Ki Strike

Class	Psion
Name	Ki Strike
School	Psychometabolism
Rank	0
Type	Assault
Brief	Enhance your unarmed strikes with psionic power
Compact	Enhance your unarmed strikes with psionic power
Actions	../../actions/powers/psion/ki-strike

Ki Strike is the art of gathering psionic power into your physical, unarmed attacks, enhancing them well beyond physical limitations.

Baseline Effect

With this power, your unarmed strikes can be used in one of two modes:

You can parry with your unarmed strikes, even against edged or energetic weapons.

From rank 2 onward, your unarmed strikes are as powerful as solid iron, meaning:

From rank 3 onward, your unarmed strikes are as powerful as diamond, meaning:

They ignore the hardness of all materials
When used to block energy damage, they absorb the energy blocked, and you can add that energy to an unarmed strike as extra damage, depleting it

As a free action, once/rd, you can choose one psionic enhancement to apply to all of your unarmed strikes.

Brainstorming:

Effects scale with rank.

Rank	Numeric Effect	Special
1	+1 hit power	Add fire descriptor to damage. Half of damage dealt becomes ongoing fire damage (Con ends).
2	+2 hit power	Can deliver the damage of one attack as a cone 3 of fire damage.
3	+3 hit power	Ongoing fire damage is now equal to the full damage of each attack.
4	+4 hit power	Each attack creates a burst 2 of fire damage equaling half the damage dealt, enemies only.
5	+5 hit power	TBD

Rank	Numeric Effect	Special
1	+25% haste	Add lightning descriptor to damage. Target gains a static charge equal to the original damage dealt, which activates if they move at least 1 square on before the end of their next turn.
2	+50% haste	Each attack causes a chain lightning effect, jumping to 1/rank other targets within 3 squares for half the original damage as lightning damage.
3	+75% haste	Each attack causes stunned for 1 rd (Con negates)
4	+100% haste	Static charges are now chained as well (full damage for all targets), and they inflict stunned for 1 rd (Con negates).
5	+125% haste	Each attack, and each chain lightning jump causes stunned (Con ends)

Action	Description
Ki Strike	you attack with an unarmed strike or melee weapon, but you may use Cha in place of Str for the attack and damage rolls.