How To Play A Soulknife Rogue in Dungeons & Dragons 5e

[@tristanp2064]

I like this Mission Impossible idea. Soulknife infiltrates the fancy ball, Bard plays in the band, Fighter replaces a guard, and Wizard stays in the van and casts Arcane Eye into the building, all of them coordinating with the psychic connection.

[@mikewatts1533]

This is some funny shit. I am reminded of the end of the movie, "True Lies."

[@Arkios64]

That might also be one of the rare occasions in which a DMPC could work, by having a Soul Knife join the party for the infiltration as their "In" that gets them access to their cover, points out important NPCs during the opening, then notices something off... and gets lured into a trap and killed; with the party being witness to the entire process, through their mind link. If the DMPC is built similar to the example in the video the party will hate him for being so OP in the current situation or think he's incredibly cool, either of which should reinforce the "these guys were able to take HIM out?!?" reaction. So now the party is where they want to be, in theory the plan didn't really change, but the stakes for sure went up. Now they know for sure that they are expected, and by a competent opponent to boot.

[@SymbioteMullet]

I played a halfling soulknife once, he was a fraudster, specialising in forged papers. Boldfacedly entering a castle in disguise to cook the books of a rival faction while in contact with the team on the outside was pretty cool ;)

[@grizzlednerd4521]

The "back-up weapon" contingency requirement applies to, pretty much, any character imo. Re: Booming Blade. It has a range of 5 feet but ,to my mind, melee isn't the combat style of the Soulknife. They're sitting back with the casters attacking from up to 60 feet away. Re: Reaction attacks. That psychic blade relies on an attack action is very important and potentially impacts a source of a second sneak attack (on the opponent's turn). I would say though that, if you're 50-60 from the front lines, you may not be getting many AoO in any case.

[@notorious.scoundrel]

I agree, Psychic Blades enables you to be a reliable knife thrower with its great range and infinite ammo. Going melee should be a last resort, cuz other wise you're not taking advantage of the blades entirely.

[@kadenmw2734]

multiclassing into eldritch knight takes care of the opportunity attacks, need of magic items, and proficiency in any weapons, and u can still walk in with no weapons, and come out with 4, none of which can be found or confiscated

[@sandmanlives3]

Lizardfolk also gives you two skill proficiencies, and lots of other good stuff. I made a Firbolg Soulknife for my brother as a hilarious, huge, but sneaky character.

[@TheHornedKing]

There is also the lineages from Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft.

[@legendarydigitize2523]

A bulky character that is sneaky can be a real thing My little brother is like, how do i put it nicely, stout Yet he never makes much noise in his steps when walking normally lol So he is like an accidental master of sneaking to my blindspot and scare the pants off of me

[@bronzieblue63]

shockingly enough, Psychic as a Resistance or an Immunity is surprisingly rare Out of the 733 monsters published in the Monster Manual, Mordenkainen's tome of Foes, and Volo's Guide to Monsters, there are 4 that are resistant, and 18 that are immune. In other words, out of the most common books that are accessible to the average DM, barring homebrew, only 3% of all monsters can be resistant or immune to that damage that you're doing. With that in mind, this is legitimately an incredible class for making sure you're always capable of dealing damage as there are very few monsters (shockingly enough, mind flayers and their ilk possess no resistances or immunities to psychic damage) that can properly compete against it. The only thing that is even fewer creatures are resistant or immune to is Force damage. It is about as good as it gets in terms of damage types.

[@Shichiaikan]

By far my favorite build I've done so far in 5th edition is my Soulknife Rogue / Lore Bard. Simply put, he doesn't fail skill checks, ever, and has every great utility needed for when skills won't work to solve a problem... Pure enjoyment for a skill monkey lover like me.

[@jkdubya85]

What's your build like? Are you more Rogue or Bard? That was a combination I came up with too, but unsure how to handle it.

[@CalamitasDeus]

14:20 - If you choose custom lineage or variant human, you could take the Skilled feat for three skill proficiencies on top of the one from your race. If you then take Skill Expert (and/or Prodigy on a human) later, that is up to a dozen skills you're proficient in and up to half of those (or five and thieves' tools) you have expertise in.

[@ekrotte8714]

sounds like a very expressive, but better jack of all trades

[@ekrotte8714]

expensive

[@TheScottishKayaker]

I would love for you gentlemen to do this with the subclasses that you ranked lowest to show how to play around some of their issues. I especially hope you do whispers bard. Mostly because I think you guys are too hung up on playing it like a bard rather than more of a bardlike arcane trickster. I have been playing this class for 2 years and when I started playing it as more like an arcane trickster/bard multiclass and speced appropriately it became a real monster.

[@gabebaum6527]

I definitely second this, tell me how you're building those not so great subclasses to make use of them to their greatest effect, and show that even the worst things can be good and fun

[@Sevik081]

This is a very cool take on this subclass! I'm currently playing a Reborn Soulknife and I'm definitely playing it with the knife throwing style. Worked with the DM to take Sharpshooter and the damage has been really fun to play around with!

[@shadowonefoxx]

That's the route I'm going. Only level 4 right now, but the plan is to take Fighting Initiate: Archery and Sharpshooter, and then by the time I hit level 9 have access to pretty reliable +10 bonus on every hit :-D

[@Zcythe_grey]

Another couple of ways to augment this is to multiclass into either way of shadow monk for the stealth superiority or hexblade for more of that charisma based rogue, pick up the alert feat for a even more advantageous skill pool.

[@stephenkenny9093]

The downside of a hexblade dip is if you use the psychic daggers to attack, you can't attack with charisma as you only create the blades as you attack

[@Zcythe_grey]

this is true, however, you don't need to use the psychic blades unless you're in a pinch or out of spell slots and you can use the blades to teleport instead of attacking, which is why shadow blade is a bit more useful for damage while the psychic blades are more of a niche compared to the rest of the class abilities soulknife has to offer, another good reason to heed the advice of carrying another weapon on hand, which could be cool if you were to dual wield your pact weapon and a psychic knife for teleportation purposes. Besides sneak attack kind of covers for the damage loss, especially if the enemy doesn't know where the attack came from.

[@thaddelicious852]

My Soul-Knife rogue is approaching level four and I want to take a feat for them, and the alert feat is one of the strongest contenders for my pick. But, I’m still debating between Alert, Fey Touched, Shadow Touched, and the Skill Master feats. In your experience have you found that the Alert feat has a lot of practical use in game?

[@Zcythe_grey]

@@thaddelicious852 I think it depends on your dm, if they like ambushes and traps, the alert feat gives you major advantage because you can relay information telepathically, fey touched is a strong chouce and so is shadow touched, but shadow touched on soul-knife is a bit more niche, considering there are other choices that are better, fey touched gives another form of mobility which is pretty good so I'd think that from experience, I'd try either fey-touched or alert, unless you want to be more sneaky, where skulker is also a decent choice. So its up to mobility, sneaky attacks or never being surprised.

[@Zcythe_grey]

As for use in game, it ends up being really useful for saving your allies from being surprised, and an added initiative bonus, and never taking attacks with advantage from invisible enemies, and considering you don't get surprised, it can be very useful for enemies like rogues and assassins. It's a great general pick but it can be niche depending on the campaign. I'd say depending on your playstyle (considering my playstyle was rather a bit too reckless) it can save you quite a few times

[@Skyhigh486]

I played a soulknife goblin in eberron, I was part of the shaarat'kesh it was so cool, I had sharpshooter and a sniper rifle with a range of 3,000 feet, the psionic abilities played really well into the uul dhakaan (dream world empire of the goblins) god I learned so much about goblins, the goblin language, and goblin history for that campaign, made it to level 8, got (almost) TPK'd because one of the players misread the dust of coughing and choking, my character was the only one to survive because of a Nat 20 on a death saving throw. The DM said that I'd we ever go back to eberron and make it to level 8 that I can play her again but I don't think that will happen 😭

[@Thehighwayman429]

Ta muut, taarka'nu.

[@Skyhigh486]

@@Thehighwayman429 raat shan gath'kal dor, ruuska'te

[@therowlet3979]

I played a Soulknife in an Eberron game as a Mark of Detection half-elf, with 5 levels of Fey Wanderer Ranger. His skills were INSANE. Mark of Detection gives you +1d4 for Insight and Investigation rolls, you get the racial feats from being a half-elf, plus some investigatory spells like Detect Poison and See Invisibility. The 5 levels of Ranger gives you another Expertise from Canny (plus 2 more languages), an extra attack, and a Fighting style that will let you take the Thrown Weapon fighting style. Thrown Weapon will also let you draw a non-psychic dagger to take opportunity attacks on your foes. Plus, with Fey Wanderer, you can add your Wis to all Charisma checks, so you can boost Wis and dump Cha and still have great numbers on your Cha skills.

[@Sandmanhg77]

This is great. I am playing a multi classed lvl 1rogue/ lvl 6 lore bard played as a charlatan con-man. My whole goal is to make a secret agent type character. I was going to go 5th lvl assassin but after seeing this I will be going 5th lvl soul blade/15th lore bard. My party is heavy on physical damage dealing and not so much on magic, charisma or stealth.

[@MrKrusher68]

I love your attention to detail in every video. I am currently playing a SoulKnife Rogue as a Changling with Glamoured studded leather. I am able to impersonate people and get where I want to go. I am enjoying this character very much. I have recently taken blood hunter as a sub class and that is going very well with my character.

[@Jupez555]

Love the way yall took the character! Im currently playing a level 11 Shadow Monk (6) Soul knife rogue (5) and I completely took the Battlefield control/teleporty commando route. Soul knives count as monk weapons, and he also carries a shortsword that gains 2d8 psychic damage on a command word. Took the telekinetic and mobile feats which is complete cheese w/ all the teleport abilities. Between ki points and psionic dice I always feel like I can keep adventuring. It feels incredibly powerful and my only issue is not knowing which levels to take next (definitely not monk)

[@trueRocc]

I'm adding thus feature to my gloomstalker ranger.... thinking that will help with the CoS campaign. I'm always going off ahead to scout the area, but only thing I'm missing is communication to an ally while ahead of the group. It's going to be so cool to be able to do infiltration quests during this group.

[@martdiamond6109]

I'm playing a damage oriented Soulknife which is also a lot of fun. I've gone Variant Human and picked up the Thrown Weapon Fighting Style with my feat, this gives us a nice damage bonus right of the bat. After three levels of Rogue we are multiclassing into Ranger. The Gloom Stalker is best for damage probably, but the Fey Wanderer gives us great options for being the Face of the party. We take 5 levels of Rogue for Extra Attack, the Dueling Fighting Style (this does RAW combo with the TWF style) and some useful spells as well as a Dex boost. Now we have three attacks with a +8 damage modifier one each of those. Plus the normal Psychic Blade damage, Sneak Attack, Ranger damage bonuses, etc.

[@cmeola1066]

Great commentary. Thanks guys 👍

[@NateArnoldVideos]

My Soul Knife is a Hexblood, which gave me 2 additional skill proficiencies.

[@luka2784]

Changeling would work very well for this build. They also gain to skill proficiencys, and they are the perfect infiltrator or deceiver.

[@UndeadMark]

I have a player that is playing a Soulknife. I am allowing that he can use the blades for any action, reaction, bonus action, etc that one could normally use an in-hand weapon for. That means he can make opportunity attacks as well as using a psychic knife as an offhand weapon, even if he has a physical weapon in his main hand, assuming its light/finesse, freeing him up to use whatever magic weapons that he may acquire without having to totally abandon the primary feature of his archetype. Time will tell if this will be too OP, but so far its just relieved a lot of cumbersome rules lawyering that seemed to get in the way of the spirit of the feature.

[@clevername1349]

I think the Half-Elf is the way to go but I am intrigued by the High-Elf as well. Having Prestidigitation on this build could be very interesting.

[@jakamoo1990]

A friend and I were talking about soulknife characters and the drawback of not being able to upgrade their psionic daggers, but we had an idea that you could use something as a conduit for your psionic abilities and by upgrading or enchanting that conduit you could add bonuses to the psionic daggers. Like some gloves with runes on them that help focus your psionic energy and shape the blades, think Roy Mustang from full metal alchemist.

[@katherineminor3402]

I made a soul knife/ aberrant mind sorc. They were an assassin who wore plane clothes (mage armor), and didn't carry any weapons. She had special arcanist gloves which acted as a spell focus. I loved her.

[@hatihrodvitnisson]

A little late to the party here, but I’d take it in a different direction. I’d choose either Owlin or Gem Dragonborn. With the Owlin, you get flying and proficiency in stealth, so you can fly around the battlefield tossing soul blades and swoop in from stealth as your opening. With the gem Dragonborn, you can still get a more limited version of flight, along with a breath weapon to back up your psychic blades. You could either double down on psychic damage(and get psychic resistance) with Emerald, or go with Amethyst and have access to two of the least resisted damage types in the game. Combine these with feats like Telekinetic and Skulker and you have an amazing infiltrator/assassin type.

[@Swiggle45]

Ive been playing a Tabaxi Soulknife Rogue for over a year now, and its been a blast. (btw Tabaxis also get two skill proficiencies in Perception and Stealth)

[@johnryoung4558]

The feat Fighting Initiate (Thrown Weapon Fighting) solves the issue of not having a weapon at hand for opportunity attacks and it also adds 2 damage to psychic blades when thrown. I'm currently in a campaign playing a Drow gestalt Soulknife//Psi Warrior. The Drow High Magic feat combined with the psionic abilities of both classes has made for an interesting psychic gish build. Fighting Style/Initiate (Dueling) is also nice for added melee damage and the Rogue (Steady Aim) feature is nice to have as well. My DM made a Psi Crystal for my character that works basically like a Rod of the Pack Keeper/Wand of the War Mage but for psychic abilities and attacks with psychic blades.

[@jnewlin4575]

Using this subclass as the now-backbone for my Skill Monkey Mutt (half-elf, 4 bard, 1 cleric, 3 homebrew warlock, 4 rogue). Every skill is proficient, and 8 skills have expertise. My wisdom had to be higher for the Lore Cleric buy-in, so charisma tool a hit; but the party's Bard is filling in nicely. The concept of no-weapons on-hand was a good roleplay appeal, and the psi-bolstered knack cemented it for me, with every conceivable skill check benefitting from those sweet, precious dice

[@TheSkepticalMystic]

The new Kenku (MMotM) is also a great racial choice for this. 2 skill proficiencies, plus you can give yourself advantage on skill checks you're proficient with a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You also get expert duplication for copying invitations/credentials, etc., and mimicry can be great for distractions or deception. Starting a campaign in a couple weeks where I'm planning to do this.

[@Rj-pw7zs]

Kenku also get two skill proficiencies. Granted your choices are limited unlike the Half Elf. However, the choices you get are skills you'd want as a Rogue anyway.

[@demonzero677]

No joke, a backup character I already had planned out is to make the ultimate skills monkey. With a 12/6/1/1 split of soul knife, collage of whispers, ranger, and arcane domain cleric, being human and taking about 4 feats, I'll have a character with 18/18 skill proficiencies plus 9 expertise. Depending on the stats, my lowest skill check could still be a +8, with the option to add a D10 to the check if I fail.

[@flyinbrian1739]

Soulknives, like Monks, can really benefit from a custom magic item to increase their offense. Some sort of psychic augmentation thingy, crystals are classic choices, that can act like a magic weapon powering up their psychic blades, change the damage type for those rare monsters resistant/immune to psychic, apply a fun debuff or status effect X times a day, maybe a standard + to help if they're having trouble with accuracy

[@EskayRogue]

Me DM when I played a soulknife allowed me to use the daggers in so many versatile ways, he let me augment how they looked, and let me use them for stuff other than attack actions, which once had me use them as falres to save people while a city was collapsing. We also added a tye of magic item that had my psychic blades change damage type, granted the more special the type the more it would cost, so things like Force or Radiant cost a lot more, and while wearing those magic items(which required attunement) you could only do that damage type.

[@TheWaynezWorld5]

I made a multi class Soulknife rogue and Psi warrior fighter. The best thing is that the two pools of Psionic energy die are worded identically. So at tier 4 you get 24 Psi dice. Pretty sweet.

[@hellpenguin3031]

I am a soulknife in my current Eberron game, a human already possessed by a carrionette, trying desperately to hold onto the body they stole so they can solve a mystery. They are built with mobility as the focus, avoiding attacks, getting to priority targets and skirmishing to allow our party to fight on multiple fronts when the dm inevitably surrounds us. My skills were shored up with a dark pact, which made sense with the trading bodies theme. I plan on eventually combining the soulknife's teleporting abilities with the echoknight, to be almost impossible to pin down.

[@bardthestoryteller]

I am playing a Halfling Soulknife Rogue/Wolf Totem Barb. She has my favourite flavouring of any character I have made for a long time, using her Psychic powers to flare up her muscles for Rage and creating a Psi-Axe in her main hand and a Psi-Shield in the other. She is a Support tank for the rest of the party while still being capable in combat and still having massive skill scores because Expertise. If I am on an Enemy I am giving everyone advantage on hitting that Enemy in melee and Reckless gives me Sneak Attack even if my allies aren't close to them, plus I always have a ranged option even if limited a bit.

[@shinybugg9156]

Thanks! I recently switched my rogue's subclass to soulknife, so tis is nice!

[@ddtalks2821]

Psychic whispers - Instead of connecting with your party, use it to connect to Guards or others to 'whisper' in their heads like Professor X and Wolverine. "Pssst... Over here..." leading them away from the door they are guarding so you can sneak in. Or Scaring your 'mark' in a crowd causing panic or just making them look bad in front of their peers, giving you an advantage to sneak away, or 'present' yourself and 'save face' or what have you.

[@direwolf8703]

My DM let me boost my damage with thrown weapon fighting style. I took the Marine background which gives proficiency in land and water vehicles as well as survival and athletics. Instead of charisma I boosted wisdom because multiclassing with gloomstalker ranger is fun and gives your rogue the disguise self spells.

[@loganrunyon6164]

Laser blades, invisibility, teleportation. This would be great if you wanted to play a Dark Templar from Star Craft.

[@StriderZessei]

My thoughts exactly.

[@arandomdogecoin]

Would also be great for an assassin boss who teleports to their targets and kills them before they can react. Maybe have them have psychic hand scythes instead of daggers, which do more damage.

[@richardanderson-gj8wr]

So essentially the teleportation blade is the flying raijin technique with psionic flavoring ( one of many abilities Minato perfected)

[@Hazel-xl8in]

i would personally go for prodigy sooner than skilled, partly because i think the xanathar feats are something that make the most sense at low levels. also, it just feels really good to get the 4 different things as opposed to 3 of the same.

[@oscardefoor5945]

Can yall do genie warlock next please?! Thanks for all the work yall do in creating these videos!

[@kevinewer1914]

If you want an infiltration type character, pick a Changeling. They also get two skill proficiencies and basically get free Disguise Self/self Polymorph.

[@groovydude4511]

I also think a dip into Ranger for 1 Skill + 1 Expertise (maybe 2 for Hunter's Mark and Archery?). Maybe a dip into Bard but I am less convinced of that.

[@jeremybertsch5414]

Doomstalker ranger/soul knife would be an outstanding multclass. Would love to play it.

[@chrismitchell-Auxo]

I literally just started a Soul Knife last week, skill monkey for sure. Kobold, do-gooder, that feels Bad about being the source of visual pain or letting down his party. His sheer will force to succeed and appease people manifests psionically. The psychic damage is more like putting an enemy to sleep in his mind then hurting them, so that’s good.

[@chrismitchell-Auxo]

I should point out that I came here for ideas on how to utilize/maximize my concept from my two favorite dungeon dudes, but then you guys basically just described exactly what I had already taken and the feats I was already planning. Guess it feels good to be on the same page as you (build-wise)

[@eugenealbert3621]

the one person that comes to mind is Nate Ford from leverage . Parker the thief Elliot a rune knight Hardison a sorcer Sophy another rogue

[@stevenmarin5780]

Ah, yes! The Psylocke/Kwannon subclass! Considering how much of an X-Stan I am I really want to play this class! Usually I like my psychic powers and magic stuff to be separate, but I’ll make the exception here!

[@MagusDouken]

I feel this would be a big question for the DM, but would the psychic abilities be prevented from anti-magic zones or found from a magic-detective? Because that can also impact on how bold the rogue may get with their infiltration tactics.

[@Sawtooth44]

i think it tells exactly what it works on Magic Psionics are not Magic like trying to play Warhammer 40k Demons in a Warhammer Fantasy battle, its close but the rules dont match up so it fails to work you can then have the villains have things like Blanks which in 40k are people immune to Psykers or Null-Rods that are like an anti magic zone but as an item and specifically for Psykers, those 2 things though should only start to pop up when the antagonist has realised they are being messed up by a psionic just like how DMs will have NPC casters that are there to counterspell mages

[@normal6483]

According to one of Mike Mearls' twitter posts, you can tell when an item is magic by if it says "magic" somewhere in the description. And the Psychic Blades feature says, "this magic blade" in the description, so it would count as a magic ability.

[@xichronix8090]

I got to play a High level Kampain with a Soulknife Rogue + Sorcerer multiclassing (10lvl each) i played it in Combat like a Disruptor Type of Charakter constantly keeping Ranged Enemies occupied while the Rest of the Party just screwed over any melee Targets. I just focused on getting where i need to be with Teleportation and so on :D u could say i played Minato Namikaze the Yellow Flash from Naruto (Chromatic Orb with a bit of Flavoring is a really nice Rasengan)

[@the_gentleman_crow9772]

I went fighter as my other class for soul knife I love the interplay between the knife and dueling since to summon the second knife u need a free hand so it’s just free damage that and fighter just fits my characters development

[@Indigo1559]

I'm DMing Out of the Abyss and gave my soulknife player an amazing homebrew magic item for him to play with. It's been a blast to give him beefy enemies to shred after some careful planning, and it's also fun to see him burn all of the charges of that item immediately after a long rest rather than save them for when it matters. Ring of the Hidden Blade: This ring has 3 charges. You regain all charges at the end of a long rest. When you take the attack action with a weapon which has the finesse, light, and thrown properties, you may expend one charge to do all of the following: - You gain advantage on the attack you are making. - If you already have advantage on the attack roll, you may treat your roll on the dice as a 20 (thereby scoring a critical hit). - You can change the damage type of your weapon attack to any other damage type of your choice.

[@kvar_runeback]

For the 2 proficiency race, you missed the Tabaxi... And although they are fixed skills, I think any character (nevermind Rogue) likes getting Stealth and Perception. It also gives you some mean fighting tactics of being impossible to pin down with Feline Agility and Cunning Action. Funnily enough my best friend I've just introduced to the game just made one of these! He's not optimizing anything (and certainly not skill monkey tactics) but his character is *solid*

[@richardproper8682]

Unfortunately, Tashas nerfed Green Flame and Booming Blade cantrips, in a move that seems specifically targeted towards Soul Knife and Shadow Blade using Arcane Tricksters, these cantrips require you make attacks with weapons that have monetary value, meaning conjured weapons no longer work.

[@oniminikui]

I'm currently playing a soulknife rogue/fathomless warlock harengon. He's my aquatic bunny Yoda. I love playing him! My DM homebrewed a rule when I acquired a dragontooth dagger that when I attuned to it, it became my psychic blade and now deals both psychic +1d6 lightning damage. I'm more of a utility player, so I took the telepathic feat because I want the telepathy at will. The party heavily relies the psychic whispers (we call it the hivemind). And the detect thoughts (from the feat) comes in handy when interrogating captives.

[@charlesbunyard5267]

Sunken isles, sèms like a good setting to play Tortals, Grung, and other aquatic races

[@KalinaHitanaVTuber]

I had originally made a Soulknife Rogue for a campaign with a group of friends who wanted to play. Unfortunately, once I realized the timezone differences would make my ability to play next to impossible, I withdrew from the campaign. Thankfully, I think I dodged a bullet, because the DM started acting increasingly desperate to keep me and my character around, at one point even suggesting my character secretly supporting the BBEG to explain my absences (a suggestion that I felt really offended by since I made it pretty clear from the start that I wasn't gonna be that kind of Rogue).

[@whiskeySe7en]

The point being?

[@beancounter2185]

Psionic ability was traditionally tied to intelligence. (In 1E/2E your chance of having psionics was improved slightly with a high INT) For a rogue, INT is a dump stat. It seems strange that they would make a psionic rogue before making a psionic Wizard.

[@gamingwithgrief4307]

This video is great and I totally agree with being the 'face' of the party, but hear me out: What about Changeling for race?

[@BlackShadow1991]

Thank you for making these videos, Dudes :D Good stuff!

[@rainyeevee4047]

Not only elf gives 2 skill proficiences. Tabaxi race gives perception and stealth, two things rogues loves and with +2 dex and +1 charisma they don't even need tasha custom scores option. Whats more: you now have extra weapon that is your hand and you can use it for opportunity attacks without psychic blades. Its only sad that tabaxi as dex race don't have their natural weapon with finesse property.

[@aero821]

Really intresting take on this class guys, I love it.

[@kelky52]

Im currently playing a pallid elf soulknife rogue, basically a detective role, doubled down on insight and investigation and between expertise in both, rolling with permanent advantage and the psi bolstered knack, ive yet to fail a single insight or investigation role.

[@MasterCrafterFish]

I made a Dhampir soul knife Rogue. (A Dad-pir) He whispers Dad Jokes into blades and when he hits, they ring in the monsters mind, "Hi Hungry, I'm Dad!" Or what ever dad joke I made. The mental cringe and humiliation is the psychic energy my Dad-pir feeds on.

[@bigbbrendan]

All I want is 2 levels of Warlock on this bad boy for mask of many faces and permanent mage armour to add to the psychic powers theme. Maybe go Genie Dao patron for diversified damage and flavour all the soulknife stuff as Genie powers

[@Rynhelms]

You guys revivify my love for DnD.

[@ozymondiaz4031]

My soul knife I am about to use is a changeling, with a good CHA, DEX, and ok CON. Charlatan of course

[@Cyclops1776]

Hey fellas, I would love to hear your thoughts on making a path of the beast barbarian. I love this subclass conceptually but haven't gotten around to playing yet. A key note of interest would be two weapon fighting with the claws ability. Tasha's states that both hands transform into natural weapons that count as simple melee weapons for the user. Duel-wielder feat removes the light weapon requirement that should allow for this to occur. However looking online I find that claw is not a "held" weapon, forgoing the ability to use it as a bonus action. I find this to be semantics, as my interpretation is possession in use. My own solution would of been to allow the claws to be used as bonus attack from the start with proficiency added. Then maybe at level 10 allow for the bonus attack to make 2 claw attacks. This makes it viable for use midgame area. I would love to hear yalls thoughts on this subject and a possible solution as well. Keep making the killer content.

[@blackdoomduck]

I like having a real dagger on a soul knife not necessarily to use but I would say as a guard or something I'd be a lot more suspicious of someone without any visible weapons than someone with one. If I'm at a point in a formal party or something where they ask you to check your weapons at the door it's easier to say yes of course and give a dagger you have no intention on using then be like, no really I promise I know I'm walking round with a bunch of people in full plate with a great sword but I don't have any weapons

[@moody6143]

I’ve played a Soul Knife/Whisper Bard as a sort of Gambit like character.

[@erbsplays3869]

Can you hexblade your psychic blades? I've been eyeing a whispers bard + soulknife multiclass (double psychic blades!), and a 1 level hexblade would help so much to go all in on charisma. But the wording of psychic blades and hexblade are umm... complicated. It doesn't quiet seem like it would work.

[@pisachas7203]

I’m surprised there wasn’t a reference to Loki. This was basically Loki in the first avengers movie. Soul knife sounds better after I’ve watched this.

[@WalterRiggs]

Had to watch this twice. I kept gettin distracted by Kelly’s tshirt

[@jimc7022]

Could you pick up the Archery fighting style and sharpshooter feat for the thrown knives?

[@erikwhitney7403]

Regarding a multi class lvl 3 samurai/ X champion. Use samurai fighting spirit 3x long rest as bonus action giving all your attacks advantage until end of turn. Action surge and all of your attacks are at advantage for increase crit. Opinions?

[@Napfkuchen]

Wouldnt be changeling also be a really good race for soulknifes? You have also two more proficiency to choose.

[@StateBlaze1989]

So my group is gonna be starting a new campaign in a couple months, and I decided to go with a soulknife rogue drow. One thing I am stuck on: how does psychic blades, as well as all the other psionic abilities for that matter, interact with things like counterspell or anti-magic fields? For the blades especially, it does say the blades are magical but does not extend that property to the method of summoning them. So would anti-magic have any effect?

[@albatz1377]

Ive been playing a tabaxi urchin soul knife since the soul knife was a thing and it's now my go to ..there's so much utility..and I'm never ever un armed....also the description of the blades dosnt say "on your turn" like a lot of other things do ...instead it says whenever you take the attack action ...so it's a bit ambiguous..as they don't tend to Wright these descriptions accounting for actions taken not on your turn ..the use of the turm attack action dosnt make it unavailable through any other attack...it would be silly if they intended this ability to only be used as on your turn only ...it's not op at any stretch...not only that but it has simple melee weapon with the finesse and thrown properties so so it's a weapon that can be used wherever it says you can use a melee attack .. ...im amazed theres no sage advice on this one yet...I have yet to have a dm ever say I couldn't use it with aoo or sentinel...and I've used this basic template since ua

[@RefugeeOfReality]

I created a variant of this subclass for one of my players called "Psy Needle" Mostly the same as the original only that the damage is split into an amount of Psionic needles (each dealing one damage) according to the damage rolled. I also added a feature that you can target a number of creatures equal to your proficiency modifier with your needles (sneak attack can only be dealt to one target still) also I added a level 6 feature where the player can create an invisible psionic thread that deals one psychic damage and then vanishes upon touching a living creature other than predefined creatures through which it passes without any interaction. The character will be aware when the thread is triggered and when created it can be loaded with the possibility to unleash sneak attack damage for setting "trip wires". on level 9 the character will be able to choose wether the strings should be visible or not, see the threads other Psy Needles created and make their own strings more sturdy as well - The player wanted to play a tailor who is also a rogue - so i came up with an underground network of tailor rogues that uses poisoned needles and a unique kind of thieves cant stitched into the inside of the corners of tapestries and clothing to communicate with other members. My party is level 8 right now so i am excited to play this card soon!

[@not-a-theist8251]

Such a cool subclass

[@NobodyDungeons]

Question does half proficiency count for the psychic knack ability. If yes then multi classing into bard is amazing.

[@heavylokhust8158]

Hey guys wondering if you all could do the echo Knight next

[@lykos619]

I'm making a barbarian rogue. 5 totem bear, 3 soulknife. I have a silver shortsword in my main hand and an open hand for grappling. Would I be able to attack with my silver shortsword and summon the 1d6 psychic blade as a bonus action? Or I guess just use my silver sword for my bonus action attack?

[@TwelveTables]

Finally a character Wil Wheaton can play!

[@dam49365]

Does the bonus attack have to be on the same target? Doesent say in the ability

[@studynot757]

Changeling and Van Richten’s Lineages give two skills also. Questionable whether the lineages qualify for human only feats or not

[@shiro4833]

Damn. This build really was made for Will Wheaton, wasn't it.

[@davidsweet5094]

I need a DM's point of view with this one ... With Psionic Whispers in a group of 4 (Rogue plus three others) does that mean that all 4 members can talk to and hear everyone else in the group or is the Rogue just playing operator and relaying information in a 1 on 1 fashion? If just the 1 on 1 communication is allowed then wouldn't that get quite confusing after a while and might even include some type of ability check for memory to make sure the message is related fully and properly. Any thoughts?

[@chrisward9521]

I can just picture a a soulknife rogue multi classing into gloomstalker ranger and any monk

[@themightyteo7616]

Can someone explain a thing about damage when attacking with bonus action with soul blades? Is it just 1d4 or 1d4 + Dex modifier? Or Dex modifier only applies on attack rolls?

[@kappakiev9672]

I can definitely make a character with this that has faced trauma at the hands of a mind flayed or other psionically powerful being, and their arc would be dealing with this trauma and overcoming it.

[@moxar2220]

As a soulknife rogue I probably would've picked Vedalken or Satyr as a race...

[@ForeShadow20]

sounds like they wanted to replicate the x-men Psylocke into D&D

[@eriklundstrom1336]

Hell yea, love this.

[@PaulFulbright]

Soulknife rogue just screams Gambit to me. Not entirely the safe but, I mean...close enough...

[@kadenmw2734]

Imagine a Dhampir with the Psychic trigger

[@kadenmw2734]

Also, psychic blade attacks leave no marks on the victim.

[@danzansandeev6033]

So… you telling me I can play as Protoss dark Templar in dnd? Which race in dnd looks closest to Protoss?)

[@IanMott]

feels like a min max build maybe a skill prof max rule?

[@AgentSmith21119]

As cool as a gentleman villain sounds I prefer the adhd character who’s various hyper fixations have somehow led to a bunch of various talents to the confusion of everyone else