attn: nerds

[PhantomCatClock]

what level does a psionicist have to be (3.5 if you have to ask but i don't really care, 5e doesn't rub me the wrong way or anything) to make 32 chess pieces and keep them formed for the duration of a game, out on the road?

[NintendrCkolc]

I farted

[AbsintheClock]

You drive a psion.

[Slurpee]

for a psion using the shaper discipline, minor creation (psionic) is a level 1 psionic power that can be cast by a level 1 manifester
it lets you make a nonmagical, unattended object of nonliving, vegetable matter (so wood) at a maximum volume of 1 cubic ft/manifester level (1 sq ft should be more than enough material) for a duration of 1 hr/manifester level (one hour is usually enough for a single chess match, but level 2 would be a teensy bit safer if you really want to play it safe)

a chess set would easily fall within minor creation's purview, but, due to the complexity of shaping a board and all the individual pieces your DM might require you to pass a crafting check. but also crafting is a class skill (and INT, which is the class ability), and it should probably only be a DC10 (DC15 if you want it to be fancy) and it's the kind of thing that if I were DMing I would just let the player take a 20


but
it's restricted to the shaper discipline
and there's 5 other disciplines, and once you've committed there isn't really a way to go back on that, the disciplines are even more exclusive than classes are, so if later on you want to learn to shapeshift or teleport you're pretty much shit out of luck unless you want to multi-class as a wizard or something

e: I lied, there is a way around the discipline prohibition using the "expanded knowledge" feat
you could also roll a wilder instead of a psion but idk if wilders would be into chess you'd kind of be playing against type

[PhantomCatClock]

my soulknife thanks you

[Slurpee]

my soulknife thanks you

soulknife is the one psionics class I know absolutely nothing about jahu

[PhantomCatClock]

updating slurptilda's backstory to know nothing about her class brb

[NintendrCkolc]

I was gonna just send you this but slurpee kinda covered it.