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Untapped Potential New Horizons in Psionics Jeremy Smith, Brian Dupuis, Michel Fiallo-Perez, Greg Jacob Untapped Potential New Horizons in Psionics Authors: Brian Dupuis, Greg Jacob, Jeremy Smith, Michel Fiallo-Perez Editing: B.J. Horn, Brian Dupuis Contributors: Dylan Wiznura, Will Elyea Design / Layout: Jeremy Smith Special thanks for errata submissions: Andreas Rönnqvist, Michael Armstrong Requires use of the Dungeons & Dragons® Third Edition Core Books and the Expanded Psionics Handbook, published by Wizards of the Coast, Inc. This book utilizes updated material from the v. 3.5 revision. For supplemental material, please visit our website: <www.dreamscarredpress.com> “d20 System” and the “d20 System” logo are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., and are used according to the terms of the d20 System License version 6.0. A copy of this License can be found at <www.wizards.com/d20>. 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Untapped Potential: NewTable Horizons of inContents Psionics Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Patience of the Hunter 54 Using This Book 1 Presence of the Master 54 Hyperconscious 1 Riding the Waves 54 Discipline vs. Devotion 2 Roots of the Mountain 55 Rules Replacements 2 Spirit of the Attuned 55 An Island of Dreams 2 Student of the Mind 55 Chapter 2: Races 5 Swift as the Shadows 55 Racial Paragon Classes 5 Way of the Empty Palm 55 Dromite Paragon 5 Way of the Warrior 56 Duergar Paragon 7 Wrath of the Dragon 56 Elan Paragon 8 Chapter 5: Prestige Classes 57 Half-Giant Paragon 10 Amalgamist 58 Maenad Paragon 11 Anyform Savant 62 Xeph Paragon 12 Energist 65 Racial Specialty Levels 13 Enlightened Exemplar 70 Dromite Ranger 14 Enlightened Protector 73 Dromite Society Mind 14 Knight Meditant 77 Duergar Egoist 15 Maverick Voidshaper 80 Duergar Fighter 16 Phenotype Impressionist 83 Elan Monk 16 Psicrystal Imprinter 86 Elan Psion 17 Sighted Seeker 89 Half-Giant Psychic Warrior 18 Chapter 6: NPCs and Organizations 97 Half-Giant Soulknife 19 Augur 97 Maenad Fighter 19 ORGANIZATIONS 99 Maenad Wilder 20 Cosmic Echoes 99 Xeph Monk 21 The Mindwatch 100 Xeph Soulknife 22 The Enlightenment 101 Chapter 3: Classes 23 Chapter 7: Powers 103 Devoted Psion (Variant) 23 Marksman Powers 104 Marksman 27 Psion / Wilder Powers 106 Society Mind 35 Psion Devotion Powers 106 Chapter 4: Feats 43 Psychic Warrior Powers 107 New Feats 43 Society Mind Powers 107 Assassin Training 43 Power Descriptions 109 Craft Cognizance Crystal 43 New Powers 109 Craft Crystalic 45 Chapter 8: Items 137 Communal Exemplar 45 Crystalics 137 Deceptive Blade 45 Focus Crystals 139 Duck and Weave 45 Impression Crystals 139 Dueling Blade 45 Mind Stones 139 Durable Mind 45 Psicrowns 140 Focused Dreamer 46 New Universal Items 141 Formbinding 46 SPECIAL MATERIALS 143 Harmonic Resonance 46 Chapter 9: Monsters 145 Improved Power By Proxy 46 Astral Juggernaut 145 Lend Health 47 Ego Dragons 147 Luck Doesn’t Stop Me 47 Logos Dragon 147 Master Formbinder 47 Pathos Dragon 149 Master of Mantras 47 Cerebral Stalker 151 Mind Blade Kensai 48 The Nameless Fear 152 Personality Purge 48 Larval Nameless 153 Poison Mastery 50 Augmented Nameless Template 155 Power By Proxy 50 Dire Nightmare Prestige Class 156 Psicrystal Affinity 50 Dreamscarred 159 Reckless Blade 50 Fear Spawn 161 Renewal 50 Psionic Constructs 162 Shieldwarden of Maenae 51 Crystalline Construct 162 Soul Buffer 51 Sonic Construct 163 Subconscious Reflexes 51 The Mindborn 164 Vigilance of the Giants 51 Appendix 169 Web of Influence 51 Epic-Level Psionic Characters 169 Xeph Bladestorm 52 New Epic Feats: 170 MANTRAS 52 Enduring Network 170 Blade of the Champion 52 Epic Connections 171 Burst of the Cheetah 52 Epic Meditations 171 Claws of the Tiger 52 Greater Soulbinding Gaze 171 Eye of the Storm 53 Improved Network 171 Fangs of the Cobra 54 Mindsense 172 Final Strike of the Executioner 54 Open Gaming License (OGL) 173 Introduction Chapter One: Introduction a whole as opposed to just the new material in this book, it can serve as a vehicle for that delivery as well with minimal changes. In order to facilitate the diverse nature of one campaign Rajrin: The Dreamy Isle. Its tales have served to the next, the specifics of Rajrin are left as building blocks in the creative unconscious deliberately vague, to be adjusted to best suit of society. However, this island of the mind is your game. For more information on this more than just a mythical construction… it has strange place, see below. If you’d rather treat appeared in reality, and brings with it a vast this book like other sourcebooks, nothing is wellspring of untapped potential… stopping you – simply ignore references to Rajrin and the entire book becomes setting- Welcome to Untapped Potential: New Horizons neutral. in Psionics, a sourcebook expanding psionics in your games. Within these pages you will find a With this in mind, welcome to the shores of host of new options for psionic characters, Rajrin, where you may witness firsthand the including feats, prestige classes, and powers. untapped potential of a mind unbound… Characters belonging to a psionic race will also find some special options relating to the unique Using This Book strengths and characteristics of their race. GMs, Untapped Potential: New Horizons in Psionics as well, should find material up their alley, expands on Open Game Content presented in ranging from psionic organizations and NPCs to the Expanded Psionics Handbook. The symbol a host of vicious monsters, including one group UT is used throughout Untapped Potential to of monsters able to serve as an entire indicate material introduced in this book. campaign focus. Supplemental information may be found online at this book’s website, at <http:// However, all of this would be difficult to www.dreamscarredpress.com>. Additional integrate into an existing game. So, we’ve done material, such as web enhancements, will be the work for you. Rajrin, the Dreamy Isle, collected on this site. serves as a featured adventure setting for Untapped Potential. While it is not necessary to reference Rajrin’s unique characteristics in your Hyperconscious games at all, the island can be easily inserted Untapped Potential contains references to into any game world, and can serve as a Open Game Content that appeared originally in wonderful source of adventure as well as an Hyperconcious: Explorations in Psionics, by alternative to the usual “revisionist” approaches Bruce. R. Cordell. Hyperconcious is not needed when using a new game supplement. In required to enjoy Untapped Potential, but your games that are looking to introduce psionics as play experience may be enhanced by using 1 Untapped Potential: New Horizons in Psionics these two books together.