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The Complete Psionics Handbook (5e)

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A simple, straightforward, playable psionics framework for 5th Edition using the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide. This includes the Mystic (Psionicist or Psion), the Psychic Warrior (Immortal), Soul Knife, Wild Talents, Psicrystals, Psychic Contests, a revised and optional power list usiing discipline structure from past editions and much more. The psionic classes use the Sorcerer, Eldritch Knight, Paladin, Arcane Trickster and Monk as class/subclass templates.

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John S October 27, 2023 3:11 am UTC

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7200 downloads. Plus check out my new Psionicist 2e conversion to 5e!

John S June 19, 2020 7:39 pm UTC

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5500 downloads.

Dallas C July 14, 2019 2:51 am UTC

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Not only does this break the game, It is completely shattering as one of my players said while we read over it and had a chuckle. The exact quote is "Sledge hammer in a china shop, slow motion camera kind of shattering."

The rules beyond lvl 10 are completely unplayable. It is twice or more by 15 and 5-7x more powerful then any other class.

This has not been play tested obviously.

John S July 20, 2019 6:58 pm UTC

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Hi Dallas.

Thanks for the feedback. Could you be more specific about what in your opinion makes this subclass(es) overpowered? For the Mystic, its just a divine soul with some very minor modifications to certain class features. Most are taken verbatim from the appropriate level of other sorcerer subclasses. All spells are simply re-writing existing spells and the use of spell points is straight from the DMG.

Unless you think that the Divine Soul Sorcerer is overpowered or the Sorcerer in general, I find it hard to know exactly what you are referring to. The essential purpose of these classes was to provide options for players to play psionic characters within the existing framework of the game by simply renaming existing spells and class features so DMs would allow these classes at their tables.

Also, many of the options acknowledge that they would be overpowered such as combining spell points and sorcerer points.

In spite of this I would appreciate your feedback...See more

John S April 26, 2019 8:20 pm UTC

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Over 3000 downloads!

John S December 01, 2018 4:16 am UTC

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Here is an example character:

Juri is a NG Human (Variant, Int, Cha)
Psionicist (Sorcerer), level 1

Str 11(0), Dex 12(+1), Con 12 (+1), Int 19(+4), Wis 12(+1), Cha 14 (+2).

Psionic DC/ability (Int).
Feat: Wild Talents (Magic Initiate, Int).
Background: Acolyte

Personality: Misquotes from religious text often with cryptic meanings. This also serves as a 'beacon' for sect members.
Ideal: Aspiration. To become great and maintain the approval of his guru.
Bond: His guru
Flaw: Naiviety. Blind devotion to his guru.

Devotions (cantrips)
Friends, Guidance, Mindlink (Message), Mind Thrust (Vicious) mockery), Minor Telekinesis (Mage Hand), and Psychic Grasp (variant of Shocking Grasp, 1d6 psychic damage)

Sciences (Spells):
Ego Whip (Bane), Charm Person, Feather Fall, and Command.

Psionic Strength Points, PSPs, (Spell points): 4.

Equipment:
Dagger, religious...See more tome (forbidden), priestly vestments, holy symbol, prayer beads.
Lang: Common, ancient common.

Juri is 22 years old and was born in the home of a family friend with connections to one the world's main religions/philosophies. He was abandoned by his parents, for unknown reasons, and raised with his 3 siblings by his adoptive family. He lived a modest life in a medium sized town (ask your DM for a suggestion that fits with the campaign) and had an otherwise regular childhood, with a strong connection to a local temple (ask your DM to suggest a deity/philosophy that would work for his or her campaign). Juri's innate and unknown psionic potential led him to be recruited by a secretive fringe group within the religion/philosophy is shunned and/or persecuted. This led Juri to have a tramatic fall out with his adoptive father when he began his mentorship with his guru (allow your DM to create an NPC if appropriate). Juri's father and others were very mistrustful of this priest and thought many of his/her ideas were borderline blasphemous, and secretly wondered about his connection to the sect. Juri mainly served as a sub-priest during services at the temple, when not studying attentively under his guru. Through his guru, Juri acquired a forbidden version of the religion's official cannon (religious book, DC16 Religion(Int) Check to identify, otherwise appears normal). It's a cherished item for Juri. If found in possession of this item, he would likely be excommunicated and possibly executed/killed. Yuri trained for a couple years under his guru using various contemplate disciplines including meditation and lucid dreaming. Yuri's sect believes that the sacred texts contain instructions to develop powerful psychic abilities but very few members of the sect actually develop any. After some time, Yuri's guru suggested that a type of mental surgery, using hypnosis and shared lucid dreaming, may help to awaken the psionic potential within him. Yuri remembers nothing of the procedure and was passed out for 3 days. It took him months to fully recover and has never been the same since that day. The procedure granted him new abilities (e.g. The Wild Talents Feat), specifically, he learned to send and receive thoughts to another person (Mind Link), to assault the mind of another (Mind Thrust) and to subtly influence others (Charm Person). Yuri used these powers as the psionic foundation to learn aother abilities until his mentor/guru suddenly went missing. Suspicions about his guru's activities caused Yuri to take a leave 'to visit family' from the temple before too many questions were asked. Currently, Juri is in good standing with the Temple but it's hard to know how long it will last. He believes his sect is the true path of his religion/philosophy. He desperately wants to find out what happened to his guru and will take risks to do so. He won't return to his home temple but will visit affiliated temples to seek assistance from sect members.

Both his brothers are merchants, one successful, the other not and his sister (possible NPC) is a warlock (infernal pact) and now an adventurer which is unknown to him. The last thing he knew was that his sister was sent to the main temple for some training. He is on friendly terms with all of his siblings.

dwayne B August 25, 2018 4:16 pm UTC

I think to be honest that psionics should have paths under other classes to let those use the power with the abilities of said class. This being said a pure psionics class is also needed with paths under it but not like the mystic. Think like a wizard with schools. The Mind path (telepath, mediums, seerers, paths under it be devotions, the kinetic path, the cryo, pyro, etc as devotions under it. The devotion would just narrow the focus of the path, such as only fire damage for the pyro or abilities of foresight for the seer. this is just a rough idea and needs further refinement, but i hate the mystic having it all under the one class.

Jon K May 28, 2018 3:57 pm UTC

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I mean this constructively, but it may sound mean because I'm using a strong word like "pointless". Psionics for D & D that don't consist primarily of UNIQUE powers is pointless, merely a reshuffling of the already existing magical spell lists. It adds nothing to the game, and provides no reason not to just play a magical caster.

John S July 12, 2018 9:14 pm UTC

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Thanks for the feedback Jon. I am curious which edition have you played most before 5e? For me it was 2nd and when I look at the powers there and to the extent I have reviewed the powers for 3/3.5rd and 4th edition it seems like most of the powers are repeats of spells from other classes. This appears especially true for most of the classic psionic powers, such mass fly, levitate, Polymorph, domination, suggestion, teleportation spells, clairvoyance spells etc. This becomes more so the case given that most people do not play above 12th level.

What unique powers were you looking for?

Thanks again.

Trevor S October 28, 2018 11:08 pm UTC

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Of course!

Why didn't the team just open the Psionics Handbook from 3.5 and update it to 5e rules?

Was that just, too difficult to do? You did it for the rest of the game system!

John S January 09, 2018 5:16 pm UTC

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What do any of you think of these classes?