Psion v0.1

Power of the Mind

Psionic power, as its users here named the Psions, has always been an alien element in a world of magic. Folks and most of people mistake the manifestations of such power as magic, maybe weirder than usual but hey, it's magic, you never know what's really going on. Different story for those who taps into the magical Weave and can feel that psionic power has no connection to it, making them wary of Psions and their powers; some magic wielders may be interested in those quite rare beings, while others may just be uncomfortable around them or even resent them, thinking they are an aberration to the world as they know it.
Psionic power is fueled by the mind, conscious or unconscious, by thoughts or emotions, but as for the quetion of where it really comes from, there is no right or definite answer: some say from an outer plane of existence, as the Astral Plane or the Far Realm, others that a psion mind is its own Weave, others from a underlying collective will of all Psions themselves, past, present and future. It's up to the DM choosing something that merges and fits well with how he imagined and shaped his world; letting the source of psionic power be an unsolved mistery is also a solid option.
Psions abilities include (but are not limited to) telekinesis, telepathy, mind reading and even space-time manipulation is not outside of their scope.

Eccentric Ones

Psions are always a careless thought away from harming those around them, since the line between intention and reality is thin for them. This greatly impacts their personality, especially who is gifted since childhood, and how they live. They either keep their thoughts and emotion in check, almost suppressed, resulting in odd and distant behaviors while developing weird wonts and habits to help them keep control, or they live in a world of their own, letting their emotion and thus their power run amok, autentic, wild and free.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d6 per Psion level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per psion level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor.
• Weapons: Simple weapons.

• Saving Throws: Constitution
• Skills: Choose two from History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, or Religion.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a quarterstaff or (b) a dagger
• (a) leather armor
• (a) a scholar's pack or (b) an explorer's pack

Inner Psi Points

Starting at 1st level, you gain access to Psi Points used to fuel psionic Powers. You have a number of Inner Psi Points as detailed in the class table, and regain all spent points after completing a long rest. They represent a pool of inner psionic energy you have left (you can imagine them a bit as ki points of the mind). Whenever you are using psi points, both Inner and Outer (see Psi Accumulation at 5th lv), either by unleashing a Power or other features, you can't use at once more psi points than your Psi Limit, also detailed in the class table. For example, at level 4, you can spend at most 3 psi points on a psionic Power, Augments included.

Disciplines →Powers →Manifestations

Psionics Powers are categorized into 6 main branches (a bit like the 8 schools of magic), called Disciplines.

The 6 Disciplines are: Discipline of the Awakened, Discipline of the Egoist, Discipline of the ElementalBound, Discipline of the Enlightened, Discipline of the Nomad and Discipline of the Shaper.
All who awaken to Psionics are granted access to the general Discipline of the Awakened. At 1st lv you learn one Power of your choice from the Awakened list. You learn one more from such list at 3rd, 7th, 12th and 17th, as detailed in the class table. Each Power can manifest itself in a few ways, called Manifestations. You use a Manifestation as and when dictated in its description. So when saying you unleash a Power, it means you are using one of its Manifestations, perhaps with Augments.

Psionic Powers are suppressed by anti-magic field and can be dispelled with dispel magic, but counterspell has no effect on them. Any check required to dispel magic an effect from a psionic source is made at disadvantage unless the caster also has the Psionics feature. The spell detect magic will detect the usage of psionics, but not their nature - it will show up as a mysterious untyped power. Generally speaking, psionic powers are considered magical for the purposes of interactions with other features.

Unleashing Powers

Once you know a Power, you can unleash any of its Manifestations by consuming the required psi points only from your Inner Psi Points pool. You can also increase the effect by using Augments of its Manifestation. The total cost of Manifestation + Augments must stay within Psi Limit. Some Augments require Inner Psi points but most can be fueled by either Inner or Outer.

Depending on your chosen Archetype you have a different Unleashing ability score, either INT, WIS or CHA. From now on this ability score is named Source. When you use Powers to make attacks or forcing saving throws, the following are used:

Ardent

An Ardent psionics power comes mainly from feelings. Ardents are very straightforward when speaking to others, why lie or beat around the bush when you can feel others emotions and make them feel yours too?
An Ardent Psion'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.
An Ardent's life is often colorful and difficult to frame.

on a success, you can roll one additional die of the same damage or healing (if more than on type of dice is used, add the highest one). If you fail, you gain one level of Exhaustion instead.
The Rapture's DC resets when you complete a long rest.

Archery

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

Defense

While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Dueling

When you are wielding a melee w eapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

Great Weapon Fighting

When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

Protection

When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

This feature is quite powerful to make up for the low hp level (1d6 + 1 = 1d8) this build has despite aiming to be a tank, a sort of psionic paladin (battlemind if you're familiar with older editions). Before lv 6 the compensation was the further COS modifier to hp from the Body over Mind.

Wise Master

At 1st level when you select this Archetype, your senses of what it seems and what it is sharpen. You gain proficiency in the Insight and Perception skills, or if you are already proficient your prociciency bonus is doubled for making any ability check that uses the chosen skills.

Psi Source

At 1st level when you select this Archetype, Wisdom becomes your Source ability score. You also gain proficiency on Wisdom saving throws.

Moreover, you gain access to more Disciplines: choose between Discipline of the Enlightened or Discipline of the Nomad. Your choice becomes your main Discipline and you learn one Power of your choice from it. You can learn one more when reaching level 5th, 9th and 15th.
At 2nd level you master the other Discipline you did not choose before, which becomes your secondary Discipline: choose and learn one Power from it. Choose again at 8th and 13th level. You may refer to table at page 7.

Breadth of Knowledge

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to extend your knowledge. When you finish a long rest, you gain two proficiencies of your choice: two tools, two skills, or one of each. You can replace one or both of these selections with languages. This benefit lasts until you finish a long rest.

Memory of One Thousand Steps

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to use psionics to recall your steps. As a reaction when you are hit by an attack, you can burn your focus to teleport to an unoccupied space that you occupied since the start of your last turn, and the attack misses you.

Psionic Investigation

Starting at 6th level, you can focus your mind to read the psionic imprint left on an object. If you hold an object and concentrate on it for 10 minutes (as if concentrating on a psionic Power), you learn a few basic facts about it. You gain a mental image from the object’s point of view, showing the last creature to hold the object within the past 24 hours. You also learn of any events that have occurred within 20 feet of the object within the past hour. The events you perceive unfold from the object’s perspective. You see and hear such events as if you were there, but can’t use other senses. Additionally, you can embed an intangible psionic sensor within the object. For the next 24 hours, you can use an action to learn the object’s location relative to you (its distance and direction) and to look at the object’s surroundings from its point of view as if you were there. This perception lasts until the start of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Quick Meditation

At 6th level you need less time to replenish your reservoir of psionic energy. Once per long rest, while you are short resting you can enter a state of trance for half the duration of the short rest, to restore Inner Psi points equal to half you Mystic level, rounded up.

Expert Psion

At 8th level your mind powers becomes more insidious. Enemies cannot have advantage on INT/WIS/CHA saving throws made against your Powers.

Mind Master

At 1st level when you select this Archetype, your mental capacity enhances your reasoning. You gain proficiency in the Investigation and Nature skills, or if you are already proficient your prociciency bonus is doubled for making any ability check that uses the chosen skills.

Psi Source

At 1st level when you select this Archetype, Intelligence becomes your Source ability score. You also gain proficiency on Intelligence saving throws. Moreover, you gain access to more Disciplines: choose any Discipline aside from the Awakened one. Your choice becomes your main Discipline and you learn one Power of your choice from it. You can learn one more when reaching level 5th, 9th and 15th.
Also choose a Power from any Discipline aside from your primary one: you can select and learn it. Choose again at 2nd, 6th, 8th and 13th level.

Psionic Surge

At 3rd level you can focus to make your powers stronger. When unleashing a Power, you can burn your focus to give disadvantage to one creature on saving throws made against it.

Psion Mastery

At 6th level your mastery of psionic energy allows you to push your mind beyond its normal limits. As a bonus action, you gain maximum Outer Psi points and for one minute you can use Outer Psi points as if they were Inner. Moreover during this minute you can keep multiple concentrations from Powers unleashed using only Outer Psi points, as long as you are not keeping other concentrations. You make saving throws for them separately.
You can use this feature once per long rest. At level 13th and 17th you gain one additional use per long rest.

Potent Psion

At 8th level you learn to infuse more energy in your basic powers. When unleashing a Power with basic cost (before Augments) of 1 or less psi points, add your INT modifier to its damage rolls.

Discipline of the Awakened

Discipline of the Egoist

Discipline of the ElementalBound

Discipline of the Enlightened

Discipline of the Nomad

Discipline of the Shaper

Astral Manifestation

Awakened Power

Focus: When you summon creatures or contructs, you gain temp hp equal to your psion level.

+Spectral Weaponry (6 psi): As part of the same action you create a set of animated weapons, up to 10. You can control them all together in the same way as the armor. For their stats, properties and attacks refer to the Animated Objects spell, Small Objects.

Counter Power

• Cost 3+ Inner psi
• Unleash Time: 1 Reaction, when target unleash a Power
• Range: 60 feet
• Duration: Instantaneous

When a creature you see in range is unleashing a Power, if it has spent less or equal than this manifestation psi base cost (prior to Augments), the Power fails and has no effect. If it was unleashed with more, make an ability check using your Source modifier with DC equal to 10 + psi points spent. On a success the creature's Power fails and has no effect.

+Accustomed (2 Inner psi): No concentration required

+Extended (2 Inner psi): Duration becomes concentration up to 8 hours.

+Empowered (1+ psi): For each psi spent add 1d8 to the initial damage roll.

Art Credits:

• Cover Image: Lanaya - Dota 2, Valve
• 3 Psions - Nerdarchy
• Floating Blade - Wizards of the Coast
• Xenoshyft - Jeff Yu
• Disciple of the Ring - Magic the Gathering, Wizards of the Coast
• Battlemind Minotaur - Wizard of the Coast
• Oracle - Paizo
• Psychic - Paizo
• Psycic Dagger Thrower - Paizo
• Spiritualist - Paizo
• Syncopate - Magic the Gathering, Wizards of the Coast
• Emma Frost - Aleksi Briclot
• Path of Light (crystal) - Wizards of the Coast
• ShardLady - NaturalCrit
• Chandra - Magic the Gathering - Wizards of the Coast

Credits

This document was created through GM Binder.
In particular since i s**k at markdown i used as template for the whole thing, retaining also most of the images (with the great blending effects too), the Psion v1.2.2 made by KibblesTasty, check it out, maybe you'll find it better than this attempt of mine.
Aside from coding, i also took some ideas from KiblesTasty's version, but still the main structure was the UA with the final version of the Mystic.
Must-to mention also to Yet Another Guide to Psionics, which i have taken some hints and the initial flavour text from.

Thank you all for reading 'till here!