Psionics Augmented Compilation II

Contributing Authors: Andreas Rönnqvist, Jeremy Smith, Chris Bennett, Forrest Heck, Jade Ripley, Jeremy Smith, Michael Shih, Paul S. Gazo, Sasha Hall, Scott Benoit Interior Design: Forrest Heck Interior Layout: Forrest Heck, Jeremy Smith Artwork: Gary Dupuis, J.D. Dianderas, Jesus Garcia Lopez, Joe Shawcross, Matt Morrow, Tithi Luadthong, Troy Graham

Publisher: Jeremy Smith

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Foreword & Introduction

Every now and again I get the question: “When is Chapter 5: Feats—This chapter includes many new Dreamscarred Press doing another psionics supplement?” psionic feats, including specialized soulknife feats, Psionics was our first entry into the world of being a support for various psychic warrior paths, and options third-party developer and it remains our strongest and for collective-using classes. most-loved line, so I understand entirely why folks are Chapter 6: Prestige Classes—This chapter includes so eager to see more. seven psionic prestige classes. It also includes compiled I have good news: the psionics was coming from inside rules for adapting existing prestige classes for use by the house the whole time! soulknives, describing alterations to prerequisites and Aside from our Psionics Augmented: Occult line (which class features. deserved, and got, its own compilation), we’ve been Chapter 7: Psionic Powers—This chapter collects a tinkering away with additional psionic content in several variety of psionic powers for manifesters of all types. supplements over the last year or so. Some of these, like Psionics Augmented: Wilder were dedicated books What’s in this book? looking to expand a single class, while other material Psionics Augmented: Compilation II compiles the was released as part of supplements like Lords of the following releases from Dreamscarred Press: Night, and while we’ve been super excited to offer up all • Psionics Augmented: Focused Disciplines these new powers, feats, archetypes, and prestige classes, • Psionics Augmented: Powers it’s definitely true that with them being as broken-up as • Psionics Augmented: Powers II they are, the new material’s been hard to access. Not any • Psionics Augmented: Psychic Warrior more; welcome to your one-stop shop for the psionic • Psionics Augmented: Psychic Warrior II material found in Lords of the Night, Psionics Augmented: • Psionics Augmented: Soulknives Focused Disciplines, Psionics Augmented: Psychic Warrior, • Psionics Augmented: Soulknives II Psionics Augmented: Soulknives, Psionics Augmented: • Psionics Augmented: Soulknives III Wilder, as well as some of the new feats and concepts • Psionics Augmented: Wilders introduced with our releases for the highlord class. We look forward to expanding on the powers of the In addition, it includes psionic powers from Lords of mind even more in the months and years to come. In the Night and feats from Psionics Augmented: Highlord. the meantime, take a dive into the fruits of our labors Some of the material in this book has been slightly without having to have eighty tabs open to do it. reworded and reorganized, but most of it functions the Samplesame file as it did in its original printing. The exceptions to —Jade Ripley, game designer, Dreamscarred Press this are several wilder options and the psychic armory soulknife archetype found in Chapter 3: Soulknives. The Using This Book psychic armory, after continued feedback and testing Psionics Augmented: Compilation II is divided into eight after its release, proved to gain much more than it gave chapters. Each chapter is dedicated to a different type of up, and has been adjusted to not only be more balanced, character options, as follows: but also to better deliver on its mixed melee-and-ranged Chapter 1: Psions—This chapter includes 24 new concept. For the wilder options, the Mental Equilibrium choices for psionic discipline focuses, themed around feat, as originally printed in Psionics Augmented: Wilders, different focuses within disciplines. had no mechanical function. The feat has been removed, Chapter 2: Psychic Warriors—This chapter includes and class options that relied on it previously have been new warrior path options for psychic warriors, as well as adjusted to no longer require it. three archetypes, the reaver, silhouette, and halo knight. Chapter 3: Soulknives—This chapter introduces Books Needed a plethora of new blade skill options, as well as three The material in this book expands on the base classes archetypes, the augmented blade, brutality blade, and and rules found in Ultimate Psionics. As such, that the revised psychic armory. book, along with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Chapter 4: Wilders—This chapter includes two wilder Rulebook, is needed to make the most of this release of archetypes, the voidheart and surging muse. Psionics Augmented.

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Table of Contents

FOREWORD & INTRODUCTION 2 CHAPTER 4: WILDERS 32 Wilder Archetypes 32 CHAPTER 1: PSIONS 4 Surving Muse 32 Advanced Disciplines 4 Voidheart 32 Clairsentience 4 Metacreativity 5 CHAPTER 5: FEATS AND TRAITS 34 Psychokinesis 6 New Traits 34 Psychometabolism 6 New Feats 34 Psychoportation 7 Telepathy 8 CHAPTER 6: PRESTIGE CLASSES 42 Ashen Blade 42 CHAPTER 2: PSYCHIC WARRIORS 9 Cross-Discipline Master 45 Warrior Paths 9 Marvel 46 Anomalous Path 9 Primarch 47 Hungering Path 9 Strategos 50 Outrider Path 9 Surge Adept 53 Psychic Warrior Archetypes 10 Volcanic Mind 54 Halo Knight 10 Soulknife Special Rules 55 Reaver 12 Silhouette 14 CHAPTER 7: PSIONIC POWERS 57 Power Lists 57 CHAPTER 3: SOULKNIVES 17 Cryptic Powers 57 Blade Skills Sample17 Dread file Powers 57 Soulknife Archetypes 22 Gifted Blade Powers 58 Augmented Blade 22 Psion/Wilder Powers 58 Brutality Blade 23 Psychic Warrior Powers 59 Psychic Armory 25 Tactician Powers 60 High-Psionics Soulknives 28 Vitalist Powers 60 Power Descriptions Soulknife Magic Items 29 60 Augmented Enhancement List 30 OPEN GAME LICENSE 86

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Chapter 1: Psions

The psionic disciplines provide themes for the different again at 18th level and 20th level, you may do so once varieties of psions—from the shaper who focuses on more each day. using ectoplasm to create or modify items and creatures, to the kineticist who prefers the manipulation of the Falsehood different forms of energy, to the seer who gleans insight The following discipline abilities replace the recovered from intuition and extrasensory perceptions. Yet even information and alter the waves abilities of the in these disciplines, there are specialized studies that clairsentience discipline. take these roles and distill them further. For example, a False Notion (Su): Starting at 2nd level, you may shaper may deal primarily in crystal, a kineticist may be expend psionic focus as a swift action to implant a false enamored with fire, and a telepath could focus on using thought in the mind of an enemy you can see within 30 his abilities for informational gathering while keeping a feet. This enemy takes a –1 penalty to their next two low profile. d20 rolls. At 6th level and every 4 levels thereafter, this First used in Ultimate Psionics, these are known penalty increases by –1, to a maximum of –5 at 18th level. as advanced disciplines—alternative options to the This is a mind-affecting effect. primary discipline choices for psions. Advanced Lies and Slander (Su): Starting at 8th level, you may disciplines don’t change which psionic powers a psion expend psionic focus once per day to cause all enemies can use, but instead alter the abilities gained from the within 20 feet to take a –1 penalty to the next d20 roll discipline. In this book, these new advanced disciplines each of them makes. This penalty increases by –1 at 10th have a particular focus of the original discipline, giving level and every even level thereafter, and you can use it rise to the term focused disciplines. once more per day at each of those levels.

Advanced Disciplines Reading Psions of a particular discipline can chose to focus The following discipline abilities replace the alter their studies still further within that discipline. Psions the waves and seeing the connections abilities of the who choose an advanced discipline gain all the normal clairsentience discipline. benefits of their discipline, but the advanced discipline Hindsight (Su): Starting at 8th level, you may expend changes one or more of the abilities granted by their psionic focus once per day as a free action after you fail advanced discipline. A psion must take all of the replacement abilities associated with his Sampleadvanced file discipline. Once an advanced discipline is chosen, it cannot be changed. Clairsentience The following are new advanced disciplines for psions of the clairsentience discipline.

Aura The following discipline abilities replace the alter the waves and seeing the connections abilities of the clairsentience discipline. Aura Sight (Su): Starting at 8th level, so long as you maintain psionic focus, you can tell the alignment of any creature you can see. If you expend psionic focus as a swift action, you can tell the strength of the alignment aura of all creatures you can see. Smiting Ideals (Su): Starting at 14th level, once per day, you may expend psionic focus as a swift action to use the Smite Evil ability as a Paladin of half your class level, except it targets any one creature who has a different alignment than you, and all references to Charisma instead use Intelligence. At 16th level, and

4 Psionics augmented an attack roll or saving throw and the result is stated. dice for your crystal shot ability to all attack and damage This provides you with a retroactive +2 bonus to the roll, rolls with manufactured weapons. which can change the result of the roll. At 10th level and every two levels thereafter, you can use this ability once Guiding more per day and the bonus increases by +1. At 14th The following discipline abilities replace the level, you may expend two uses of this ability at once to summoner’s call and maestro of ectoplasm abilities of provide its benefits to an ally within 30 feet. the metacreativity discipline. Who Are You? (Su): Starting at 14th level, you may, Guide the Blade (Su): Starting at 2nd level, so long as once per day, learn what a single creature that you can you maintain psionic focus, all attack rolls made against see’s alignment is, as well as what its lowest and highest hostile creatures within 25 feet of you gain a +1 insight ability scores are and what classes it has levels in, if any. bonus. This does not apply while you are flat-footed. You may expend psionic focus as you do this to also learn At 6th level and every 4 levels thereafter, this bonus the three skills it has the most ranks in and how many hit increases by +1. dice it has. If more than three skills are tied for having Direct the Flow (Su): Starting at 14th level, you may the most ranks, the GM selects which ones to list. expend psionic focus as an immediate action to give a single attack roll made within 30 feet of you a bonus Terror equal to twice the bonus provided by your guide the The following discipline abilities replace the recovered blade ability. information and seeing the connections abilities of the clairsentience discipline. Plasmic Fright Factor (Su): Starting at 2nd level, so long as The following discipline abilities replace the ectoplasmic you maintain psionic focus, any creature that fails a Will projection and maestro of ectoplasm abilities of the save against a Clairsentience power you manifest also metacreativity discipline. becomes shaken for 2 rounds. You may expend psionic Right Tool for the Job (Su): Starting at 8th level, so focus as a swift action when you would activate this long as you maintain psionic focus, you may use a move ability to instead cause that creature to be frightened action to manipulate ectoplasm in such a way to create for an equal number of rounds. At 6th level and every a tool to assist with a skill you have ranks in. This tool four levels thereafter, this ability lasts for an additional provides a circumstance bonus to skill checks with round (3 at 6th level, 4 at 10th level, and so on). that skill equal to one-fourth your psion level. You may Terrifying Presence (Su): Starting at 14th level, so expend psionic focus when you use this tool to increase long as you maintain psionic focus, any hostile creature the bonus to one-half your psion level, but the tool that comes within 10 feet of you must make a Will breaks after being used in such a way. save against a DC of 10 + half your psion level + your Persistent Plasma (Su): Starting at 14th level, so long Intelligence modifier. On a successful save, they are as you maintain psionic focus, you gain a +2 bonus to shaken for 1d4 rounds and become immuneSample to this all skillfile checks in which you have ranks, even when not ability for 24 hours. On a failed save, they are panicked using a tool. Using an actual tool causes you to lose this for 1d4 rounds. bonus. This bonus increases to +3 at 17th level and to +4 at 20th level. Metacreativity The following are new advanced disciplines for psions of Steel the metacreativity discipline. The following discipline abilities replace the summoner’s call and maestro of ectoplasm abilities of Crystal the metacreativity discipline. The following discipline abilities replace the Iron Ego (Su): Starting at 2nd level, once per day when summoner’s call and ectoplasmic projection abilities of you would be hit with an attack that doesn’t target your the metacreativity discipline. touch or flat-footed AC, you may expend your psionic Crystal Shot (Su): Starting at 2nd level, you may focus as an immediate action. This gives you a +2 untyped expend psionic focus as a swift action to make a ranged bonus to AC against that attack. If this would cause you to attack with a range of 30 feet and two range increments. have a high enough AC to have not been hit, you are not This attack deals 1d8 piercing damage, threatens a hit. This bonus increases by +1 at 7th level, and again at critical hit on a natural 20, and deals triple damage on 12th level and 17th level. You may use this ability twice a critical hit. The damage increases by 1d8 at 5th level per day at 9th level, and three times per day at 16th level. and every 3 levels thereafter (2d8 at 5th level, 3d8 at 8th Shielded Spirit (Su): Starting at 14th level, so long as level, and so on). You may use your Intelligence modifier you maintain psionic focus, you gain a +5 shield bonus instead of your Dexterity modifier to determine your to AC. When you use your iron ego ability, this shield bonus to the attack roll. bonus stays in effect until the attack is resolved, instead Crystal Edge (Su): Starting at 8th level, so long as you of immediately after you expend your psionic focus. This maintain psionic focus, you add the number of damage shield bonus increases to +6 at 19th level.

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Psychokinesis Frostbitten Waste (Su): Starting at 14th level, you can expend your psionic focus as a free action when you The following are new advanced disciplines for psions of manifest a power that deals cold damage. In doing so, all the psychokinesis discipline. targets of that power must make a Fortitude save against the normal DC of that power of be staggered for 1d6+2 Blaze rounds. If they succeed at their save, they are instead The following discipline abilities replace the telekinetic staggered for 1 round. hurl and energetic recharge abilities of the psychokinesis discipline. Spark Stop Drop and Roll (Su): Starting at 2nd level, you The following discipline abilities replace the telekinetic gain fire resistance equal to your manifester level. hurl and kinetic aura abilities of the psychokinesis Additionally, when fire damage is dealt to you, you may discipline. choose to give up your resistance to fire damage for one Invigorating Volt (Su): Starting at 2nd level, you round to spread it to your foes. All enemies within 10 may expend your psionic focus as a free action when feet of you take one-fourth as much fire damage as you you manifest a power that deals electricity damage. For do, in addition to any they would’ve already taken. every 5 points of damage you deal, before factoring in Pyromniac (Su): Starting at 14th level, you may resistance or immunity, you gain a cumulative +1 insight expend psionic focus when you use a power that deals bonus to one of the following: attack rolls, damage rolls, fire damage to reduce all fire resistance possessed by AC, Fortitude saves, Reflex saves, Will saves, or skill the target against this one power by an amount equal to checks. your manifester level. If this would reduce the target’s The maximum bonus this ability can provide is equal fire resistance to less than zero, all creatures within to your Intelligence modifier. This bonus lasts for one 10 feet of the target take fire damage equal to your round, and you can only benefit from one instance of manifester level. Creatures without fire resistance gain this ability at a time. This bonus lasts for one more round vulnerability to fire against this one power. at 5th level and every 3 levels thereafter, to a maximum of seven rounds at 20th level (two rounds at 5th level, Boom three rounds at 8th level, and so on). If you benefit The following discipline abilities replace the telekinetic from this ability while it’s already active, the duration hurl and kinetic aura abilities of the psychokinesis increases by one round. discipline. Spark of Inspiration (Su): Starting at 8th level, once Sonic Burst (Su): Starting at 2nd level, when you per day when you use your invigorating volt ability, manifest a power that deals sonic damage to a single you may reduce its duration by two rounds to provide creature, you may expend your psionic focus to instead its benefits to all allies within 20 feet of you, including cause it to deal +1 damage per die to that creature, and yourself. You may use this ability twice per day at 13th deal damage equal to half your manifester levelSample to all level file and three times per day at 18th level. creatures in a 5 foot radius of the targeted creature. This increases to a 10 foot radius at 6th level, a 15 foot radius Psychometabolism at 12th level, and a 20 foot radius at 18th level. The following are new advanced disciplines for psions of Crash and Clang (Su): Starting at 8th level, whenever the psychometabolism discipline. you manifest a power that deals sonic damage to a single creature, that creature must make a Fortitude save Adrenal against the normal DC of that power or be deafened for The following discipline abilities replace the one hour. A successful Fortitude save reduces this time metabolic healing and shared effect abilities of the to one minute. You may expend your psionic focus to psychometabolism discipline. affect all creatures within 5 feet of the creature instead. Activated Glands (Su): Starting at 2nd level, when you This increases to all creatures within 10 feet at 16th level. manifest a psychometabolism power while maintaining psionic focus, you gain a +1 dodge bonus to AC and Chill Reflex saves for a number of rounds equal to the level of The following discipline abilities replace the kinetic aura the power. This bonus increases by +1 every four psion and psychokinetic recharge abilities of the psychokinesis levels thereafter. discipline. Got My Own Back (Su): Starting at 8th level, any time Sluggish Cold (Su): Starting at 8th level, so long as you manifest a psychometabolism power with a range you maintain psionic focus, whenever you manifest a of personal, you can expend psionic focus to gain a +4 power that deals cold damage, all targets of that power insight bonus to attack and damage rolls made as part of have all of their movement speeds reduced by 5 feet, to attacks of opportunity for a number of rounds equal to a minimum of 5 feet. This penalty increases to 10 feet at twice the level of the power. 12th level, 15 feet at 16th level, and 20 feet at 20th level.