Psychic Warrior

Where the psion spends his days studying the intricacies of psionic power and unlocking the mysteries of the mind, others choose to use their internal power to augment their physical form. These psychic warriors use their psionic potential as a way to improve their natural abilities, becoming fierce and deadly in their chosen path.
Role: The psychic warrior’s path determines his strengths and weaknesses within a party. Whether he is the epitome of unleashing the beast within, or a stealthy combatant who strikes from the shadows, the psychic warrior’s primary focus is typically battlefield control and dealing or blocking damage.
Alignment: Any.
Hit Die: d8.
Starting Wealth: 5d6 × 10 (average 175 gp.) In addition, each character begins play with an outfit worth 10 gp or less.
Starting Age: Self-Taught (as fighter).

Class Skills

The psychic warrior’s class skills are Acrobatics (Dex), Autohypnosis (Wis), Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Knowledge (psionics) (Int), Perception (Wis), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), and Swim (Str).
Skill Ranks at each Level: 4 + Int modifier.

Table: Psychic Warrior

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Power Points/Day	Powers Known	Maximum Design Level Known
1st	+0	+2	+0	+0	Bonus feat, psionic proficiency, warrior’s path	1	1	1st
2nd	+1	+3	+0	+0	Bonus feat	2	2	1st
3rd	+2	+3	+1	+1	Expanded path	4	3	1st
4th	+3	+4	+1	+1	Path skill	6	4	2nd
5th	+3	+4	+1	+1	Bonus feat	8	5	2nd
6th	+4	+5	+2	+2	Martial power	12	6	2nd
7th	+5	+5	+2	+2	Path skill	16	7	3rd
8th	+6/+1	+6	+2	+2	Bonus feat	20	8	3rd
9th	+6/+1	+6	+3	+3	Secondary path (powers)	24	8	3rd
10th	+7/+2	+7	+3	+3	Path skill	28	10	4th
11th	+8/+3	+7	+3	+3	Bonus feat, secondary path (trance, maneuver	36	11	4th
12th	+9/+4	+8	+4	+4	Twisting path	44	12	4th
13th	+9/+4	+8	+4	+4	Path skill	52	13	5th
14th	+10/+5	+9	+4	+4	Bonus feat	60	14	5th
15th	+11/+6/+1	+9	+5	+5	Pathweaving(1/day)	68	15	5th
16th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+5	Path skill	80	16	6th
17th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+5	Bonus feat	92	17	6th
18th	+13/+8/+3	+11	+6	+6	Pathweaving(2/day)	104	18	6th
19th	+14/+9/+4	+11	+6	+6	Path skill	116	19	6th
20th	+15/+10/+5	+12	+6	+6	Bonus feat, eternal warrior	128	20	6th

Class Features

The following are class features of the psychic warrior.

Weapon and Armor Proficiencies

Psychic warriors are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, with all types of armor (heavy, medium, and light), and with shields (except tower shields).

Powers Points/Day

A psychic warrior’s ability to manifest powers is limited by the power points he has available. His base daily allotment of power points is given on Table: The Psychic Warrior. In addition, he receives bonus power points per day if he has a high Wisdom score (see Table: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Power Points in Psionics). His race may also provide bonus power points per day, as may certain feats and items.

Powers Known

A psychic warrior begins play knowing one psychic warrior power of your choice. Each time he achieves a new level, he unlocks the knowledge of a new power. Choose the powers known from the psychic warrior power list. (Exception: The feat Expanded Knowledge does allow a psychic warrior to learn powers from the lists of other classes.) A psychic warrior can manifest any power that has a power point cost equal to or lower than his manifester level. The total number of powers a psychic warrior can manifest in a day is limited only by his daily power points. A psychic warrior simply knows his powers; they are ingrained in his mind. He does not need to prepare them (in the way that some spellcasters prepare their spells), though he must get a good night’s sleep each day to regain all his spent power points. The Difficulty Class for saving throws against psychic warrior powers is 10 + the power’s level + the psychic warrior’s Wisdom modifier.

Maximum Power Level Known

A psychic warrior begins play with the ability to learn 1st-level powers. As he attains higher levels, he may gain the ability to master more complex powers.

Bonus Feats

At 1st level, a psychic warrior gets a bonus combat-oriented feat in addition to the feat that any 1st level character gets and the bonus feat granted to a human character. The psychic warrior gains an additional bonus feat at 2nd level and every three levels thereafter (5th, 8th, etc.). These bonus feats must be drawn from the feats noted as combat feats or psionic feats. The psychic warrior must still meet all prerequisites for the bonus feat, including ability score and base attack bonus minimums as well as class requirements (like levels in another specific class). These bonus feats are in addition to the feats that a character of any class gains every two levels. A psychic warrior is not limited to combat feats and psionic feats when choosing these other feats.

Psionic Proficiency (Ex)

A psychic warrior treats his base attack bonus as equal to his psychic warrior level for the purposes of requirements for psionic feats. Base attack bonuses granted from other classes are unaffected and are added normally.

Warrior’s Path (Ex)

At 1st level, a psychic warrior chooses a path to adhere to (listed at Warrior Paths). When first taking a path, the psychic warrior gains one of the two powers associated with that path. Powers gained from a path do not count against his number of powers known. When manifesting this power, called a path power, the psychic warrior can either choose to manifest it for no cost by expending his psionic focus, in which case it cannot be augmented, or he can choose to manifest it normally, in which case his effective manifester level for this power is treated as one higher than normal. At 3rd level, the psychic warrior gains the second power from his path. All of the above benefits apply to this additional path power.
In addition, the psychic warrior gains one additional class skill, as noted in the path description.

Expanded Path

At 3rd level, the psychic warrior expands his understanding of his chosen path. From this point on, he can use the Trance and Maneuver associated with his chosen path.

Path Skill

At 4th level, the psychic warrior gains a +2 bonus to one skill associated with a path he is on. Every three levels thereafter, he can choose to increase the bonus to one of his path skills by +2 (to a maximum of +6 for any one path skill). This may be a skill he has already chosen or a new skill associated with a path he is on.

Martial Power

At 6th level, if the psychic warrior makes an attack (but not a ranged touch attack), he can manifest one of his path powers as part of that attack action. The power takes effect immediately after the attack has been finished. Touch range powers are transmitted through the melee attack to the attacked target. You gain the benefits of the power on the attack made, even if the power is what grants the weapon to make the attack. You may only activate a path power in this fashion once per round.

Secondary Path (Ex)

At 9th level, the psychic warrior gets to choose a second warrior’s path. He chooses one of the path powers available from his new list. The psychic warrior may only have two path powers in total from a single given path. The psychic warrior treats the path skills of his secondary path as class skills and may select them when choosing a path skill.
At 11th level, the psychic warrior can choose to use the Trance and Maneuver from his second warrior’s path, but may only benefit from one Trance at a time.

Twisting Path (Ex)

At 12th level, as a swift action while maintaining psionic focus and using a Trance, the psychic warrior can change to the Trance of his other path.

Pathweaving (Su)

At 15th level, as long as the psychic warrior maintains psionic focus, once per day he can gain the benefits of both of his Trances for up to 5 minutes. Activating this ability is a free action. Every third level thereafter, the psychic warrior can use this ability an additional time per day.

Eternal Warrior (Su)

At 20th level, once per day as a free action, the psychic warrior can enter into a very powerful Trance. As long as he maintains psionic focus, for up to 5 minutes the psychic warrior adds his Wisdom modifier to his attack rolls, damage rolls, AC, skill checks, ability checks, saves, and initiative, and he increases his speed by +5 feet for every point of his Wisdom modifier. These benefits stack with those that might be granted by his active path’s Trance (or both paths, if using Pathweaving).

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Psionics Unleashed. Copyright 2010, Dreamscarred Press; Authors: Jeremy Smith and Andreas Rönnqvist.
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