Advanced Being Ascendant
Prerequisites:
Feats: Path Dexter or Path Sinister; Skill Focus (Knowledge(history)); & any 1 psionic feat.
Skills: Know(Arcana) 6 ranks, Know(Psionics) 6 ranks, Know(History) 6 ranks
Spells: Ability to cast 2 level arcane spells
Powers: Ability to manifest 2 level powers
Class Features:
Hit Die: 1d4
Skills (2 + Int. modifier per level): Bluff, Concentration, Disguise, Know(Arcana), Know(History), Know(Psionics), Psicraft, & Spellcraft. Also, Preservers have Diplomacy as a class skill and Defilers have Intimidate as a class skill.
Focused Path: Gained at 1st level. An ascendant learns three spells per level, one of which must be from his/her path. An ascendant has a -5 to spellcraft to learn spells from the opposite path. An ascendant can only have a max of 1 spell per caster level memorized from the opposite path.
Spell Power: At 5th level, the ascendant gains the spell power feature at +1. This bonus increases to +2 at 10th level.
Fearless (Ex): At 7th level, the ascendant becomes immune to fear and fear inducing effects no matter their source. This also makes them immune to the intimidate skill.
Spects:
Levels: 10
BAB: as wizard
Saves: as wizard
Spells per level: gained at every level save 5th, 7th, and 10th.
Powers per level: gained at every level save 5th, 7th, and 10th.
This class has the feature of only increasing the ability of either the psionic class or wizard class at 5th, 7th, and 10th level to compensate for the other abilities gained.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
The focused path could be made a feat that builds off the "path dexter/path sinister" feats that increases number of spells known/level and as it is a higher level feat with prerquisites, you could add in the spell power OR fearless aspect into the single feat as well.
example:
Focused path (psionic)
Prerequisite: Ability to memorize arcane spells, knowledge (arcana) 6 ranks, knowledge (psionics) 6 ranks, and either the path sinister or path dexter feat.
Benefit: Each time the character gains a level in their arcane spellcasting class, they learn three spells per level, one of which must be from his/her path. Gains immunity to fear effects.
Special: They have a -5 to spellcraft to learn spells from the opposite path and can only have a max of 1 spell per spell level memorized from the opposite path.
I'm a big fan of the "everything but first" progression. You have to pay a little to get in, but after that you're good.
Basically what you have here is almost identical to the cerebramancer PrC. The changes you are looking at here would fit better, IMHO, as feats than as a whole new PrC. After all most arcane advanced beings as it is would go cerebramancer to help them meet the requirements of the metamorphosis.
The focused path could be made a feat that builds off the "path dexter/path sinister" feats that increases number of spells known/level and as it is a higher level feat with prerquisites, you could add in the spell power OR fearless aspect into the single feat as well.
example:
Focused path (psionic)
Prerequisite: Ability to memorize arcane spells, knowledge (arcana) 6 ranks, knowledge (psionics) 6 ranks, and either the path sinister or path dexter feat.
Benefit: Each time the character gains a level in their arcane spellcasting class, they learn three spells per level, one of which must be from his/her path. Gains immunity to fear effects.
Special: They have a -5 to spellcraft to learn spells from the opposite path and can only have a max of 1 spell per spell level memorized from the opposite path.
The class is suppose to replace the cerebremancer class as a more athasian variant. The feat idea seems nice but all the features in one feat may be overpowered.
As for not giving a caster level at 10th, well you get one or the other but not both. The same stands at 5th and 7th, I guess I didn't make that clear enough but I hate doing tables on the forum.
If one kept the cerebremancer, then I could turn this into a five level prestige class that granted the bonuses in rapid succession. As above but gain Focused Path at 1st; Spellpower at 2nd and 4th; Fearless at 5th; and have bonus to manifester and caster level at every level save 2nd & 4th (only gain it for one class at those levels)?
Also I don't see the class as having anything to do with mixing spellcasting and manifesting, that's actually reserved for advanced beings, thematically. The class should be about dedication, focus, ambition. Mostly the abilities should be mind-affecting and work on the character himself, or should be bonuses or lessened penalties to specific skills and such. (An example of this could be the skill effects of a wizard's defiling radius, which could be made to change or be more widespread.)
A possibility could be to gain something like the dwarven focus or the dedication spell, i.e. that as long as you're actively pursuing your object of focus - achieving advanced being status - you gain the effects of this kind of focus.
There's definately room for a conversion of this kit, but the abilities have to be generic enough to be useful and relevant to all types of pre-advanced beings, although a final level ability might be introduced, some ability that has individual entries for each possible advanced being. The thing with a wizard's defiling radius I mentionned above could be such a final ability, specific to wannabe dragons. Cleric ABs, druid ABs, and avangions would constitute the other three sub-entries of this final ability.
:OMG! 
Shoot! :D
What an appropriately inappropriate response to my earlier inappropriately sexualy-oriented comment! :D
I might try my hand at it. Squid, Meth and Nyt be ready for some booty time!...er I mean MSN time. Silly slip.
What! I do not get an invite? Where is all your love for me Penn
What! I do not get an invite? Where is all your love for me Penn
Whaaat?! You want a piece of me? Come here boy, they don't call me the french flamer for nothin'... :P
I might try my hand at it. Squid, Meth and Nyt be ready for some booty time!...er I mean MSN time. Silly slip.
"Booty Time" was the name of the song of Lt. Amos' (played by Ed O'Neil who was Al Bundy in Married with Children) disco band in the Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
"Booty time, booty time,"
"accross the U.S.A. Booty time, booty time . . ."All "booty" tangents aside, I'd like to see everyone's ideas/takes/perspectives/examples/etc./etc./etc.
18 Ranks Psicraft
18 ranks Spell Craft
Level 6 spells and powers
Special. Must have met a Dragon or Avangion in a peaceful encounter.
Ascendent
1. Duality, Potence+1
2. Bonus Feat
3. Potence +2
4. Bonuse Feat
5. Potence +3
Duality. Each level of the Ascendent adds +1 caster/minifester level.
Potence. Add the number to any roll to beat MR/PR
Bonus Feat. Choose any meta psionic/magic feat or any item creation feat.
Something like that to top off the cerebmancer PrC.
Spell Power: At 5th level, the ascendant gains the spell power feature at +1. This bonus increases to +2 at 10th level.
Forgive me if i overlooked this but what exactly is spell power feature +1 or +2?
In broad terms please!
(Something like: Bonuses to X, ability to do Y, focus on Z.)Anyways, only the fluff's left and then the first release will be ready for feedback :D
Thanks to Methvezem, Brun01, and squidfur- !
Is it because I'm saying I'm working on a class in the same thread somebody else is presenting his version of said class?
Ramar Aulinvox's conversion did not garner much interest, so I thought I'd try my hand at a conversion of my own...
I egerly await what you got Penn - at this time I am of an indifferent opinion on this matter and have not seen anything that really got me excited.
for instance i would reccomend a class that focuses more on the gaining the feat requirements for dragon/avangion etc... vs mixing magic and psionics. also perhaps a more scholarly/researcher bent... ie bonuses on knowledge skills, item creation, finding information on the past or artifacts... ect..
stuff that would help in researching the spells and the like.
and have it increase manifester level and caster level in alternating levels instead of both at once.
I do not provide abilities that mix magic and psi.
I provide some help to becoming an AB.
Various bonuses.
for instance i would reccomend a class that focuses more on the gaining the feat requirements for dragon/avangion etc... vs mixing magic and psionics. also perhaps a more scholarly/researcher bent... ie bonuses on knowledge skills, item creation, finding information on the past or artifacts... ect..
stuff that would help in researching the spells and the like.
and have it increase manifester level and caster level in alternating levels instead of both at once.
My spellcasting and manifesting progression is as follows:
Spells per Day/Powers Known
+1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class
+1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class/+1 level of existing manifesting class
+1 level of existing manifesting class
+1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class/+1 level of existing manifesting class
+1 level of existing arcane spellcasting class