(While a soulknife can technically use Charisma as their primary combat stat, the archetype that allows this, Brutality Blade, also grants Strength boosting abilities. Thankfully, the soulknife can excel in multiple combat styles, with five different abilities available to act as the combat stat: Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. Soulknives are primarily martial characters, despite being a psionic class, with a heavy combat focus and a sprinkling of out of combat utility. If you can select this, do it.īuilding A Soulknife Ability Scores (Choosing your fighting style) You can’t go wrong with a selection here. Any selection in green will go far in your journey as an adventurer, though it may be somewhat lackluster.īLUE****: An excellent choice. Options in orange are beneficial, but there are options that are either strictly superior or less restrictive. ORANGE**: A usable, but not necessarily good, choice. These options are extremely situational, useless, or even detrimental. This guide will use the same star/color system that is used in most current guides, popularized by Treantmonk, to show the value of certain choices available to players: You spend endless nights thinking of the dizzying number of weapon special ability combinations possible but despair as you will never be in enough games to try them all. The mere thought of technically being above WBL excites you in ways you never thought possible. You think coalescing a weapon from your mind into your hand is the greatest thing ever! Your DM never gives you enough money to get a good weapon and you want to stick it to them. With Dreamscarred Press’ adaptation to Pathfinder, the soulknife may now rise above the follies of its predecessor and actually walk alongside the rest of the martial characters, instead of wallowing in self pity. Originally created in D&D 3.0, then updated to 3.5, the soulknife was one of the many classes created by WotC with a ton of flavor but the mechanical ability of a flaming pile of garbage. The soulknife is a psionically empowered martial class who uses their mind to create a blade of psychic energy.

Psyren soulknife handbook