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Got a bit of a problem, and I'm looking for some guidance around the Aegis class and their ectoplasmic armor. The main question is: do the armors get customized separately or do you choose the customizations for yourself and the armor is a separate issue?
Asking because the language in the Dreamscarred Press books, specifically Ultimate Psionics (earlier versions not really having better guidance) explain that you can choose the form that you are in at the time, and you get a set of free customizations as a part of that. Then you have your customization points on your "suit," but you don't have one suit, you have the three. With the mixing of plural and singular uses, I'm confused (or maybe I'm being willful and missing something).
Some of the language seems to indicate that you pick your customizations, and those go to the pool, and then that the suits are different though. The only real example language that I can use to figure is that if you choose a customization for another armor, the 3xNimble for example, you wouldn't get 4 Nimble if you pick the skin. Sure. If you customize each suit separately though, as it seems you would, the skin would only have 4pts given to Nimble, and if you wanted nimble in the Armor Suit, you would pick that three times for 6pts of your pool, but that would mean you have to spend the pool separately on the separate armors (and early game that's a problem since you get more of the pool in separate suits).
Anyway, thanks for the thoughts and whatever might clear the question up. Like the concept, but the writing issues are often a problem in Third Party products, and I'm trying to figure out which way to swing it.
You choose one set of customizations that would apply regardless if the astral suit type. As for the 4x nimble scenario, the rules for Astral Suits actually explain what happens in tbis situation:
If the aegis changes the type of his astral suit and the free customizations would take the suit over the maximum limit (such as switching from an Astral Armor with 3 Nimble customizations to Astral Skin, which grants an additional Nimble customization), the excess customizations go inert until the astral suit is changed to make the selections valid (by reconfiguring the customization points via 8 hours of concentration or Reconfigure ability or switching the astral suit type).
You choose one set of customizations that would apply regardless if the astral suit type. As for the 4x nimble scenario, the rules for Astral Suits actually explain what happens in tbis situation:
If the aegis changes the type of his astral suit and the free customizations would take the suit over the maximum limit (such as switching from an Astral Armor with 3 Nimble customizations to Astral Skin, which grants an additional Nimble customization), the excess customizations go inert until the astral suit is changed to make the selections valid (by reconfiguring the customization points via 8 hours of concentration or Reconfigure ability or switching the astral suit type).
Thanks, and I've seen other posts that are similar, just wondering if there is something definative about how one spends the customization points? From reading between the lines with the scenario given, it suggests that there is one set of points that are used for customizations and that those only work when you are in an astral suit. What I'm trying to lock down is - is this just a case of poor wording and that it wasn't spelled out or is it based on something else so there was a base to interpret it from? My issue comes, I think, from there not being a paragraph talking about how one uses the pool of customization points and I'm looking to see if that is somewhere. Again, appreciate the help.
As you get higher in level, you get some ability to rework the customizations on a daily basis.
So in that case, you can trade out some or all of your nimble points to pick up other powers.
Thanks, and I've seen other posts that are similar, just wondering if there is something definative about how one spends the customization points? From reading between the lines with the scenario given, it suggests that there is one set of points that are used for customizations and that those only work when you are in an astral suit. What I'm trying to lock down is - is this just a case of poor wording and that it wasn't spelled out or is it based on something else so there was a base to interpret it from? My issue comes, I think, from there not being a paragraph talking about how one uses the pool of customization points and I'm looking to see if that is somewhere. Again, appreciate the help.
The line that I've given above (written right in the Customization Points section) makes it pretty clear that you only have one set of customization points across all three suit types, I'd think.
I'm not sure how you arrived at the interpretation that there as being three separate configurations for the three types of astral suits, to be honest. The text never mentions that you get three different astral suits or anything like that; it only says you get one astral suit, and can change the type of astral suit when you summon it.
After 8 hours of rest, you can reconfigure your suit's customization points in their entirety, I believe.