Battlemind

As wanderers, mercenaries, and adventurers, battleminds are carefree warriors who seek only to test their skill against the mightiest and most dangerous opponents. Battleminds possess a potent combination of psionic and physical skill, allowing them to use their magic to manipulate and deceive their foes even as their fighting skill lets them carve right through enemy ranks.

Battleminds tend to be bold and sometimes arrogant, an attitude earned through bringing ruin to enemies over the course of many conflicts. You might not share your fellow battleminds’ arrogance, but you do have access to an array of combat abilities that let you manipulate, baffle, and defeat your enemies. Your mind is as deadly as your weapon and with the aid of your psionic prowess, your body can turn aside attacks as effectively as a suit of plate armor.

Let those who would stand against your might quiver in terror when you approach, for you are a battlemind and supremacy in combat is your birthright.

Creating a Battlemind

As you create your battlemind, think about how your character unlocked their psionic capabilities. Was it through some chance event, or forged through continued discipline? Battleminds tend to be bold and sometimes arrogant, an attitude earned through both their physical and mental aptitude.

Does your character have the arrogance of your fellow Battleminds? And if so, did it come from a specific battle you fought? How do you focus your innate abilities of altering reality? Space will warp, time will dilate, and the very matter of reality will reform in the pursuit of victory: physical and psychic violence in a single perfect whole.

As a Battlemind you gain the following class features.

Aethershield

You have a limited well of psionic energy that you can draw on to protect a creature from harm.

On your turn, you can use a bonus action to touch a creature and grant it a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d8 + your battlemind level. These hit points last for 10 minutes, or until they are depleted.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Mystic Talent

Developing your innate abilities, you reveal and innately understand once dormant powers.

You learn the blade ward, friends, message, mage hand or pocket dimension spell and may cast it at will, without providing any vocal or material components and with the following alterations:

Blade ward cast in this way lasts for 2 rounds; the Friends cantrip doesn't get discerned only if the target suceeds on an Intelligence saving throw against your Psi save DC; the range of Message is doubled; and a Mage hand cast using this feature is invisible. The pocket dimension spell is found at the end of this document.

Premonitive Defense

You excel in anticipating your opponents movements and adapting the flow of combat to your own rhythm.

While wearing light or medium armor, you may use your Intelligence modifier instead of your Dexterity modifier for the purposes of determining your AC. If you aren't wielding a shield, the maximum ability modifier you may add towards calculating your AC while in medium armor is doubled.

Fighting Style

You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

Manifesting

Starting at 2nd level, your training and latent psionic ability allows you to access and manifest different abilities.

Your access to this energy is represented by a number of Psi points. Your battlemind level determines the number of points you have, as shown in the Psi Points column of the Battlemind table.

You can spend these points to fuel various manifesting features. You start knowing three such features: Psionic Smite, Intellect Fortress and Thought Sense.

You learn more manifesting features as you gain levels in this class. The maximum number of Psi points you can spend during a single turn is equal to your Proficiency bonus.

When you spend a Psi point, it is unavailable until you finish a short or long rest, at the end of which you replenish all of your expended expended psionic energy.

Some of your Manifesting features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature's effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Psionic Smite

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend Psi points to deal additional Psychic damage to the target. The extra psychic damage is 1d10 per Psi point spent. If the target is currently concentrating on a spell or effect, it takes one extra die of damage and has disadvantage on the resulting concentration check.

Intellect Fortress

As a reaction, when you have to make a saving throw against a spell or effect, but before you make a roll, you may spend 1 Psi point grant yourself a bonus on the equal to your Intelligence modifier. If you succeed on the saving throw, the attacker takes an amount of psychic damage equal to your Intelligence modifier, as your mere thoughts send a backlash against the targets very sanity.

Thought Sense

Your psychic powers allow you to probe your surroundings for intelligent life forms. As a bonus action, you may spend 1 Psi point to instantly become aware of the exact location of all creatures within 30 feet of you, until the end of your next turn. A creature can hide from you if it succeeds in an Intelligence saving throw against your Psi save DC.

Ardentious Adaptivity

Starting at 3rd level, when you put your mind to something, you master it in record time.

At the end of a long rest, choose a skill, tool or language proficiency. You gain proficiency with your desired choice if you don't already have it, or expertise if you do. The benefits of this feature last until your next long rest, at which point you may choose a new proficiency, or remain trained in the same choice of preference.

Psionic Discipline Features

When you reach 3rd level, your dedication to a certain method of manifesting your powers grants you new abilities.

You may choose between the disciplines of Emphatism, Kineticism, Psyhometabolism or Translocation.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM allows the use of feats, you may take a feat instead of an ability score increase whenever you gain access to this feature.

Empty Mind

By 5th level, you have learned to sharpen your focus when you deplete your inner psionic reservoir.

Once per round, while you have no Psi points remaining, you may give yourself a bonus on a single weapon attack roll. The bonus equals your Intelligence modifier and must be applied before you know if the attack hits or misses.

If your strike hits, the attack deals additional damage equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Extra attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Mind Over Matter

Subtly manipulating the physical realm with your mental aura is second nature to you.

Starting at 6th level, you and all creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you may add your Intelligence modifier on any Strength, Dexterity or Constitution ability check they make.

The range of this ability increases to 30 feet once you reach level 18 in this class.

Mind Vault

Starting at 9th level, you may escape to a pocket realm, shaped purely by the power of your mind.

You gain resistance to psychic damage and your thoughts can't be read against your will.

As an action, you may spend 4 Psi points to cast the Blink spell, without providing any components. You may roll 2 d20's during the duration of the spell and pick either result.

Cerebral Fortification

Starting at 10th level, your mind and body operate flawlessly in a level of equilibrium that is hard to fathom.

At the end of each long rest you gain a pool of psionic reserve that holds a number of Psi points equal to half your battlemind level. You can use a bonus action to gain access to these Psi points. When you do so, you must spend them within 10 minutes, or they dissapear. At the end of these 10 minutes, you gain a level of exhaustion.

Additionally, you may now use your Aethershield class feature twice before requiring a rest to use it again.

Keen edge

By 11th level, each of your strikes is carefully guided by your manipulation of time and space.

Whenever you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 force damage.

Applied Precognition

By 13th level, always a step ahead, your ability to predict and analyze any situation is second to none.

You can act normally when you are surprised and you have advantage on Dexterity (Initiative) checks.

Furthermore, at the start of each of your turns you may select one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. That creature cannot use it's reaction during your turn.

Mental Assault

Starting at 14th level, you may spend 5 Psi points as an action to release a devastating blast of psychic energy.

Creatures of your choice within a radius within 30 feet of you must make an Intelligence saving throw versus your Psi save DC or take 5d8 psychic damage and become restrained until the end of your next turn as it's mind and body seize to function in unison. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage.

Overchannel

Beginning at 17th level, you have developed the ability to strain your mind to extreme levels in moments of peril.

When you roll for initiative and have no Psi points remaining, you regain a number of Psi points equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Furthermore, the maximum number of Psi points you may spend in a single turn increases by an ammount equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Kineticist

As a kineticist, you specialize in manipulating matter and the natural forces around you with the power of your mind. While the empaths and psycho metabolists know how to be subtle, you lavish in brutal displays of power, throwing your enemies across the battlefield with a single thought.

Master of Many Forms

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the uncanny ability to alter your body in amazing ways.

As an action, you can spend 1 Psi point to transform your appearance for the next 8 hours. You can't duplicate the appearance of a creature you've never seen, and you revert to your natural form if you die.

You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, the sound of your voice, coloration, hair length, sex, and any other distinguishing characteristics. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your game statistics change. You also can't appear as a creature of a different size than you, and your basic shape stays the same; if you're bipedal, you can't use this trait to become quadrupedal, for instance. Your clothing and other equipment don't change in appearance, size, or shape to match your new form.

Additionally, you gain access to the two following manifesting abilities:

Diminution: As a bonus action, you may spend 1 Psi point to become Tiny for 10 minutes or until your concentration ends. While this size, you gain a +5 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) checks and can move through gaps up to 6 inches across without squeezing.

Expansion: As an action, you may spend 2 Psi points to become Large for 10 minutes or until your concentration ends. While enlarged in this way your reach increases by 5 feet, you have advantage on all Strength saves and ability checks and your melee weapon attacks deal an additional amount of damage equal to half your proficiency modifier.

Warshaper

By 7th level, your whole body is used to constant changes and has the ability to expand and retract seemingly at will.

You have advantage on all attacks of opportunity and attacks against you have disadvantage as your body moves in unnatural ways. Furthermore, you have advantage on all saves and ability checks against being phyisically restrained or grappled.

Additionally, you gain the following manifesting option:

Instant Regrowth: Any time a critical hit is scored against you, you may use your reaction and spend a Psi point to turn it into a normal hit instead.

Master Transmogrifist

Starting at 15th level, your ability to control your form is unmatched.

You are immune to spells and effect that would change your size or form against your will.

Additionally, you can spend 5 Psi points as an action to cast the Polymorph spell, targeting yourself and requiring no components. You may choose to keep your Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma score when you do this.

Biotic Feedback

As you reach the 20th level in this class, you have developed a natural trigger that activates as soon as danger arises.

You are immune to the Stunned and Paralyzed conditions.

Furthermore, you automatically regain a number of hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier at the start of your turn, provided that you haven't suffered any psychic damage during the last round

Translocationist

As a translocationist, you rely on your quick movement and ability to warp space and time to grant you advantage in every action.

Speed of Thought

The sheer speed with which you process each situation has given you an edge against your foes.

Beginning at 3rd level, while you aren't wearing armor or wielding a shield, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Intelligence modifier.

Furthermore, while a creature has any temporary hit points remaining from your Aethershield class feature, it can use the Dash action as a bonus action during it's turns.

Mantle of Celerity

By 3rd level, your single step can cross unexpected distances and wreak great confusion in enemy lines.

Starting at 3rd level, your base movement speed increases by 10 feet.

Additionally, you gain the two following manifesting options:

Blurred Step: As a bonus action, you may spend 1 Psi point to teleport a distance of feet equal to 5 times your Intelligence modifier. You can teleport into the space of a creature to teleport them to the location you originated from, switching places. If the creature isn't willing, it must make a Charisma saving throw against your Psi save DC to resist the effect of this ability.

Dimension Warp

Subliminaly altering time and space around you, you are able to move around effortlessly and bending the material plane almost at will.

By 7th level, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain doesn't cost you any extra movement.

Additionally, you gain the following manifesting option:

Planar Transposition: You may spend 2 Psi points as an action and target 2 willing creatures within 60 feet of you. The creatures teleport, swapping places and gain a bonus to their base movement speed equal to 5 times your Intelligence modifier until the end of their next turn.

Blinkblade

As you reach the 15th level in this class, your innate manipulation of the fabric that holds reality in place and the sheer velocity of your strikes allow you to hit your foes from unexpected distances and angles.

During your turn, the reach of your mellee attacks is increased by 5 feet as your weapon briefly cuts through the essence of reality.

Furthermore, you may spend a number of Psi points as an action to cast the Steel Wind Strike spell. Instead of doing the regular 6d10 damage, the spell's damage is 1d10 for each Psi point you spend when activating this feature.

Controlled Paradox

By 20th level, the physical laws of this world don't apply to you as you shift your presence across dimensions.

You may substitute any part of your movement for a teleportation of the equivalent distance. You must see the space you wish to teleport to while using this ability.