Psion

An Awakened Mind is a psion who had their psionic power awakened within them by an encounter, event, or circumstance. Perhaps their powers were latent or perhaps their destiny had been that of a normal creature until powers were suddenly thrust on them. Perhaps they brushed the realms beyond in a vivid dream, perhaps they wandered the Feywild and came back warped, perhaps they merely glimpsed the eyes of a creature that did not belong walking down the street.

An awakening is often somewhat traumatic. Psions are not well understood and the first power they manifest-telepathy- is one of the most feared and shunned abilities.

An Awakened can be either empathetic or cruel, good or evil. Knowing what is on the minds of others affects people in different ways, driving some away from society as they see its true face, while others feel drawn to help the problems only they can see.

Starting at 3rd level, when you use Telepathic Intrusion, you can force the target to make an Intelligence saving throw instead of a Wisdom saving throw against the power (deciding when you use the ability).

When a creature fails a saving throw against your Telepathic Intrusion, you gain a d4. Until the end of your next turn, if you make an attack roll against the creature or the creature makes a saving throw against one of your psionic powers other than Telepathic Intrusion, you can add or subtract the d4 from the roll (deciding to roll before you roll the attack or use the power).

Starting at 6th level, when you deal damage with a psionic discipline power you can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage dealt.

Starting at 10th level, you can see a creature by its mind. You gain a mindsight of 60 feet, allowing you to see creatures with an Intelligence of 6 or higher within range as if by blindsight. A creature you are unaware of can still be hidden from you, but you can use your Intelligence modifier instead of your Wisdom modifier when making Perception checks to detect creatures.

Starting at 14th level, you can briefly fully awaken your expanded mind to true comprehension. At the start of your turn, you can expend 2 psi points to gain advantage on all saving throws and attack rolls until the start of your next turn.

A Consuming Mind is a master of a dangerous branch of psionics, born from the ability to sap energy from other creatures. This power can tear away thoughts, minds, and ultimately vitality for the psion's own consumption. A feared branch of psionics, it is sometimes believed to be one of the primeval roots of all psionic power, as it can be found among mind-eating monsters and ancient psionic space whales... which might have other names in various settings.

It has been refined by those that seek greater power either from ambition or desperation, and unlocks a terrible but effective path. One example of mortal creatures walking this path is the houses of dark elves, who developed their dark powers from their study of feral vampiric brain eating monsters.

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the psionic talent Mind Devourer; this talent ignores the normal level restriction, and does not count against your Psionic Talents known, but cannot be switched out on leveling up.

Additionally, you can gain the benefit of this talent from a range of 30 feet when the creature is killed by one of your Psionic powers.

Starting at 6th level, when you deal damage with a psionic discipline power you can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage dealt.

Starting at 10th level, you can trigger Mind Devourer anytime you deal psychic damage to a target within 30 feet, regardless if it kills the target or not.

Further, you can have additional psi points (over your normal limit) equal to your half your Intelligence modifier (rounded down) when gaining psi points from Mind Devourer, but any additional psi points are lost when you complete a short or long rest.

Starting at 14th level, your Mind Leech ability always gains the Shredding modifier, and it does not cost a psi point to add the modifier.

Further, you can use additional power to leave their mind further vulnerable. You can spend additional psi points on the Shredding modifier to further reduce their next Wisdom, Intelligence or Charisma saving throw (up to 2 additional points to reduce it by a total of 3d4). Once this is effect has been applied to a creature, you cannot spend additional psi points on the Shredding modifier against the creature until 1hour has passed.

An Elemental Mind is a Psion that can manifest and control elements as an extension of their will.

Starting at 3rd level, your powers become a living extension of your mind, weaving an extension of your will into reality, allowing you to manipulate your powers in more advanced ways. When you use a power or alternate effect of Psychokinesis, you can apply one of the following modifiers:

Starting at 6th level, when you deal damage with a psionic discipline power you can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage dealt.

Starting at 10th level, when you enter a primordial aspect, you can expend 1 psi point to fully manifest that element, replacing the primordial aspect with the following effect. If you are specialized in that element, it doesn't require a psi point to fully manifest the power.

If you are not in a primordial aspect, you can fully manifest a power as a bonus action for 2 psi points (or 1 psi point if you are specialized in that power).

Starting at 14th level, you can expend 5 psi points to cast shapechange to assume elemental forms. When you cast shapechange in this way it has no verbal or material components, but you can only assume the form of a Water Elemental, Fire Elemental, or Air Elemental. If you are specialized in an element, the cost is reduced to 3 psi points, but you can only assume the form associated with your specialization (Water Elemental for cold, Fire Elemental for fire, or Air Elemental for lightning). A Water Elemental assumed with this form doesn't have the Freeze property.

Once you cast shapechange this way, you can't do so until you finish a short or long rest.

A Knowing Mind is a psion that grasps that future as intuitively as the present, weaving together strings of casualty and fate in ways that would shatter the mind of a lesser mortal. They live one step ahead and use that advantage to the fullest, bending probability, manipulating fate, and bringing their plans to fruition without room for failure.

They are remarkable individuals whose clairvoyant abilities stem from a variety of sources—from a lineage of divine oracles, to a connection to beings from another temporal axis, to a mind that has somehow been flung into the future.

Starting at 3rd level, your ability to see and influence the future allows you to set things up to have even greater influence throughout the sequence of events, building up to a pivotal moment where exerting your foresight can provide the greatest impact.

Once per turn when you use Seeing empowered by 1 or psi points to look into the future while in initiative (or under a similar high stakes situation), you gain an Influence point. You can have a maximum number of Influence points equal to your Intelligence modifier.

When you start your turn with one or more Influence points, you can expend all of your Influence points as psi points to empower a psionic power. Influence points spent this way can exceed your psi point limit, but cannot be combined with psi points.

Any generated Influence Points are lost after 1 minute, or when no longer in combat (or a similar high stakes situation).

Starting at 6th level, you can begin to see the path you must take to bring your plans to fruition. When you start your turn with one or more Influence Points, you gain temporary hit points equal to twice your current Influence Points.

While you have temporary hit points from this feature, you can transfer these temporary hit points to another creature that is the target of one of your psionic abilities, or the beneficiary of your Seeing power.

Starting at 10th level, you can see the flow of battle, giving time to exploit openings and opportunities.

When a creature you can see misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against that target or use a psionic power against them. When using a psionic power with this reaction, you cannot expend psi points to empower it, but can use Influence Points.

Starting at 14th level, once per turn, when you use your Seeing power, you can select two beneficiaries of your power. Psi points spent are unique to each target affected (and not shared between them).

A Shaper is a Psion that specializes in the materialization of their imagination, projecting it out into the world. No mere conjurers borrowing the powers of other planes, a Shaper manifests things from nothing but their own mind, weaving their creations into existence through the exertion of raw psionic power and imagination.

A Shaper's mind is a tool of nearly unrivaled power possessing both boundless creativity and inexorable will, but if that will is overrun, the world would do well to fear a Shaper's nightmares.

Starting at 3rd level, when you use your psionic powers to create an Astral Construct, it doesn't require concentration to maintain, and lasts until dismissed, but you can't summon another one while you have one summoned.

Starting at 6th level, when you deal damage with an Astral Construct or a weapon created by Project Item, you can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage dealt.

Starting at 10th level, when you would take damage while you have an Astral Construct within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to conjure it to you (sharing your space) and expend 1 psi point to Solidify it, transposing it between you and the source of damage. It takes the damage instead of you. If the attack deals more damage than it has hit points (from Solidify), you take the remainder of the damage.

Starting at 14th level, you can allow your mind to run wild, letting an astral army spring forth into reality. When you use Replicate, you can create one additional Astral Construct that can be controlled with the same action (commands still only affect one Astral Construct of your choice). This additional construct lasts until the start of your next turn and can't be sustained.

Once you create an additional duplicate, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

A Transcended psion is most often one that has found their path to psionic powers through a mental epiphany, realizing the place of their mind within the multiverse and how it ties to everything else, seeing the keys and levers to the world laid out before them in their mind's eye.

Most often achieved either intentionally or accidentally through meditation and ritual, this can sometimes even be a passed on technique to reliably transcend the strictly material concerns, and explore the more cognitive realm and powers within.

Transcended Psions tend to have the best grasp on their powers in control and principle, having come to understand the greater cosmos, but lack the reckless abandon some other Psions may have. Unfortunately less transcendent minds frequently cannot understand the greater truths they have learned and may view a Transcended Psion as a bit... peculiar.

Starting at 3rd level, when you use a psionic ability (power or spell) to restore hit points or grant temporary hit points, you can add equivalent hit points granted to a stored pool. The maximum value of the pool is your psion level, and any points beyond the maximum are lost. The next time you make a damage roll, you can expend the pool to add damage equal to the stored value to one target affected by the damage roll. This stored damage is lost if not spent within 1 minute.

Starting at 6th level, when you grant temporary hit points with a psionic power you can add your proficiency bonus to the temporary hit points gained by one creature.

Starting at 10th level, when you have to make a Constitution saving throw to avoid losing concentration on an effect from a psionic discipline, you can add your Intelligence modifier to the saving throw.

Starting at 14th level, when you would roll a Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution saving throw, you can expend 2 psi points to roll an Intelligence saving throw instead.

Additionally, when you roll a Death saving throw, you can expend 4 psi points before rolling to treat the roll as 20.

An Unleashed Mind's power is most often an innate force they struggle to understand or control, a reflection of their state of mind and mood projected onto the world around them, often to devastating results. The life of an Unleashed Psion is frequently their journey to control their unruly powers... or one of embracing the destructive powers fully.

What the wellspring of their innate power is varies: they could be a psionic race, born under the influence of distant twisted powers, warped by fey blood, or a herald of something more sinister brushing against the material world. Sometimes their power will show itself in simple applications, but most often their power becomes known and feared when their temper flares.

Their alignment frequently depends on the approach to their powers they have taken. An Unleashed Psion who emphasizes control and restraint, keeping their emotions from running wild and their powers from running rampant will most often be lawful, following strict personal codes. On the other hand, an Unleashed Psion who lets their power run rampant will almost always be chaotic in nature, acting on impulse... with great emphasis.

Starting at 3rd level, you gain a d4 rampage die. Once on each of your turns when making a damage roll, you can add this rampage die to the damage roll. If you dealt damage during your last turn, your rampage die becomes a d6, increasing with each subsequent turn you deal damage by one step, up to a d12; if you did not deal damage during your last turn or become incapacitated, it becomes a d4 once more. If you maintain a continuous d12 rampage die for more than one minute, you gain one level of exhaustion.

Starting at 6th level, when you deal damage with a psionic discipline power you can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage dealt.

Starting at 10th level, the strength of your rampaging mind is such that others' attempts to control it are futile. You gain immunity to the charmed and frightened conditions, as well as effects that would control your mind while your rampage die is a d8 or more.

Starting at 14th level, when an attack reduces you to zero hit points, you can roll your rampage die. If your roll + your Constitution modifier is higher than the excess damage you took, you are instead reduced to one hit point. You can expend 2 psi points to roll an additional rampage die, adding it to the result.

A Wandering Mind is among the more mysterious incarnates of psions, these are individuals that just aren't quite rooted in the same reality everyone else is... they find it more pliable and slippery, and prone to jumping right through it on occasion.

How they get their powers varies. Some were born in the ethereal plane or went through a portal while young. Sometimes it is just that their mind just works along an axis most people cannot understand. No matter its source, they manifest a truly unique ability to treat certain aspects of the metaphysical with a certain mundanity, and are prone to treating their powers as absolutely natural things as one might treat an arm or leg.

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the Rift Strike talent. If you already have the Rift Strike talent, you can gain one other Psionic Talent of your choice. The Rift Strike talent doesn't count against your Psionic Talents known, but can't be switched out on leveling up.

Starting at 3rd level, your wandering mind adapts to new situations constantly. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can select two skills you lack proficiency in. Until the end of your next long rest, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to ability checks made with those skills.

Starting at 6th level, once per turn, you automatically gain one illusory duplicate as per the blurring modifier when you use your Phase Rift power. Additionally, your first attack roll before the end of your turn after using Phase Rift gains advantage.

Starting at 10th level, your unspent Psionic Mastery points are not lost until the start of your next turn, but can only be used to cast flicker.

Additionally, when you roll for the effect of flicker or blink you can expend 1 psi point to reroll the result. You can select which of the two results you would like to use.

Starting at 14th level, your understanding of how to traverse space expands to a previously incomprehensible scale. You gain the ability to cast plane shift and teleport. You can cast one of these spells per day once without expending a spell slot or use of Innate Psionics. Once you do this, you must finish a long rest before you can use them again, or use your 7th level or higher use of Innate Psionics instead of the spell selected for that level to cast these spells again before finishing a long rest. If you already have one of these spells selected for your 7th level Innate psionic power, you can select a new 7th-level spell from the psion list for that slot. Material components are still required for casting plane shift this way.

Additionally at 14th level, your Phase Rift no longer has to go in a straight line, though it can only pass through a creature's space once.