful abilities.
- The Energy Warrior is essentially the Chozo Warrior, and is probably the class that will have the least changes. Their Energy Beam can be used as either a melee or ranged weapon, and is intuitive to use, allowing a character to use his or her Wisdom score in place of Strength or Dexterity.
- Phazon is not in the default rules of Power of Cybernetics, but will instead be part of the Metroid adaptation. It'll also be more than just evil Cybernetics, and will have actual mechanical effects on characters who try to use its power, and benefits for those who surrender to its corruption.

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New Modules: Make your own stuff!

Arc Staff

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Descriptor: Electricity
Classes: Dreadnought
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Hands, Arms
Saving Throw: Reflex half; Fortitude negates; See text

You can create a quarterstaff-like object formed out of electricity. The action to do so is the same as if you were drawing it, and is considered the same as drawing it. The arc staff lasts as long as you hold it, and disappears immediately if you ever lose your grip on it. You can only have one arc staff in existence at once through this module. The arc staff weighs nothing. Despite being made of electricity, simply handling an arc staff is no more dangerous than handling a normal quarterstaff.
   You are considered proficient with your arc staff. The arc staff functions as a silver quarterstaff for all purposes, except that deals electricity damage instead of bludgeoning damage, and that its damage is not reduced by 1. If your arc staff is destroyed or dissipates, you can create a new one as normal with no penalty.
Energy: Your arc staff gains an enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Socket (arms)
If you hit a creature with both ends of your arc staff during the same turn, you can have the electrical energy arc to other nearby creatures as an free action at any time during that turn, but no more than once per round. The creature you hit (the primary target) takes the brunt of the electrical discharge, which then arcs to other nearby targets. The discharge deals 1d6 points of electricity damage for each point of energy allocated to this module, plus 1d6 more for every arc staff attack you made this turn that hit the primary target. After it strikes, electricity can arc to a number of secondary targets equal to the energy allocated to this module. The secondary bolts each strike one target and deal half as much damage as the primary discharge did (rounded down). Each target (including the primary target) can attempt a Reflex saving throw for half damage. You choose secondary targets as you like, but they must all be within 30 feet of the primary target, and no target can be struck more than once. You can choose to affect fewer secondary targets than the maximum.

Socket (hands)
If you hit a creature with both ends of your arc staff during the same turn, that creature must make a Fortitude save or be stunned until the beginning of its next turn. (A stunned creature drops everything held, can’t take actions, takes a -2 penalty to AC, and loses its Dexterity bonus to AC, if any.) A given creature need make this saving throw only once each turn.

Polar Star

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Descriptor: Cold
Classes: Dreadnought
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Helmet, Feet
Saving Throw: Reflex negates or Fortitude negates (object); See text

You can create a morningstar-like object formed out of ice. The action to do so is the same as if you were drawing it, and is considered the same as drawing it. The polar star lasts as long as you hold it, and disappears immediately if you ever lose your grip on it. You can only have one polar star in existence at once through this module. The polar star weighs nothing. Simply handling a polar star is no more dangerous than handling a normal morningstar.
   You are considered proficient with your polar star. The polar star functions as a blue ice morningstar (see Frostburn) for all purposes, except that deals cold damage instead of bludgeoning and piercing damage. If your polar star is destroyed or dissipates, you can create a new one as normal with no penalty.
Energy: Your polar star gains an enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Socket (helmet)
If place of a normal melee attack with your polar star, you may instead make a melee touch attack with it. This attack does not deal its normal damage. Instead, it deals cold damage equal to the energy allocated to this module and may freeze part of the creature or object you hit.
   If your touch attack hits a creature, choose one limb of the creature you struck. That creature must make a Reflex save or have that limb partially encased in ice. An encased limb cannot be used for natural attacks other than slam attacks and unarmed strikes (which are treated as though made with a gauntlet, see below). An encased limb that is used for manipulation of objects is treated as if it had a locked gauntlet on it (it provides a +10 bonus on any roll to avoid being disarmed, but removing anything held or holding anything new takes a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity; the limb cannot be used for casting spells or employing skills; any unarmed strikes made with the limb are treated as though wearing a gauntlet). Further, any attacks made using such a limb suffer a -2 penalty on attack rolls. If the limb is one used for movement, the creature must make a DC 10 Balance check or immediately fall prone, and if this reduces it to half of its normal amount of limbs used for movement or fewer, the creature must make an additional DC 10 Balance check each round it attempts to move using the encased limb.
   If your touch attack hits an object, that object becomes encased in ice and frozen to the surface it was on. Removing it requires breaking the ice. Objects that normally receive a saving throw against spells and effects can make a Fortitude save to prevent this. If the object is currently being held by a creature, treat this as though all limbs holding it had been encased if the object fails its save.
   The ice created in this is 1 inch thick, but is reinforced by your Cybernetic energy. It has hit points equal to your activator level plus 3, and its break and Escape Artist DCs are equal to this module's save DC. The DC of these checks increases by 2 for every encased limb beyond the first. A single Strength check to break the Ice or Escape Artist check to slip out of it, made as a standard action, is sufficient to remove the ice encasing all of a creature's limbs, or to remove a frozen object from the surface it is attached to. The ice created in this way melts naturally after one minute. In sub-zero temperatures or other conditions under which the ice would not melt, it instead becomes brittle and loss its hold after the same amount of time, becoming breakable or escapable as a free action without requiring a check.
   Creatures with the Fire subtype cannot be frozen as their heat melts the ice before it can take hold. They still take the damage as normal.

Socket (feet)
This module allows you to manipulate a thin layer of ice around your body. You gain a +2 enhancement bonus on all Balance, Escape Artist, and Swim checks, as you can use the ice to form pebbled treads on your boots, to make a slippery rime around your armor, or as additional buoyancy. This bonus increases by 2 for every point of energy allocated to this module.

Thermal Lance

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Descriptor: Fire
Classes: Dreadnought
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Feet, Hands
Saving Throw: Reflex half; See text

You can create a lance-like object formed out of fire. The action to do so is the same as if you were drawing it, and is considered the same as drawing it. The thermal lance lasts as long as you hold it, and disappears immediately if you ever lose your grip on it. You can only have one thermal lance in existence at once through this module. The thermal lance weighs nothing. Despite being made of fire, simply handling a thermal lance is no more dangerous than handling a normal lance.
   You are considered proficient with your thermal lance. The thermal lance functions as a cold iron lance for all purposes, except that deals fire damage instead of piercing damage. If your thermal lance is destroyed or dissipates, you can create a new one as normal with no penalty.
Energy: Your thermal lance gains an enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Socket (feet)
While you are mounted, your mount gains a +10 foot bonus to its movement speed. Your mount also gains fire resistance equal to 5 times the amount of energy allocated to this module, and its natural attacks deal an additional amount of fire damage equal to the energy allocated.

Socket (hands)
If you hit a creature with your thermal lance at the end of a charge, you can release a blast of flame from your thermal lance along the trajectory of your charge. You can do this no more than once per round. The creature you hit (the primary target) takes 1d6 points of fire damage for each point of energy allocated to this module, in addition to the damage dealt by your attack. The blast of flame continues onwards in a line up to 10 feet long per point of energy allocated to this module, originating from one corner of the primary target's space, heading directly away from you. All other creatures in the line suffer the same amount of additional fire damage as the primary target. Each target (including the primary target) can attempt a Reflex saving throw for half damage. You can choose to make the line shorter than the maximum.

Vibroblade

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Descriptor: Sonic
Classes: Dreadnought
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Arms, Utility
Saving Throw: None

You can create a falchion-like object formed out of vibrating air. The action to do so is the same as if you were drawing it, and is considered the same as drawing it. The vibroblade lasts as long as you hold it, and disappears immediately if you ever lose your grip on it. You can only have one vibroblade in existence at once through this module. The vibroblade weighs nothing. Simply handling a vibroblade is no more dangerous than handling a normal falchion.
   You are considered proficient with your vibroblade. The vibroblade functions as a crystal falchion (see Expanded Psionics Handbook) for all purposes, except that deals sonic damage instead of slashing damage. If your vibroblade is destroyed or dissipates, you can create a new one as normal with no penalty.
Energy: Your vibroblade gains an enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Socket (arms)
You may treat your attacks with your vibroblade as touch attacks.

Socket (utility)
The damage dealt by your vibroblade ignores hardness. Whenever you hit a nonmagical object with your vibroblade, you can destroy that object, as though with a shatter spell. The caster level of this effect is equal to your activator level, and the save DC is equal to this module's save DC.

Disruption Crescent

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Descriptor: Acid
Classes: Dreadnought
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Support, Visor
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (object); See text

You can create a kukri-like object formed out of congealed acid. The action to do so is the same as if you were drawing it, and is considered the same as drawing it. The disruption crescent lasts as long as you hold it, and disappears immediately if you ever lose your grip on it. You can only have one disruption crescent in existence at once through this module. The disruption crescent weighs nothing. Despite being made of acid, simply handling a disruption crescent is no more dangerous than handling a normal kukri.
   You are considered proficient with your disruption crescent. The disruption crescent functions as an adamantine kukri for all purposes, except that deals acid damage instead of slashing damage. If your disruption crescent is destroyed or dissipates, you can create a new one as normal with no penalty.
Energy: Your disruption crescent gains an enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Socket (support)
You can throw your disruption crescent with a range increment of 10 feet, plus 5 feet per two points of energy allocated to this module. The disruption crescent does not disappear until the attack is completed. If the attack hits, it deals an additional 2d6 points of acid damage for each point of energy allocated to this module. A successful Fortitude save negates this extra damage. It you hit an unattended object in this way (including force effects), you may instead choose to disintegrate it, as per a disintegrate spell. The caster level of this effect is equal to your activator level, and the save DC is equal to this module's save DC.
   In addition, whenever you deal sufficient acid damage with your disruption crescent to a creature or object to reduce it to 0 or fewer hit points, it is entirely disintegrated, as per a disintegrate spell. This applies regardless of how you deal damage with the disruption crescent, as long as you deal at least 1 point of acid damage with it.

Socket (visor)
This module analyzes the weaknesses of your opponents, indicating where to strike for maximum effect. The critical threat range of your disruption crescent improves, as per the Keen weapon special ability.
   In addition, you can treat creatures and objects that are immune to critical hits (or that have a 100% or better chance of ignoring them) as though they only had a 75% chance to ignore the additional damage of critical hits and precision damage. Against creatures with a less than 100% chance to ignore critical hits, you instead treat them as having a 25% lower chance of ignoring your critical hits and precision damage, to a minimum of 0%. This benefit applies even when you are not using your disruption crescent.

Riot Shield

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Descriptor: Force
Classes: Dreadnought
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Hands, Shielding
Saving Throw: None

You can create a shield-like object formed out of kinetic force. The action to do so is the same as if you were donning it, and is considered the same as donning it. The riot shield lasts as long as you wield it, and disappears immediately if you ever loose it. You can only have one riot shield in existence at once through this module. The riot shield weighs nothing. Despite being made of energy, simply handling a riot shield is no more dangerous than handling a normal shield.
   You are considered proficient with your riot shield. The riot shield functions as a mithral buckler or a heavy mithral shield for all purposes, except that it is a force effect, and therefore cannot be damaged normally, and its shield bonus to your armor class applies against incorporeal touch attacks. You can switch whether it acts as a buckler or a heavy shield as a move action. If your riot shield is destroyed or dissipates, you can create a new one as normal with no penalty.
   While your riot shield acts as a buckler and you wield a weapon in your shield hand, you do not suffer the normal -1 penalty to your attack rolls and the shield bonus your riot shield provides to your armor class is reduced by 1 (to a minimum of +0) instead of being completely negated.
   As a force effect, any attacks you make with your riot shield affect incorporeal creatures and ethereal creatures normally, and the shield bonus it provides applies against incorporeal touch attacks.
Energy: Your riot shield gains an enhancement bonus to the shield bonus it provides to your armor class equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Socket (hands)
While your riot shield acts as a shield that you can make shield bash attacks with, it also acts as though it had shield spikes. These shield spikes have an enhancement bonus equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module. While making attacks with this shield, you gain the benefit of the Improved Shield Bash feat, even if you do not qualify for it. You can choose whether to deal bludgeoning with the shield instead of piercing damage (which is the norm for spiked shields).

Socket (shielding)
The energy of your riot shield radiates outwards, protecting allies within 30 feet of you. Affected allies gain a shield bonus to their armor class equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module (even if you are not wielding your riot shield). As a force effect, this shield bonus applies against incorporeal touch attacks.

Power Suit

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Descriptor: See text
Classes: Cyberneticist, Dreadnought, Energy Warrior
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Core, Shielding, Utility
Saving Throw: None

When you activate this module, choose a single category of armor with which you are proficient (as indicated on the table below). You are always considered proficient with non-armor for this purpose.
   You can form a suit of armor around yourself. The time it takes to do so is indicated on the table below, and is considered the same as donning it. The power suit lasts as long as you wear it, and disappears immediately if you ever remove it (which takes as long as forming it). You can only have one power suit in existence at once through this module. The power suit weighs the indicated value. You cannot form your power suit if you are already wearing armor or are otherwise unable to wear an additional suit of armor.
   The power suit functions as armor of the chosen category for all purposes, made of the mundane material that any armor of the chosen category is normally made of, chosen when this module is activated. Thus, for instance, a medium power suit could act as though made out of steel (as a breastplate) or hide (as hide armor), and a non-armor power suit would usually count as simple cloth (as normal clothing). A non-armor power suit does not interfere with effects that depend on what type of armor is worn (it essentially does not count as armor, much like clothing or robes).
Energy: Your power suit gains an enhancement bonus to the armor bonus it provides to your armor class equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Table XX.YY: Power Suit armor

Armor Type	Armor Bonus	Maximum Dexterity Bonus	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Weight	Time to Form
Non-armor	+2	--	--	--	5 lb.	1 full-round action
Light	+4	+7	-0	10%	10 lb.	2 rounds
Medium	+6	+5	-1	15%	15 lb.	5 rounds
Heavy	+8	+3	-3	25%	25 lb.	1 minute

Socket (core)
Your power suit fortifies your body. You gain immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, stunning, disease, and death effects. You are not subject to critical hits, nonlethal damage, ability damage, ability drain, fatigue, exhaustion, and energy drain. You are not at risk of death from massive damage. This does not remove any such effects that were already affecting you. These benefits apply even when you are not wearing your power suit.

Socket (shielding)
Your power suit protects you from environmental dangers. You gain resistance to acid, cold, electricity, fire, and sonic equal to 5 times the amount of energy allocated to this module. If you already have resistance to any of these energy types, instead treat this as an enhancement bonus to your existing resistance. These benefits apply even when you are not wearing your power suit.

Socket (utility)
Your power suit provides a self-contained atmosphere appropriate to your needs, making you immune to all harmful vapors and gases (such as cloudkill and stinking cloud effects, as well as inhaled poisons) and allowing you to breathe, even underwater or in a vacuum. It also provides protection from extreme conditions, allowing you to exist comfortably in conditions between -50 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit without having to make Fortitude saves. These benefits apply even when you are not wearing your power suit.

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Table 2.1.1: The Energy Warrior					HD: d8
Level 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th	Base Attack Bonus +0 +1 +2 +3 +3 +4 +5 +6 /+1 +6 /+1 +7 /+2 +8 /+3 +9 /+4 +9 /+4 +10 /+5 +11 /+6 /+1 +12 /+7 /+2 +12 /+7 /+2 +13 /+8 /+3 +14 /+9 /+4 +15 /+10 /+5	Fort Save +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6 +7 +7 +8 +8 +9 +9 +10 +10 +11 +11 +12	Ref Save +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6 +7 +7 +8 +8 +9 +9 +10 +10 +11 +11 +12	Will Save +0 +0 +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +4 +4 +4 +5 +5 +5 +6 +6 +6	Special Energy Beam (intuitive aim) Energy Emitter Socket (+1 capacity) Energy Beam (enhancement bonus) Protected Emitter Least Socket Access Energy Emitter Socket (+1 DC) Energy Beam (intuitive focus) Energy Filter (2 modules) Lesser Socket Access Energy Absorption (resistance) Combined Energy Emission 1/day Energy Filter (3 modules) Combined Energy Emission 2/day Greater Socket Access Combined Energy Emission 3/day, Energy Emitter Socket (+2 capacity) Energy Filter (4 modules) Combined Energy Emission 4/day, Shielded Emitter Core Socket Access Combined Energy Emission 5/day Energy Flare	Energy Beam Damage 1d6 1d6 1d6 1d6 2d6 2d6 2d6 2d6 2d6 3d6 3d6 3d6 3d6 3d6 4d6 4d6 4d6 4d6 4d6 5d6	------Activating------ Active Modules Energy Pool Socket Attachments 2 1 0 3 2 1 3 2 1 4 3 1 4 3 1 4 4 2 5 5 2 5 5 2 5 6 2 6 7 3 6 8 3 6 9 3 7 10 3 7 11 4 7 12 4 8 13 4 8 14 4 8 16 5 9 18 5 9 20 5

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Balance, Climb, Computer Use, Concentration, Craft, Jump, Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (dungeoneering), Knowledge (history), Knowledge (the planes), Listen, Profession, Ride, Spot, Survival, Swim

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Energy Warriors are proficient with all simple weapons and with light armor. Energy Warriors are also proficient with their energy beam, regardless of what form it takes.

Activating: An Energy Warrior's primary ability is activating modules, which are drawn from the Energy Warrior module list. You know and can activate any module from this list. Your activator level is equal to your Energy Warrior level.
   An Energy Warrior can activate only a certain number of modules at once. Your base concurrent allotment is given on table 2.1.1.
   At 1st level, you gain access to a pool of energy, which can be allocated to your active modules to increase their effects. If you already have a pool of energy, combine the two to determine the total amount of energy available. Your character level determines the maximum amount of energy that can be allocate to any given module at one time, as indicated on table 3.1.1.
   As a swift action, you may reallocate your energy allocations amongst your active modules once each round.

Energy Beam (Su): You can use your energy emitter to emit a destructive beam of energy. This can take one of two forms, either a hand-held blade of energy, or a long-range beam cannon. You can only use your energy emitter in one of its two forms at any given time, although you can freely switch between them as the situation demands. You must have a free hand to enable your energy emitter and project your energy beam, and the action required to do so or to switch between the emitter's available forms is equivalent to that of drawing a weapon. Releasing your energy emitter is a free action, the same as dropping a held weapon. Your energy beam counts as a masterwork manufactured weapon (although as a transient energy field, it cannot be permanently enchanted), regardless of its form. Also regardless of its form, your energy beam's base damage depends on your level, as given on table 2.1.1. Damage values are the same for all Energy Warriors of a given level, regardless of size. You can choose your energy beam for feats and other options that require you to choose a specific weapon, such as Weapon Focus. Such options apply to all uses of your energy beam that could have been selected as valid options were they distinct weapons. Your energy beam cannot be sundered or otherwise damaged, and if it leaves your grip for any reason, it simply disappears, allowing you to create a new one with your subsequent actions. You can have as many energy beams in existence at once as you can hold.
   As a blade, your energy beam functions as a one-handed melee weapon, although you can use it with Weapon Finesse and similar feats. By default, it deals magic, slashing damage affected by damage reduction, and has a critical threat range of 19-20/x2.
   As a beam cannon, your energy beam functions as a one-handed projectile ranged weapon with a range increment of 100 feet. By default, it deals magic, piercing damage affected by damage reduction, and has a critical threat range of 20/x3.
   Lacking the bulk of physical weapons, and being integrated with advanced targeting systems, energy beams are intuitively easy to use, regardless of their form. You can use your Wisdom score in place of your Strength or Dexterity scores when determining your attack bonus with energy beam attacks. At 7th level, you can also you to add your Wisdom modifier (if positive) as a bonus on all energy beam weapon damage rolls (even if you do not use it for attack rolls).
   Beginning at 3rd level, your energy beam gains an enhancement bonus equal to the amount of energy allocated to the module attached to your Energy Emitter socket (if any). If you have multiple modules attached, use only the one with the most energy allocated.

Socket Attachments: Beginning at 2nd level, you can attach active modules to the sockets that you have available. The number of socket attachments that you can have in effect at any one time depends on your level (see the Socket Attachments column in table 2.1.1). At 2nd level, you can attach modules to your Energy Emitter socket (see below). Beginning at 5th level, you can attach modules to your Least sockets. At 9th level, you can attach modules to your Lesser sockets. At 14th level, you can attach modules to your Greater sockets. At 18th level, you can attach modules to your Core socket.

Energy Emitter Socket: At 2nd level, you gain access to a unique socket: the Energy Emitter socket. This socket is not directly associated with any location on your body, although it has a strong connection to the energy emitter that you use with your Energy Beam ability.
   Any module attached to your Energy Emitter socket has an energy capacity 1 higher than normal. At 15th level, any module attached to your Energy Emitter socket instead has a capacity 2 higher than normal.
   At 6th level, the save DC of any module attached to your Energy Emitter socket is increased by 1.
   Unlike normal for modules and sockets, you can suppress the effects of attaching any of your modules to your Energy Emitter socket as a move action. The module is still attached to the socket, it just provides no extra benefits for doing so and receives none of the benefits of being attached to your Energy Emitter socket. You can resume its effects as a move action. This ability is primarily used when a module alters the damage type of your Energy Beam ability to something unfavorable for the current encounter, such as fire damage against a red dragon. The basic Energy Beam, while never ideal, is effective against most opponents.

Protected Emitter (Ex): An Energy Warrior's energy emitter provides resistance against supernatural effects that would disrupt its function. At 4th level, your modules that are attached to your Energy Emitter socket gain a bonus equal to your Wisdom modifier to their activator level to resist being suppressed. This ability counts as the Protected Modules ability for the purpose of feat prerequisites and other options. However, any such feats or options qualified for in this way only function with respect to your Energy Emitter socket and the modules attached to it.

Energy Filter (Ex): Starting at 8th level, you can attach additional modules to your Energy Emitter socket. You can only choose to have one such module benefitting from the attachment at one time, but you can switch between them as a move action. Regardless of how many modules are attached to your Energy Emitter in this way, these attachments only count as a single attachment when determining effects based on your number of socket attachments, including your limit of concurrent attachments.
   At 8th level, you can have up to 2 modules attached to your Energy Emitter socket this way. At 12th level, you can have up to 3 modules attached this way. At 16th level, you can have up to 4 modules attached this way.

Energy Absorption (Su): In addition to releasing destructive energies, your energy emitter can be turned inwards to protect you from them. Starting at 10th level, while you have a module attached to your Energy Emitter socket that modifies the type of damage dealt by your Energy Beam, you gain resistance to that type of damage, even if the damage type is not normally subject to resistance. Effects that explicitly ignore resistances still ignore this resistance. The resistance granted by this ability is equal to 5 times the energy allocated to the module. If you have multiple modules attached to your Energy Emitter, you gain each resistance separately. If multiple attached modules would grant you resistance to the damage source, use only the highest value.

Combined Energy Emission (Su): Starting at 11th level, you can gain the benefits of all of your modules attached to your Energy Emitter with your Energy Filter ability at once. Using this effect takes a swift action, and it lasts for 1 round. You can use this ability once each day at 11th level, and one additional time per day every 2 levels thereafter.

Shielded Emitter (Ex): Starting at 17th level, your energy emitter becomes so potent as to even function inside an anti-magic field. You can attempt a DC 15 Will save each round to maintain the function of your Energy Beam ability, and any active modules attached to your Energy Emitter inside an anti-magic field. The save DC increases by +2 each round, and you may not make subsequent Will saves if you fail until your modules have been reactivated by leaving the field. Other magic items and supernatural abilities (such as the Combined Energy Emission ability) are still suppressed as normal.

Energy Flare (Su): At 20th level, you gain the ability to channel great reserves of power and energy into your Energy Emitter. For the duration of this ability, the energy capacity of any module attached to your Energy Emitter socket is doubled. Every point of energy invested in a module attached to your Energy Emitter socket counts as 2 points. In addition, you can activate your Combined Energy Emission ability and switch between modules with your Energy Filter ability each as a free action once per round while this ability is in effect.
   Activating this ability is a free action and can be used once per day. It lasts for a number of minutes equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1).


Class Features (New and changes from MaI)

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Energy Beam: Can be a melee weapon or a ranged weapon.
Energy Beam (intuitive aim): Use Wis instead of Str or Dex to attack rolls with Energy Beam.
Energy Beam (enhancement bonus): Energy Beam gains an enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls equal to the amount of energy invested in the module attached to your Energy Emitter. If more than one is attached, use only the highest value.
Energy Beam (intuitive focus): Add Wis to damage rolls with Energy Beam.
Energy Emitter Socket: As Chozo Warrior's Beam Cannon Hard-Point.
Combined Energy Emission: As Chozo Warrior's Beam Cannon Combo.
Energy Filter: As Chozo Warrior's Multi-Weapon Beam Cannon.
Energy Flare: As Chozo Warrior's Hyper Beam.
Protected Emitter: The DC to suppress a module attached to your Energy Emitter is increased by your Wisdom modifier. Counts as the Protected Modules ability for prerequisites and other options.
Shielded Emitter: Maintain modules attached to Energy Emiiter in an Anti-Magic Field, similar to a mindblade. Counts as Shielded Modules for prereqs and options.
Energy Absorption: Gain resistance to any source of damage with the same descriptor as a module attached to your beam emitter, even if the damage type is not normally subject to resistance (although effects that explicitly ignore resistances still ignore this). The resistance is equal to 5*energy in the module.

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Table 2.2.1: The Dreadnought					HD: d12
Level 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th	Base Attack Bonus +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 /+1 +7 /+2 +8 /+3 +9 /+4 +10 /+5 +11 /+6 /+1 +12 /+7 /+2 +13 /+8 /+3 +14 /+9 /+4 +15 /+10 /+5 +16 /+11 /+6 /+1 +17 /+12 /+7 /+2 +18 /+13 /+8 /+3 +19 /+14 /+9 /+4 +20 /+15 /+10 /+5	Fort Save +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6 +7 +7 +8 +8 +9 +9 +10 +10 +11 +11 +12	Ref Save +0 +0 +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +4 +4 +4 +5 +5 +5 +6 +6 +6	Will Save +0 +0 +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +4 +4 +4 +5 +5 +5 +6 +6 +6	Special Combat Intuition (initiative), Weapon Aptitude Battle Talent Combat Intuition (awareness), Without Dread Least Socket Access Battle Talent, Protected Equipment Share Intuition (1 aura) Combat Intuition (coordination) Equipment Bond (+1 capacity) Battle Talent Lesser Socket Access Combat Intuition (opposition) Hardened Warrior Battle Talent Mettle Combat Intuition (assault) Greater Socket Access Battle Talent Shielded Equipment Combat Intuition (opportunity) Equipment Bond (+2 capacity), Share Intuition (2 auras)	------Activating------ Active Modules Energy Pool Socket Attachments 2 1 0 3 1 0 3 2 0 3 2 1 3 3 1 4 3 1 4 4 1 4 4 1 4 5 2 5 6 2 5 7 2 5 8 2 5 9 2 6 10 3 6 11 3 6 12 3 6 13 3 7 14 3 7 15 4 7 17 4

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Bluff, Computer Use, Climb, Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Intimidate, Jump, Knowledge (history), Knowledge (local), Knowledge (nobility and royalty), Profession, Ride, Sense Motive, Spot, Survival, Swim

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Dreadnoughts are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, with light, medium, and heavy armor, and with shields (other than tower shields).

Activating: A Dreadnought's primary ability is activating modules, which are drawn from the Dreadnought module list. You know and can activate any module from this list. Your activator level is equal to your Dreadnought level.
   An Dreadnought can activate only a certain number of modules at once. Your base concurrent allotment is given on table 2.2.1.
   At 1st level, you gain access to a pool of energy, which can be allocated to your active modules to increase their effects. If you already have a pool of energy, combine the two to determine the total amount of energy available. Your character level determines the maximum amount of energy that can be allocate to any given module at one time, as indicated on table 3.1.1.
   As a swift action, you may reallocate your energy allocations amongst your active modules once each round.

Combat Intuition (Ex): Your finely honed instincts give you an almost supernatural awareness of the battlefield around you. This allows you to add your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) to various rolls, checks, and statistics, based on your level. This bonus can never exceed your Dreadnought level. If multiple aspects of this ability would ever apply to the same roll, they do not stack.
   Initiative: At 1st level, you add your Charisma modifier to your initiative checks.
   Awareness: At 3rd level, you add your Charisma modifier to your Listen, Sense Motive, and Spot checks.
   Coordination: At 7th level, you add your Charisma modifier to your weapon damage rolls against targets you flank.
   Opposition: At 11th level, you add your Charisma modifier to all opposed checks made to resist disarm, bull rush, sunder, trip, feint, and grapple attempts made against you. This does not grant any bonuses to your rolls when you attempt to use these combat maneuvers on others.
   Assault: At 15th level, you add your Charisma modifier to your weapon damage rolls made while charging.
   Opportunity: At 19th level, you add your Charisma modifier to your attack and weapon damage rolls made as part of attacks of opportunity.

Weapon Aptitude (Ex): Your training with a wide range of weaponry and tactics gives you great skill with particular weapons. You qualify for feats as if you had a fighter level equal to your Dreadnought level -2 (minimum 0). These effective fighter levels stack with actual fighter levels and effective fighter levels granted from other sources. For example, a Dreadnought 4/Fighter 3/Warblade 5 would have an effective fighter level of 8.
   You also have the flexibility to adjust your weapon training. Each morning, you can spend 1 hour in weapon practice to change the designated weapon for any feat you have that applies only to a single weapon (such as Weapon Focus). You must have the newly designated weapon available during your practice session to make this change. You can adjust any number of your feats in this way, and you don't have to adjust them all in the same way. However, you can't change the weapon choices in such a way that you no longer meet the prerequisite for some other feat, prestige class, or other option you possess.

Battle Talent: Depending on your personal training regimen, you can improve your abilities in various ways. At 2nd level, and again at 5th level and every 4 levels thereafter, you can select a talent of your choice from the list below. If a talent has any prerequisites, you must meet them in order to select it and gain its benefits. Unless otherwise stated, you can gain a given talent only once.

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Armored Evasion (Ex): This talent functions as a Rogue's Evasion ability, except that it can be used in any armor and regardless of encumbrance.

Battle Charge (Ex): You can charge through difficult terrain and ally-occupied spaces. Difficult terrain still slows your movement while charging, and impediments other than difficult terrain and your allies that prevent you from charging still do so.

Pounce (Ex): You can make a full attack at the end of a charge instead of only a single attack. This ability does not apply to partial charges.
   This talent requires the Battle Charge ability.

Bonus Feat: You gain a bonus feat of your choice from the list of Fighter bonus feats and Cybernetic feats. You must meet the feat's prerequisites, as normal. You can select this talent multiple times, gaining a new feat each time.

Close Combat Shot (Ex): You no longer provoke attacks of opportunity for making ranged attacks while threatened.

Crossfire (Ex): You can flank your enemies at a distance. While using a ranged projectile or thrown weapon with which you are proficient, you threaten any enemy that you have attacked since the beginning of your last turn (including your current attack), but only for the purposes of flanking, and only if they are within 30 feet. This allows you to both benefit from flanking with ranged weapons, and to flank with your allies (including other Dreadnoughts with the Crossfire talent).
   In addition, you can add your Dreadnought level to your effective Rogue level (if any) when determining whether or not you can flank creatures with the Improved Uncanny Dodge ability (both in melee and at range).

Distant Crossfire (Ex): You can threaten with your Crossfire ability out to 1 range increment instead of only to 30 feet, whichever is larger. In addition, when you make a ranged attack of opportunity, the target of your attack is considered flat-footed against that attack.
   This talent requires the Crossfire ability.

Pin Down (Ex): You can make attacks of opportunity at a distance. When you threaten a creature with your Crossfire ability, you also threaten them for the purpose of making attacks of opportunity. You can use a ranged projectile or thrown weapon with which you are proficient to perform attacks of opportunity against creatures you threaten this way.
   This talent requires the Crossfire ability.

Guardian (Ex): Whenever an enemy would attack an ally adjacent to you with a melee or ranged attack, you can interpose yourself as an immediate action, causing that attack to be directed at you instead of your ally. You gain a +4 bonus to your Armor Class against this attack. You must use this ability before the attack is rolled and whether or not it hits is known.

Improved Guardian (Ex): You can use your Guardian ability with no action instead of as an immediate action, thus allowing you to use it multiple times per round and while flat-footed.
   This talent requires the Guardian ability.

Vigilant Guardian (Ex): Once per round, you can use your Guardian ability to intercept an attack made against an ally within 30 feet. You can move up to your speed, as long as you move in a straight line and end your movement in a space adjacent to that ally. If you complete your movement adjacent to your ally, you intercept the attack as normal. If you are forced to end your movement in a space that is not adjacent to your ally, you do not get to intercept the attack.
   This talent requires the Guardian ability.

Steeled In Battle (Ex): You add your Charisma modifier (if positive) on all Will saves.

Uncanny Dodge (Ex): This talent functions as the Barbarian's Uncanny Dodge ability. If you select it a second time, it also functions as the Improved Uncanny Dodge ability.

Without Dread (Ex): Beginning at 3rd level, you are immune to fear.

Socket Attachments: Beginning at 4th level, you can attach active modules to the sockets that you have available. The number of socket attachments that you can have in effect at any one time depends on your level (see the Socket Attachments column in table 2.2.1). Beginning at 4th level, you can attach modules to your Least sockets. At 10th level, you can attach modules to your Lesser sockets. At 16th level, you can attach modules to your Greater sockets.

Protected Equipment (Ex): Dreadnoughts are known for taking better care of their equipment than of themselves. Starting at 5th level, any energy receptacles from objects you wear and any of your active Equipment modules gain a bonus equal to your Charisma modifier to their caster or activator level to resist being suppressed.  This ability counts as the Protected Modules ability for the purpose of feat prerequisites and other options. However, any such feats or options qualified for in this way only function with respect to the energy receptacles that you wear and to your Equipment modules.

Share Intuition (Ex): Starting at 6th level, you can lend your insights to the soldiers you fight alongside. You can project a single Combat Intuition you possess as an intuition aura, granting affected allies (including yourself) the same bonuses that you gain from you Combat Intuition ability. These bonuses are circumstance bonuses that stack with those granted by Combat Intuition, but not with other intuition auras.
   Projecting an aura is a swift action. The aura remains in effect until you use a free action to dismiss it or you activate another intuition aura. You can have an aura active continually; thus, an aura can be in effect at the start of a combat encounter even before you take your first turn. Activating an aura involves haranguing, ordering, directing, encouraging, cajoling, or calming allies. You size up the enemy, allies, and the terrain, then give your allies the direction that they can use to do their best. Your aura affects all allies within 60 feet (including yourself) who can hear you. An ally must have an Intelligence score of 3 or higher and be able to understand your language to gain the bonus. Your aura is dismissed if you are dazed, unconscious, stunned, paralyzed, or otherwise unable to be heard or understood by your allies.
   At 20th level, you can project two intuition auras simultaneously. You can project or change either or both auras as part of the same swift action.

Equipment Bond (Ex): Beginning at 8th level, any energy receptacles from objects you wear and any of your active Equipment modules have their energy capacities increased by 1. At 20th level, their energy capacities are instead increased by 2.

Hardened Warrior (Ex): Starting at 12th level, you gain hardness equal to half your Dreadnought level, reducing the damage taken from any source (regardless of the type of damage).

Mettle (Ex): Beginning at 14th level, you learn how to better resist effects that would batter your body and mind. If you succeed on a Fortitude or Willpower save against an attack or effect that would normally produce a lesser effect of a successful save, you instead negate the effect. You do not gain the benefits of this ability while you are unconscious or sleeping.

Shielded Equipment (Ex): Starting at 18th level, your customized personal equipment becomes so potent as to even function inside an anti-magic field. You can attempt a DC 15 Will save each round to maintain the function of any energy receptacles from objects you wear and any of your active Equipment modules inside an anti-magic field. The save DC increases by +2 each round, and you may not make subsequent Will saves if you fail until your modules have been reactivated by leaving the field. Other modules, magic items, and supernatural abilities are still suppressed as normal.

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Table 2.3.1: The Cyberneticist					HD: d6
Level 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th	Base Attack Bonus +0 +1 +2 +3 +3 +4 +5 +6 /+1 +6 /+1 +7 /+2 +8 /+3 +9 /+4 +9 /+4 +10 /+5 +11 /+6 /+1 +12 /+7 /+2 +12 /+7 /+2 +13 /+8 /+3 +14 /+9 /+4 +15 /+10 /+5	Fort Save +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6 +7 +7 +8 +8 +9 +9 +10 +10 +11 +11 +12	Ref Save +0 +0 +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +4 +4 +4 +5 +5 +5 +6 +6 +6	Will Save +2 +3 +3 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6 +7 +7 +8 +8 +9 +9 +10 +10 +11 +11 +12	Special Technical Knowledge, Tinkering Activator Integrated Module Focus +1, Least Socket Access Reattach Module 1/day Protected Modules Extra Attachment (2 sockets) Lesser Socket Access Reverse Engineering Reattach Module 2/day, Repurpose Module 1/day Improved Energy Capacity +1 Expanded Sockets (2 modules) Greater Socket Access, Reverse Engineering Repurpose Module 2/day Reattach Module 3/day Extra Attachment (3 sockets), Shielded Modules Integrated Module Focus +2, Reverse Engineering Core Socket Access, Repurpose Module 3/day Expanded Sockets (3 modules) Reattach Module 4/day Reverse Engineering Cybernetic Apotheosis, Repurpose Module 4/day	------Activating------ Active Modules Energy Pool Socket Attachments 2 1 0 3 2 1 3 3 1 3 3 2 3 4 2 4 5 2 4 6 3 4 7 3 4 8 4 5 9 4 5 10 4 5 12 5 5 13 5 6 15 6 6 16 6 6 17 6 6 19 7 7 21 7 7 23 8 7 25 8

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level, x4 at 1st level): Bluff, Computer Use, Concentration, Craft, Disable Device, Gather Information, Jump, Knowledge (all skills, taken individually), Profession, Ride, Search, Use Magic Device

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Cyberneticists are proficient with all simple weapons and with light and medium armor. They are also proficient with shields (other than tower shields) and a single martial weapon of their choice, chosen at 1st level.

Activating: A Cyberneticist's primary ability is activating modules, which are drawn from the Cyberneticist module list. You know and can activate any module from this list. Your activator level is equal to your Cyberneticist level.
   A Cyberneticist can activate only a certain number of modules at once. Your base concurrent allotment is given on table 2.1.1.
   At 1st level, you gain access to a pool of energy, which can be allocated to your active modules to increase their effects. If you already have a pool of energy, combine the two to determine the total amount of energy available. Your character level determines the maximum amount of energy that can be allocate to any given module at one time, as indicated on table 3.1.1.
   As a swift action, you may reallocate your energy allocations amongst your active modules once each round.

Tinkering Activator: You receive Tinkering Activator as a bonus feat, even if you don't qualify for it. This allows you to use your Intelligence modifier to determine the save DCs of your modules. If you already have the Tinkering Activator feat, you instead gain any one Cybernetic feat you qualify for as a bonus feat.

Technical Knowledge (Ex): A Cyberneticist must always stay on top of current technological developments. This ability functions as the Bard's Bardic Lore ability using your Cyberneticist level in addition to your levels in other classes that grant Bardic Lore and similar abilities, except that it only applies to topics related to technology in some way. You can also determine whether or not an object is magical or not by handling and observing it for 1 minute. If you succeed on a Technical Knowledge check against a DC of 10 + the object's caster level, you also determine its magical properties, as per an identify spell. If you fail, you cannot retry this check until you gain a new Cyberneticist level.

Integrated Module Focus (Ex): Starting at 2nd level, any module attached to one of your sockets has an energy capacity 1 higher than normal. Beginning at 15th level, any module attached to at least two of your sockets instead has an energy capacity 2 higher than normal.

Socket Attachments: Beginning at 2nd level, you can attach active modules to the sockets that your suit has available. You cannot attach modules to sockets with integrated equipment.
   The number of socket attachments that you can have active at any one time depends on your level (see the socket Attachments column is table 2.2.1). Beginning at 2nd level, you can attach modules to your Feet, Hands, and Utility sockets. At 6th level, you can attach modules to your Back, Helmet, and Visor sockets. At 9th level, you can attach modules to your Arms and Shielding sockets. At 12th level, you can attach modules to your Support socket. At 15th level, you can attach modules to your Core socket.

Socket Attachments: Beginning at 2nd level, you can attach active modules to the sockets that you have available. The number of socket attachments that you can have in effect at any one time depends on your level (see the Socket Attachments column in table 2.3.1). At 2nd level, you can attach modules to your Least sockets. At 6th level, you can attach modules to your Lesser sockets. At 11th level, you can attach modules to your Greater sockets. At 16th level, you can attach modules to your Core socket.

Reattach Module (Su): Once per day, starting at 3rd level, you may detach one of your modules from a socket and attach any module that you have active to the same or another socket. The socket attachments must be valid, as if attaching modules normally. Using this ability is a standard action. You can use this ability one additional time each day for every 5 Cyberneticist levels you have beyond 3rd.

Protected Modules (Ex): Your technical skill and custom modifications provide resistance against supernatural effects that would disrupt your modules' functions. At 4th level, your modules gain a bonus equal to your Intelligence modifier to their activator level to resist being suppressed.

Extra Attachment (Ex): Starting at 5th level, your modules can be attached to multiple sockets. At 5th level, each of your modules can be attached to up to 2 sockets at once, granting the benefits for each. Each additional attachment this way counts against your total socket attachments, as normal. At 14th level, your modules can each be attached to up to 3 sockets at once.

Reverse Engineering (Ex): At 7th level, and once more every 4 levels thereafter, you can permanently add any one module to your Cyberneticist module list, even if that module is not normally on any class module list. This does allow you to activate more modules than normal. It only increases the options you have when activating modules.

Repurpose Module (Su): As your cybernetic skill advances, you learn to jury-rig modules in the field using parts of other active modules. Once per day, starting at 8th level, you may deactivate one of your active modules and activate another module in its place. The newly activated module must be a module you could activate normally, and you can attach it to some number of sockets as though attaching modules normally, up to the number of attachments the deactivated module had. Using this ability is a standard action. You can use this ability one additional time each day for every 4 Cyberneticist levels you have beyond 8th.

Improved Energy Capacity (Ex): Beginning at 9th level, your energy capacity for all energy receptacles, such as modules and System feats, is 1 higher than normal for your level.

Expanded sockets (Ex): Beginning at 10th level, each of your sockets can accommodate up to 2 attached modules at once, instead of one. At 16th level, you can instead have up to 3 modules attached at once.

Shielded Modules (Ex): Starting at 14th level, your modules become so advanced as to even function inside an anti-magic field. You can attempt a DC 15 Will save each round to maintain the function of your active modules inside an anti-magic field. The save DC increases by +2 each round, and you may not make subsequent Will saves if you fail until your modules have been reactivated by leaving the field. Other magic items and supernatural abilities are still suppressed as normal.

Cybernetic Apotheosis (Su): At 20th level, your mastery of cybernetics reaches its peak. Once per day as a free action, you can activate this ability. For a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1 round), all of your active modules are considered to be attached to all of your accessible sockets at once, regardless of your, your modules', and your sockets' normal limit of concurrent attachments.



Class Features (New and changed from MaI)

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Energy Capacity +1: Starting at 9th level, your energy capacity for all energy receptacles is one higher than normal.
Integrated Module Focus: Starting at 2nd level, your modules that are attached to at least one socket gain various bonuses. At 2nd level, any energy receptacle attached to one of your sockets has its energy capacity increased by 1. Starting at 15th level, if the receptacle is also attached to at least two sockets, these bonuses are increased by 1 (to a total of +2 energy capacity).
Protected Modules: DC to suppress active modules is increased by your Intelligence bonus.
Shielded Modules: Maintain modules in an Anti-Magic Field, similar to a mindblade.
Technical Knowledge: Functions as (and counts as) Artificer Knowledge, but with a technical feel. (Level + Int vs. DC 15). Can also be used as Bardic Lore with respect to technical advances and stuff.
Repurpose Module: Exchange an active module for an inactive module. It's still attached to the same sockets, with the same energy, although other options that apply to a specific module may not apply.
Reattach Module: As the Pirate Trooper ability.
CAPSTONE: 1/day, gain the effects of all of your active modules being attached to all of your accessible hard-points at once. Lasts 1 round/Int mod.

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More modules, updates of the old stuff.

Assassin Teleportation

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Descriptor: Teleportation
Classes: None
Prerequisites: Must have another module with the Teleportation descriptor active.
Sockets:
Saving Throw: None

You gain the benefit of a modified version of the Spring Attack feat (even if you do not qualify for it). This functions as the normal Spring Attack feat, except that the movement involved is considered to be teleportation instead of normal movement. You only provoke attacks of opportunity from moving out of the space you started in and the space you attack from. You can only use this ability to teleport to spaces that you have both line of sight and line of effect to.
   If you have the ability to make multiple attacks as part of a teleporting Spring Attack, you can teleport between each of them, as long as you teleport at least 5 feet each time. This  otherwise follows the normal rules of the modified Spring Attack.
Energy: After teleporting, you gain a competence bonus on attack and damage rolls for the first attack you make before the beginning of your next turn.

Socket (arms)
Whenever you teleport, you may make a full-attack as a free action. You can use this ability no more than once each round.

Astral Shift

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Descriptor: Teleportation
Classes: Cyberneticist
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Back, Support, Visor
Saving Throw:

You are automatically aware of any teleportation that begins or ends within 30 feet of you. You can pinpoint the origin and destination of these effects, but only those that are within the range of your detection. You need not have line of sight or line of effect to detect and pinpoint teleportation.
Energy: The range of this effect increases by 10 feet for each point of energy allocated to this module.

Socket (back)
As an immediate action, you can divert the final destination of any teleportation effect that you sense with this module, as though using the divert teleport power to do so. This follows all of the normal limitations of the power (although as a supernatural ability it does not allow power resistance). You can only divert the teleportation to unoccupied spaces within the range of this module's effect.

Socket (support)
You can teleport at will, as though with the teleport spell. If you attempt to teleport to an unoccupied space within the range of this module's effect, this instead functions as a greater teleport effect. You can only take willing creatures and objects with you.
   You can also use this module to travel through the planes. This functions as the psionic plane shift power. Due to the massive power consumption required for planar travel, this module is suppressed for 10 minutes after you use this ability.

Socket (visor)
As a standard action, you can trace any teleportation effects used within the area of this module's effect within the past minute. This functions as per the trace teleport power, except that it also traces non-magical teleportation.

Biofeedback

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Descriptor: None
Classes: Dreadnought, Energy Warrior
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Core, Hands
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates; See text

You gain DR 1/- and a +2 enhancement bonus on saves against poison and disease.
Energy: The damage reduction and bonus on saves against poison and disease is increased by the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Socket (core)
You gain fast healing equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Socket (hands)
You can generate a coat of poison over your natural attacks and hand-held weapons. This functions as per the prevenom and prevenom weapon powers, except that the save DC is based on your activator level instead of your manifester level, and that the Constitution damage is equal to 2 plus the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Corrosion Inducement

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Descriptor: Acid
Classes: Cyberneticist
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Feet, Helmet, Support
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates; See text

You can generate and launch a ray of acid as a standard action. The ray has a range of 30 feet and deals 1d6 points of acid damage on a hit. The acid rapidly loses its potency after the attack and disappears within 1 round.
Energy: Each point of energy allocated to this module increases the damage dealt by 1d6 and increases the range by 10 feet.

Socket (feet)
When you move across the ground (or any other solid surface), you can leave a trail of acidic slime to hamper your enemies' movements. You can choose to leave the slime in any space you move through, and you can leave any number of continuous or discontinuous spaces in the trail as you move. Any surface you affect is covered in a thin acidic film for 1 minute. Any creature attempting to walk or climb across these surfaces or that begins its turn in contact with the acid takes 1d6 points of acid damage and must make a Balance check against this module's save DC. Each turn that a creature falls or remains prone in the acid it takes an additional 1d6 points of acid damage for every 2 points of energy allocated to this module.
   Climbing creatures that climb across acidified surfaces must make a Climb check instead of a Balance check. Failure indicates that the creature loses its grip and falls.

Socket (helmet)
When you hit with this module's acid ray, the acid sticks to your target, entangling it for 1 round. At the end of that time, it deals an additional 1d6 acid damage, plus 1d6 for each point of energy allocated when you fired the ray.

Socket (support)
You can create a cloud of corrosive, acidic fumes as a standard action. This functions as the stinking cloud spell, except as follows. The cloud emanates from a point within the range of this module's acid ray. Each round on your turn (beginning the turn you created it), the fog deals 1d6 points of acid damage, plus 1d6 for every 2 points of energy allocated to this module, to each creature and unattended object within it. The fog lasts for 1 minute, until you create a new cloud, or until dismissed, after which it disperses harmlessly.

Cryo Core

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Descriptor: Cold
Classes: Cyberneticist
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Core, Hands, Shielding
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates; See text

You can fire a ray of cold as a standard action. This ray has a ranger of 30 feet and deals 1d6 points of cold damage on a hit.
Energy: Each point of energy allocated to this module increases the number of rays you can fire as part of the standard action by 1 and increases the range by 10 feet.

Socket (core)
You are immune to cold damage. The cold rays you fire with this ability are so cold and powerful that half of the damage they deal ignores cold resistance and cold immunity.

Socket (hands)
If you hit and damage a given creature with more than one ray generated by this module as part of the same volley, the ice builds up, impeding that creature's movement. The effects occur as indicated below. A successful Fortitude save negates the effects.

Table: Cryo Core secondary effects

Rays Hit	Effect
2	Entangled for 1 round.
3	Entangled for 1d4 rounds and staggered for 1 round.
4	Entangled and staggered for 1d4 rounds and stunned for 1 round.

Socket (shielding)
You can form a barrier of ice around your body, protecting you from incoming attacks. The barrier grants you hardness 5, stacking with any existing hardness you may possess. This hardness does not protect against fire damage.

Energy Weapon

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Descriptor: See text
Classes: Cyberneticist, Dreadnought, Energy Warrior
Prerequisites: None
Sockets: Arms, Hands
Saving Throw: None

When you activate this module, choose a single type of weapon with which you are proficient.
   You can create a weapon-like object out of pure energy, shaped in the form of the chosen weapon. The action to do so is the same as if you were drawing it, and is considered the same as drawing it. The energy weapon lasts as long as you hold it, and disappears immediately if you ever lose your grip on it. You can only have one energy weapon in existence at once through this module. The energy weapon weighs nothing. Despite being made of energy, simply handling an energy weapon is no more dangerous than handling a normal weapon of the same type.
   The energy weapon functions as a weapon of the chosen type for all purposes, made of the mundane material that the weapon is normally made of.
Energy: Your energy weapon gains an enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls equal to the amount of energy allocated to this module.

Socket (arms)
When you attach this module, choose up to one weapon special ability for every 3 activator levels, minimum 1 ability. These abilities must be priced as an equivalent enhancement bonus. If a selected ability would align your weapon or cause it to deal energy damage, this module gains the same descriptors.
   Your energy weapon gains any number of the selected weapon special abilities, as long as the energy allocated to this module is greater than or equal to the abilities' total equivalent enhancement bonus. You can change which of the selected abilities your energy weapon gains as a full-round action.

Socket (hands)
Your energy weapon overcomes damage reduction as though it was all materials and alignments.

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Incarnum to Cybernetics dictionary. Some of the nuances are different between the two systems, but the general principles are the same.

Incarnum	Cybernetics
Essentia	Energy
Soulmeld	Module
Chakra Bind	Socket
Meldshaper	Activator
Shape	Activate
Bind	Attach
Invest	Allocate

Chakras	Sockets
Feet	Feet
Hands	Hands
Crown	Helmet
Arms	Arms
Brow	Visor
Shoulders	Back
Throat	Support
Waist	Utility
Heart	Shielding
Soul	Core

[Amechra]

Damn, you know what?

I totally would run an Iji campaign with this stuff; it would be badass.

I have to beat the game first, though...

[Garryl]

Oh, man, that brings back memories. Ciretako!

I had the beginnings of an Iji adaptation for the original MaI somewhere. I don't think it amounted to much more than the Resonance Detonator module (which made it into the main thing's modules) and a personal nanofield ACF. It's on the to-do list for PoC when the basis of the revised system is done (at the current rate I'm working on it, that should be somewhere around 2027).

Where are you at so far in Iji? Are you going the pacifist route or blowing things to kingdom come?
I can never remember if I beat Iji on Ultimortal or if I stopped in Sector X. I think I still have one or two of the Sudden Death sectors left (one small mistake and poof goes the last ten minutes in one gut-wrenching scream).

[Amechra]

I actually just got past the first boss when my computer wiped my save; I can't play it at the moment, since I have oodles of homework, but afterwards, I'm actually planning on trying to do a Let's Play of either Iji or Sigma Star Saga.

But I was playing with the whole Kill Everything! mode; after I beat it the easy way, I was going to go back and try out a pacifist run.

It's kinda like how I constantly try to find time for my Monk run of Powder(i.e., no equiped armor or weapons except for Rings and Amulets, and limiting my spells to self buffs and spells that require me to be adjacent. It ends up being nigh impossible, let me tell you), but I can never find the time.

[Ziegander]

Awesome, as to be expected, I just have one minor cosmetic concern: I preferred the "Hard-Point" terminology over the "Socket" terminology. *pout*

[Garryl]

Hey, guess what I did? I finally finished the three base classes. Look up to see them in all their glory.

[Nanshork]

Hooray!

[Garryl]

Cybernetics

A Quick Overview
   At the beginning of the day, or at any point of it that you have a free hour, you can refresh your energy. When you do so, you may choose which modules you want to have active for the day and which socket attachments you wish to have for the day. Which modules you activate, and how many of them, are limited by the classes that grant them. Which attachments you can make, and how many of them, are pooled together from all of your classes that grant them.
   Once you have activated your modules and made your attachments, you can allocate your energy to them. allocating your energy is a swift action, and you can add, remove, and move your energy when you do so.



Modules
   A module is a persistent cybernetic effect. The various activating classes allow you to activate a number of cybernetic modules, granting you improved skills and new abilities, depending on the modules used. Modules are also energy receptacles, and their benefits usually improve as you allocate more energy to them (see below for more information about allocating energy to modules).
   Whenever you refresh your energy, you can choose to deactivate any of your modules and activate any number of modules you know, up to your limit of active modules. Usually, this is limited to the number of modules granted by your class levels, but some feats and other effects can grant you additional active modules.
   If you have the ability to activate modules from multiple sources, track them separately. You can only activate modules that you know from a given source with your limit of active modules associated with that source and your activator level for that source. If you know a module from more than one source, you choose which source it counts as being activated from when you activate it.
   Unless otherwise stated, an active module remains active until you deactivate it, usually as part of refreshing your energy. However, if you lose the ability that allowed you to activate the module in the first place, that module is suppressed until you deactivate it or you regain the ability to activate it.
   You can only have a given module active once at any given time. If you would activate a module a second time while it is already active, you can choose to have it supplant the previous instance, causing that module to be treated as from the newer source. If you don't the new activation has no effect.
   Modules are supernatural abilities, unless otherwise stated. The save DC against the effects that your modules produce (if any) is equal to 10 plus the amount of energy allocated to them plus their your Constitution modifier, although some activating classes allow you to use a different ability score for their modules. As supernatural abilities, the effects of modules usually do not allow spell resistance. If they do, use the module's activator level in place of the effect's caster level.

Suppressing Modules
   As supernatural abilities, the effects of modules cannot simply be dispelled by a dispel magic or similar effect. However, the modules themselves can be suppressed, much like a magic item. Any effect that could suppress a magic item can also suppress an active module in the same way. Similarly, effects that permanently remove the magic of a magic item (such a mage's disjunction) can deactivate modules, although modules deactivated this way can still be activated once more later on.
   Effects that would suppress (or deactivate) a module as an item use the module's activator level in place of an item's caster level and its activator's saving throws in place of an item's saving throws. Where relevant, the module's spell level is equal to the amount of energy allocated to it, its hardness is equal to 10 plus one half its activator level, and its hit points are equal to its activator level (minimum 1) times its activator's primary activating ability modifier (minimum 1), using the ability score that controls save DCs if its activator uses multiple ability scores to determine his activating ability. Use other statistics as appropriate. Despite having effective hardness and hit points, modules cannot be sundered or damaged. These statistics are only used to determine interactions with other effects.
   Suppressed modules grant no benefits and have no effects other than those already produced. Any constant, passive effect that a suppressed module normally produces stops. Any active effects that require concentration end as though concentration was broken (although effects that continue on after concentration ends continue as normal). Any effect that ends when the module is deactivated, or that only lasts while it is active, is suppressed as long as the module is suppressed, but returns as soon as the module is no longer suppressed (assuming that it is still active when that happens). Suppressed modules are not energy receptacles, so energy allocated to them is returned to your energy pool.



Sockets

Types of Sockets
   There are ten normal sockets, divided into four grades based on the power and versatility of the effects they can enable. The effects granted by attaching modules and other cybernetic effects to a given socket aren't necessarily stronger for higher grade sockets, but they are generally either more versatile or provide options not available at lower grades.
   The lowest grade of sockets are referred to as Least sockets. The three Least sockets are the feet, hands, and visor sockets.
   The second-lowest grade of sockets are referred to as Lesser sockets. The three Lesser sockets are the back, helmet, and utility sockets.
   The second-highest grade of sockets are referred to as Greater sockets. The three Greater sockets are the arms, shielding, and support sockets.
   The highest grade of sockets are referred to as Core sockets. The sole Core socket is the aptly named core socket.
   Certain other, special sockets exist, such as the energy emitter socket. These sockets are generally restricted to specific classes and provide extremely focused effects. Special sockets are not considered to be part of any given grade of sockets.

Attaching Modules to Sockets
   While activating your modules as part of refreshing your energy, you can also attach them to any sockets that you have access to. Even if you do not activate any of your modules, you can still add and remove socket attachments while refreshing your energy. Some other cybernetic effects can also be attached to your sockets, usually in the same way.
   The number of modules (and other cybernetic effects) that you have have attached to your sockets at once is limited by your class levels, although certain other feats and effects can grant you additional attachments. Like activating modules, you cannot have more total attachments at once than the amount of allowed attachments granted to you. Unlike activating modules, the attachments you make ignore the source that granted them. You can attach any module you have active to any socket you have access to, regardless of their respective sources. You can use any number of attachments with any of your accessible sockets, even if they are from different classes. Each module-socket attachment counts against your total limit of attachments from all sources, regardless of the source of the module.
   A given module (or other cybernetic effect) can normally only be attached to a single socket at once. If you have the ability to attach a module to more than one socket at once, each such module-socket attachment counts against your limit of attachments. The actual limit is not of how many modules you may have attached to sockets at once, but how many unique module-socket attachments you have.
   You cannot attach a module to the same socket more than once. Doing so has no effect, but neither does it count more than once against your limit of attachments.
   A given socket cannot normally have more than one module attached to it at once. Only effects that explicitly function otherwise can allow you to attach more than one module (or other cybernetic effect) to a given socket at once. Despite being associated with a body slot, having a socket attached to a module does not impact your ability to use its corresponding body slot in other ways, be it for wearing magic items, shaping and binding soulmelds, or other purposes.
   If you lose the ability to attach modules (or other cybernetic effects) to a given socket, anything attached to that socket is immediately detached. If your limit of socket attachments is reduced below the number of attachments you already possess, you must choose which of your attachments are detached.



Energy
   Energy is the universal term for the power that allows cybernetic modules to function. Many other cybernetic effects also rely on energy to determine their effects. All characters, even those without any energy, have an energy pool where unallocated energy is stored.

Energy Receptacles
   Energy receptacles are cybernetic effects that use energy. Energy can be allocated to energy receptacles. Each point of energy can only be allocated to a single energy receptacle at once.
   Energy receptacles have limited energy capacities. You cannot allocate more energy to a given energy receptacle than its energy capacity. If the receptacle's energy capacity or allocated energy changes such that the energy allocated to it is in excess of its capacity, the excess is returned to your energy pool (you choose which energy is returned if multiple types are allocated). Unless an energy receptacle has a specific energy capacity, you treat its capacity as indicated in Table 3.1.1.

Allocating Energy
   You can allocate energy to your energy receptacles. Some receptacles have specific ways of allocating energy to them and dealing with allocated energy, but unless otherwise stated, you can add, remove, or shift any energy you possess between your energy pool and any energy receptacles you possess. Doing so (called reallocating your energy) is a swift action that can be performed at most once per turn, even if you gain additional swift actions. Unless it specifically states otherwise, no effect allows you to reallocate your energy more than once between the beginning of one of your turns and the beginning of your next turn.
   If an energy receptacle ceases to exist, if it stops being an energy receptacle, or if you lose access to it as an energy receptacle, any energy allocated to it returns to your energy pool. If the receptacle's energy capacity changes such that the energy allocated to it is in excess of the new capacity, the excess is returned to your energy pool (you choose which energy is returned if multiple types are allocated).
   If multiple creatures have access to an energy receptacle at once, only one of them may allocate energy to it at once. If there is any energy allocated to the energy receptacle, no creatures (other than the current allocator) may allocate energy to it. If multiple creatures attempt to allocate energy to a receptacle at the same time, an opposed activator level check determines who can allocate to it. The character with the highest check can allocate to it, while all others have their allocated energy returned to their respective energy pools. A creature can pass the ability to allocate energy to the creature with the next highest check if he so chooses. Some special cybernetic effects can accept energy from multiple creatures. In such a case, an opposed activator level check does not remove any energy already allocated, but merely prevents more energy from being allocated from the same action.

Allocating Energy to a Module
   You can allocate energy to a module. allocating energy to a module functions as normal for an energy receptacle, except that it is not considered to be an energy receptacle while it is suppressed, and thus any energy within it is returned to your energy pool. When a module is deactivated, it also stops being an energy receptacle.

Allocating Energy to a System
   You can allocate energy to a system only as part of refreshing your energy. Energy allocated to a system is expended (although it is still considered allocated). Any energy allocated to a system remains allocated (and expended) until you refresh your energy, at which point it is returned to your energy pool, where you can use it once more (even to allocate it back to the same system). You cannot allocate temporary energy to a system.

Expending Energy
   Expending energy (such as for allocating it to a system) makes that energy unavailable until you refresh your modules. It's similar to spending power points to manifest a power or expending a spell slot to cast a spell. Simply reduce your available energy pool by the indicated amount. You can remove energy currently allocated to an energy receptacle if you don't have enough in your pool. You can't expend energy that is already expended.



Types of Energy
   There are several types of energy. The most common type, referred to just as energy, has no special properties. It can be allocated to energy receptacles and expended, as described in their respective sections.

Temporary Energy
   Some effects grant a temporary spike of energy, allowing a cybernetic creature to access more energy than normal. Temporary energy usually only lasts for a short time before disappearing. Temporary energy functions just like normal energy while it lasts, for the most part. Temporary energy cannot be allocated to systems. If it is expended, temporary energy disappears permanently. It does not return when you refresh your energy.

Phazon Energy
   Phazon energy is a special kind of energy used by some classes and modules in the Metroid adaptation. Phazon energy functions as normal energy for the most part. However, at the beginning of each of your turns, you suffer Phazon damage equal to twice the amount of unexpended Phazon energy you have allocated to energy receptacles (this damage may be reduced by Phazon resistance or immunity, as normal). In exchange, certain energy receptacles (primarily those with the Phazon descriptor) grant additional benefits when Phazon energy is allocated to them. Phazon energy can sometimes be temporary energy, too. If so, use the rules for temporary energy over the rules for Phazon energy to adjudicate any contradictions between the two types of energy.



Activator Level
   Your activator level is a numerical representation of your skill at activating and using modules and other cybernetic effects. Few cybernetic effects directly use your activator level, and it primarily serves to determine how difficult your modules are to suppress. Your activator level for different activating classes is tracked separately. Your modules use your activator for the class you used to activate them. Modules activated from sources other than class features indicate what activator level they use.



Refreshing Energy
   Refreshing energy requires 1 hour of concentration or meditation. Refreshing energy requires enough peace, quiet, and comfort for proper concentration. Your surroundings need not be luxurious, but they must be free from overt distractions, such as combat raging nearby or other loud noises.  Exposure to inclement weather prevents the necessary concentration, as does any injury or failed saving throw you might experience while refreshing your energy. You do not need access to any materials to refresh her energy. You can refresh your energy any number of times per day, as long as you spend the required amount of time each time you do so.
   The effects of refreshing your energy are multiple. First, you regain any expended energy. Energy lost in other ways, such as energy drain or energy burn, is not recovered. Energy regained in this way is placed directly into your energy pool, from which you can later allocate it as you see fit.
   Second, you can activate or deactivate any of your modules. This allows you to change which modules you have active for the day. You needn't activate your maximum limit of modules if you so choose, but you must still respect your maximum limit of modules active.
   Third, you can attach or detach any of your modules to or from any of your sockets. Certain other cybernetic effects can also be attached to your sockets. You needn't form all of your possible socket attachments if you so choose, but you must still respect your maximum limit of socket attachments. You can only form socket attachments with sockets you have access to.
   Finally, you can allocate your energy among the energy receptacles you have access to. For the most part, this functions as allocating your energy normally, although certain energy receptacles (such as systems) can only have energy allocated to or from them as part of refreshing your energy.
   The above steps are all considered to occur simultaneously. Thus there is no time between deactivating one module and activating and attaching another.

[Merchant]

Sorry, i couldn't determine is the power suit made of energy, nanobots, or do they simply auto equip when you call them? I was just trying to figure out how you got bonuses (fluff wise) with out the suit activated.

I like it though. Very good adaption for a good technological feel. Im not sure if i missed a prc or module that allows you to absorb energy attacks to boost their energy supply. Just seems like a nice anti-blaster.

[Garryl]

I'm glad you like it. Absorbing energy attacks into your pool sounds like a great idea, I'll be sure to include it.

I can't give you any set fluff for the Power Suit module. Just remember that it's still a distinct thing, even when the armor isn't formed. How else could it recognize and accept your commands to form itself? Think of the socket abilities as extensions of that. Maybe it just keeps up an energy shield at a lower power level. Maybe it's an alternate function of a network of subdermal implants that turn your skin diamond-hard when charged. Maybe it's a Power Ranger suit and you keep your main character plot armor even outside of it for the sake of the action. The possibilities are endless!

[radmelon]

Man, how did I lose track of this project? It's been one of my favorites ever since I discovered it earlier this year but I lost track of it around the beginning of july. Either I never posted in this thread before or my notifications are bugged.