Hello, I have a question about the psychic duelist.
Taking place entirely in a mindscape, psychic duels can occur when foes come into conflict in an area rife with mental magic, through the magic of a bizarre artifact, when two creatures' minds connect within a dream, or when a psychic duelist instigates a duel.
Instigate psychic duel is a feat at level 12 and only once per day.
So,I can takes place in area rife with mental magic or in a dream.
1/So for the first, can it take place with a door mindscape ?
F2/or the second, does it function with infiltrate dream or oneiric influence from sleepwalker archetype ?
3/Are there a change for the attacks roll ?
4/So a creature can use "physical attacks" with weapons or naturel weapon, spells, innate spells or special abilities but not only natural psychic spells ?
Terms of Duels
All psychic manifestations are nonlethal.
Participants can cast no spells but battle form spells.
A participant can escape the duel by attaining a certain goal, ending it early as a draw. This is especially common in a duel between a powerful psychic and someone with weak psychic capabilities.
Participants can leave the duel immediately if their physical body is disturbed or harmed.
5/Can the terms of duel be only the use of the natural psychic spell ?
6)With Instigate psychic duel, does the psychic duellist to impose the terms of duel ?
Thanks for your future answer.
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The reason that the Psychic Duelist archetype is tagged as Rare is because it needs a lot of GM and player agreement on how it works. If rules were able to be given the Rare tag, the Psychic Duels rules would likely also have it.
That is one option for how a Psychic Duel could occur naturally even if none of the characters involved are able to create one deliberately.
Those are possibilities that could be used to narratively justify starting a Psychic Duel if the GM and the players all agree that it makes sense for the story. None of those spells or abilities force starting a Psychic Duel.
There are a lot of changes to how attacking and defending are done in a Psychic Duel. However, if a character is using their martial weapons and proficiency in the Psychic Duel, then it appears that they are still using their full martial proficiency and STR bonus for their attacks. Their damage will change a bit since they won't be using their STR bonus for damage.
Yeah, you can set whatever terms that you want. Specifically this sounds very similar to the example terms of "Participants can cast no spells but battle form spells."
Obviously a dueling restriction to "Participants can cast no spells but the Natural Psychic spells" isn't going to be willingly agreed to by a participant that has no natural psychic spells.
The feat doesn't specify.
I would certainly think that the target participant would need to agree to the terms of the duel in order to join willingly.
If the Psychic Duelist is forcibly joining the target participant, I could see having the duelist being able to set the terms to their own liking. Within the limits of what the GM and players are agreeing to above the table. But having the target participant at a disadvantage of some type is part of why attacking someone with a Psychic Duel is useful. And it is also why the target gets a Will save - often repeatedly - in order to leave a duel that they don't like being in.