The Mystic - Balanced

When the mystic class was released there was a general consensus that it was way too strong, so thisunofficial update to the mystic is here to let you add mystics to your campaign without making your DM or your party mad at you. This has been changed from the the Unearthed Arcana: The Mystic class I encourage you to look there.

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor
• Weapons: Simple weapons
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two skills from Arcana, History, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Religion

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a spear or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) leather armor or (b) studded leather armor
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a scholar’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack

Alternatively, you can ignore the equipment here and in your background, and buy 5d4 × 10 gp worth of equipment from chapter 5 in the Player’s Handbook.

Psionics

As a student of psionics, you can master and use psionic talents and disciplines, the rules for which appear at the end of this document. Psionics is a special form of magic use, distinct from spellcasting.

Mystic Order

At 1st level, you choose a Mystic Order: the Order of the Avatar, the Order of the Awakened, the Order of the Immortal, the Order of the Nomad, the Order of the Soul Knife, or the Order of the Wu Jen, each of which is detailed at the end of the class description. Each order specializes in a specific approach to psionics. Your order gives you features when you choose it at 1st level and additional features at 3rd, 6th, and 14th level.

Mystical Recovery

Starting at 2nd level, you can draw vigor from the psi energy you use to power your psionic disciplines. Immediately after you spend psi points on a psionic discipline, you can take a bonus action to regain hit points equal to the number of psi points you spent

Telepathy

At 2nd level, your mind awakens to the ability to communicate via telepathy. You can telepathically speak to any creature you can see within 120 feet of you in this manner. You don’t need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic messages, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language or be telepathic itself.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Strength of Mind

Even the simplest psionic technique requires a deep understanding of how psionic energy can augment mind and body. This understanding allows you to alter your defenses to better deal with threats. Starting at 5th level, you can replace your proficiency in Wisdom saving throws whenever you finish a short or long rest. To do so, choose Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, or Charisma. You gain proficiency in saves using that ability, instead of Wisdom. This change lasts until you finish your next short or long rest.

Potent Psionics

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon attacks with psychic energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon, you can deal an extra 1d8 psychic damage to that target. When you reach 14th level, this extra damage increases to 2d8. In addition, you add your Intelligence modifier to any damage roll you make for a psionic talent.

Consumptive Power

At 10th level, you gain the ability to sacrifice your physical durability in exchange for psionic power. When activating a psionic discipline, you can pay its psi point cost with your hit points, instead of using any psi points. Your current hit points and hit point maximum are both reduced by the number of hit points you spend. This reduction can’t be lessened in any way, and the reduction to your hit point maximum lasts until you finish a long rest. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Psionic Mastery

Beginning at 11th level, your mastery of psionic energy allows you to push your mind beyond its normal limits. As an action, you gain 9 mastery points that can be spent like psi points on disciplines that require an action or a bonus action to use. You can use all 9 points on one discipline, or you can spread them across multiple disciplines. You can’t also spend both psi points and mastery points on the same discipline. When you finish a long rest, you lose any mastery points that you haven’t spent. If more than one of the disciplines you activate with mastery points require concentration, you can concentrate on all of them. Activating one of them ends any effect you were already concentrating on, and if you begin concentrating on an effect that doesn’t use these mastery points, the disciplines that you’re concentrating on end.

At 15th level, the pool of psi points you gain from this feature increases to 11. You have one use of this feature, and you regain any expended use of it with a long rest. You gain one additional use of this feature at 13th, 15th, and 17th level.

Psionic Body

At 20th level, your mastery of psionic power causes your mind to transcend the body. Your physical form is infused with psionic energy. You gain the following benefits: • You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. • You no longer age. • You are immune to disease, poison damage, and the poisoned condition. • If you die, roll a d20. On a 10 or higher, you discorporate with 0 hit points, instead of dying, and you fall unconscious. You and your gear disappear. You appear at a spot of your choice 1d3 days later on the plane of existence where you died, having gained the benefits of one long rest.

Mystic Orders

Psionics is a mysterious form of power within most D&D worlds. Secretive orders study its origins and applications, while pushing the boundaries of what psionic power can achieve. Each of these orders pursues a specific goal for psionic power. That goal shapes how the members of an order understand psionics.

Order of the Awakened

Mystics dedicated to the Order of the Awakened seek to unlock the full potential of the mind. By transcending the physical, the Awakened hope to attain a state of being focused on pure intellect and mental energy. The Awakened are skilled at bending minds and unleashing devastating psionic attacks, and they can read the secrets of the world through psionic energy. Awakened mystics who take to adventuring excel at unraveling mysteries, solving puzzles, and defeating monsters by turning them into unwilling pawns.

Order of the Immortal

The Order of the Immortal uses psionic energy to augment and modify the physical form. Followers of this order are known as Immortals. They use psionic energy to modify their bodies, strengthening them against attack and turning themselves into living weapons. Their mastery of the physical form grants them their name, for Immortals are notoriously difficult to kill.

Order of the Nomad

Mystics of the Order of the Nomad keep their minds in a strange, rarified state. They seek to accumulate as much knowledge as possible, as they quest to unravel the mysteries of the multiverse and seek the underlying structure of all things. At the same time, they perceive a bizarre, living web of knowledge they call the noosphere. Nomads, as their name indicates, delight in travel, exploration, and discovery. They desire to accumulate as much knowledge as possible, and the pursuit of secrets and hidden lore can become an obsession for them.

Breadth of Knowledge

At 1st level, you gain the ability to extend your knowledge. When you finish a long rest, you gain proficiency. Choose 1 skill, 1 tool, 1 vehicle, 1 language, 1 non-exotic weapon, 1 instrument, OR 1 gaming set, this proficiency lasts until your next long rest. Someone on your plane of existence must be proficient in your choice in order to gain this bonus.

Memory of One Thousand Steps

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to use psionics to recall your steps. As a reaction when you are hit by an attack, you can teleport to an unoccupied space that you occupied since the start of your last turn, and the attack misses you. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Superior Teleportation

At 6th level, you gain a superior talent for teleportation. When you use a psionic discipline to teleport any distance, you can increase that distance by up to 10 feet.

Effortless Journey

Starting at 14th level, your mind can mystically move your body. Once on each of your turns, you can forfeit up to 30 feet of your movement to teleport the distance you forfeited. You must teleport to an unoccupied space you can see.

Order of the Soul Knife

The Order of the Soul Knife sacrifices the breadth of knowledge other mystics gain to focus on a specific psionic technique. These mystics learn to manifest a deadly weapon of pure psychic energy that they can use to cleave through foes. Soul knives vary widely in their approach to this path. Some follow it out of a desire to achieve martial perfection. Others are ruthless assassins who seek to become the perfect killer. Martial Training At 1st level, you gain proficiency with medium armor and martial weapons.

Order of the Wu Jen

The Order of the Wu Jen features some of the most devoted mystics. These mystics seek to lock themselves away from the world, denying the limits of the physical world and replacing it with a reality that they create for themselves. Known as wu jens, these mystics cast their minds into the world, seize control of its fundamental principles, and rebuild it. In practical terms, wu jens excel at controlling the forces of the natural world. They can hurl objects with their minds, control the four elements, and alter reality to fit their desires.

Elemental Mastery

Starting at 14th level, if you have resistance to a type of damage, you can spend 2 psi points as a reaction when you take damage of that type to ignore that damage; you gain immunity to that damage type until the end of your next turn.

Psionic Disciplines and Talents

Psionic talents and disciplines are the heart of a mystic’s craft. They are the mental exercises and psionic formulae used to forge will into tangible, magical effects.

Psionic disciplines were each discovered by different orders and tend to reflect their creators’ specialties. However, a mystic can learn any discipline regardless of its associated order.

Psionic Disciplines by Order

Each psionic discipline is associated with a Mystic Order. The following lists organize the disciplines by those orders.

Bestial Form

Immortal Discipline

You transform your body, gaining traits of different beasts.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have advantage on Wisdom (Animal Handling) checks.

Bestial Claws (1–7 psi) You manifest long claws for an instant and make a melee weapon attack against one creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, this attack deals 1d10 slashing damage per psi point spent.

Bestial Transformation As a bonus action, you alter your physical form to gain different characteristics. When you use this ability, you can choose one or more of the following effects. Each effect has its own psi point cost. Add them together to determine the total cost. This transformation lasts for 1 hour, until you die, or until you end it as a bonus action.

Amphibious (2 psi) You gain gills; you can breathe air and water.

Climbing (2 psi) You grow tiny hooked claws that give you gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

Flight (5 psi) Wings sprout from your back. You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

Keen Senses (2 psi) Your eyes and ears become more sensitive. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Perfect Senses (3 psi) You gain a keen sense of smell and an instinct to detect prey. You can see invisible creatures and objects within 10 feet of you, even if you are blinded.

Swimming (2 psi) You gain fins and webbing between your fingers and toes; you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Tough Hide (1 psi) Your skin becomes as tough as leather; your base AC becomes 12+ your Dexterity modifier.

Brute Force

Immortal Discipline

You augment your natural strength with psionic energy, granting you the ability to achieve incredible feats of might.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks.

Brute Strike (1–7 psi; conc. 1 min) As a bonus action, you gain a bonus to your next damage roll against a target you hit with a melee attack. The bonus equals +1d6 per psi point spent, and the bonus damage is the same type as the attack. If the attack has more than one damage type, you choose which one to use for the bonus damage.

Knock Back (1–7 psi) When you hit a target with a melee attack, you can activate this ability as a reaction. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked 10 feet away from you per psi point spent. The target moves in a straight line. If it hits an object, this movement immediately ends and the target takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage per psi point spent.

Mighty Leap (1–7 psi) As part of your movement, you jump in any direction up to 20 feet per psi point spent.

Feat of Strength (2 psi) As a bonus action, you gain a +5 bonus to Strength checks until the end of your next turn.

Celerity

Immortal Discipline

You channel psionic power into your body, honing your reflexes and agility to an incredible degree. The world seems to slow down while you continue to move as normal.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, your walking speed increases by 10 feet.

Rapid Step (1–7 psi) As a bonus action, you increase your walking speed by 10 feet per psi point spent until the end of the current turn. If you have a climbing or swimming speed, this increase applies to that speed as well.

Agile Defense (2 psi) As a bonus action, you take the Dodge action.

Blur of Motion (2 psi) As an action, you cause yourself to be invisible during any of your movement during the current turn.

Surge of Speed (2 psi) As a bonus action, you gain two benefits until the end of the current turn: you don’t provoke opportunity attacks, and you have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

Surge of Action (5 psi) As a bonus action, you can Dash or make one weapon attack.

Corrosive Metabolism

Immortal Discipline

Your control over your body allows you to deliver acid or poison attacks. Psychic Focus. While focused on this discipline, you have resistance to acid and poison damage.

Corrosive Touch (1–7 psi) As an action, you deliver a touch of acid to one creature within your reach. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 1d10 acid damage per psi point spent on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Venom Strike (1–7 psi) As an action, you create a poison spray that targets one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 1d6 poison damage per psi point spent and is poisoned until the end of your next turn. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and isn’t poisoned.

Acid Spray (2 psi) As a reaction when you take piercing or slashing damage, you cause acid to spray from your wound; each creature within 5 feet of you takes 2d6 acid damage.

Breath of the Black Dragon (5 psi) You exhale a wave of acid in a 60-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in the line must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 6d6 acid damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. You can increase the damage by 1d6 per additional psi point spent on it.

Breath of the Green Dragon (7 psi) You exhale a cloud of poison in a 90-foot cone. Each creature in the line must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 10d6 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Crown of Despair

Avatar Discipline

You have learned to harvest seeds of despair in a creature’s psyche, wracking it with self-doubt and inaction.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks.

Crowned in Sorrow (1–7 psi) As an action, one creature you can see within 60 feet of you must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 1d8 psychic damage per psi point spent, and it can’t take reactions until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

Call to Inaction (2 psi; conc., 10 min.) If you spend 1 minute conversing with a creature, you can attempt to seed it with overwhelming ennui. At the end of the minute, you can use an action to force the creature to make a Wisdom saving throw. The save automatically succeeds if the target is immune to being charmed. On a failed save, it sits and is incapacitated until your concentration ends. This effect immediately ends if the target or any ally it can see is attacked or takes damage. On a successful save, the creature is unaffected and has no inkling of your attempt to bend its will.

Visions of Despair (3 psi) As an action, you force one creature you can see within 60 feet of you to make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 3d6 psychic damage, and its speed is reduced to 0 until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage. You can increase the damage by 1d6 per additional psi point spent on it.

Dolorous Mind (6 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, you choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. It must succeed on a Charisma saving throw, or it is incapacitated and has a speed of 0 until your concentration ends. It can repeat this saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Crown of Disgust

Avatar Discipline

You cause a creature to be flooded with emotions of disgust.

Psychic Focus While you are focused on this discipline, the area in a 5-foot radius around you is difficult terrain for any enemy that isn’t immune to being frightened.

Eye of Horror (1–7 psi) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 1d6 psychic damage per psi point spent and can’t move closer to you until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

Wall of Repulsion (3 psi; conc., 10 min.) As an action, you create an invisible, insubstantial wall of energy within 60 feet of you that is up to 30 feet long, 10 feet high, and 1 foot thick. The wall lasts until your concentration ends. Any creature attempting to willingly move through it must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature can’t move through the wall until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature can pass through it. A creature must make this save whenever it willingly attempts to pass through the wall.

Visions of Disgust (5 psi; conc., 1 min.) You cause a creature to regard all other beings as horrid, alien entities. As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 5d6 psychic damage, and until your concentration ends, it takes 1d6 psychic damage per creature within 5 feet of it at the end of each of its turns. On a successful save, the target takes only half the initial damage and suffers none of the other effects.

World of Horror (7 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, choose up to six creatures within 60 feet of you. Each target must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 8d6 psychic damage, and it is frightened until your concentration ends. On a successful save, a target takes half as much damage. While frightened by this effect, a target’s speed is reduced to 0, and the target can use its action, and any bonus action it might have, only to make melee attacks. The frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Crown of Rage

Avatar Discipline

You place a mote of pure fury within a creature’s mind, causing its bloodlust to overcome its senses and for it to act as you wish it to.

Psychic Focus While you are focused on this discipline, any enemy within 5 feet of you that makes a melee attack roll against creatures other than you does so with disadvantage.

Primal Fury (1–7 psi) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or take 1d6 psychic damage per psi point spent on this ability and immediately use its reaction to move its speed in a straight line toward its nearest enemy. The save automatically succeeds if the target is immune to being charmed.

Fighting Words (2 psi; conc., 10 min.) If you spend 1 minute conversing with a creature, you can attempt to leave a simmering violence in its mind. At the end of the minute, you can use an action to force the creature to make a Wisdom saving throw to resist feeling violent urges against one creature you describe to it or name. The save automatically succeeds if the target is immune to being charmed. On a failed save, the target attacks the chosen creature if it sees that creature before your concentration ends, using weapons or spells against a creature it was already hostile toward or unarmed strikes against an ally or a creature it was neutral toward. Once the fight starts, it continues to attack for 5 rounds before this effect ends. This effect immediately ends if the target or any ally it can see is attacked or takes damage from any creature other than the one it has been incited against. On a successful save, the creature is unaffected and has no inkling of your attempt to bend its will.

Mindless Courage (2 psi) You cause a creature's bloodlust to overcome its sense of preservation. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or, until the end of your next turn, it can’t willingly move unless its movement brings it closer to its nearest enemy that it can see. The save automatically succeeds if the target is immune to being charmed.

Diminution

Immortal Discipline

You manipulate the matter that composes your body, drastically reducing your size without surrendering any of your might.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.

Miniature Form (2 psi; conc., 10 min.) As a bonus action, you become Tiny until your concentration ends. While this size, you gain a +5 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) checks and can move through gaps up to 6 inches across without squeezing.

Toppling Shift (2 psi) As a bonus action, you shift to an incredibly small size and then suddenly return to normal, sending an opponent flying backward. Choose one creature you can see within 5 feet of you. It must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. Sudden Shift (5 psi). As a reaction when you are hit by an attack, you shift down to minute size to avoid the attack. The attack misses, and you move up to 5 feet without provoking opportunity attacks before returning to normal size.

Microscopic Form (7 psi; conc., 10 min.) As a bonus action, you become smaller than Tiny until your concentration ends. While this size, you gain a +10 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) checks and a +5 bonus to AC, you can move through gaps up to 1 inch across without squeezing, and you can’t make weapon attacks.

Giant Growth

Immortal Discipline

You infuse yourself with psionic energy to grow to tremendous size, bolstering your strength and durability.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, your reach increases by 5 feet.

Ogre Form (2 psi; conc., 1 min.) As a bonus action, you gain 10 temporary hit points. In addition, until your concentration ends, your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d4 bludgeoning damage on a hit, and your reach increases by 5 feet. If you’re smaller than Large, you also become Large for the duration.

Giant Form (7 psi; conc., 1 min.) As a bonus action, you gain 30 temporary hit points. In addition, until your concentration ends, your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 2d6 bludgeoning damage on a hit, and your reach increases by 10 feet. If you’re smaller than Huge, you also become Huge for the duration.

Intellect Fortress

Awakened Discipline

You forge an indomitable wall of psionic energy around your mind—one that allows you to launch counterattacks against your opponents.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you gain resistance to psychic damage.

Psychic Backlash (2 psi) As a reaction, you can impose disadvantage on an attack roll against you if you can see the attacker. If the attack still hits you, the attacker takes 1d10 psychic damage.

Psychic Parry (1–7 psi) As a reaction when you make an Intelligence, a Wisdom, or a Charisma saving throw, you gain a +1 bonus to that saving throw for each psi point you spend on this ability. You can use this ability after rolling the die but the results are determined.

Psychic Redoubt (5 psi; conc., 10 min.) As an action, you create a field of protective psychic energy. Choose any number of creatures within 30 feet of you. Until your concentration ends, each target has resistance to psychic damage and advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws.

Iron Durability

Immortal Discipline

You transform your body to become a living metal, allowing you to shrug off attacks that would cripple weaker creatures.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Iron Hide (1–7 psi) As a reaction when you are hit by an attack, you gain a +1 bonus to AC for each psi point you spend on this ability. The bonus lasts until the end of your next turn. This bonus applies against the triggering attack.

Steel Hide (2 psi) As a bonus action, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage until the end of your next turn.

Iron Resistance (7 psi; conc., 1 hr.) As an action, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (your choice), which lasts until your concentration ends.

Mantle of Awe

Awakened Discipline

You learn to use psionic energy to manipulate others with a subtle combination of psi and your own, natural charm.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you gain a bonus to Charisma checks. The bonus equals half your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

Charming Presence (1–7 psi) As an action, you exert an aura of sympathetic power. Roll 2d8 per psi point spent on this ability; the total is how many hit points worth of creatures this option can affect. Creatures within 30 feet of you are affected in ascending order of their hit point maximums, ignoring incapacitated creatures, creatures immune to being charmed, and creatures engaged in combat. Starting with the creature that has the lowest hit point maximum, each creature affected by this option is charmed by you for 10 minutes, regarding you as a friendly acquaintance. Subtract each creature’s hit point maximum from the total before moving on to the next creature. A creature’s hit point maximum must be equal to or less than the remaining total for that creature to be affected.

Mantle of Command

Avatar Discipline

You exert an aura of trust and authority, enhancing the coordination among your allies.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, when you end your turn and didn’t move during it, you can use your reaction to allow one ally you can see within 30 feet of you to move up to half their speed, following a path of your choice. To move in this way, the ally mustn’t be incapacitated.

Coordinated Movement (2 psi) As a bonus action, choose up to five allies you can see within 60 feet of you. Each of those allies can use their reaction to move up to half their speed, following a path of your choice.

Commander’s Sight (2 psi; conc., 1 rnd.) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. Until the start of your next turn, your allies have advantage on attack rolls against that target.

Command to Strike (2 psi) As an action, choose one ally you can see within 60 feet of you. That ally can use their reaction to immediately make one attack. You choose the target.

Strategic Mind (5 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, you exert an aura of trust and command that unites your allies into a cohesive unit. Until your concentration ends, any ally within 60 feet of you on their turn can, as a bonus action, take the Dash or Disengage action or roll a d4 and add the number rolled to each attack roll they make that turn.

Overwhelming Attack (7 psi) As an action, choose up to five allies you can see within 60 feet of you. Each of those allies can use their reaction to make a single weapon attack. You choose the targets of the attacks.

Mantle of Courage

Avatar Discipline

You focus your mind on courage, radiating confidence and bravado to your allies.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you and allies within 10 feet of you who can see you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Incite Courage (2 psi) As a bonus action, choose up to six creatures you can see within 60 feet of you. If any of those creatures is frightened, that condition ends on that creature.

Aura of Victory (1–7 psi; conc., 10 min.) As a bonus action, you project psionic energy until your concentration ends. The energy fortifies you and your allies when your enemies are felled; whenever an enemy you can see is reduced to 0 hit points, you and each of your allies within 30 feet of you gain temporary hit points equal to double the psi points spent to activate this effect.

Pillar of Confidence (6 psi; conc., 1 rnd.) As an action, you and up to five creatures you can see within 60 feet of you each gain one extra action to use on your individual turns. The action goes away if not used before the end of your next turn. the action can be used only to make one weapon attack or to take the Dash or Disengage action.

Mantle of Fear

Avatar Discipline

You tap into a well of primal fear and turn yourself into a beacon of terror to your enemies.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks.

Incite Fear (2 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you. The frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns. This ability has no effect on undead or constructs.

Unsettling Aura (3 psi; conc., 1 hr.) As a bonus action, you cloak yourself in unsettling psychic energy. Until your concentration ends, any enemy within 60 feet of you that can see you must spend 1 extra foot of movement for every foot it moves toward you. A creature ignores this effect if immune to being frightened.

Incite Panic (7 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, choose up to eight creatures you can see within 90 feet of you that can see you. At the start of each of a target’s turns before your concentration ends, the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target is frightened until the start of its next turn, and you roll a die. If you roll an odd number, the frightened target moves half its speed in a random direction and takes no action on that turn, other than to scream in terror. If you roll an even number, the frightened target makes one melee attack against a random target within its reach. If there is no such target, it moves half its speed in a random direction and takes no action on that turn. This effect ends on a target if it succeeds on a saving throw against it. This ability has no effect on undead or constructs.

Mantle of Fury

Avatar Discipline

You allow the primal fury lurking deep within your mind to burst forth, catching you and your allies in an implacable bloodthirst.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline in combat, you and any ally who starts their turn within 10 feet of you gains a 5-foot increase to their walking speed during that turn.

Mantle of Joy

Avatar Discipline

You tap into the joy within you, radiating it outward in soothing, psychic energy that brings hope and comfort to creatures around you.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have advantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks.

Soothing Presence (1–7 psi) As an action, choose up to three creatures you can see within 60 feet of you. Each target gains 3 temporary hit points per psi point spent on this effect.

Comforting Aura (2 psi; conc., 1 min.) As a bonus action, choose up to three allies you can see (you can choose yourself in place of one of the allies). Until your concentration ends, each target can roll a d4 when making a saving throw and add the number rolled to the total.

Aura of Jubilation (3 psi; conc., 1 min.) As a bonus action, you radiate a distracting mirth until your concentration ends. Each creature within 60 feet of you that can see you suffers disadvantage on any checks using the Perception and Investigation skills.

Beacon of Recovery (5 psi) As a bonus action, you and up to five allies you can see within 60 feet of you can immediately make saving throws against every effect they’re suffering that allows a save at the start or end of their turns.

Mastery of Air

Wu Jen Discipline

You become one with the power of elemental air.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you take no falling damage, and you ignore difficult terrain when walking.

Wind Step (1–7 psi) As part of your move on your turn, you can fly up to 20 feet for each psi point spent. If you end this flight in the air, you fall unless something else holds you aloft.

Wind Stream (1–7 psi) As an action, you create a line of focused air that is 30 feet long and 5 feet wide. Each creature in that area must make a Strength saving throw, taking 1d8 bludgeoning damage per psi point spent and being knocked prone on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Cloak of Air (3 psi; conc., 10 min.) As a bonus action, you seize control of the air around you to create a protective veil. Until your concentration ends, attack rolls against you have disadvantage, and when a creature you can see misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to force the creature to repeat the attack roll against itself.

Wind Form (5 psi; conc., 10 min.) As a bonus action, you gain a flying speed of 60 feet, which lasts until your concentration ends.

Misty Form (6 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, your body becomes like a misty cloud until your concentration ends. In this form, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, and you can’t take actions other than the Dash action. You can pass through openings that are no more than 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Animate Air (7 psi; conc., 1 hr.) As an action, you cause an air elemental to appear in an unoccupied space you can see within 120 feet of you. The elemental lasts until your concentration ends, and it obeys your verbal commands. In combat, roll for its initiative, and choose its behavior during its turns. When this effect ends, the elemental disappears. See the Monster Manual for its stat block.

Mastery of Fire

Wu Jen Discipline

You align your mind with the energy of elemental fire.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you gain resistance to fire damage, and you gain a +2 bonus to rolls for fire damage.

Combustion (1–7 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, choose one creature or object you can see within 120 feet of you. The target must make a Constitution save. On a failed save, the target takes 1d10 fire damage per psi point spent, and it catches on fire, taking 1d6 fire damage at the end of each of its turns until your concentration ends or until it or a creature adjacent to it extinguishes the flames with an action. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and doesn’t catch on fire.

Rolling Flame (3 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, you create fire in a 20-foot-by-20-foot cube within 5 feet of you. The fire lasts until your concentration ends. Any creature in that area when you use this ability and any creature that ends its turn there takes 5 fire damage.

Detonation (5 psi) As an action, you create a fiery explosion at a point you can see within 120 feet of you. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 7d6 fire damage and being knocked prone on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Fire Form (5 psi; conc., 1 min.) As a bonus action, you become wreathed in flames until your concentration ends. Any creature that end its turn within 5 feet of you takes 3d6 fire damage.

Mastery of Force

Wu Jen Discipline

As a student of psionic power, you perceive the potential energy that flows through all things. You reach out with your mind, transforming the potential into the actual. Objects and creatures move at your command.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have advantage on Strength checks.

Push (1–7 psi) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 1d8 force damage per psi point spent and is pushed up to 5 feet per point spent in a straight line away from you. The length of the push is reduced by 5 feet for each size category larger the creature is than you. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

Move (2–7 psi) Choose one object you can see within 60 feet of you that isn’t being worn or carried by another creature and that isn’t secured in place. It can’t be larger than 20 feet on a side, and its maximum weight depends on the psi points spent on this ability, as shown below. As an action, you move the object up to 60 feet, and you must keep the object within sight during this movement. If the object ends this movement in the air, it falls. If the object would fall on a creature, the creature must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or take damage as listed on the table below.

Mastery of Light and Darkness

Wu Jen Discipline

You claim dominion over light and darkness with your mind.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, natural darkness within 30 feet of you has no effect on your vision.

Darkness (1–7 psi) As an action, you create an area of magical darkness, which foils darkvision. Choose a spot you can see within 60 feet of you. Magical darkness radiates from that point in a sphere with a 10-foot radius per psi point spent on this ability. The light produced by spells of 2nd level or less is suppressed in this area.

**Light (2 psi; conc., 1 min.)**As an action, an object you touch radiates light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. The light lasts until your concentration ends. Alternatively, a creature you touch radiates light in the same manner if it fails a Dexterity saving throw. While lit in this manner, it can’t hide, and attack rolls against it gain advantage.

Dispelling Light (4 psi) A 30-foot-radius sphere of light spreads from a point you choose for one minute. The sphere is bright light and sheds dim light for an additional 30 feet. If you chose an object you are holding or one that isn't being worn or carried, the light shines from and moves with the object. Completely covering the object with something opaque blocks the light. If any of this effects’ area overlaps with darkness made by a spell of 3rd level or lower, the darkness is dispelled.

Shadow Beasts (3 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, you cause two darklings to appear in unoccupied spaces you can see within 60 feet of you. The darklings last until your concentration ends, and they obey your verbal commands. In combat, roll for their initiative, and choose their behavior during their turns. When this effect ends, the darklings disappear. See Volo's Guide for their stat block.

Radiant Beam (5 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, you project a beam of light at one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 6d6 radiant damage and is blinded until your concentration ends. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage. A blinded target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. You can increase this effect’s damage by 1d6 per each additional psi point spent on it.

Mastery of Water

Wu Jen Discipline

Your mind becomes one with elemental water, attuning your thoughts to its ebb and flow.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed, and you can breathe underwater.

Desiccate (1–7 psi) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 1d10 necrotic damage per psi point spent on this ability, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Watery Grasp (2 psi) As an action, you unleash a wave that surges forth and then retreats to you like the rising tide. You create a wave in a 20-foot-by-20-foot square. At least some portion of the square’s border must be within 5 feet of you. Any creature in that square must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage, is knocked prone, and is pulled up to 10 feet closer to you. On a successful save, a target takes half as much damage. You can increase this ability’s damage by 1d6 per additional psi point spent on it.

Water Whip (3 psi) As an action, you unleash a jet of water in a line that is 60 feet long and 5 feet wide. Each creature in the line must make a Strength saving throw, taking 3d6 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. In addition, you can push each target that fails its saving throw up to 15 feet following the line. You can increase this ability’s damage by 1d6 per additional psi point spent on it.

Water Breathing (5 psi) As an action, you grant yourself and up to ten willing creatures you can see within 60 feet of you the ability to breathe underwater for the next 24 hours.

Water Sphere (6 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, you cause a sphere of water to form around a creature. Choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, it becomes trapped in the sphere of water until your concentration ends. While the target is trapped, its speed is halved, it suffers disadvantage on attack rolls, and it can’t see anything more than 10 feet away from it. However, attack rolls against it also suffer disadvantage. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a successful one.

Animate Water (7 psi; conc., 1 hr.) As an action, you cause a water elemental to appear in an unoccupied space you can see within 120 feet of you. The elemental lasts until your concentration ends, and it obeys your verbal commands. In combat, roll for its initiative, and choose its behavior during its turns. When this effect ends, the elemental disappears. See the Monster Manual for its stat block.

Mastery of Weather

Wu Jen Discipline

Your mind reaches into the sky, reshaping the stuff of storms to serve your needs.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have resistance to lightning and thunder damage.

Cloud Steps (1–7 psi; conc., 10 min.) As an action, you conjure forth clouds to create a solid, translucent staircase that lasts until your concentration ends. The stairs form a spiral that fills a 10-foot-by-10-foot area and reaches upward 20 feet per psi point spent.

Hungry Lightning (1–7 psi) As an action, you lash out at one creature you can see within 60 feet of you with tendrils of lightning. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw, with disadvantage if it’s wearing heavy armor. The target takes 1d8 lightning damage per psi point spent on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Mastery of Wood and Earth

Wu Jen Discipline

You attune your mind to seize control of wood and earth.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have a +1 bonus to AC.

Animate Weapon (1–7 psi) As an action, your mind seizes control of a one-handed melee weapon you’re holding. The weapon flies toward one creature you can see within 30 feet of you and makes a one-handed melee weapon attack against it, using your discipline attack modifier for the attack and damage rolls. On a hit, the weapon deals its normal damage, plus an extra 1d10 force damage per psi point spent on this ability. The weapon returns to your grasp after it attacks.

Warp Weapon (2 psi) As an action, choose one nonmagical weapon held by one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. That creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw, or the chosen weapon can’t be used to attack until the end of your next turn.

Warp Armor (3 psi) As an action, choose a nonmagical suit of armor worn by one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. That creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or the creature’s AC becomes 10 + its Dexterity modifier until the end of your next turn.

Wall of Wood (3 psi; conc., 1 hr.) As an action, you create a wall of wood at least one portion of which must be within 60 feet of you. The wall is 60 feet long, 15 feet high, and 1 foot thick. The wall lasts until your concentration ends. Each 5-foot wide section of the wall has AC 12 and 15 hit points, and vulnerability to fire damage. Breaking one section creates a 5-foot by 5-foot hole in it, but the wall otherwise remains intact.

Armored Form (7 psi; conc., 1 min.) As a bonus action, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, which lasts until your concentration ends.

Animate Earth (7 psi; conc., 1 hr.) As an action, you cause an earth elemental to appear in an unoccupied space you can see within 120 feet of you. The elemental lasts until your concentration ends, and it obeys your verbal commands. In combat, roll for its initiative, and choose its behavior during its turns. When this effect ends, the elemental disappears. See the Monster Manual for its stat block.

Nomadic Arrow

Nomad Discipline

You imbue a ranged weapon with a strange semblance of sentience, allowing it to unerringly find its mark.

Psychic Focus While you are focused on this discipline, any attack roll you make for a ranged weapon attack ignores disadvantage from being at long range.

Speed Dart (1–7 psi) As a bonus action, you imbue one ranged weapon you hold with psionic power. The next attack you make with it that hits before the end of the current turn deals an extra 1d10 psychic damage per psi point spent.

*Seeking Missile (2 psi) As a reaction when you miss with a ranged weapon attack, you can repeat the attack roll against the same target. Faithful Archer (5 psi; conc., 1 min.). As a bonus action, you imbue a ranged weapon with a limited sentience. Until your concentration ends, you can make an extra attack with the weapon at the start of each of your turns (no action required). If it is a thrown weapon, it returns to your grasp each time you make any attack with it.

Nomadic Chameleon

Nomad Discipline

You create a screen of psychic power that distorts your appearance, allowing you to blend into the background or even turn invisible.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.

Chameleon (2 psi) As an action, you can attempt to hide even if you fail to meet the requirements needed to do so. At the end of the current turn, you remain hidden only if you then meet the normal requirements for hiding.

Nomadic Mind

Nomad Discipline

You dispatch part of your psyche into the noosphere, the collective vista of minds and knowledge possessed by living things.

Psychic Focus Whenever you focus on this discipline, you choose one tool and have proficiency with it until your focus ends. Alternatively, you gain the ability to read and write one language of your choice until your focus ends.

Wandering Mind (2–6 psi; conc., 10 min.) You enter a deep contemplation. If you concentrate for this option’s full duration, you then gain proficiency with up to three of the following skills (one skill for every 2 psi points spent): Animal Handling, Arcana, History, Medicine, Nature, Performance, Religion, and Survival. The benefit lasts for 1 hour, no concentration required.

Find Creature (2 psi; conc., 1 hr.) You cast your mind about for information about a specific creature. If you concentrate for this option’s full duration, you then gain a general understanding of the creature’s current location. You learn the region, city, town, village, or district where it is (DM’s choice). If the creature is on another plane of existence, you instead learn which plane.

Item Lore (3 psi; conc., 1 hr.) You carefully study an item. If you concentrate for this option’s full duration while remaining within 5 feet of the item, you then gain the benefits of an identify spell cast on that item.

Psychic Speech (5 psi) As an action, you attune your mind to the psychic imprint of all language. For 1 hour, you gain the ability to understand any language you hear or attempt to read. In addition, when you speak, all creatures that can understand a language understand what you say, regardless of what language you use.

Wandering Eye (6 psi; conc., 1 hr.) As an action, you create a psychic sensor within 30 feet of you. The sensor lasts until your concentration ends. The sensor is invisible and hovers in the air. You mentally receive visual information from it, which has normal vision and darkvision with a range of 30 feet. The sensor can look in all directions. As an action, you can move the sensor up to 30 feet in any direction. There is no limit to how far away from you the eye can move, but it can’t enter another plane of existence. A solid barrier blocks the eye’s movement, but the eye can pass through an opening as small as 1 inch in diameter.

Phasing Eye (7 psi; conc., 1 hr.) As Wandering Eye above, except the eye can move through solid objects but can’t end its movement in one. If it does so, the effect immediately ends.

Nomadic Step

Nomad Discipline

You exert your mind on the area around you, twisting the intraplanar pathways you perceive to allow instantaneous travel.

Psychic Focus After you teleport on your turn while focused on this discipline, your walking speed increases by 10 feet until the end of the turn, as you are propelled by the power of your teleportation. You can receive this increase only once per turn.

Step of a Dozen Paces (1–7 psi) If you haven’t moved yet on your turn, you take a bonus action to teleport up to 20 feet per psi point spent to an unoccupied space you can see, and your speed is reduced to 0 until the end of the turn.

Nomadic Anchor (1 psi) As an action, you create an invisible, intangible teleportation anchor in a 5-foot cube you can see within 120 feet of you. For the next 8 hours, whenever you use this psionic discipline to teleport, you can instead teleport to the anchor, even if you can’t see it, but it must be within range of the teleportation ability.

Defensive Step (2 psi) When you are hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to gain a +4 bonus to AC against that attack, possibly turning it into a miss. You then teleport up to 10 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.

There and Back Again (2 psi) As a bonus action, you teleport up to 20 feet to an unoccupied space you can see and then move up to half your speed. At the end of your turn, you can teleport back to the spot you occupied before teleporting, unless it is now occupied or on a different plane of existence.

Transposition (3 psi) If you haven’t moved yet on your turn, choose a willing creature you can see within 60 feet of you. As a bonus action, you and that creature teleport, swapping places, and your speed is reduced to 0 until the end of the turn. This ability fails and is wasted if either of you can’t fit in the destination space.

Baleful Transposition (5 psi) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 120 feet of you. That creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, you and that creature teleport, swapping places. This ability fails and is wasted if either of you can’t fit in the destination space.

Phantom Caravan (6 psi) As an action, you and up to six willing creatures of your choice that you can see within 60 feet of you teleport up to 1 mile to a spot you can see. If there isn’t an open space for all the targets to occupy at the arrival point, this ability fails and is wasted.

Nomad’s Gate (7 psi; conc., 1 hr.) As an action, you create a 5-foot cube of dim, gray light within 5 feet of you. You create an identical cube at any point of your choice within 1 mile that you have viewed within the past 24 hours. Until your concentration ends, anyone entering one of the cubes immediately teleports to the other one, appearing in an unoccupied space next to it. The teleportation fails if there is no space for the creature to appear in.

Precognition

Awakened Discipline

By analyzing information around you, from subtle hints to seemingly disconnected facts, you learn to weave a string of probabilities in an instant that gives you extraordinary insights.

Psionic Restoration

Immortal Discipline

You wield psionic energy to cure wounds and restore health to yourself and others.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you can use a bonus action to touch a creature that has 0 hit points and stabilize it.

Mend Wounds (1–7 psi) As an action, you can spend psi points to restore hit points to one creature you touch. The creature regains 1d8 hit points per psi point spent.

Restore Health (3 psi) As an action, you touch one creature and remove one of the following conditions from it: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned. Alternatively, you remove one disease from the creature.

Continual Health(7 psi) As an action, you touch one creature and it regains 2d8 +5 hit points and regains 1 hit point at the start of each of its turns for one minute

Psionic Weapon

Immortal Discipline

You have learned how to channel psionic energy into your attacks, lending them devastating power.

Psychic Focus Whenever you focus on this discipline, choose one weapon you’re holding or your unarmed strike. When you attack with it while focused on this discipline, its damage is psychic and magical, rather than its normal damage type. Until you reach 6th level as a mystic, you don’t add your Strength or Dexterity modifier to the psychic attack’s damage rolls.

Ethereal Weapon (1 psi) As a bonus action, you temporarily transform one weapon you’re holding or your unarmed strike into pure psionic energy. The next attack you make with it before the end of your turn ignores the target’s armor, requiring no attack roll. Instead, the target makes a Dexterity saving throw against this discipline. On a failed save, the target takes the attack’s normal damage and suffers any of its additional effects. On a successful save, the target takes half damage from the attack but suffers no additional effects that would normally be imposed on a hit.

Lethal Strike (1–7 psi) As a bonus action, you imbue a weapon you’re holding or your unarmed strike with psychic energy. The next time you hit with it before the end of your turn, it deals an extra 1d10 psychic damage per psi point spent.

Augmented Weapon (6 psi; conc., 10 min.) As a bonus action, touch one simple or martial weapon. Until your concentration ends, that weapon becomes a magic weapon with a +2 bonus to its attack and damage rolls.

Psychic Assault

Awakened Discipline

You wield your mind like a weapon, unleashing salvos of psionic energy.

*Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with psionic talents that deal psychic damage.

Psionic Blast (1–7 psi) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target takes 1d4 psychic damage per psi point spent on this ability.

Ego Whip (3 psi) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 3d8 psychic damage, and it is filled with self-doubt, leaving it able to use its action on its next turn only to take the Dodge, Disengage, or Hide action. On a successful saving throw, it takes half as much damage. A creature automatically succeeds if it is immune to being frightened

Id Insinuation (5 psi) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 5d8 psychic damage, and it goes into a fury, as its id runs rampant. On its next turn, it can use its action only to take the Dodge or Attack action. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

Psychic Blast (6 psi) As an action, you unleash devastating psychic energy in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make an Intelligence saving throw, taking 8d8 psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. You can increase the damage by 2d8 if you spend 1 more psi point on this ability.

Psychic Crush (7 psi) As an action, you create a 20-foot cube of psychic energy within 120 feet of you. Each creature in that area must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 8d8 psychic damage and is stunned until the end of your next turn. On a successful save, a target takes half as much damage.

Psychic Disruption

Awakened Discipline

You create psychic static that disrupts other creatures’ ability to think clearly. Psychic Focus. While focused on this discipline, you have advantage on Charisma (Deception) checks.

Psychic Inquisition

Awakened Discipline

You reach into a creature’s mind to uncover information or plant ideas within it.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you know when a creature communicating with you via telepathy is lying.

Hammer of Inquisition (1–7 psi) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 1d10 psychic damage per psi point spent and suffers disadvantage on its next Wisdom saving throw before the end of your next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

Forceful Query (2 psi) As an action, you ask a question of one creature that can see and hear you within 30 feet of you. The question must be phrased so that it can be answered with a yes or no, otherwise this ability fails. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw, or it replies with a truthful answer. A creature is immune to this ability if it is immune to being charmed.

Ransack Mind (5 psi; conc., 1 hr.) While you concentrate on this ability, you probe one creature’s mind. The creature must remain within 30 feet of you, and you must be able to see it. If you reach the ability’s full duration, the target must make three Intelligence saving throws, and you learn information from it based on the number of saving throws it fails. With one failed saving throw, you learn its key memories from the past 12 hours. With two failed saving throws, you learn its key memories from the past 24 hours. With three failed saving throws, you learn its key memories from the past 48 hours.

Phantom Idea (6 psi; conc., 1 hr.) While you concentrate on this ability, you probe one creature’s mind. The creature must remain within 30 feet of you, and you must be able to see it. If you reach the ability’s full duration, the target must make three Intelligence saving throws, and you plant a memory or an idea in it, which lasts for a number of hours based on the number of saving throws it fails. You choose whether the idea or memory is trivial (such as “I had porridge for breakfast” or “Ale is the worst”) or personality-defining (“I failed to save my village from orc marauders and am therefore a coward” or “Magic is a scourge, so I renounce it”). A directly harmful, or contradictory, idea or memory (Such as “I love getting hit with clubs” or fond memories of getting eaten by a dragon and dying) are dismissed by the target. With one failed saving throw, the idea or memory lasts for the next 4 hours. With two failed saving throws, it lasts for 24 hours. With three failed saving throws, it lasts for 48 hours.

Psychic Phantoms

Awakened Discipline

Your power reaches into a creature’s mind and causes it false perceptions.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have advantage on Charisma (Deception) checks.

Distracting Figment (1–7 psi) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make an Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 1d10 psychic damage per psi point spent and thinks it perceives a threatening creature just out of its sight; until the end of your next turn, it can’t use reactions. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

Phantom Foe (3 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it perceives a horrid creature adjacent to it until your concentration ends. During this time, the target can’t take reactions, and it takes 1d8 psychic damage at the start of each of its turns. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. You can increase the damage by 1d8 for each additional psi point spent on the ability.

Phantom Betrayal (7 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, you plant delusional paranoia in a creature’s mind. Choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw, or until your concentration ends, it must target its allies with attacks and other damaging effects. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. A creature is immune to this ability if it is immune to being charmed.

Phantom Riches (7 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, you plant the phantom of a greatly desired object in a creature’s mind. Choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, you gain partial control over the target’s behavior until your concentration ends; the target moves as you wish on each of its turns, as it thinks it pursues the phantom object it desires. If it hasn’t taken damage since its last turn, it can use its action only to admire the object you created in its perception. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Telepathic Contact

Awakened Discipline

By channeling psionic power, you gain the ability to control other creatures by substituting your will for their own.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you gain the ability to use your Telepathy class feature with up to six creatures at once. If you don’t have that feature from the mystic class, you instead gain it while focused on this discipline.

Exacting Query (2 psi) As an action, you target one creature you can communicate with via telepathy. The target must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target truthfully answers one question you ask it via telepathy that can be answered with a yes or no. On a successful save, the target is unaffected, and you can’t use this ability on it again until you finish a long rest. A creature is immune to this ability if it is immune to being charmed.

Occluded Mind (3 psi) As an action, you target one creature you can communicate with via telepathy. The target must make an Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target believes one statement of your choice for the next 5 minutes that you communicate to it via telepathy. The statement can be up to ten words long, cannot be directly harmful, and it must describe you or a creature or an object the target can see. On a successful save, the target is unaffected, and you can’t use this ability on it again until you finish a long rest. A creature is immune to this ability if it is immune to being charmed.

Broken Will (5 psi) As an action, you target one creature you can communicate with via telepathy. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, you choose the target’s movement and action on its next turn. On a successful save, the target is unaffected, and you can’t use this ability on it again until you finish a long rest. A creature is immune to this ability if it is immune to being charmed.

Psychic Grip (7 psi; conc., 1 min.) As an action, you target one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on a wisdom saving throw, or it is paralyzed until your concentration ends. At the end of each of its turns, it can repeat the saving throw. On a success, this effect ends. On a failure, you can use your reaction to force the target to move up to half its speed, even though it’s paralyzed. The effect immedietly ends if the monster is more than 60 feet away from you

Third Eye

Nomad Discipline

You create a third, psychic eye in your mind, which you cast out into the world. It channels thoughts and knowledge back to you, greatly enhancing your senses.

Psychic Focus While focused on this discipline, you have darkvision with a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision with that range or greater, increase its range by 10 feet.

Tremorsense (2 psi; conc., 1 min.) As a bonus action, you gain tremorsense with a radius of 30 feet, which lasts until your concentration ends.

Unwavering Eye (2 psi) As a bonus action, you gain advantage on Wisdom checks for 1 minute.

Piercing Sight (3 psi; conc., 1 min.) As a bonus action, you gain the ability to see through objects that are up to 1 foot thick within 30 feet of you. This sight lasts until your concentration ends

Truesight (5 psi; conc., 1 min.) As a bonus action, you gain truesight with a radius of 30 feet, which lasts until your concentration ends.

Psionic Talents

Psionic talents are minor abilities that require psionic aptitude but don’t drain a mystic’s reservoir of psionic power. Talents are similar to disciplines and use the same rules, but with three important exceptions:

• You can never use your psychic focus on a talent.
• Talents don’t require you to spend psi points to use them.
• Talents aren’t linked to Mystic Orders. The talents are presented below in alphabetical order.

Energy Blast

Psionic Talent

As an action, you target one creature you can see within 90 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d8 cold, necrotic, or thunder damage (your choice). The talent’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

Hone Weapon

Psionic Talent

As a bonus action, you imbue a simple melee weapon with psionic power for one minute. While affected this way, you may use intelligence instead of strength for attacks with this weapon, the weapons damage die becomes a d8, and is considered magical if it is not already

Light Step

Psionic Talent

As a bonus action, you alter your density and weight to improve your mobility. For the rest of your turn, your walking speed increases by 10 feet, and the first time you stand up this turn, you do so without expending any of your movement if your speed is greater than 0.

Mind Meld

Psionic Talent

As a bonus action, you can communicate telepathically with one willing creature you can see within 120 feet of you. The target must have an Intelligence of at least 2, otherwise this talent fails and the action is wasted. This communication can occur until the end of the current turn. You don’t need to share a language with the target for it to understand your telepathic utterances, and it understands you even if it lacks a language. You also gain access to one memory of the target’s choice, gaining perfect recall of one thing it saw or did.

Mind Slam

Psionic Talent

As an action, you target one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d6 force damage. If it takes any of this damage and is Large or smaller, it is knocked prone. The talent’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

Mind Thrust

Psionic Talent

As an action, you target one creature you can see within 120 feet of you. The target must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw or take 1d10 psychic damage. The talent’s damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

Mystic Charm

Psionic Talent

As an action, you beguile one humanoid you can see within 120 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or be charmed by you until the end of your next turn. A creature who succeeds on this saving throw knows you attempted to charm it.

Mystic Hand

Psionic Talent

You can use your action to manipulate or move one object within 30 feet of you. The object can’t weigh more than 10 pounds, and you can’t affect an object being worn or carried by another creature. If the object is loose, you can move it up to 30 feet in any direction. This talent allows you to open an unlocked door, pour out a beer stein, and so on. The object falls to the ground at the end of your turn if you leave it suspended in midair.

Psychic Hammer

Psionic Talent

As an action, you try to grasp one creature you can see within 120 feet of you, with a hand crafted from telekinetic energy. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or take 1d6 force damage. If it takes any of this damage and is Large or smaller, you can move it up to 10 feet in a straight line in a direction of your choice. You can’t lift the target off the ground unless it is already airborne or underwater. The talent’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

Notes

This is a section for those who want to know some of my reasoning behind my changes, as well as a list of changes I have made from the original design.

Changelog

Mastery of Ice

• Frozen Sanctuary now grants 8 instead of 20 temp HP so it is not both faster and more giving twice the HP of a False Life cast at 2nd level. Now it grants 3 less temp hp (on average) but is a bonus action.

Mastery of Light and Darkness

• Psychic focus no longer pierces magical darkness
• Added Dispelling Light to get rid of magical darkness. It is similar daylight, but has reduced range and time. However it is cheaper than daylight taking 4 psi instead of 5 psi for a 3rd level spell
• Shadow beasts no longer calls shadows because Strength Drain is a nightmare of paperwork for the DM (having to recalculate a creatures attack and damage every time they get hit) I am replacing them with Darklings for now as they have the same CR

Mastery of Water

• Watery grasp’s damage has been reduced to 1d6, the same as a comparable spell of the same level, earth tremor.
• Water whip now pushes targets 15 feet (like gust of wind) instead of allowing repositioning however you like. Now it is more like a one turn gust of wind that is damaging.

Mastery of Weather

• Whirlwind radius reduced to 10 feet and psi cost increased to 3 so it is no longer just better earth tremor.
• Lightning leap now has variable length and forces you to be at the end of the lightning bolt if you teleport with it (making it more like jumping with the lightning)
• Wall of Thunder’s damage reduced to 5d6 as wall of fire is the same level and deals on average 1 more damage than wall of thunder before this change and does not block creatures passing through it, this requires concentration so I will keep the 30 foot throw for now.

Mastery of Wood and Earth

• Wall of Wood is had its HP reduced from 100 to 15 because the wood wall made by a 2nd level spell equivalent was stronger than the 5th level wall of stone which has an HP of 30. It is now vulnerable to fire damage, because it is made of wood.
• Armored Form changed to 7 psi to match iron durability’s iron resistance

Nomadic Arrow

• Psychic Focus changed to ignoring disadvantage from long range, as blanket disadvantage immunity is a bit too strong

Nomadic Mind

• Psychic Focus no longer grants a skill
• Find creature no longer pinpoints within 3 miles, but is up to the DM’s choice totally. A 1st level spell equivalent should not be able to find any creature with no save.
• Wandering eye has had its casting and vision rance reduced to 30 from 60. It was just “Better arcane eye”

Nomadic Step

• Psychic focus now says “power” instead of “magic”
• Transposition now says “Willing creature” instead of “Ally”

Psionic Restoration

• Removed Restore Life and Restore Vigor for replicating effects that spells need components that cost large amounts of gold to cast.
• Added Continual Health, a sort of lesser regeneration, as a capstone ability.

Psionic Weapon

• Added “any of” before “additional effects” on ethereal weapon to clarify that ethereal weapon does not add effects
• Augmented weapon now only gives a +2 and costs 6 psi instead of 5. It was just “better, cheaper Magic Weapon”. It is now in line with magic weapons cost. Psychic Assault
• Psionic blast’s damage has been reduced to 1d4 to make it match up better with magic missile, another spell that automatically hits
• Ego whip no longer works on creatures that cannot be frightened

Psychic Disruption

• Mind storm now only affects the targets next saving throw not all.

Psychic Inquisition

• Phantom idea now no longer works with directly harmful or overly contradictory memories

Psychic Phantoms

• Int saves are now Wis saves, like other illusions
• Removed advantage on all attacks for distracting figament, that is too strong for 1 psi
• Phantom betrayal’s cost increased from 5 to 7 (Being very similar to dominate monster, an 8th level spell, but with the drawback of not truly controlling them)

Telepathic Contact

• Exacting query is now a yes/no question to match up with Psycic inquisition
• Occluded mind is now a wisdom saving throw and does not work with harmful ideas (like suggestion)
• Occluded mind now costs 3 psi
• Broken Will is now a wisdom saving throw
• Psychic grip is now a wisdom saving throw and costs 7 psi (like hold monster)
• Psychic grip now ends if you leave its range
• Psycic domination removed for being just dominate monster (8th level) with a 5th level spell slot

Psionic Talents

• Mystic charm is no longer undetectable
• Energy beam is now separated out to energy beam and energy blast.
• Added “Hone weapon”, a shillelagh-style talent for those mystics who like to be in melee (like immortals)

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