Psionic Powers

Psionic powers come in two forms, talents and augments. Talents are cantrips which last as long as you focus on them, while augments are abilities that can be layered on top of these cantrips to modify their effects.

Psionic Talents

Psionic Augments

Saving Throws

Many psionic powers specify that a target can make a saving throw to avoid some or all of a power’s effects. The power specifies the ability that the target uses for the save and what happens on a success or failure.

The DC to resist one of your powers equals 8 + your psionic ability modifier + your proficiency bonus + any special modifiers.

Attack Rolls

Some powers require you to make an attack roll to determine whether the psionic effect hits the intended target. Your attack bonus with a power attack equals your psionic ability modifier + your proficiency bonus.

Most powers that require attack rolls involve ranged attacks. Remember that you have disadvantage on a ranged attack roll if you are within 5 feet of a hostile creature that can see you and that isn't incapacitated.

Using a Psionic Talent

Talents are psionic powers that are like cantrip spells, and follow most of the normal rules for casting spells, such as casting time, range, and area of effect. There are three exceptions to this; as psionic powers, talents have different rules for schools of magic, spell components, and duration.

Psionic Schools of Magic

Scholars of psychic manifestations categorize psionic effects differently than mages do their spells. The following psionic schools help describe psionic effects. These schools have no rules of their own, but other rules might refer to these new schools or to “psionic spells,” which are any spells that have a psionic school.

Clairsentience. This school encompasses psionic effects that impart knowledge, enhance senses, or alter probability. Spells and abilities that defend against divination, such as mind blank, also provide protection from clairsentience powers.

Metacreativity. Powers of this school typically draw thoughts into reality, shaping imagined things into matter.

Psychokinesis. This school consists of effects that manifest energy or telekinetic force.

Psychometabolism. Some psionic effects impose will over flesh, pushing living biology beyond its normal limits. Spells and abilities that defend against transmutation also provide protection from psychometabolism powers.

Psychoportation. Psionic effects that move objects or creatures through time, space, and planes of existence belong to this school.

Telepathy. Telepathic effects touch upon the minds of others, whether to communicate with them, influence their thoughts or perceptions, or barrage them with pure damaging psychic power.

Psionic Components

Most psionic talents do not have normal components (verbal, somatic, or material), as they are products entirely of the mind. However, the act of casting a psionic cantrip is oftentimes obvious to observers, and such psionic effects have the following components:

Auditory (A). Some manner of noise audible to all within 60 feet accompanies the use of psionic powers with this component. Creatures within 30 feet can determine the origin of the sound as easily as if it were regular, clear speech.

Observable (O). Some psionic powers come with a visible display when they manifest or are cast. The origin of such an effect can be visually traced back to its creator by creatures within line of sight.

Psionic Focus

All psionic talents have a duration of Focus. You can only focus on one effect at a time, and you may focus on an effect indefinitely while you remain conscious. Your focus ends if you are knocked unconscious, if you begin focusing on another spell or effect, or if the psionic talent you are focusing on is dispelled. You may also choose to stop focusing at any time, requiring no action.

Manifesting Augments

Psionic powers that magnify the effects of psionic talents are called augments. Augments follow many of the same rules as spells: range, targets, areas of effect, saving throws, attack rolls, and combining magical effects (described in Chapter 10: Spellcasting of the Player’s Handbook). However psionic augments are not spells and have a few rules unique to them, described below.

Power Level

Each psionic augment has a listed power level, ranging from 1 to 9. When you manifest an augment, it increases the spell level of the psionic talent it is augmenting to be equal to the augment’s power level. This increase in the talent’s spell level begins when you initiate the manifesting time of the power, and lasts until the augment’s duration ends (augments with an instantaneous duration end immediately upon use).

As cantrips, unaugmented talents have a spell level of 0 and their spell level is only increased by augments you manifest while you focus on them. If your focus on a talent ends but the duration of an augment continues, the talent does not automatically gain the increased spell level if you cast it again before the augment’s duration ends.

Augments aren’t spells, but the effects of augments with non- instantaneous durations can be ended early with dispel magic by dispelling the psionic talent they are augmenting at its augmented spell level. An augment that is manifested without focusing on a talent, such as one cast via certain magic items, has a spell level equal to its power level for the purpose of adjudicating dispel magic.

School

Augments have the same psionic schools of magic that talents do. Most augments are of the same school as the talent they modify, but manifesting some augments changes the school of the psionic talent they augment for the duration of their effects.

Augmenting

Each augment’s entry specifies which psionic talent you must currently be focusing on in order to manifest it. You cannot manifest an augment for one psionic talent while you are focusing on a different talent.

Psi Cost

Manifesting psionic powers does not expend spell slots. Instead, in order to augment a psionic talent, you must possess a reserve of potential psionic energy and expend a portion of it. This energy is represented by psi points. Casting a psionic talent cantrip does not expend psi points, but manifesting an augment does. Each psionic augment specifies the minimum number of psi points you must expend in order to manifest it.

The number of psi points available to you usually depends on your character level and your class or subclass. Your number of psi points can’t go below 0, or over your maximum. Your psi point total returns to its maximum when you finish a long rest.

You may spend psi points you have on any augments you know, regardless of the source of those augments and whether or not they are normally manifested through the expenditure of psi points.

Psi Limit. The number of psi points you can spend on a single manifestation of a psionic power is limited. This limit usually depends on your character level and your class or subclass, and is specified therein. Your race, or other character options such as feats, might specify a psi limit as well. Your psi limit for all psionic effects you know is always the highest psi limit you have, regardless of source, unless that source is specifically limited to certain effects. If the psi cost of a psionic power is greater than your limit, you cannot manifest that power.

Intensify. The listed psi cost for all augments is a minimum. You may always choose to spend more psi points than an augment’s minimum cost up to your limit, increasing the augment’s power level by 1 for every 2 psi points beyond the minimum you spend.

When a power’s description includes a specific intensify option, it states the effects spending additional psi points beyond the minimum has on the power in addition to increasing its power level. Your psi limit applies to the total cost of manifesting an augment, which includes any psi points spent to intensify it.

Manifesting Time

Manifesting an augment requires the same kind of actions that casting a spell might (actions, bonus actions, reactions, etc.), but it is not casting a spell. Rules that refer to casting or casting times do not apply to the manifesting of psionic augments.

Powers and Spells. Manifesting a psionic augment and casting a spell are two different ways of creating magical effects that are typically mutually exclusive of one another. You cannot cast a non- psionic spell and manifest an augment in the same turn.

In addition, if you manifest an augment as a bonus action, the only psionic power you can produce with your action is casting a psionic talent with a casting time of 1 action.

Reactions. Several psionic augments have manifesting times of 1 reaction, but no accompanying trigger. You may use your reaction to manifest these augments at any time you wish, as long are you are focusing on the appropriate talent. If timing isn’t specified, you cannot react to another creature’s action before that action takes place, only afterward. As normal, you regain your reaction at the start of your next turn.

Components

Manifesting an augment on a psionic talent does not usually require material (M), somatic (S), or verbal (V) spell components, though they might display the auditory (A) or observable (O) components that some psionic talents have, making it apparent you are amplifying your active psionic powers.

Duration

Psionic powers have the same kinds of durations as spells do. Note that an augment with a duration of concentration does not end if your focus on the psionic talent it is augmenting ends.

A talent being augmented by a power that has a set duration inherits the duration of that augment, though that talent may have no discernible effect if focus is not maintained on it.

Psionic Talent Trees

This section presents an alphabetical list of all psionic talents with the classes that have access to them. Below each talent, the powers that augment them are listed by power level.

Aura Beacon: Empath

1st-Level

Aura of Charm

Aura of Comfort

Aura of Fury

Aura of Victory

2nd-Level

Aura of Jubilation

3rd-Level

Aura Beam

4th-Level

Aura of Malice

5th-Level

Aura of Awe

6th-Level

Psychic Reformation

7th-Level

Aura Burst

8th-Level

Genesis

9th-Level

Reality Revision

Autonomous Vitality: Empath

1st-Level

Vital Surge

2nd-Level

Autonomic Restoration

Psychic Prowess

Soothing Impulse

Vitality Transfer

3rd-Level

Beacon of Recovery

Revitalization

Share Pain

4th-Level

Psychic Defibrillation

5th-Level

Vitality Transfer Field

BlindSpot: Psion

1st-Level

Déjà Vu

Harassing Figment

Psychosomatic Haze

Tunnel Vision

2nd-Level

Obscure

Phantom Menace

3rd-Level

Crisis of Breath

4th-Level

Covetous Urge

5th-Level

Vanishing

6th-Level

Chastise Remote Viewing

7th-Level

Veil Psyche

8th-Level

Crisis of Life

9th-Level

Mesmerizing Voice

Ectoplasmic Object: Psion

1st-Level

Ectobolt

Ectoplasmic Repair

Spectral Steps

Spectral Wall

2nd-Level

Spectral Web

3rd-Level

Ectoplasmic Body

4th-Level

Spectral Shell

5th-Level

Spectral Mist

Energy Ray: Psion

1st-Level

Cold Snap

Pyrokinesis

Synaptic Arc

2nd-Level

Cryo Wave

Pyrokinetic Detonation

Ultrasonic Tone

3rd-Level

Energy Wave

Polar Vortex

Synaptic Leap

4th-Level

Cryo Barrier

Immolate Self

Noise Barrier

5th-Level

Synaptic Web

Ultrasonic Boom

Imbue Psicrystal: Psion

1st-Level

Fortify Psicrystal

Personality Shard

2nd-Level

Crystal Flechette

3rd-Level

Project Eidolon

4th-Level

Crystal Spray

5th-Level

Solicit Psicrystal

6th-Level

Crystal Burst

7th-Level

Mind Palace

8th-Level

Sow Psicrystal

9th-Level

Crystallize

Inertial Transference: Empath, Psion

1st-Level

Urgent Charge

Urgent Movement

2nd-Level

Decelerate

Inertial Armor

Inertial Barrier

Urgent Violence

3rd-Level

Accelerate

Gravitic Field

Tactical Aura

4th-Level

Inertial Nullification

5th-Level

Gravitic Spike

Mindthrust: Psion

1st-Level

Disconcerting Lash

Implant Beacon

Psionic Blast

2nd-Level

Ego Whip

Psychic Daze

3rd-Level

Id Insinuation

Mind Storm

4th-Level

Apathy Impulse

Mind Blast

Mind Seize

5th-Level

Telepathic Weight

6th-Level

Shatter Mental Defenses

7th-Level

Crush Psyche

8th-Level

Mental Shutdown

9th-Level

Microcosm

Mindblade: Empath

1st-Level

Psychic Strike

2nd-Level

Energy Blade

3rd-Level

Duodimensional Blade

Ring of Blades

4th-Level

Blade Sling

5th-Level

Bladestorm

Mindlink: Empath, Psion

1st-Level

Compel Confession

Mental Inquisition

Metaconcert

Mislead

Telepathic Slap

2nd-Level

Missive

Read Thoughts

3rd-Level

Absolute Terror

Anger Impulse

Pry Memories

4th-Level

Correspond

Inception

Post-Hypnotic Suggestion

5th-Level

Assume Control

6th-Level

Death Urge

7th-Level

Mind Probe

8th-Level

Mind Seed

9th-Level

Psychic Chirurgery

Mystic Displacement: Empath

1st-Level

Baleful Displacement

Mystic Traveler

2nd-Level

Dissipating Touch

3rd-Level

Temporal Shunt

4th-Level

Immovability

Mystic Anchor

5th-Level

Mystic Caravan

6th-Level

Decerebrate

7th-Level

Mystic Diversion

8th-Level

Temporal Reset

9th-Level

Temporal Regression

Primal Metabolism: Empath

1st-Level

Bestial Claws

Bestial Transformation

Caustic Blood

Diminutive Form

Venomous Spit

2nd-Level

Corrosive Sting

Titanic Form

3rd-Level

Breath of the Dragon

Metamorphosis

4th-Level

Truevenom

5th-Level

True Metabolism

Psychic Hammer: Psion

1st-Level

Telekinetic Lance

Telekinetic Push

2nd-Level

Telekinetic Clutch

3rd-Level

Negate

Shatter Invisibility

4th-Level

Telekinetic Wave

5th-Level

Telekinetic Puppet

Psychic Static: Empath

1st-Level

Empathic Projection

Empathic Shield

Incite Fury

2nd-Level

Discern Hostile Intent

Ensnaring Ennui

Fighting Words

Savage Presence

Unsettling Presence

3rd-Level

Consuming Rage

Intellect Fortress

Pandemonium

4th-Level

Psychosomatic Feedback

5th-Level

Mass Hysteria

Paranoid Delusions

6th-Level

Insanity

7th-Level

Mindflame

8th-Level

Psychic Siphon

9th-Level

Bladestorm

Affinity Field

Sixth Sense: Empath, Psion

1st-Level

Destiny Dissonance

Discern Moods

Discern Position

Precognition

Self-Actualization

2nd-Level

Psychometric Touch

3rd-Level

Destiny Deluge

Third Eye

Xenoglossy

4th-Level

Discern Remote Viewing

Discern Teleport

Thought Projection

5th-Level

Psychometric Sense

Remote Projection

6th-Level

Prescient Warning

7th-Level

Avert Fate

8th-Level

Hypercognition

9th-Level

Perfect Clarity

Speed of Thought: Psion

1st-Level

Motion Blur

Nomadic Shift

2nd-Level

Nomadic Slingshot

Nomadic Transposition

3rd-Level

Baleful Transposition

Sudden Step

4th-Level

Nomadic Recall

Nomadic Travel

5th-Level

Nomadic Doorway

Verve: Empath

1st-Level

Ablative Hide

Acclimatize

Body Adjustment

Iron Endurance

Psionic Leap

Quick Burst

Stomp

2nd-Level

Instinctive Adaptation

3rd-Level

Energy Adaptation

4th-Level

Mind Over Matter

5th-Level

Assimilate

6th-Level

Body Rejuvenation

7th-Level

Suspend Life

8th-Level

Fusion

9th-Level

Impervious Self

Wild Talent: Empath, Psion

1st-Level

Courageous Recall

Body Equilibrium

Fearful Recall

Sudden Intuition

Umbra Sight

2nd-Level

Aura Sight

Psychic Grasp

Touchsight

3rd-Level

Sense Link

4th-Level

Realized Potential

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