Astral Sword

Astral Sword: You can manifest a sword of psionic energy and use it to defend yourself from astral opponents. It is visible on the astral plane, to astral beings, and those using Astral Sight.
* 8 points for level 1, and 6/lvl above that.
* Skill: Astral Sword (DX/Hard); defaults to DX-6 or Force Sword-2
* Does 1d-3 cutting plus your Astral Sword level--for instance, Astral Sword 4 would do 1d+1 cutting.
* Reach C, 1
* Can parry astral attacks normally; unbreakable
== Use ==
Astral swords can damage astral beings (useful) and shunt them from the astral plane. If this weapon deals 1/3 or more (round up) to an astral being, the creature is shunted back to their body (or for beings of the astral realm, sent to the inner plane).
You may choose to turn off the shunting ability (doing "non-banishment damage") to slay an astral entity instead of sending them back. This may be an important tactical decision!
=== Advanced Use ===
Penetrating Blow -- gives an armor divisor, useful against astral DR, including Astral Armor.
== Stat Writeup ==
Cutting Attack 1d-2 
* (Astral Projection, -10%; 
* Can appear as any sort of weapon the user wishes, +5%; 
* Insubstantial Only, -30%; 
* Melee Attack, C, 1, -20%; 
* No Signature, +20%; 
* Selectivity, +10%; 
* Symptoms, Negated Advantage, Insubstantiality, 1/3 HP, limited by Accessibility, Only to banish astral foes, +200%) [8] 
* Further levels add +1 damage [6].
==Limited Symptoms==
This shows an example of how Limited Enhancements can be applied to Symptoms.
Negated Advantage against 80 point abilities is normally a +80% enhancement if it requires depleting 2/3 HP, +160% if it requires depleting 1/2, +240% if it requires depleting 1/3. Being reduced to 200% is basically subtracting 1/6 the value of that enhancement for "only to banish" where it does not negate other kinds of insubstantiality.
== Insubstantial interactions ==
It does not have Affects Insubstantial, but can be used to hurt astral insubstantial foes. It may always strike astral enemies, but never works on substantial creatures. 
== References ==
Category:Modified Advantages