Psion

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Psionics

Psionics is a collection of skills unique to the Psion. All uses of psionics are skill checks.

Rules for Psionic Powers

Psionic powers count as magical etc etc TO DO: find this copypasta

Psionic Skills

For now, your skill is Psicraft (Int/Wis/Cha, your choice). Will expand upon that choice at some point.

Psionic Energy

You use Mana like everyone else. Flavor text tbd

Power List

Biometabolism

• Body Focus: aw sw conc; needs a better name. Pick one:
  • Iron Fist: melee hits harder. expend to re-roll Str check
  • Speed of Thought: +move +AC, expend to re-roll Dex save.
  • Thick Skin: DR, expend to re-roll Con save.
• Synaethesia

Rank 1

• Adaptation (Wis): Adapt your body to the environment (temperature, atmosphere, hazards), gain resistance to damage types
• Mind Over Body: you heal yourself by converting lethal damage to fatigue.
• Camouflage: change your skin texture to disguise your identity or aid in stealth.
• Compression/Expansion: ant-man stuff.

Rank 2

• Doppelganger: assume a perfect clone of someone else's form.
• Evolution: gain a new physical capability not native to your species.
• Iron Skin: change your skin to resist damage.
• Metaphasic Body: change your body to a liquid or a gas, briefly.
• Transparency

Rank 3

• Metamorphosis: change your form for the purposes of disguise, or to gain new physical capabilities. Can copy existing creatures or create a unique or hybrid form.
• Fission: split into two or more of yourself.
• Lightbound: you are made out of light. Or darkness. Either way, hard to kill.

Psychokinesis

Rank 0

• Farhand: force of one hand at range, concentration. Empower size using mana.
• Control Light: light levels up or down in area.

Rank 1

• Fluid Dynamics: telekinetically control fluids (air, fire, water).
• Force Push: aw sw rg 1m; push 5, possible dmg and knockdown. Can target held items.
• Matter Agitation: increase/decrease an object's temperature by about 300 K (red hot or abs zero).
• Static Charge
• Force Shield: wield a shield that blocks medium damage.
• Friction: grease/anti-grease

Rank 2

• Force Pull

• Burst of Force

• Puppeteer

• Hot Zone / Cold Zone

• Thermal Beam?

• Ball Lightning

• Absorb Momentum: steal momentum from a projectile or moving creature, storing it for later.

• Inertial Control: modify inertia of creatures and objects (change vector, absorb inertia, etc)

• Gravity: increase or decrease gravity in an area.

Note:

• pyro/cryokinesis is all about physics. A blast of fire or cold is wasteful. A huge wave of fire will transmit very little energy to your targets. Psions instead focus thermal energy into a confined area, striking with precision. Similar to Star of the Void, really.

Rank 3

• Disruption: disrupt molecular bonds in a target (disintegrate).
• Thermal Barrier: your body doesn't conduct heat anymore. Become mostly immune to fire/cold.
• Wall of Force

Psychoportation

Rank 0

• Glide: wall run (lucio style).

Rank 1

• Flit: aw mv mana 1; move near instantly in a straight line by compressing the space in between for a nanosecond.
• Hex Portal
• Dimensional Pocket: store or retrieve handheld items in a pocket plane.
• Disdain Earth: minor levitation.
• Time Hop

Rank 2

• Dimensional Something: open or close doors to nearby dimensions.
• Phase Shift: phase in/out of nearby planes, or banish enemies to another plane
• Temporal Acceleration (haste/slow)
• Temporal Recall: restore the former temporal state of object or creature (happy arbor day!)

Rank 3

• Dimension Shift -
• Warp Bubble - warp space to cause harmful effects to flow around you
• Weight of Years: reverse Temporal Recall, rapid aging

Metacreativity

Rank 0

• Psicraft: create psionic items, such as:
  • astral beacons, used to orient yourself across any distance
  • astral seeds, used to grow demiplanes within the Astral Plane
  • psicrystals, used to store psychic power or aid concentration
  • mental defenses (tower of iron will, mind trap, intellect fortress)
• Hypercognition: conc; you think very fast, and can compute at the speed of a computer. Expend to gain an immediate mental reaction.

Rank 1

• Astral Construct (Int): Create an animated construct from your imagination which serves you faithfully.
• Metaphysical Weapon
• Shield of Light: subject is surrounded by "hard" light which absorbs damage (think PW:S)
• Hologram: create light and sound
• Order/Entropy: repair objects, or damage them.

Rank 2

Rank 3

• Astral Seed: plant a copy of your mind into the Astral, from which you can reform if you perish.
• Demiplane: Create or modify your own Astral demiplane.
• Incarnate: turn a psychic power you know into a "living" power, a sentient, independent "creature" that uses itself as you direct

Clairsentience

Ritual

• Know Direction/Position/Orientation
• Probability Analysis: determine histogram of likely outcomes. (e.g. know that a d6 rolls each number 1/6 of the time).

Rank 0

• Extra-Sensory Perception: detect emotions, sense unseen creatures, detect psychic impressions. Expend concentration to gain reaction by seeing something before it happens.

Rank 1

• Augury
• Empathic Projection: aw std rg m1; force subject to feel an emotion of your choice (fear, anger, love, calm, etc).
• Remote Viewing: Project your senses to a remote location.
• Object Reading: Learn things about an object by touch.

Rank 2

• Blindsight
• Prognostication

Rank 3

Telepathy

Rank 0

• Mindlink: communicate telepathically

Rank 1

• Conceal Thoughts: hide your thoughts from detection; can block divinations. Can extend to others with Mana.
• Mind Reading: Read the thoughts of others; probe their mind for answers to your questions.
• Psychic Assault: Assault others' minds, and defend yourself from the same.
• Hypnosis: Convince unwary subjects to obey your commands and/or programming.
• Sensation: impart false sensory input.
• Suggestion

Rank 2

• Catapsi
• Alter Memory
• Mind Control: dominate subject's actions at the expense of your own.
• Personality Parasite: implant part of your mind in subject. At a later time, you can remotely "log in" to subject through the parasite.

Rank 3

• Schism
• Mind Swap

Paths

Psywar

• Use Str for PK
• Use Con for BM
• Use Dex for PP

Medium

Call spirits from the Great Beyond into yourself to gain knowledge, skills, and powers you don't normally have. Kind of like beind a druid shifter but humanoids instead of animals.

Monk

You know, from D&D?

Concordant

Adherents to a religion that holds that light and void are cosmic constants, contained within all things--including each other--the Concordant is a spiritual and mystic variant of the Psion that gains access to Radiance and Void themed abilities.

Ideas:

• Concentrate on light to heal allies, void to increase damage (discord orb)
• Orbs of light/darkness