URBAN ARCANA

PSIONICS - NEW POWER DESCRIPTIONS

Biofeedback

Strength

Level: Battle Mind 1

Display: Material, Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: 1 minute/level (D)

Power Point Cost: 1

You can constrict bleeding around wounds, lessening their impact. You take a portion of any attack that deals damage as points of nonlethal damage, equal to your Strength modifier. Thus, a character with a Strength score of 15 who is dealt 10 points of damage actually takes 8 points of lethal damage and 2 points of nonlethal damage. This power is not retroactive to damage received prior to manifesting biofeedback. The total damage is still used to determine the effects of massive damage.

Bite of the Tiger

Strength

Level: Battle Mind 3

Display: Material, Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: 1 hour/level

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: No

Power Point Cost: 5

Your posture becomes stooped forward, and you grow a tigerlike muzzle complete with rending fangs. The power grants you a bite attack (which does not draw an attack of opportunity) with 2d8 points of slashing damage. You can use this power in conjunction with feats, powers, or spells allowing additional attacks in one round, and it can be used with multiple attacks gained through level advancement.

Call Weaponry

Dexterity [Teleportation]

Level: Telepath 1/Psionic Agent 1

Display: Audible, Material

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Touch

Effect: 1 unattended weapon (see text)

Duration: 1 hour/level (see text) (D)

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: No

Power Point Cost: 1 (see text)

You call a weapon “from thin air” into your waiting hand (actually, it is a real weapon hailing from some other random location) as a free action. You don’t have to see or know of a weapon to call it—in fact, you can’t ever call a specific weapon. You just specify the type. If the specified weapon type is one you can call at your level, it appears. If you call a projectile weapon, it comes loaded with a clip, box, or chamber of ammunition, as appropriate (the ammunition does not have an enhancement bonus, even at 10th level and above). If you relinquish your grip on the weapon you called for 2 or more rounds, it automatically returns to wherever it originally came from.

As your level increases, you can summon better weapons, although the power point cost is also greater.

Weapons gained by call weaponry are distinctive due to the low hum they emit.

Catapsi

Charisma [Mind-Affecting]

Level: Telepath 5

Display: Mental, Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Medium 100 feet.

Area: 100-ft.-radius emanation centered on you

Duration: 1 minute/level

Saving Throw: Will negates (see text)

Power Resistance: Yes

Power Point Cost: 9

With catapsi [kat-ah-sigh], you generate psychic static, making it more difficult for other psionic characters to manifest their powers (you are not affected by your own catapsi manifestation). All psionic activity within the area requires twice as many power points to manifest, unless opponents make a successful Will save each time they manifest a power. Freely manifesting 0-level powers takes 1 full round, instead of 1 action, in a catapsi field. If two or more fields of catapsi overlap, one field cancels out the other (determine randomly).

Catapsi affects psionic abilities that require power points only, and have no effect on magical abilities or natural psionics abilities.

Chameleon

Strength

Level: Telepath 2

Display: Olfactory

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: 10 minutes/level (D)

Power Point Cost: 3

Your skin and equipment take on the color and texture of nearby objects, including floors and walls. You receive a +10 enhancement bonus on Hide checks.

Charm Creature

Telepathy (Cha) [Compulsion, Mind-Affecting]

Level: Telepath 3

Display: Mental

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)

Target: One living creature

Duration: 1 day/level

Saving Throw: Will negates

Power Resistance: Yes

Power Point Cost: 5

As charm person, except that the power is not restricted by creature type or size, and you need not speak the creature’s language.

Conceal Thoughts

Charisma

Level: Telepath 1

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)

Target: One living creature

Duration: 1 hour/level

Saving Throw: Yes (harmless)

Power Resistance: Yes (harmless)

Power Point Cost: 1

You protect your thoughts from analysis. While the duration lasts, you gain a +20 circumstance bonus on Bluff checks against those attempting to discern your true intentions with Sense Motive. You also gain a +4 bonus on your saving throw against any power used to read your mind (such as detect thoughts or mind probe).

Detect Poison

Wisdom

Level: Psionic Agent 0

Display: Olfactory

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)

Target: One creature, one object, or a 5-foot cube

Duration: Instantaneous

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: No

Power Point Cost: 1

You determine whether a creature, object, or area has been poisoned or is poisonous. You can determine the exact type of poison with a successful Wisdom check (DC 20). A character with the Craft (chemical) skill may additionally try an Craft (chemical) check, DC 20.

Note: The power can penetrate barriers, but 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt blocks it.

Dimension Door

Dexterity [Teleportation]

Level: Psionic Agent 4

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)

Target: You and touched objects or other touched willing creatures (see text)

Duration: Instantaneous

Power Point Cost: 7

You instantly transfer yourself from your current location to any other spot within range. You always arrive at exactly the spot desired—whether by simply visualizing the area or by stating direction, such as “900 feet straight downward,” or “upward to the northwest, 45-degree angle, 1,200 feet.” You can bring along up to 500 pounds of nonliving matter or 250 pounds of living matter. After using this power, you can’t take any other actions until your next turn.

If you arrive in a place that is already occupied by a solid body, the power does not function.

Dimension Slide

Dexterity

Level: Psionic Agent 3

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)

Target: You (see text)

Duration: Instantaneous

Power Point Cost: 5

You instantly transfer yourself from your current location to any other spot within range that you can see directly. You arrive at exactly the spot desired, if you can see it. You cannot dimension slide through solid objects; even a curtain blocks you. You cannot bring along more than your medium load carrying capacity, nor can you bring along any living matter that weighs more than 20 pounds. After using this power, you can’t take any other actions until your next turn.

If you somehow attempt to transfer yourself to a location occupied by a solid body (perhaps your perceptions are being controlled by a telepath), the power simply fails to function.

Electronic Fog

Constitution

Level: Telepath 2

Display: None

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Area: 5-ft.-radius/level

Duration: 1 minute/level

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: No

Power Point Cost: 3

An intensified version of white noise, this bubble of low-level electromagnetic radiation is still below the detection level of most humans but will jam electronic communication devices, including those that rely upon cables or other hard-wired transmissions, including televisions, video cameras, and monitors. It will also cause photographic film to fog and magnetic tape to blur. It does not cause electronic devices to malfunction, only to report scrambled signals and white noise.

Fate of One

Wisdom

Level: Telepath 4

Display: Mental, Visual

Manifestation Time: See text

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: Instantaneous

Power Point Cost: 7

Your limited omniscience allows you to reroll a saving throw, attack roll, or skill check, and use the better of the two rolls for your result.

You can manifest this power instantly, quickly enough to gain its benefits in a clutch situation. Manifesting the power is a free action, like manifesting a quickened power, and it counts toward the normal limit of one quickened power per round.

Feather Fall

Dexterity

Level: Psionic Agent 1

Display: Audible

Manifestation Time: See text

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)

Targets: Any free-falling objects or creatures in a 10-ft. radius whose weight does not total more than 300 lb./level

Duration: Until landing or 1 round/level

Saving Throw: Will negates (object)

Power Resistance: Yes (object)

Power Point Cost: 1

The targeted creatures or objects affected fall slowly. The rate of fall is instantly changed to a mere 60 feet per round (equivalent to the end of a fall from a few feet), with no damage incurred upon landing while the power is in effect. However, when the duration expires, a normal rate of fall occurs.

You can manifest this power instantly, quickly enough to save yourself if you unexpectedly fall. Manifesting the power is a free action, like manifesting a quickened power, and it counts toward the normal limit of one quickened power per round.

This power has no special effect on ranged weapons unless they are falling quite a distance. If manifested on a falling item, the item does half normal damage based on weight (1d6 per 400 pounds) with no bonus for the height of the drop.

The power works only upon free-falling objects. It does not affect a sword blow or a charging or flying creature.

Fly

Dexterity

Level: Psionic Agent 3

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Touch

Target: Creature touched

Duration: 10 minutes/level

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: Yes (harmless)

Power Point Cost: 5

The power’s subject can fly at a speed of 90 feet (60 feet if the creature wears medium or heavy armor). The subject can fly up at half speed and descend at double speed. The flying subject’s maneuverability is good. Using the fly power requires as much concentration as walking, so the subject can attack or manifest powers normally. The subject of fly can charge but not run, and it cannot carry aloft more weight than its maximum load, plus any armor it wears.

Should the duration expire while the subject is still aloft, the psionic effect fails slowly. The subject drops 60 feet per round for 1d6 rounds. If it reaches the ground in this time, it is safe. If not, it falls the rest of the distance (falling damage is 1d6 per 10 feet of fall). Since negating a power effectively ends it, the subject falls immediately if fly is negated.

Freedom of Movement

Dexterity

Level: Psionic Agent 4

Display: Audible

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal or touch

Target: You or creature touched

Duration: 10 minutes/level

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: No or Yes (harmless)

Power Point Cost: 7

This power enables you or the creature you touch to move and attack normally for the duration of the power, even under the influence of psionics that usually impedes movement. The power also allows a character to move and attack normally while underwater, even with cutting weapons such as axes and swords and with smashing weapons such as flails, hammers, and maces, provided that the weapon is wielded in the hand rather than hurled. The power does not, however, allow water breathing without further appropriate psionic adaptation.

Ghost Shot

Dexterity

Level: Psionic Agent 4

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)

Target: One firearm

Duration: 1 minute/level

Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless, object)

Power Resistance: Yes (harmless, object)

Power Point Cost: 7

This power makes bullets intangible to nonliving material, negating cover, equipment, and shield bonuses to the target. It affects all bullets in the magazine for the duration of the spell, or until they are expended.

Identify

Wisdom

Level: Psionic Agent 1

Display: Material, Mental

Manifestation Time: 8 hours

Range: Touch

Target: Up to 1 touched object per leve

Duration: Instantaneous

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: No

Power Point Cost: 1

This power determines the single most basic function of a psionic item, including how to activate that function (if appropriate), and how many charges are left (if any). In campaigns where psionics and magical energies are similar, magical properties may be identified.

If a psionic item has multiple different functions that are equally basic, identify determines the lowest-level function. If these functions are also of equal level, the DM decides randomly which is identified.

Immovability

Strength

Level: Psionic Agent 4

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: 1 hour/level (D)

Power Point Cost: 7

You are almost impossible to move. Your weight does not vary; instead, you mentally attach yourself to the underlying fabric of reality. Thus, you could conceivably anchor yourself in midair. You oppose any attempt to move you by a Strength check modified by a bonus equal to three times your manifester level. Once immovable, you can’t move to a new location unless you first dismiss the power or its duration expires.

While you are immovable, you lose all Dexterity bonuses to Defense. Neither can you attack or make any other movement. However, your anchored body gains DR 10/+3.

Improved Biofeedback

Strength

Level: Battle Mind 3

Display: Material, Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: 1 hour/level (D)

Power Point Cost: 5

As biofeedback, except you take a portion of each damaging attack as nonlethal damage equal to twice your Strength modifier, and the duration is extended.

Inertial Barrier

Constitution

Level: Telepath 4

Display: Audible, Mental

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Touch

Target: Creature touched

Duration: 10 minutes/level or until discharged

Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless)

Power Resistance: Yes

Power Point Cost: 7

You create a psychokinetic barrier around the subject that resists blows, cuts, stabs, and slashes, as well as providing some protection against falling. The subject gains DR 10/—. Once the power has prevented a total of 10 points of damage per manifester level (maximum 150 points), it is discharged. Inertial barrier also absorbs up to half the damage from a fall. Damage absorbed from a fall counts toward discharging the effect. The psychokinetic barrier delays the effects of gases in the atmosphere for 2d4 rounds.

Instant Reload

Dexterity

Level: Psionic Agent 3

Display: Audible, Material

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Touch

Target: One ranged weapon with ammunition

Duration: 1 hour/level

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: No

Power Point Cost: 5

You can reload your weapon as an attack action, calling the ammunition from another location in the same manner as call weaponry. The ammunition and its location must be designated at the time the spell is case, but it may be any distance away.

Any amount may designated, but only one type of ammunition (as far as caliber is concerned) may be used per manifestation.

When activated, the power automatically reloads the clip, chamber, or action of the weapon with the full number of shots that it can hold.

Invisibility Purge

Wisdom

Level: Psionic Agent 3

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: 1 minute/level (D)

Power Point Cost: 5

You surround yourself with a sphere of power with a radius of 5 feet per manifester level that negates all forms of nvisibility.

Anything invisible becomes visible while in the area.

Knock

Dexterity

Level: Telepath 2

Display: Material

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)

Target: One door, box, or chest with an area of up to 10 sq. ft./level

Duration: Instantaneous (see text)

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: No

Power Point Cost: 3

The knock power opens stuck, barred, locked, or mechanically or electronically sealed doors, as well at those with hidden mechanisms. It also loosens welds, shackles, or chains (provided they serve to hold closures shut). In all other cases, the door does not relock itself or becomes stuck again on its own. Knock does not raise barred gates or similar impediments, nor does it affect ropes, vines, and the like. Note that the effect is limited by the area. Each power can undo up to two means of preventing egress through a portal.

Lesser Natural Armor

Strength

Level: Battle Mind 0

Display: Material, Olefactory

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: 1 minute

Power Point Cost: 1

Your skin grows thick ridges, providing a +1 natural armor bonus to your Defense. Unlike mundane armor, natural armor entails no armor penalty or speed reduction.

Mindwipe

Charisma

Level: Telepath 4

Display: Audible, Material, Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)

Target: One living creature

Duration: Instantaneous

Saving Throw: Fortitude negates

Power Resistance: Yes

Power Point Cost: 7

You partially wipe your victim’s mind of past experiences, bestowing one negative level per two manifester levels (maximum five negative levels).

If the subject has at least as many negative levels as HD, he dies. Each negative level gives a creature the following penalties: –1 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, ability checks, and effective level (for determining the power, duration, DC, and other details of power, spells, or special abilities). The creature also loses 5 hit points. Additionally, a psionic character or creature loses one power from her highest available level (spellcaster loses one spell or spell slot from her highest available level). Negative levels stack. Assuming the subject survives, he regains lost levels after a number of hours equal to your manifester level. Usually, negative levels have a chance of permanently draining the subject’s levels, but the negative levels from mindwipe don’t last long enough to do so.

Painful Touch

Strength

Level: Battle Mind 2

Display: Material, Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: 1 round/level (D)

Power Point Cost: 3

Your unarmed attacks cause additional pain. When you make a successful unarmed attack that deals damage (or in conjunction with any bite or claw powers), you deal an additional 1d6 points of nonlethal damage to the target. The total amount of damage dealt is used to determine the effects of massive damage.

Prowess

Wisdom

Level: Psionic Agent 3

Display: Mental

Manifestation Time: See text

Range: Personal

Target: You

Power Point Cost: 5

If an enemy provokes an attack of opportunity, you can take it, even if you’ve already taken your allotted number of attacks of opportunity this round (usually one). You may not make two attacks of opportunity against the same target in one round even if using this power, unless the target provokes two separate attacks.

You can manifest this power instantly, quickly enough to gain an extra attack of opportunity in the same round. Manifesting the power is a free action, like manifesting a quickened power, and it counts toward the normal limit of one quickened power per round.

Short Sharp Shock

Constitution

Level: Battle Mind 4

Display: Visual, Olfactory

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Touch

Target: One object or creature

Duration: Instantaneous

Saving Throw: Fortitude half

Power Resistance: No

Power Point Cost: 7

You channel a burst of electromagnetic radiation into a target object or creature. The shock delivers 2d10 points of nonlethal damage. More importantly, this power destroys electronic devices, fries motherboards, erases electronic data such as hard disks, and fogs chemical media such as photographic film (but not final prints) on a successful manifester level check (DC 15). Shielded or otherwise protected electronics may require higher DCs.

Signal Feed

Charisma [Mind-Affecting]

Level: Telepath 5

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Close (25 ft. +5 ft./2 levels)

Target: One communication device

Duration: 1 round/level

Saving Throw: Will negates

Power Resistance: Yes

Power Point Cost: 9

You can create false images or sounds on an electronic device. The spell affects those that are watching or listening the device at the time of the power’s manifestation— those who arrive later or make their saving throw see or hear the what is really there. Recordings of the signal feed will show distortion, as well as the “real” image. Other powers may not be used through a signal feed.

Spider Climb

Dexterity

Level: Telepath 1

Display: Material

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Touch

Target: Creature touched

Duration: 10 minutes/level

Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless)

Power Resistance: Yes (harmless)

Power Point Cost: 1

The subject can climb and travel on vertical surfaces or even traverse ceilings as well as a spider does. The affected creature must have bare hands and feet to climb in this manner. The subject climbs at half its speed. A creature with a Strength score of at least 20 +1 per manifester level can pull the subject off a wall.

Steadfast Perception

Wisdom

Level: Psionic Agent 4

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: 1 hour/level (D)

Power Point Cost: 7

Your gaze suffers no distractions, granting you a +4 enhancement bonus on your saving throw to resist all illusory effects. Moreover, your Search and Spot skills receive a +2 enhancement bonus while this power remains in effect.

Telempathic Projection

Charisma [Mind-Affecting]

Level: Telepath 0

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)

Area: One living creature

Duration: 1 minute/level

Saving Throw: Will negates

Power Resistance: Yes

Power Point Cost: 1

You can alter the subject’s mood. An affected creature feels the new emotion, but telempathic projection cannot radically change its emotional state. Instead, you adjust its emotions by one step. For instance, an unfriendly creature might be made indifferent, or a hostile creature simply unfriendly. You can grant up to a +1 bonus on your own (or others’) attempts at Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, and Perform actions with affected creatures, assuming you adjust the subject’s emotions in the proper direction (you could also cause a –1 penalty on similar interactions, if you so choose).

Ubiquitous Vision

Wisdom

Level: Psionic Agent 3

Display: Visual

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Target: You

Duration: 2 rounds/level (D)

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: No

Power Point Cost: 5

You have “eyes in the back of your head,” and in the sides and top as well (though only in effect, not literally). In effect, you have a 360-degree sphere of sight, allowing you perfect view of creatures that might otherwise flank you. Thus, flanking opponents gain no bonus on their attack rolls, and you do not lose your bonus to Dexterity unless you are caught flat-footed.

Your Spot checks gain a +3 enhancement bonus, and your Search checks gain a +1 enhancement bonus. Concurrently, you suffer a –4 enhancement penalty on saves against all gaze attacks and visual attacks during the power’s duration.

White Noise

Constitution

Level: Battle Mind 1, Telepath 1

Display: None

Manifestation Time: Attack action

Range: Personal

Area: 5-ft.- radius/level

Duration: 1 minute/level

Saving Throw: None

Power Resistance: No

Power Point Cost: 1

You surround yourself with a bubble of low-level electromagnetic radiation, not enough to be detected by normal individuals but sufficient to defeat most electronic transmissions (like cell phones, radio broadcasts, and television signals). Hardwired effects such as cable TV or telephones, or self-contained devices such as video cameras are unaffected by this power. Those using the affected devices get scrambled signals and white noise, and are aware that they are being jammed.

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