Occult - Psychic Question

[Dasane the Sportive]

Ok so looking through the book and I noticed a Discipline changes your Phrenic Pool modifier between Charisma and Wis.

But say you take a Archetype like Formless Adept which forces your pool to modify to Charisma.

So say you take Self-Perfection Discipline which makes your Phrenic pool switches to Wis, but you are taking Formless Adept which switches your pool to Charisma. Which does what? I would normally say oh well they both modify the same thing but you don't even have a Phrenic casting stat till you take one of them. So does your Discipline come before the Archetype?

[QuidEst]

Dasane the Sportive wrote:

Ok so looking through the book and I noticed a Discipline changes your Phrenic Pool modifier between Charisma and Wis.

But say you take a Archetype like Formless Adept which forces your pool to modify to Charisma.

So say you take Self-Perfection Discipline which makes your Phrenic pool switches to Wis, but you are taking Formless Adept which switches your pool to Charisma. Which does what? I would normally say oh well they both modify the same thing but you don't even have a Phrenic casting stat till you take one of them. So does your Discipline come before the Archetype?

Archetype wins. Archetypes modify class features; disciples are class features.

[Dasane the Sportive]

Thank you I was really confused by this because they are both chosen at character creation.

[Ellias Aubec]

I'm pretty sure that that archetype actually changes the discipline anyway so that would be an impossible situation.

[Apraham Lincoln]

formless adept doesnt get a psychic discipline or its powers. It needs to specify what stat it uses for its phrenic pool.

[blackbloodtroll]

Archetype wins.

I don't think you even get Psychic Disciple. So, that doesn't seem to matter.