Wondrous Inner Power

Whether through years of practice, or a once in a generation innate talent, Psions learn to manipulate the world with the wondrous power of their minds. Drawing upon the mystical power within, they can communicate without speaking, move objects, alter their physical bodies, and even manifest spells. Relying solely on mastery of their mind, Psions can perform feats thought impossible, even by the most erudite Wizards and devout Clerics. For Psions, it is a point of great pride that they can produce wonders without the help of external power.

Due to their potential, Psions are often misunderstood and feared by the common folk. If they don’t learn to control their power, their strange abilities can cause them to be shunned and hated by those around them. Most Psions reveal their power only when necessary, and are hesitant to trust others.

Master & Apprentice

If they are lucky, potential Psions are discovered by a master and taken away from their home to hone their psionic power in seclusion. No matter their philosophy on life, every Psion holds it as their sacred duty to one day take on an apprentice with the psionic gift and teach them to control their power, passing on everything they themselves have learned.

A Psion's master and how they are trained has great effect on the nature of their abilities. For some, their gift is honed through years of practice and meditation. Others are trained to use their mystic abilities to morph their bodies into deadly weapons. And for the rare few who are never discovered by a master, or attempt to stifle their power, they risk outbursts of
    wild psionic energy that can have devastating effects.

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
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Religion

Equipment

As a Psion, you start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• leather armor and a quarterstaff
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) a sling
• (a) two daggers or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a scholar’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack

Quick Build

You can make a Psion quickly by using these suggestions: First, make Intelligence your highest ability score, followed by Dexterity. Second, choose the Hermit background. Third, choose the message and mind thrust cantrips, along with the
    1st-level spells command and dissonant whispers.

Awakening

Psionic ability, though it always comes from within, awakens in a mind depending on training, or lack thereof. At 1st level, choose the Awakening to best represent your Psion: Empath, Enlightened, Immortal, Outsider, Visionary, or Wilder.

Your Awakening grants you features at 1st level, and again when you reach 3rd, 6th, 14th, and 18th level.

Psionics

Starting from 1st level, the psionic power you have awakened within your psyche allows you to manifest mystical spells.

Though your magic is fueled by your psionic power, your spells count as spellcasting for the purposes of features and spells like detect magic, counterspell, and antimagic field.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know two Psion Cantrips of your choice. You learn an additional Psion Cantrip at 4th level and 10th level, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Psion table.

Psi Points

Your innate psionic power is represented by a special pool of Psi Points. The Psion table shows the number of Psi Points you have at each level. To manifest one of the Psion spells you know, you must expend a number of Psi Points equal to the level of the spell (0 for Cantrips), and you regain all expended Psi Points each time you finish a short or long rest.

For example, a 3rd level Psion could manifest the detect thoughts spell at 2nd-level by expending 2 Psi Points.

Mental Limit

Your Psion level limits the potency of spells you can manifest with your psionics. This limit is reflected in the Mental Limit column of the Psion Table. When a Psion feature allows you to expend Psi Points, you can never expend more Psi Points than it costs to manifest a spell of your Mental Limit level.

Spells Known of 1st-level and Higher

At 1st level, know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the Psion spell list at the end of this class. The Spells Known column of the Psion table shows when you learn more Psion spells of your choice. Each spell you learn must be of a level equal to your Mental Limit or lower. For instance, when you reach 3rd level, you learn one Psion spell of 1st or 2nd-level.

When you gain a Psion level, you can replace one Psion spell you know with another Psion spell of your choice.

Awakening Spells

Each Awakening has a list of spells that you learn at certain Psion levels, as noted in your Awakening description. These Awakening Spells count as Psion spells for you. They do not count against your total number of Spells Known, and you can't switch your Awakening spells when you gain a level.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your Psion spells. You use Intelligence when a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. You also use your Intelligence modifier when you set the saving throw DC or make an attack roll for a Psion spell.

Psion: Expanded Spell List

If your table adds spells from other sources, like Fizban's Treasury of Dragons or other third party books, the Psion can learn any enchantment spell available to the Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard, any spell that deals psychic or force damage, or other thematic spells at the discretion of your DM.

Enlightened Potential

1st-level Enlightened Awakening feature
You have honed your wondrous psionic
gift through rigorous training, unlocking
the full potential of your mind. You unlock
a Mystic Talent of your choice from the list
at the end of this class description.

When you gain the Mystic Talent feature at
2nd level, this additional Talent does not count
against your total number of Talents Known. It can
be replaced as normal when you gain a Psion level.

Enlightened Spells

1st-level Enlightened Awakening feature
You learn new spells at the Psion levels noted in the table
below. They count as Psion spells for you, but they do not count against your total number of Psion Spells Known,
and they cannot be replaced when you gain a Psion level.

Mystical Precision

3rd-level Enlightened Awakening feature
Through intense dedication and practice, you have learned to utilize your psionic power in subtle ways, unnoticeable to the untrained eye. Whenever you manifest a Psion spell, you can expend 1 additional Psi Point to manifest it without providing the spell's somatic or verbal components, or manifesting any of the normal outward signs of your Psionics.

Focused Psionics

6th-level Enlightened Awakening feature
Your dedication and training have enhanced the potency of your psionic ability. Whenever you deal damage with a Psion spell or Mystic Talent, you can add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) to one damage roll, if you do not already.

Telekinetic Flight

14th-level Enlightened Awakening feature
The psionic power of your mind has suffused every fiber of your physical form, allowing you to subvert the very laws of nature. You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed, and while flying in this way you can hover in place.

While you use this flight, the air around you shimmers with ambient psionic power, and rocks, dirt, and other small loose
    objects rise from the ground to float around you.

Immortal Spells

1st-level Immortal Awakening feature
You learn certain spells at the Psion levels in the table below. They become Psion spells, but don't count against your total of Spells Known and can't be replaced when you gain a level.

Esoteric Skill

1st-level Immortal Awakening feature
You can adapt and enhance your physical
abilities with your psionic power. You gain
proficiency in Acrobatics, Athletics, Perception,
Sleight of Hand, or Stealth. Over the course of 1
hour, which can be during a short or long rest, you can
meditate to replace this skill with another from this list.

When you make an ability check with any skill from the list above, you can expend 1 Psi Point and add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) to the result of your ability check.

Immortal Training

1st-level Immortal Awakening feature
Unlike most Psions, you have honed both body and mind for combat. You gain proficiency with martial weapons, medium armor, and shields. Moreover, you can use Psionics when you are wearing medium armor or when wielding a shield.

Additionally, your hit point maximum increases by 1, and increases by 1 again each time you gain a Psion level.

Immortal Will

3rd-level Immortal Awakening feature
You have unlocked the signature power of an Immortal which allows you to survive blows that would slay a normal mortal. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can expend 1 Psi Point and fall to 1 hit point instead.

Each subsequent time that you use this feature before you complete a long rest you must expend 1 additional Psi Point. For example, the second time you use this ability between a long rest it would cost 2 Psi Points. You cannot exceed your Mental Limit with this feature.

Extra Attack

6th-level Immortal Awakening feature
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, if you use your action
to manifest a Psion spell or Mystic Talent, you can make a
    single weapon attack as a bonus action on that turn.

Phase Walk

14th-level Immortal Awakening feature
You can psionically phase through solid objects. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 Psi Point to enter an ethereal state which lasts until the end of your current turn.

While in this ethereal state, you can move through solid objects and creatures as if they were difficult terrain. If you end your movement inside an object, you are shunted to the nearest unoccupied space, and take 1d10 force damage for every 5 feet you were forced to travel.

Eternal Will

18th-level Immortal Awakening feature
Your wondrous psionic powers have made you exceedingly hard to kill. If you begin your turn with less than half of your hit points remaining, but at least 1 hit point, you regain hit
                                         points to your Intelligence modifier.

Outsider

Your psionic power may not have been unlocked of your own volition. Outsiders are those whose mind has been twisted by incomprehensible alien powers. Some were touched by the strange light of the Far Realm. Others are the results of cruel experiments of aberration from other worlds. Whatever their origin, Outsider Psions can wield the overwhelming psionic power of aberrations, often at the cost of their own sanity.

Visionary

Visionaries control their wondrous power by projecting it into the world, creating semi-solid objects of psionic force. Unlike other Psions who can manipulate the world by thought alone, Visionaries must imagine physical objects to affect the world.

Wilder

By far the most volatile Psions, Wilders are those who never truly learn to control the wondrous power of their mind. They often discover their psionic abilities unexpectedly as a result of a traumatic event or violently manifest their mystic power after years of attempting to contain it. Wilders are as erratic as they are powerful and rarely have psionic masters. By the time these uncontrolled abilities develop, it is often too late to gain control of the torrent of psionic power within them.

Mental Torrent

14th-level Wilder Awakening feature
The chaotic whirlwind of power within your mind hinders the thoughts of those near you. When you force a creature within 15 feet to make an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw to resist the effects of a Psion spell, Psion feature, or a Mystic Talent, it has disadvantage on its initial roll.

At 18th level, this feature affects creatures within 30 feet.

Controlled Surge

14th-level Wilder Awakening feature
You have some limited control over your inner psionic ability. Whenever you trigger a Psionic Surge, you roll twice on the Psionic Surge table and choose which effect takes place.

In addition, when you use Psionic Eruption, only creatures of your choice must make the Intelligence saving throw.

Mystic Talents

Below are the Mystic Talents available to a Psion. If a Talent has a prerequisite, like your Psion level or another Talent, you can learn it at the same time you meet the prerequisites.

If you learn a new Cantrip or spell through a Mystic Talent, it doesn't count against your total number of Cantrips Known or Spells Known. But, if you already know the spell, you learn another Psion Cantrip or spell of the same level in its place.

Precognition I

You cannot be surprised unless you are unconscious, asleep, or incapacitated, and you gain a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

Precognition II

Prerequisite: 5th-level Psion, Precognition I
When you are hit by an attack that you can see,
you can use your reaction to add 1d4 to your
Armor Class against that attack.

Precognition III

Prerequisite: 11th-level Psion, Precognition I, II
As a bonus action, you can enter a heightened precognitive state which you must concentrate on as if concentrating on a spell. For the duration, whenever you make an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, you gain a 1d4 bonus to the roll.

Precognition IV

Prerequisite: 16th-level Psion, Precognition I, II, III
You have unlocked the full power of your Precognition Talent. When you roll initiative you can use a reaction to take a turn before any other creature acts. This turn can only be used to take one action, one bonus action, or move up to your speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

Finally, while you are in your heightened precognitive state you gain an additional reaction that you can take each round, but you can only use one of your reactions per each trigger.

Restoration I

You have a Restoration Pool of healing power that can heal
a number of hit points equal to five times your Psion level. As an action, you can touch a creature and channel power from the pool to restore a number of hit points up to the maximum amount left in your pool. You can't heal undead or constructs. Your Restoration Pool replenishes at the end of a long rest.

                  Restoration II

                          Prerequisite: 5th-level Psion, Restoration I
                            As an action, you can touch a creature and
                             expend 5 points from your Restoration Pool
                               to end the following conditions: blinded,
                                 charmed, deafened, frightened, paralyzed,
                                         poisoned, or stunned. You can end
                                              multiple conditions with a touch,
                                                  expending 5 points for each.

                                                         You can use your other
                                                     Restoration Talent powers as
                                                     part of one touch, expending
                                                     points for each of the effects.

Restoration III

Prerequisite: 11th-level Psion,
Restoration I and Restoration II
As an action, you can touch a creature
that has died within the last minute and
expend 10 points from your Restoration
Pool to bring it back to life with 1 hit point.
This ability has no effect on creatures that
die of old age or natural causes.

You can use the other powers of your
Restoration Talent as part of the same touch
by spending points for each individual effect.

Restoration IV

Prerequisite: 16th-level Psion, Restoration I, II, III
You have unlocked the full power of Restoration. As
an action, you can use your Restoration Talent powers
on any one creature that you can see within 120 feet.

You can also end the effects here with 10 points from
your Restoration Pool: petrified, one level of exhaustion,
or reduction to an ability score or hit point maximum.