Battle Mind

The Battle Mind turns their psionic potential into the ultimate weapon. The Battle Mind combines physical prowess with mental energy to become a devastating warrior. Using telekinetics, pyrokinetics, and biokinetics, the Battle Mind employs psionics with the subtlety of an assassin or the hard-hitting power of an explosive force. Whether forging weapons from psionic energy or mentally manipulating physical objects, calling forth fire from their mind or unleashing a bolt of mental energy, the Battle Mind is never at a loss for an offensive strategy.

Select this advanced class if you want your character to master the psionic art of mental combat.

Psychic Boomerang

Beginning at 3rd level, you can use your powers to throw a weapon and return it to your hand. As a bonus action, you can spend 1 psi point to have one one-handed melee weapon you are wielding gain the thrown property with a range of 30/120 until the end of your turn. Additionally, whenever you throw this weapon as part of an attack, it instantly returns to your hand as part of the same attack.

Psychic Shield

Starting at 7th level, you have resistance to psychic damage. Additionally, when you take damage, you can use your reaction to expend up to 4 psi points. Roll a number of psionics die equal to the number of points expended, and reduce the damage by that total.

Battle Psionics

Beginning at 7th level, when you use your action to Attack, you can expend 2 psi points to cast a battle mind cantrip with a casting time of one action as a bonus action.

Empowered Psionic Strike

At 10th level, your ability to empower your attacks with psionic energy improves. When you use your psionic strike, you may spend up to 3 psi points to roll an additional number of psionics dice equal to the number of psi points expended, and add the total to the force damage dealt.

Additionally, when a creature is hit by your Psionic Strike or they take damage from one of your battle mind cantrips, they must make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, you can choose to move them up to 10 feet away from you or knock them prone

Extra Attack

Starting at 10th level, you can attack three times rather than twice, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Mental Backlash

Starting at 14th level, when you use your Psychic Shield feature to reduce the damage of an attack by a creature, you deal psychic damage to the creature equal to half the total rolled.

Soul Strike

At 18th level, when you deal damage to a target through your psionic strike attack or a battle mind cantrip, you can force the target to make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC or be stunned for 1 minute. The target can repeat this save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Once you have used this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Combat Focus

Beginning at 18th level, you have advantage on Constitution saving throws to maintain your concentration.

Telepath

The Telepath manifests mental powers associated with touching other minds, moving objects with a thought, and influencing the thoughts of others. These powers represent a different use for the energy produced by the mind and body of all living things. For the Telepath, mental powers take the form of thoughts made real. Through meditation and strict mental discipline, they find a deep reservoir of power within themself — power that can be tapped to turn a thought into a strong defense or a deadly weapon.

Select this advanced class if you want your character to master the psionic art of mental contact.

ESP

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to probe other creatures’ minds. You can cast detect thoughts once using this ability. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Whenever you cast detect thoughts, whether using this ability, your Psionics feature, or from some other ability, it has the following modifications:

• It does not require concentration.
• The benefits that require you to use an action instead require the use of a bonus action.
• If you use the option to probe deeper and the target fails its Wisdom saving throw, it is vulnerable to psychic damage you inflict until the end of your next turn.

Mental Assault

You are skilled at using your powers to open up a psychic highway between you and your target.

Beginning at 7th level, when you succeed on a spell attack roll against a creature or a creature fails its saving throw against one of your spells, you can spend a psi point to have that creature gain vulnerability to either psychic damage or force damage until the end of your next turn.

Inner Focus

Starting at 7th level, you have learned to regain some of your mental energy by briefly clearing your mind. When you finish a short rest roll 1d10. You recover a number of psi points equal to the number rolled + your Intelligence modifier.

Psychokinesis

Starting at 10th level, you gain the ability to transform your thoughts into tangible force. You can cast telekinesis once using this ability. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Whenever you cast telekinesis, whether using this ability, your Psionics feature, or from some other ability, it has the following modifications:

• The spell does not require concentration.
• The benefits that require you to use an action instead require the use of a bonus action.
• The spell’s duration is 1 minute, and you cannot choose a new target after selecting your initial one. This restriction no longer applies once you reach 9th level.

Superior ESP

At 10th level, your proficiency with invading the minds of others grows. You gain the following additional benefits when you cast the spell:

• The spell now targets a number of creatures equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).
• If you use the option to probe deeper and the target fails its Wisdom saving throw, you can choose to charm or frighten it instead of making it vulnerable to psychic damage. It makes another Wisdom saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect you choose effect with a successful save. the effect also ends immediately if it takes damage from you or your allies.

Power Surge

Beginning at 15th level, you are capable of straining your mind and body past their limits when in dire straights. On your turn, you can spend 2 psi points to enter a surge as a bonus action.

While surging, you gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Intelligence checks and Intelligence saving throws.
• When you make a spell attack roll, you can spend a psi point to gain advantage on that roll.
• When a creature makes a saving throw against one of your spells, you can spend a psi point to impose disadvantage on that roll.
• You add your Intelligence modifier to any damage you deal with your psion cantrips.
• You have a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

Additionally, at the end of each of your turns, you consume one psi point maintaining your empowered state.

Your surge lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if you run out of psi points. If your surge ends because you run out of psi points, you suffer one level of exhaustion. You can also end your surge as a bonus action.

Improved Telikinesis

At 18th level, you master the full potential of your mind to project physical force into the world. When you cast telekinesis and each time you select a new target for the spell, you can instead choose a number of targets up to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of one).

Second Nature

Starting at 18th level, you have become so accustomed to your powers that using them requires almost no effort at all.

Choose 4 spells you know of 3rd-level or lower. The psi point cost for casting those spells is each reduced by 2.

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