Forming and creating items from thin air is a skill honed by many who practice the psionic arts. Some, like the soulknife, form a weapon out of psionic energy. Others, like the aegis, form armor out of ectoplasm. A rare breed of psionic individual is capable of combining the abilities of the two, using the different techniques in a complementary fashion, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Role
Combining the abilities of two frontline combatants, a metaforge is most at home in the thick of battle, using his astral suit to ward off attacks while he decimates enemies with his mind blade.
Entry Requirements
Skill: Profession (any) 3 ranks, Psi Lore 1 rank.
Psionics: Mind Blade Enhancement class feature, Invigorating Suit class feature.
| Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Mind Blade/Astral Suit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +1 | +0 | +0 | +1 | Crystalized mind blade (+1) | +1 level of existing class |
| 2nd | +2 | +0 | +0 | +1 | Transfer enhancement (+1) | +1 level of existing class |
| 3rd | +3 | +1 | +1 | +2 | Dual summon | +1 level of existing class |
| 4th | +4 | +1 | +1 | +2 | Transfer enhancement (+2) | +1 level of existing class |
| 5th | +5 | +1 | +1 | +3 | Crystallized mind blade | +1 level of existing class |
| 6th | +6 | +2 | +2 | +3 | Transfer enhancement (+3) | +1 level of existing class |
| 7th | +7 | +2 | +2 | +4 | — | +1 level of existing class |
| 8th | +8 | +2 | +2 | +4 | Transfer enhancement (+4) | +1 level of existing class |
| 9th | +9 | +3 | +3 | +5 | Crystallized mind blade (+3) | +1 level of existing class |
| 10th | +10 | +3 | +3 | +5 | Swift transfer, transfer enhancement (+5) | +1 level of existing class |
Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Athletics, Engineering, Intimidate, Profession, and Psi Lore.
Class Features
Weapon and Armor Proficiency
A Metaforge gains no proficiency with any type of weapon, armor, or shield.
Astral Suit
At each level, you are treated as if you had gained a level of aegis for the purposes of damage reduction and customization points. You do not gain any other benefits from an increased level (bonus customizations, daily uses of reconfigure, power points, an so forth). This does, however, allow you to qualify for customizations dependent on your aegis level, such as the Reach customization.
Mind Blade
At each level, you are treated as if you had gained a level of soulknife for the purposes of Enhanced Mind Blade. You do not gain any other benefits from an increased level (blade skills, etc.).
Crystallized Mind Blade
You are able to combine the ectoplasm you use to form your astral suit and the psionic energy you use to shape your mind blade into a crystallized form of mind blade. Creating a crystallized mind blade works the same as forming a mind blade, and the weapon functions in all ways mechanically as your mind blade, except as follows.
The weapon’s hardness and hit points are increased by 1 for each metaforge level you have. In addition, as a swift action, the weapon can be charged with 1 power point, increasing its enhancement bonus by 1 for one round. At 5th level, the weapon can instead be charged with 2 power points, increasing its enhancement bonus by 2 for one round. At 9th level, the weapon can instead be charged with 3 power points, increasing its enhancement bonus by 3 for one round.
Transfer Enhancement
Starting at 2nd level, you can spend one minute in concentration to reduce your mind blade’s enhancement bonus or weapon special abilities by 1 (or a +1 equivalent ability) and gain an armor special ability of equal value added to the astral suit. This transfer lasts until you spend another minute to either revert your mind blade to its full power or to alter the armor special ability granted to your astral suit.
You may only have one such transfer in effect at any given time and may not reduce your mind blade to a +0 enhancement bonus. Every two levels thereafter, the enhancement bonus that you can transfer is increased by 1, to a maximum of +5 at 10th level.
Dual Summon
Upon achieving 3rd level, you have learned to bring about your weapon and armor at the same time. While maintaining your psionic focus,you can form both mind blade and astral suit at the same time. The action needed to do this is whichever action takes the longer between the two abilities. For example, for a soulknife with the Free Draw ability and using Astral Juggernaut form, using this ability requires a full-round action, as that is how long it takes to form an astral suit in Astral Juggernaut form. For Astral Skin form, it would instead take a swift action.
You may alternatively expend your psionic focus when you summon both your mind blade and your astral suit to use whichever action takes the shorter between the two abilities.
Swift Transfer
At 10th level you can use your transfer enhancement ability as a standard action, rather than requiring one minute in concentration.