Subclass Rogue Soulknife
The Soulknife is a Rogue subclass built around Psionic Energy Dice — a resource that fuels skill checks, attack rerolls, and Psychic Blade attacks. Psionic Power at Level 3 establishes the Psionic Energy Die pool (four d6, scaling to eight d10 at Level 11) and restores one die per Short Rest. Psi-Bolstered Knack is a toggle that automatically spends a die to add to every ability/skill check while active, regardless of whether the check would have succeeded anyway. Homing Strikes lets you spend a die on a missed Psychic Blade attack to add that roll to the attack. Psychic Blades enchants an equipped Dagger, Shortsword, or Scimitar into a returning, un-disarmable, Psychic-damage thrown weapon rather than summoning an independent spectral blade. Soul Blades at Level 9 adds Psychic Teleportation (teleport via thrown blade) and Psychic Veil (1-hour Invisibility).
| LEVEL | FEATURE |
|---|---|
| 3 | Psionic Power, Psi-Bolstered Knack, Homing Strikes, Psychic Blades |
| 9 | Soul Blades: Psychic Teleportation, Soul Blades: Psychic Veil |
Psionic Power You have a pool of Psionic Energy Dice, which fuel certain powers granted by this subclass.
| ROGUE LEVEL | DICE COUNT | DIE SIZE |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 4 | d6 |
| 5 | 6 | d8 |
| 9 | 8 | d8 |
| 11 | 8 | d10 |
You regain one expended Psionic Energy Die when you finish a Short Rest. You regain all expended dice on a Long Rest.
Psi-Bolstered Knack Unlike tabletop 5e's reactive "roll to save a failed check" version, this is a toggle in this mod: while it's switched on, every ability check and skill check you make automatically adds your Psionic Energy Die and consumes one die — win or lose, before you know the roll's outcome, not just when it would turn a failure into a success. You can only enable the toggle while you have at least one die remaining.
Homing Strikes If you make an attack roll with your Psychic Blade and miss the target, you can roll one Psionic Energy Die and add the number rolled to the attack roll.
Psychic Blades Unlike tabletop 5e's independently-manifested spectral blade, this mod implements Psychic Blades by enchanting a Dagger, Shortsword, or Scimitar you already have equipped: the weapon becomes un-disarmable, gains the Thrown property (so you can throw it at range), returns to your hand after being thrown, and its damage type is overridden to Psychic. Damage is your equipped weapon's own damage die (e.g. a Dagger's 1d4), not a fixed 1d6 — you need an eligible weapon equipped for this feature to do anything.
If your off-hand weapon is also a Dagger, Shortsword, or Scimitar, it receives the same treatment.
Soul Blades: Psychic Teleportation As a Bonus Action, you manifest a Psychic Blade, expend one Psionic Energy Die and roll it, and throw the blade at an unoccupied space you can see up to 30 feet away. You then teleport to that space, and the blade vanishes.
Soul Blades: Psychic Veil As a Magic action, you gain the Invisible condition for 1 hour. This invisibility ends early immediately after you deal damage to a creature or you force a creature to make a saving throw.
The Soulknife is the psionic Rogue subclass, but in this mod it isn't weapon-independent: Psychic Blades needs a Dagger, Shortsword, or Scimitar equipped to enchant, unlike tabletop 5e where the blades are conjured from nothing. Once enchanted, the weapon can't be disarmed and returns after being thrown, so a Soulknife who starts a fight properly equipped is hard to strip of their damage — but a Soulknife with no eligible weapon at all has nothing to enchant.
Psionic Energy Dice are a flexible resource, but Psi-Bolstered Knack spends them less efficiently than tabletop's version: since it's a toggle that taxes every check while active (not a reactive "only when it saves you" ability), it's best switched on only before a specific high-stakes check rather than left running. Homing Strikes prevents wasted turns: miss a Psychic Blade → spend a die → potentially convert the miss to a hit with Sneak Attack.
The Short Rest restore (1 die per short rest) makes Psionic Energy Dice sustainable across a day, unlike Long-Rest-only resources.
Psychic Veil at Level 9 provides 1-hour Invisibility as a Magic action — it doesn't end on movement, only on dealing damage or forcing a save. One cast gives stealth positioning for an extended period.
Psychic Teleportation costs a Psionic Die but provides on-demand teleportation as a Bonus Action — escape grapples, reach elevated targets, or reposition after Sneak Attack from unexpected angles.