| As Gawain previously noted, splatbooks are the only way to optimize aside from Druid/Cleric/Wizard 20.
As you could also see, splatbooks gave us a way to bypass the spiked chain, an overpowered core weapon, of which we don't like the flavour.
Psionics is personal flavour, so aside from the previous conversations about broken or not, I won't touch that.
About the baseclasses: Sure, 4 IS a lot, but not when you're considering optimizing. Gawain and I considered many alternatives, mainly to keep the concept but make a more viable flavor. Personally, I dropped the knight, because the whole 'Have at you, Knave' concept just didn't fit in. Monk and Psychic warrior are very fitting, especially with the Tashalatora flavor. Crusader's mainly in there for the easy acces to manoeuvres, but crusaders can fit in the tashalatora flavor too. Personally, I chose to go with the Warmind instead of the PWM, not only to avoid the mobility feats (which I just don't like), but moreso because of the Warmind kicking ass/tentacles/everything that's attacked to an encounter at the back.  |