Psychic Reformation and Feats that Make Skills Class

[Endarire]

Let's assume I'm a level 6 person.  At level 6, I take a feat that lets me treat a skill as always class, like Perform.  I assign points to Perform at the class skill rate.  A Psion then uses psychic reformation to undo my level 6 decisions.

By the RAW, I can seemingly keep my skill allocations when changing feats.

When this power is manifested, the subject CAN choose to spend its most recently gained skill points differently (picking new skills and abandoning old ones if it chooses) and to choose a different feat from the one it selected when advancing from its previous level to its current level.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

For that level, yes

This is mostly of use for PrC qualification and low-level skill cap manipulation in feat-tight builds.

I haven't included it in my Early Entry Handbook mainly because the perceived level of cheese doesn't give enough umph:

1) the skill cap is still there upon gaining the next level, so going to a second PrC that requires even higher skill rank amounts (in that same skill) will mean you will have to shuffle feats around, possibly loosing (although it is temporary and can be fixed with yet another Psy Ref) the feat prereqs for your previous PrC

2) When this is most beneficial is at low levels, but repeated manifestings of Psy Ref will eat up money spent on other things that can help your prereqs


Basically it works but it feels even sketchier than swapping out a feat - sorta like rebuilding abuse. I just like my characters to be able to fill the prereqs continuously. Feel free to request this added to the handbook though.

[lianightdemon]

you could just leave the skill points required for what you want in preform until level 6 and then get all the ranks you want.

[Endarire]

Add this to the Handbook if you like.  I prefer Pathfinder's "all skills are class skills" method as it's easier for multiclassers and multirolers.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

Add this to the Handbook if you like.  I prefer Pathfinder's "all skills are class skills" method as it's easier for multiclassers and multirolers.

Will do

I homebrew that way, just to keep the freaking bookkeeping down (DnD has too much of that already)

[awaken DM golem]

If you PsyRef-ed 2 levels, you could redo those 2 levels only, and have to still qualify for everything you normally would up to that point.
If you did a total tear-down, the same restrictions apply, otherwise stuff just doesn't work.
The old psi-board thought PsyReffing PsyRef itself was really silly ... and it is.

iirc - Surreal had or has a list of feats that give Skills.
Then there's Favored of the Guild feat for a stupid +2 to a skill, and That Feat In Cityscape that bumps the Ranks max up by 1.

Intelligent Item + Warforged + Fusion + PAO = 10 Ranks of a few limited skills, early.
That's some real cheese right there.

[Endarire]

Take Favored in Guild to enter something early and Reform it once you no longer want it.

[NiteCyper]

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