Just wondering if people agree this combination works the way I think it does.
Battle Ready
Your combat training and your experiments with magic have paid off in two ways:
You gain proficiency with martial weapons.
When you attack with a magic weapon, you can use your Intelligence modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity modifier, for the attack and damage rolls.
Psychic Blades
You can manifest your psionic power as shimmering blades of psychic energy. Whenever you take the Attack action, you can manifest a psychic blade from your free hand and make the attack with that blade. This magic blade is a simple melee weapon with the finesse and thrown properties. It has a normal range of 60 feet and no long range, and on a hit, it deals psychic damage equal to 1d6 plus the ability modifier you used for the attack roll. The blade vanishes immediately after it hits or misses its target, and it leaves no mark on its target if it deals damage.
After you attack with the blade, you can make a melee or ranged weapon attack with a second psychic blade as a bonus action on the same turn, provided your other hand is free to create it. The damage die of this bonus attack is 1d4, instead of 1d6.
D&DBeyond doesn't give you the option to use psychic blades with intelligence (aside from manually adjusting its attack and damage modifiers to match your intelligence) so am I wrong or could this be an oversight?
Looks like an oversight. Psychic Blades are not a "special attack" that uses your melee weapon roll, they're explicitly made weapons, specifically "simple melee weapon[s] with the finesse and thrown properties". And, being explicitly described as "magic", they should qualify for Battle Ready's 2nd effect.
D&DBeyond doesn't give you the option to use psychic blades with intelligence (aside from manually adjusting its attack and damage modifiers to match your intelligence) so am I wrong or could this be an oversight?
Whenever a feat or feature creates a weapon attack on the character sheet, that attack isn't able to interact with other features or weapon properties. The character sheet just treats it as a custom action.
Where are you pulling that reference for Psychic Blades?
I'm trying to search the site, but can only find the College of Whispers, which has different wording.
Soulknife, Rogue subclass. :D
Ah, there it is!
Yeah, in this case, Psychic Blades should be compatible with Battle Ready as already stated. DNDBeyond just isn't designed to implement this kind of feature interaction, also as already stated.
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Just wondering if people agree this combination works the way I think it does.
D&DBeyond doesn't give you the option to use psychic blades with intelligence (aside from manually adjusting its attack and damage modifiers to match your intelligence) so am I wrong or could this be an oversight?
Looks like an oversight. Psychic Blades are not a "special attack" that uses your melee weapon roll, they're explicitly made weapons, specifically "simple melee weapon[s] with the finesse and thrown properties". And, being explicitly described as "magic", they should qualify for Battle Ready's 2nd effect.
Where are you pulling that reference for Psychic Blades?
I'm trying to search the site, but can only find the College of Whispers, which has different wording.
Soulknife, Rogue subclass. :D
Whenever a feat or feature creates a weapon attack on the character sheet, that attack isn't able to interact with other features or weapon properties. The character sheet just treats it as a custom action.
Ah, there it is!
Yeah, in this case, Psychic Blades should be compatible with Battle Ready as already stated. DNDBeyond just isn't designed to implement this kind of feature interaction, also as already stated.
+1