Structured Mind
Those with the Structured Mind modality realize that finding and synchronizing with concordant patterns in the multiverse is a path to allow perfection of the self, thus harmonizing the external and internal rhythms. These patterns come in many forms but on the prime material plane they usually manifest as a lattice structure, or some form of crystals and gems. Structured minds like to meditate on these lattice structures to focus while manifesting psionic effects, since some crystals and gems have the proper lattice structures to mirror the psion’s mental energies, but also to store and amplify said energies.
Structured Minds often fill their days with contemplation and meditation, though they also spend time seeking out kindred spirits. They love to tell others about the lifechanging solutions that crystals provide. Some actually end up listening.
Charlatans deck themselves in cheap crystals to dupe unwitting masses out of food or water. Those frauds do not last long once a true Structured Mind picks up their trail, and then the crystals find a genuine owner.
Structured Mind Features
Psion Level | Feature |
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2nd | Sync Crystal, Crystalline Focus |
6th | Harmonic Discipline |
14th | Multifaceted |
18th | Mind Lattice |
Your affinity for crystals and gems leads you to seek out or teach yourself how to prepare and set crystals for use. You gain proficiency with jeweler’s tools.
Level 2: Sync Crystal
You may spend a short rest syncing with a crystal focus.4 Syncing with a crystal focus functions similarly to attunement, though it does not use attunement slots. At 6th level, you may sync with a second crystal focus, and at 18th level, you may sync with a third.
Choose one of the following benefits for each crystal focus with which you are synced.
- You gain +1 to psionic attacks
- you gain +1 to your psionic save DC.
- You gain a number of power points equal to your proficiency bonus.
When you complete a long rest, you may change the benefit you receive for each synced crystal.
Level 2: Crystalline Focus
You may use your synced crystal focus to provide better access to your psionic effects.
For each crystal focus to which you are synced, you may use your bonus action to utilize one of the features from your psionic disciplines that would otherwise cost your action. You are still limited to only focusing on one psionic effect at a time. Once you use a crystal focus for this ability, you cannot use that crystal again until you finish a short rest.
Level 6: Harmonic Discipline
Beginning at 6th level, you can harmonize with another effect from one of your psionic disciplines. When you complete a long rest while meditating with a synced crystal focus, you can choose one such effect that costs 1 action and prepare it as a reaction that triggers in response to a specific condition you set, communicated to the GM. Examples of triggers might be:
- When I am attacked, then...
- When I am damaged, then...
- When I manifest a psionic effect, then...
- When an ally falls to 0 hit points, then...
Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
Level 14: Multifaceted
At 14th level, as you continue molding your mind into the perfect conductor of mental energy, gaining a greater understanding of how to interact with the world.
You gain a bonus equal to your total number of synced crystal focuses to any ability check you make that doesn’t already include your proficiency bonus.
Level 18: Mind Lattice
Starting at 18th level, you have crafted the perfect mental structure for your power and logic—woe to any who would seek to lay it low! You gain the following abilities:
- Once per turn, you add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll you make with a psionic effect.
- If you fail a saving throw, you may sacrifice the sync with one of your crystal focuses to reroll the saving throw. (You may resync with the crystal focus later.)
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