I posted this in homebrew earlier but thought that it might fit better in this part of the message boards. Let me know your thoughts either here or on that thread!
Seems OP. I could see the "warrior" stealing some part of the victims essence and applying a debuff or something. You'd have to do alot of work making the weapon scale like a Magus blade or something.
It also means that the PC always starts out without a weapon...which could be a problem....especially if he's fighting a soul-less construct or something.
The weapon breaking should release the energy back to the victim...if it lives still.
I see a lot of complications.
I'd prefer to see a class that forges it's own spirit into a weapon....that would be cool, like the Magus' athame, soul-knife or psylocke type character.
If you can yank the life out of people, why not just kill them that way? seems more direct than making their soul into a knife and stabbing them with it. You do have their soul after all.
True, I see your point. For reference we're creating the class in a google doc which will be ready for access soon
How about like a "Ki Shaper"? Stealing the life energy from others and shaping it... Maybe drain Ki/Stamina/Arcane etc...pools to form weapons and other objects? or constitution i.e. breath?
Some battlefield control would work that way....form a wall of Ki force,form armor and shields....form shackles and chains like Pinhead!
Alright, we decided to go ahead and try drafting up a class, as we've never done so ourselves before and thought it would be fun to try out. The first draft of the class can be found here, let us know your thoughts!
Edit: I will say upfront that one of the abilities, 'Void Flexibility' is verbatum from the brawler class. The void architect class is mostly for use in our own home game, but let us know if we're infringing on some copyright laws.