Psionics: Power List

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Psionic powers as they are in Trinity, for the psionicist class.

Power List

Descriptions Explanations

Duration: ... (S)

This means that the power's duration is such that, if you activate it again on your next turn, the effect is seamless; that is, it is continuous from one use to the next.

Psychic Damage

Psychic is a new energy type. It is used exclusively by psionics.

Power Descriptions

BALLISTIC TELEKINESIS
Disciplines: Psychokinesis
Prerequisites: Telekinesis
Level: Psi Sci
Manifestation DC: 16
You use your telekinesis to hurl an object at rapid speeds.
When you are manipulating a creature or object with telekinesis, you may - as an attack action - opt to hurl the object with enough force to cause damage. If you have multiple attacks each round, you can use ballistic telekinesis for each attack you have, as a full-round action.
Using this power does not disrupt your concentration of telekinesis; failure to manifest it does not disrupt your concentration.
Hurled objects can be launched at a target to inflict damage. You must make a ranged touch attack to do so; the attack roll suffers a -2 penalty for every 10 feet between the object's original location and your target.
Hurled weapons deal standard damage, with your manifesting ability score modifier as a bonus. Other objects inflict 1 damage per 5 lbs if the object is breakable (such as a wooden barrel or box); hard, dense objects like boulders or bricks deal 1d6 per 5 lbs (round down). If you hit, the hurled object takes the same damage as the target. If you miss, you lose control of the object.
Hurled creatures must make a Reflex save against this power's saving throw DC or else fall prone. If the creature is hurled against a solid surface, it suffers 1d6 damage for each 10 feet traveled due to this power.

 

BIOFEEDBACK
Disciplines: Psychometabolism
Level: Psi Sci
Manifestation DC: 16
Manifestation Time: Standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 round (S)
Saving Throw: None
You take conscious control of your body's restorative mechanisms, allowing you to heal faster.
During your turn, you may spend a swift action to heal 1 point. You cannot use this ability more than once each turn.
Augmentation (1 PP): When you spend a swift action to heal yourself, heal 1 additional point.
Augmentation (2 PP): Increase the duration by 1 round.
Augmentation (5 PP): Each round, you may spend a swift action to make a new saving throw against any one negative physical status effect.
Augmentation (6 PP): Each round, you may spend a swift action to gain regeneration 0 for 1 round.

 

BRAIN LOCK
Disciplines: Telepathy [Mind-affecting]
Level: Psi Sci
Manifestation DC: 16
Manifestation Time: Full-round action
Range: Close (25 feet + 5 feet/2 power points)
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round (S)
Saving Throw: Will negates
You overload your target's mind with psionic energy, rendering them incapable of thought.
The creature affected is unable to take mental actions and is paralyzed. A successful Will save negates this effect.
Augmentation (2 PP): Increase the duration by 1 round.
Augmentation (5 PP): The creature cannot use Force abilities for the duration of the effect.

 

CLOUD MIND
Disciplines: Telepathy [Mind-affecting]
Level: Psi Dev
Manifestation DC: 13
Manifestation Time: Standard action
Range: Close (25 feet + 5 feet/2 power points)
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round (S)
Saving Throw: Will negates
You alter the target's perceptions of the world, making yourself effectively invisible.
You make yourself completely undetectable to the subject by erasing all awareness of your presence from its mind. This power has the following effects.
First, you are invisible and inaudible to the creature. It cannot even detect your presence by means of blindsense, blindsight, scent, or tremorsense. It cannot pinpoint your location by any means.
Second, the subject remains unaware of your actions, provided you do not make any attacks or cause any obvious or directly threatening changes in the subject’s environment. If you attack the subject creature, the effect ends.
If you take an action that creates a sustained and obvious change in the subject’s environment—for example, attacking a creature aside from the subject or moving a large or attended object the subject can see—the subject immediately gains a new saving throw against the power. An ally of the subject creature that is able to see or perceive you can use a move action to warn the subject and thereby grant it a new saving throw.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the duration by 1 round.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the saving throw DC by +1.

 

COGNIZE LANGUAGE
Disciplines: Telepathy [Mind-affecting]
Level: Psi Dev
Manifestation DC: 13
Manifestation Time: Immediate action
Range: Close (25 feet + 5 feet/2 power points)
Target: One creature
Duration: 10 minutes (S)
Saving Throw: Will negates
You listen with both your ears and your mind to a creature speaking a foreign tongue.
You must use this power when the target is speaking the foreign language you wish to learn. You must be able to clearly hear the target.
For the duration, you gain a +2 insight bonus to Speak Language checks for the target's language.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the duration by 10 minutes.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the insight bonus by +2.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the saving throw DC by +1.

 

DETECT THOUGHTS
Disciplines: Telepathy [Mind-affecting]
Level: Psi Dev
Manifestation DC: 13
Manifestation Time: Standard action
Range: Personal
Area: 60-ft radius emanation centered on you
Duration: 10 minutes (S)
Saving Throw: Will negates
You attune your psionic senses to the minds of creatures nearby, allowing you to hear their surface thoughts if you listen.
For the duration of this power, you may take a standard action to listen to the surface thoughts of a creature within range; this effect lasts for 1 round, but you may sustain it on your next turn as a swift action. The creature may make a Will save to avoid this effect; if they do so, they are immune to your further uses of this power for 24 hours.
While listening to surface thoughts, you gain a +4 insight bonus to Bluff, Diplomacy, and Sense Motive checks against the creature.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the insight bonuses granted by this power by +1.
Augmentation (2 PP): You may listen to a creature's surface thoughts as a move action.
Augmentation (2 PP): Increase the duration of this effect by 10 minutes.
Augmentation (2 PP): When you tune into a creature's surface thoughts, that effect lasts an additional round.

 

FALSE SENSORY INPUT
Disciplines: Telepathy [Mind-affecting]
Level: Psi Sci
Manifestation DC: 16
Manifestation Time: Standard action
Range: Close (25 feet + 5 feet/2 power points)
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round (S)
Saving Throw: Will negates
You alter a creature's perceptions of the world.
You have a limited ability to falsify one of the subject’s senses. The subject thinks she sees, hears, smells, tastes, or feels something other than what her senses actually report. You can’t create a sensation where none exists, nor make the subject completely oblivious to a sensation, but you can replace the specifics of one sensation with different specifics. For instance, you could make a human look like a dwarf (or one human look like another specific human), a closed door look like it is open, a vat of acid smell like rose water, a parrot look like a bookend, stale rations taste like fresh fruit, a light pat feel like a dagger thrust, a scream sound like the howling wind, and so on.
You can switch between senses you falsify round by round. You can’t alter the size of an object by more than 50% by using this power. Thus, you couldn’t make a castle look like a hovel, but you could make it look like a different castle, or a rough hillock of approximately the same size.
Because you override a victim’s senses, you can fool a victim who is using true seeing or some other method of gathering information, assuming you know that the victim is actively using such an effect.
Augmentation (1 PP): This effect can alter an additional piece of sense-data.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the saving throw DC by +1.
Augmentation (2 PP): Increase the duration by 1 round.

 

ID INSINUATION
Disciplines: Telepathy [Mind-affecting]
Level: Psi Dev
Manifestation DC: 13
Manifestation Time: Full-round action
Range: Close (25 feet + 5 feet/2 power points)
Target: One creature
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Will negates
You send short, sharp thoughts into the opponent's mind in a rapid volley, confusing them.
The target is confused for the duration of this power; concentrating on this power is a standard action. A successful Will save negates this effect.
Augmentation (1 PP): Reduce the activation time for this power to a standard action.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the duration by 1 round (the power continues to function for 1 additional round after you stop concentrating on it).
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the saving throw DC by +1.

 

INERTIAL ARMOR
Disciplines: Psychokinesis
Level: Psi Dev
Manifestation DC: 13
Manifestation Time: Standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 round (S)
Saving Throw: None
You turn the air immediately around your body into a buffer.
You gain a +2 armor bonus to AC.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the AC bonus by +1.
Augmentation (2 PP): Increase the duration by 1 round.

 

MIND THRUST
Disciplines: Telepathy [Mind-affecting, Psychic]
Level: Psi Dev
Manifestation DC: 13
Manifestation Time: Standard action
Range: Close (25 feet + 5 feet/2 power points)
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
You form psionic energy into a mental barb and use it to skewer a creature's mind.
You deal 1d8 psychic damage to a single creature. A successful Will save prevents the damage.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the damage dealt by 1d8.
Augmentation (2 PP): Increase the saving throw DC by +1.
Augmentation (Varies): You can attach another psionic power you know with the Mind-affecting descriptor to this power. If the target fails the saving throw against this power, the target is affected by both this power and the rider power. This augmentation's cost is 3 PP if the rider is a devotion, 6 PP if the rider is a science, or 9 PP if the rider is an art. You can augment the rider power, but the sum of the augmentation for both powers must not exceed your metapsionic cap.

 

PHANTASMAGORIA
Disciplines: Telepathy [Mind-affecting]
Prerequisites: False Sensory Input
Level: Psi Art
Manifestation DC: 19
Manifestation Time: 3 rounds
Range: Close (25 feet + 5 feet/2 power points)
Target: One creature
Duration: Permanent
Saving Throw: Will negates
You force a creature to live in a world inside it's own mind.
This power enables you to warp the consciousness and senses of a creature, sending the victim into a catatonic state.
The creature’s senses are pinched off from the real world if it currently has 100 or fewer hit points. The subject’s senses are all completely fabricated from within its own mind, though it may not realize this. In reality, the subject sprawls limply, drooling and mewling, and eventually dies of thirst and starvation without care. The subject lives within its own made-up world until the time of its actual death.
Manifesting phantasmagoria a second time on an affected creature turns its sensory pathways outward once more.
Augmentation (2 PP): Increase the saving throw DC by +1.
Augmentation (2 PP): Increase the hit point cap of this effect by 10.

 

REDDOPSI
Disciplines: Telepathy [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Psi Art
Manifestation DC: 19
Manifestation Time: Standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 round (S)
Saving Throw: None
You envelop your mind in a reflective psionic shield, reflecting mental intrusion.
Mind-affecting effects that target you rebound to target the original manifester. Magic and Technology effects that target your mind can resist this effect by overcoming your Spell or Technology Resistance, as appropriate.
While this effect is active, you suffer a -3 penalty to all Manifestation checks for psionic powers.
Force effects of Forces other than Psionics that would be affected by this power simply dissipate harmlessly, rather than rebound back at their origin.
Augmentation (1 PP): Reduce the penalty to Manifestation checks by 1 (minimum -0).
Augmentation (3 PP): Increase the duration by 1 round.
Augmentation (5 PP): Reduce the activation time of this power to an immediate action. You can use it quickly enough to benefit from it in reaction to being targeted by a mind-affecting effect.
Augmentation (10 PP): Force effects of other Forces that would rebound do so if you succeed at a manifester level check against DC 8 + the original effect's origin's Force-user level.

 

TELEKINESIS
Disciplines: Psychokinesis
Level: Psi Dev
Manifestation DC: 13
Manifestation Time: Full-round action
Range: Medium (100 feet + 10 feet/power point)
Target: One object, up to 50 lbs + 50 lbs/power point
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: Will negates (Object)
You use the power of your mind to levitate an object.
To levitate an object, you must first "grab" it. This requires a ranged touch attack against the object. The attack roll suffers a -2 penalty for every 50 feet between you and your target. If you hit, you successfully control the object, and can move it up to 20 feet as a move action. You cannot move an object fast enough with this power to deal damage with it.
If you cease concentrating on this power, the object immediately drops.
An object you are controlling with this power can be manipulated as though you were holding it by one hand. For example, a lever or rope can be pulled, a key can be turned, an object rotated, and a button pushed. Fine manipulation of an object, such as tying a knot or operating a keyboard, is not possible.
If the target object is being physically held by a creature, make a Psychokinesis manifestation check opposed by the holder's Strength check. The higher result retains control of the object for that round.

 

THOUGHT SHIELD
Disciplines: Telepathy
Level: Psi Dev
Manifestation DC: 13
Manifestation Time: Standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 round (S)
Saving Throw: None
You envelop your mind in a psionic shield, protecting you from mental intrusion.
You gain PR equal to your Wisdom against mind-affecting effects.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the PR of this effect by 1.
Augmentation (1 PP): Increase the duration by 1 round.
Augmentation (3 PP): Reduce the activation time of this power to an immediate action. You can use it quickly enough to benefit from it in reaction to being targeted by a mind-affecting effect.

 

Design Notes

Where I talk about what the hell I'm doing.

Psychokinesis

Of all the disciplines I've contemplated up to this point (Sept 22, 09), this one is the most different from the source material.

Unfortunately, it also nearly breaks the psionics system here as written. The problem with psychokinesis is that it all pretty much revolves around one power - telekinesis - and variations thereof. It makes sense, then, that the variations just improve the base power... but that's rather uninteresting, unfortunately, and definitely doesn't fit the feel of the powers system as envisioned.

As of this morning, I think what we're looking at is a series of powers that expand upon telekinesis while it's active. Ballistic telekinesis is, I think, a pretty good preview of what the majority of psychokinesis powers will look like: they allow you to do something more with your telekinesis target, and using them specifically counts as maintaining concentration on telekinesis.

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