Creating a Psion

When creating a Psion, consider your character's background. How did you become a Psion? Were you born with latent powers? Or did something happen to you granting your powers? Or did you intentionally train yourself through rigorous mental exercise to leverage them? Consider how developing a rare and mysterious power would have affected your interactions with people.

Consider what your purpose is with your newfound powers, or how you plan to use your powers. Do you intend to be taken for a Wizard casting magic, or are you freely open about being of a... different nature?

Quick Build

You can make a Psion quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Intelligence your highest ability score, followed by Dexterity or Constitution. Second, choose the Acolyte, Far Traveler or Hermit background.

Class Features

Psionic Archetype

At 1st level, you pick the archetype of Psion you embody, choosing from Awakened, Unleashed, Transcended, or Shaper, each of which are detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 1st level, and again at 3rd, 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Psionics

Psionic Archetypes

Unshackled Power

At 1st level when you select this archetype, you gain the ability to unleash your mind to physically interact with the world around you, granting you the psionic discipline Telekinesis.

Overwhelming Power

Additionally at 1st level, you gain the ability to cast thaumaturgy with your psionic powers. When you cast in this way, you have an additional options:

• You cause up to 10 pounds of loose objects within 10 feet of you to start floating for 1 minute.
• You can force all targets within 5 feet to make a Strength saving throw, or be pushed by 5 feet away from you.

Rampaging Power

Starting at 3rd level, you gain a d4 rampage die. Once per turn during your turn 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 a level of exhaustion.

Empowered Psionics

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

Uncontrollable Mind

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

Unstoppable Rampage

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.

Transcended Mind

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.

State of Mind

Additionally at 1st level, you can ignore the effects of extreme heat or cold, hold your breath twice as long as normal, and can go twice as long without eating or sleeping before suffering exhaustion.

Balance of Power

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 the 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.

Perfected Enhancement

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.

Mental Control

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.

Mind Over Matter

Starting at 14th level, when you 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 to roll a 20.

Shaper's Mind

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.

Enhancing Surge

Psionic Power

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 Round

You empower the body of a target creature you can see with your Psionics. The target gains 1d6 temporary hit points and the next time the target deals damage, it deals 1d6 additional damage to one application of that damage roll. Any remaining effects of this spell end at the start of your next turn.

You can spend Psi Points up to your per use limit to add the following modifiers to Enhancing Surge (you can add multiple modifiers). The points must be spent when choosing the target of the power.

Rending (1+ psi points): The target takes +1d8 psychic damage for each additional point spent.

You can spend Psi Points up to your per use limit to add the following modifiers to (you can add multiple modifiers). The points must be spent when choosing the target of the power.

Additional Psionic Disciplines

You can find additional Psionic Disciplines in the Psion: Expanded Options document here!

Psionic Talents

Mental Image

Prerequisite: Telepathy Discipline

You gain the ability to use your Telepathy to project images into the minds of creatures with perfect clarity, interposing it over their reality. The spells silent image, major image, hallucinatory terrain and seeming are added to your Telepathic mastery alternate effects list costing psi points equal to their spell level.

Mental Might

Prerequisite: 10th level Psion, Telekinesis Discipline

You learn to focus your mental grip. You can make an Intelligence (Athletics) check when you make an Athletics check. Additionally, when you initiate a grapple in this method, you can attempt to grapple a creature within 30 feet. Maintaining a grapple like this requires Concentration, as if concentrating on a spell, and the grapple ends if concentration is lost.

Mind Devourer

Prerequisite: 5th level Psion

You gain the ability to cast psychic drain for 2 psi points. Additionally, whenever a creature within 10 feet of you that had an Intelligence score of 6 or higher dies, you can expend your reaction to draw in its psionic power, regaining 1d4 hit points and 1 expended psi point.

Mind Rider

As an action, you can touch a willing creature to see through its eyes and hear what it hears for the next hour, gaining the benefits of any Special Senses that the creature has.

During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own Senses. You can end this effect at any time. While this is active, the creature has advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws.

Perfect Focus

Prerequisite: 10th level Psion

You can enter a state of extreme focus. Your concentration is no longer interrupted by using a second ability that requires concentration, but your movement speed is reduced to zero while concentrating on more than one effect; you have a -5 penalty to any concentration check. If you move or fail a concentration check, one of your concentration affects ends. If you fail the concentration check by 5 or more, you lose concentration on both effects.

Phase Slash

Prerequisite: Transposition Discipline

When you use your Phase Rift power, you can make one melee weapon attack as a bonus action against a target you pass through with your Phase Rift. You can spend 1 or more psi points to make an additional attacks as part of the same bonus action, but can only attack a creature as you pass through them once per Phase Rift.

Phase Shot

Prerequisite: Transposition Discipline

When you make a ranged weapon attack roll, you can use your bonus action to cause it to travel through a Phase Rift as if you teleported using the ability. You do not teleport, and this does not extend the phase rift beyond its normal range - the projectile continues as normal from the ending point if it travels further than it can phase rift. If the attack hits a target, the phase rift includes the space of the target hit, but stops there.

Physical Surge

Prerequisite: Enhancement Discipline

When you use Enhancing Surge targeting yourself, you can choose to make your Strength or Dexterity ability score equal to your Intelligence modifier ability score until the start of your next turn.

Psi Crystal

You gain the ability to impart part of your mind into crystal. You can expend 2 psi points to cast the find familiar spell but your familiar takes on the statics of a psi crystal (below) and the material component required is a crystal worth 10 gp instead of the normal material components. The Psi Crystal gains your mental stats. You can use Psionic Disciplines without a range of Self through your Psi Crystal is if you were standing in its location. If the psi crystal is destroyed, you gain its memories as your own. While you have a Psi Crystal active, as a bonus action, you can deactivate it to regain 2 expended psi points.

When you summon a Psi crystal, you can store a fragment of your personality, that you can then release by shattering the crystal. Select one of the following when summoning a psi crystal.

Cowardice. When your Psi Crystal is within 30 of you and a creature comes within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to shatter the crystal releasing that emotion and immediately move your movement speed away from the creature without taking an attack of opportunity.

Psion Spell List

Psionic Spells

Flicker

1st-level psionic

• Casting Time: 1 reaction, when you would take damage
• Range: Self
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 round

You flicker between the material and ethereal plane. Until the start of your next turn, each time you would take damage, including the triggering attack, roll a d4. On a 2, you gain resistance to that instance of damage. On a 4, you don't take any damage.

Mind Blast

6th-level psionic

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self(60-foot cone)
• Components: S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You emit a blast of psychic energy. Each creature in a 60-foot cone must make an Intelligence saving throw. A creature takes 6d8 Psychic damage and is stunned until the end of their next turn on a failed save. A creature takes half as much damage and is not stunned on a successful save.

Orbital Stones

4th-level transmutation

• Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, Up to 1 Minute.

You lift three small to medium rocks or similar objects from within 10 feet of you, causing them defy gravity and slowly circle you. While any stones orbit you, if you are targeted by a ranged attack or make a dexterity saving throw from effect that originates 5 feet or more from you, roll a d4. If the result is equal to lower than than number of stones circling you, the attack hits the stone instead. The stones 20 hit points and have a damage threshold of 20 and resistance to all damage besides bludgeoning damage.

As a bonus action while at least one object remains in orbit, you can magically fling it at target within 60 feet. Make a ranged spell attack roll. On hit, the target takes 3d10 bludgeoning damage and is knocked backward 5 feet.

Psychic Drain

2nd-level psionic

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You draw on the psychic energy of another creature to sustain yourself. The target must make a Charisma saving throw. On failure it takes 3d8 psychic damage and you gain temporary hit points equal to half the amount of psychic damage dealt and regain one expended psi point.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the spell deals an additional 1d8 psychic damage.

Unlocked Potential

1st-level psionic

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute.

You unlock the potential of a creature's mind, allowing it to fully reach its limits. For the duration, once per turn the creature can add 1d4 to any attack roll, damage roll, or saving throw it makes. Each time it adds the additional 1d4, it takes 1 psychic damage as it pushes beyond its natural limitations.

Psionic Powers

Psionic Adept

You develop a minor grasp of psionic power, either uncovering an innate potential within yourself, through contact with a psionic source, or through training. You gain one of the psionic disciplines of the Psion class, gaining the attached psionic feature and psionic power, but you do not gain use of any associated spells when gain a Discipline from this feat.

You gain 1 psi point that you can use to empower the Discipline. You regain use of this Psi Point when you complete a short or long rest.

Inner Power

Prerequisite: At least 1 psi or ki point

Your body is powered by the inner powers that course through it. Your maximum psi or ki points (if you have both, your choice of which) increases by one.

At the end of your turn after expending one or more psi or ki points during your turn (not counting temporary or free points, such as those from Psionic Mastery), you heal for a number of hit points equal to the psi or ki points spent.

War Psion

Prerequisite: The ability to use at least one Psionic Discipline

You have utilizing psionics in the midst of combat, learning techniques that grant you the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Constitution saving throws that you make to maintain your concentration on a psionic ability when you take damage.
• You can perform the somatic components of psionic abilities even when you have weapons or a shield in one or both hands.
• When a hostile creature's movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to use a psionic discipline power or spell targeting the creature, rather than making an opportunity attack. The spell must have a casting time of 1 action and must target only that creature.

Psionic Skills

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