Psion Disciplines

Clairsentience

A psion who chooses clairsentience is known as a seer. Seers can learn precognitive powers to aid their comrades in combat, as well as powers that permit them to gather information in many different ways.

Discipline Talents (Ps)

Choose two powers from the following list: call to mind, destiny dissonance, know direction and location, or offensive precognition.
As long as you maintain psionic focus, you may manifest either of your chosen powers without paying a power point cost, but the power may not be augmented or affected by metapsionic feats. The competence bonus from call to mind is reduced to +2, the duration of destiny dissonance is one round per two psion levels, and the duration of offensive precognition is 1 round per psion level.

Recovered Information (Su)

At 2nd level, as long as you maintain psionic focus, when someone successfully saves against a Clairsentience power you’ve manifested, you learn about a single psionic effect currently in effect (if any) on the target. Each subsequent successful save against a Clairsentience power you manifest transfers information about another psionic effect currently in effect (if any) on the target. If there are no psionic powers in effect on the target that you do not already know, then you learn information about a single psionic item the creature currently possesses, as if you had identified the item. This effect does not give any information on artifacts. The number of psionic effects or items you learn about per save increases by one every four psion levels thereafter.

Alter the Waves (Su)

At 8th level, each day when you meditate to regain your power points, you gain a +3 insight bonus that can be used on any one die roll. Every two psion levels thereafter, this ability may be used one additional time per day and the insight bonus is increased by 1.

Seeing the Connections (Su)

At 14th level, once per day, you can automatically identify all properties of a magic item, magic aura, or identify a spell or power in effect. In addition, if you are being scryed upon, you can expend your daily use of this power as an immediate action to disrupt the scrying attempt and instead scry on the originator of the effect using the same effect as that which targeted you. You need not pay any power point cost for this ability, although the originator can make a save to block the attempt (same DC as the original scrying attempt). This ability does not work on artifacts.

Perpetual Foresight (Su)

At 20th, your ability to foresee the different possibilities has suffused you. Anytime you roll a d20, you may expend your psionic focus as an immediate action to roll a second time. To choose the result of the second roll, you must pay the unmodified die roll in power points.

Insight

Associated Discipline: Clairsentience
Replacement Ability: The following discipline abilities replace the recovered information and alter the waves abilities of the clairsentience discipline.
Insightful Steps (Su): Starting at 2nd level, as long as you maintain focus, your insight allows you to know just where to step to keep your footing, allowing you to ignore difficult terrain. You may expend your psionic focus as an immediate action to grant this ability to an ally within 30 ft. for a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier. Only one person, including you, can benefit from this ability at a time. At 6th level and every four psion levels thereafter, one additional creature may be affected by this ability at a time (2 at 6th, 3 at 10th, and so on).
Alter Probability (Su): At 8th level, once per day as an immediate action, you may expend your psionic focus to give an enemy false insight, forcing one enemy within Medium range (100 ft. + 10 ft./lvl.) to reroll a single dice roll. The target must take the worse of the two rolls. Every two psion levels thereafter, this ability may be used one additional time per day. A successful Will save negates this effect (DC 10 + 1/2 class level + Int modifier).

Generalist

A psion who chooses to remain more general in his studies of psionics is known as a generalist. While he does not gain the unique abilities each discipline grants to the specialized psions, he is able to broaden his powers and blend them in unique ways.

Discipline Talents (Ps)

Choose three powers from the following list: call to mind, catfall, create sound, far hand, hammer, and telepathic lash.
As long as you maintain psionic focus, you may manifest either of your chosen powers without paying a power point cost, but the power may not be augmented or affected by metapsionic feats. The competence bonus from call to mind is reduced to +2, the effect of catfall only treats your fall as 20 ft. shorter than it is, the duration of create sound is one round per two psion levels (minimum 1 round), and the damage of hammer is reduced to 1d4.

Bonus Feat

At 2nd level and every five psion levels thereafter, you gain a bonus feat. You must choose a metapsionic feat, an item creation feat, or Expanded Knowledge. You must still meet all prerequisites for the bonus feat, including minimum manifester level requirements. These bonus feats are in addition to the feats that a character of any class gets from advancing levels. You are not limited to the categories of item creation feats, metapsionic feats, or Expanded Knowledge when choosing those feats.

Breach Power Resistance (Su)

At 8th level, anytime you manifest a power, you may expend your psionic focus to add your Intelligence modifier on any check to overcome power resistance. This bonus increases by 1 every two psion levels thereafter.

Double Manifest (Ex)

At 14th level, once per day, you may manifest two powers with a single action, but the combined power point cost cannot exceed your manifester level and the two powers must be of different disciplines. The two powers must have the same manifesting time and if they have a target, the targets for the powers may be different.

Expanded Mind (Ex)

At 20th level, each day when you meditate to regain power points, you may choose any one power from any class power list and add it to your powers known for the day. This power does not count against your number of powers known.

Erudite

Associated Discipline: Generalist
Replacement Ability: The following discipline abilities replace the discipline talents and bonus feat abilities of the generalist discipline.
Discipline Talents (Ps): When you meditate to regain your power points for the day, choose two powers from the following list: call to mind, catfall, create sound, far hand, hammer, and telepathic lash. As long as you maintain psionic focus, you may manifest either of your chosen powers without paying a power point cost, but the power may not be augmented or affected by metapsionic feats. The competence bonus from call to mind is reduced to +2, the effect of catfall only treats your fall as 20 ft. shorter than it is, the duration of create sound is one round per two psion levels (minimum 1 round), and the damage of hammer is reduced to 1d4.
This ability replaces the Discipline Talents normally gained by a generalist psion.
Daily Powers: At 2nd level, each day, you may choose one power from the Psion/Wilder list that is not on your list of powers known and manifest that power as if it was. You must have manifested the power from a power stone at some point prior to choosing it as a daily power and the power’s level may not exceed your maximum power level. You may decide which power to manifest at the time of manifesting. Once this choice has been made, it cannot be changed until you have meditated to regain your daily power points after resting. At 7th level and every five psion levels thereafter, you may choose one additional power per day to treat as if a power known (2 at 7th level, 3 at 12th level, 4 at 17th level). These Powers are in addition to your normal powers known.
This ability replaces the Bonus Feat normally gained by a generalist psion and the powers known gained at each level a daily power is gained, as displayed on the table below.

Level	Special	Powers Known
1st	Bonus feat, Detect Psionics, discipline, discipline talents	3
2nd	Daily power	3
3rd	-	5
4th	-	7
5th	Bonus feat	9
6th	-	11
7th	Daily power	11
8th	Discipline ability	13
9th	-	15
10th	Bonus feat	17
11th	-	18
12th	Daily power	18
13th	-	19
14th	Discipline ability	21
15th	Bonus feat	22
16th	-	24
17th	Daily power	24
18th	-	26
19th	-	27
20th	Bonus feat, discipline ability	29

Metacreativity

A psion specializing in metacreativity is known as a shaper. This discipline includes powers that draw ectoplasm from the Astral Plane, creating semisolid and solid items such as armor, weapons, or animated constructs to do battle at the shaper’s command.

Discipline Talents (Ps)

Choose two powers from the following list: create sound, crystal shard, ectoplasmic creation, and entangling ectoplasm.
As long as you maintain psionic focus, you may manifest either of your chosen powers without paying a power point cost, but the power may not be augmented or affected by metapsionic feats. The duration of create sound and entangling ectoplasm is one round per two psion levels (minimum 1 round), while ectoplasmic creation lasts one hour. The damage of crystal shard is reduced to 1d3.

Summoner’s Call (Ex)

At 2nd level, if you maintain focus when manifesting a power of the creation subdiscipline, the duration is increased by 1 round plus 1 round for every four psion levels. In addition, your astral constructs gain an additional menu option of the highest menu available when you manifest the power.

Ectoplasmic Protection (Su)

At 8th level, you can gain an ectoplasmic coating over your form, granting you concealment for one round per psion level, usable once per day and an additional time per day every four psion levels thereafter.

Maestro of Ectoplasm (Su)

At 14th level, once per day as a standard action, you can take raw ectoplasm and use it in a myriad of ways. You can choose to coat up to 50 square feet (in 10 foot squares) in a slick, as the ectoplasmic sheen power (DC 10 + half psion level + Intelligence modifier), or create a up to 7 levels in astral constructs, divided at your discretion (a 5th-level construct and a 2nd-level construct, a single 7th-level construct, seven 1st-level constructs, etc.), create a volume of matter as if manifesting major ectoplasmic creation, or repair a damaged astral construct for up to 30 hit points plus 1 hit point per psion level.

Astral Ally (Su)

At 20th level, you can change the duration of an astral construct power to permanent. You can have no more than one astral construct power made permanent in this way at one time. If you designate another astral construct power as permanent, the previous power immediately ends.

Constructor

Associated Discipline: Metacreativity
Replacement Abilities: The following discipline abilities replace the Ectoplasmic Protection and Maestro of Ectoplasm abilities of the metacreativity discipline.
Improved Constructs: At 8th level, you gain your choice of the Advanced Construct or Boost Construct feat as a bonus feat. If you already have one of the feats, you gain the other instead. If you already possess both feats, you gain a bonus psionic feat of your choice. You must meet any applicable prerequisites to select the feat.
Maestro of Constructs: At 14th level, once per day as a standard action, you can choose to create up to half your psion level in astral constructs, divided at your discretion (For example, for a 14th level constructor, a 5th-level construct and a 2nd-level construct, a single 7th-level construct, seven 1st-level constructs, etc.), repair a damaged astral construct for up to 30 hit points plus 1 hit point per psion level, or summon two astral swarms (see above) plus one astral swarm for each three levels beyond 14th, to a maximum of 4 at 20th level.

Psychokinesis

Psions who specialize in psychokinesis are known as kineticists. They are the masters of powers that manipulate and transform matter and energy. Kineticists can attack with devastating blasts of energy. Unlike other psions, when a kineticist selects any power that specifies the character must select from cold, electricity, fire, or sonic damage, he gains the option to choose the type of damage at the time the power is manifested.

Discipline Talents (Ps)

Choose two powers from the following list: energy ray, far hand, force screen, or my light.
As long as you maintain psionic focus, you may manifest either of your chosen powers without paying a power point cost, but the power may not be augmented or affected by metapsionic feats. The damage of energy ray is reduced to 1d3, the shield bonus of force screen is reduced to +2, and the duration of my light is reduced to 1 round/level.

Telekinetic Hurl (Su)

At 2nd level, as long as you maintain psionic focus, you gain the ability to telekinetically hurl objects of up to 5 lbs. as a ranged attack at an enemy within 30 ft. Such attacks deal 1d4 points of damage due to the force exerted. This damage increases by 1d4 points of damage for every four psion levels thereafter.

Kinetic Aura (Su)

At 8th level, you gain a +1 deflection bonus to AC. This bonus increases by +1 every three levels thereafter.

Energetic Recharge (Su)

At 14th level, once per day, you can expend psionic focus as an immediate action when you would take damage from cold, electricity, fire, force, or sonic damage to convert the damage into power points, at a rate of 1 power point per 5 damage. You suffer none of the converted damage, but may not gain more than your manifester level in power points. For example, if a 14th level kineticist suffers 80 points of cold damage, he may expend his psionic focus to convert up to 70 points of that damage into 14 power points. He takes the remaining 10 points of cold damage as normal.

Energy Immunity (Su)

At 20th level, when you gain psionic focus, you gain immunity to either cold, electricity, fire, force, or sonic, at your choice. You may change this immunity by gaining psionic focus again, and need not maintain psionic focus to maintain the immunity.

Unseen Hand

Associated Discipline: Psychokinesis
Replacement Abilities: The following discipline abilities replace the energetic recharge and energy immunity abilities of the psychokinesis discipline.
Telekinetic Burst (Su): At 14th level, once per day, you can expend your psionic focus as a standard action to hurl all creatures within 30 feet of you back to the edge of the burst effect, knocking them to the ground, prone. A successful Reflex save (DC 10 + half psion level + your Intelligence modifier) negates the knock back effect, but creatures within the effect are still knocked prone.
Permanent Telekinesis (Su): At 20th level, as long as you maintain psionic focus, you can use telekinetic force or telekinetic maneuver at will, but you must still pay any power point cost to augment the manifestation.

Psychometabolism

A psion who specializes in psychometabolism is known as an egoist. This discipline consists of powers that alter the psion’s psychobiology, or that of creatures near him. An egoist can both heal and transform himself into a fearsome fighter.

Discipline Talents (Ps)

Choose two powers from the following list: hammer, synesthete, thicken skin, and vigor.
As long as you maintain psionic focus, you may manifest either of your chosen powers without paying a power point cost, but the power may not be augmented or affected by metapsionic feats. Add half your psion levels to the temporary hit points gained from vigor. Synesthete, thicken skin, and vigor last for a number of rounds equal to your psion level. The damage of hammer is reduced to 1d4 (rounds?).

Metabolic Healing (Su)

At 2nd level, as long as you maintain psionic focus, you gain fast healing 1 when you manifest any psychometabolism power on yourself. This fast healing lasts for a number of rounds equal to the level of the power manifested. The fast healing increases by 1 for every four psion levels thereafter.

Shared Effect (Su)

At 8th level, any time you manifest a psychometabolism power with a range of personal, you may pay an additional 4 power points to have it affect two additional creatures touched. These additional power points count as an augment for the power and the manifestation is still limited by the normal manifester level cap. A power augmented in this fashion can affect an additional creature every four psion levels thereafter. The fission power may not be shared in this fashion.

Resilient Body (Su)

At 14th level, once per day as an immediate action, you may negate a critical hit that would have hit you, and instead receive normal damage.

Infused Form (Su)

At 20th level, you gain DR 5/- and are treated as always under the effect of adapt body.

Transmogrifist

Associated Discipline: Psychometabolism
Replacement Ability: The following discipline abilities replace the shared effect and infused form abilities of the psychometabolism discipline.
Empowered Alteration (Su): Starting at 8th level, you can expend your psionic focus anytime you manifest a power of the psychometabolism discipline that has a range of Personal and a Target of you to have all numeric effects of the power increased by 50%. For example, when manifesting animal affinity, you could expend your psionic focus to gain a +6 enhancement bonus to Strength instead of +4. Powers modified in this fashion cannot also be altered by effects such as Empower Power.
Infused Body (Su): At 20th level, anytime you manifest one of the metamorphosis powers, you heal a number of hit points equal to the number of power points spent on the manifestation. In addition, your body has become so adept at changing form that you become virtually indestructible. As long as some portion of your body still exists, you will return to life as if affected by resurrection one week after dying, although you gain three permanent negative levels instead of only one.

Psychoportation

A psion who relies on psychoportation powers is known as a nomad. Nomads can wield powers that propel or displace objects in space or time.

Discipline Talents (Ps)

Choose two powers from the following list: burst, catfall, decelerate, detect teleportation.
As long as you maintain psionic focus, you may manifest either of your chosen powers without paying a power point cost, but the power may not be augmented or affected by metapsionic feats. In addition, the effect of catfall only treats your fall as 20 ft. shorter than it is, and decelerate only reduces the target’s movement speed by 5 feet.

Nomad’s Step (Su)

At 2nd level, as long as you maintain psionic focus, as a standard action you may teleport to a location up to 15 feet away. You must have line of sight to the location and you can bring along possessions that amount to as much as a medium load. The distance increases by 5 feet every psion level thereafter.

Inconstant Position (Su)

At 8th level, once per day as an immediate action when someone attacks you, you can force them to suffer a 50% miss chance. This ability can be used an additional time per day every two psion levels thereafter.

Accelerated Activity (Su)

At 14th level, once per day as a swift action, you may gain 1 extra round of actions usable in the same round.

Rapid Movement (Ex)

At 20th level, you gain an additional move action each round, but it may only be used for either the move, stand up, or mount/dismount a steed move actions.

Jaunting

Associated Discipline: Psychoportation
Replacement Ability: The following discipline abilities replace the accelerated activity and rapid movement abilities of the psychoportation discipline.
Evacuate (Su): At 14th level, once per day, you can teleport anywhere within line of sight as an immediate action. You can bring along up to your Intelligence modifier in creatures touching you.
Far Strider (Su): At 20th level, you can use your nomad’s step ability as a free action. You cannot use this ability if you have already taken a 5 ft. step this round, and using this ability counts as using your 5 ft. step.

Telepathy

A psion who chooses the discipline of telepathy is known as a telepath. He is the master of powers that allow mental contact and control of other sentient creatures. A telepath can deceive or destroy the minds of his enemies with ease.

Discipline Talents (Ps)

Choose two powers from the following list: conceal thoughts, mind link, mind thrust, telepathic lash.
As long as you maintain psionic focus, you may manifest either of your chosen powers without paying a power point cost, but the power may not be augmented or affected by metapsionic feats. The damage of mind thrust is reduced to 1d6. You may only use conceal thoughts on yourself if used as one of your discipline talents.

Mental Intrusion (Ex)

At 2nd level, as long as you maintain psionic focus, increase the save DC of any mind-affecting power you manifest by 1 for every 2 power points you spend augmenting the power, provided the augmentation does not already increase the power’s save DC. For the purpose of this ability, you may spend additional power points augmenting a mind-affecting power’s save DC even on a power that normally does not have any augment options.

Telepathy (Su)

At 8th level, you gain telepathy out to 400 ft. and can communicate with any creature, regardless of intelligence, so long as they have an Intelligence of 1 or higher. The range of your telepathy increases by 10 ft. every psion level thereafter.
Additionally, as long as you maintain psionic focus, you can detect other creatures within 30 ft. using telepathy to communicate, although you cannot determine the content of the communication.

Last Respite (Su)

At 14th level, once per day, if you are about to suffer damage that would result in your death, as an immediate action, you can shunt your mind into the body of a creature within 30 ft., effectively granting you the benefits of mind switch (Will save negates DC 10 + half psion level + Intelligence modifier) and your original body is left stable, but its hit point total is left one point of damage away from death. This ability lasts a number of rounds equal to your psion level. You must secure a permanent body for your mind, either by healing your original body, through the use of a power such as true mind switch, or some other means to permanently inhabit a body, by the end of the effect’s duration or die. This is considered a mind-affecting effect. You can take this action even if you are unconscious. This ability cannot be used against effects that outright kill or that deal ability damage, only against effects that deal hit point damage.

Guarded Thoughts (Su)

At 20th level, you gain increased protection from mind-affecting effects, granting you a +10 bonus on saves against mind-affecting effects.

Mindbender

Associated Discipline: Telepathy
Replacement Abilities: The following discipline abilities replace the mental intrusion and last respite abilities of the telepathy discipline.
Impose Will: At 2nd level, as long as you maintain psionic focus you treat your psion level as 1 higher when manifesting Charm or Compulsion powers. In addition, you are treated as if affected by mind link with any creature currently charmed or dominated by you for the duration of the charm or domination effect.
Enthrall (Su): At 14th level, once per day, you can make one creature your thrall. A Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 psion level + key ability modifier) negates the effect. The affected creature will follow any instruction you give, including harming itself, although obviously self-destructive orders give the target an additional save each round it is under those orders. You may only have one thrall at any given time and the thrall gains a new save to negate the effect every 24 hours from the time it became your thrall. This is considered a mind-affecting, compulsion effect.

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