Mystic

Quick Build

You can make a mystic quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Intelligence your highest ability score, followed by Wisdom or Dexterity. Finally, choose the Hermit or Sage background.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d6 per mystic level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution
• modifier per mystic level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: None.
• Weapons: Simple weapons, blowguns.

Deny Distraction

As an action, you can spend 1 ki point to surround yourself with a cocoon of psychic power that helps you to deflect hindrances or anticipate assault. Until the start of your next short or long rest, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Intelligence modifier. This effect ends early if you are incapacitated.

Guarded Thoughts

As a reaction when you take psychic damage, you can spend 1 ki point to gain resistance to psychic damage, including against the triggering damage, until the start of your next turn. Until this effect ends, your thoughts can’t be read by telepathy or other means.

Inner Peace

You can spend 1 ki point as a bonus action to gain advantage on Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws until the start of your next turn. If this benefit ends and you have not been forced to make one of these saving throws, you regain this ki point.

Sentient Sense

As an action, you can spend 1 ki point to expand your awareness and scan for other thinking minds. Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any creature within 60 feet of you that has an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. You do not know the type (for example, humanoid) of any being whose presence you sense. Within the same radius, you also become aware of any creature that has the ability to communicate telepathically.

Focus Field

1st-level mystic feature

Heightened Focus

10th-level mystic feature

When you take an action or a bonus action on your turn using your focus field, you can expend ki points to increase its size category by one (for example, from Medium to Large) for a number of minutes equal to the ki points spent.

Starting at 14th level, you can increase the size category of your focus field by two (for example, from Medium to Huge) when you use this feature, for a cost of 1 additional ki point per minute.

Epiphany

18th-level mystic feature

A revelation close to the peak of enlightenment grants you proficiency in Charisma saving throws. In addition, choose one mantra that you know. Any ki cost required by the mantra is reduced by 1.

Psychic Disciplines

Mystics train their potent ability via adherence to strict doctrines. Here are discipline options you can choose from at 3rd level.

Battlemind

While disciplining your psionic gift, you have meditated on the ways of war. With keenly tempered tactical awareness, battleminds are able to observe and influence wide swathes of an engagement with keen insights and raw psychic strength. Displaying galling confidence, they cut decisively forward to deliver a clean, clear victory.

Combat Acumen

3rd-level Battlemind feature

Your extensive study of warfare has granted you the following benefits:

• You gain proficiency with martial weapons and light armor. You can manifest your focus field even while wearing armor you are proficient with.
• A focus field you manifest can wield a weapon that you are proficient with, and make attacks with the weapon in place of its normal telekinetic attacks. It can carry and use any ammunition required by the weapon.
• Weapon attacks you make from within one of your focus fields use your Intelligence modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity modifier, for the attack and damage rolls.

                Fire genasi Battlemind

Empath

Your mind and heart are open to all the woes, worries, merriments, and fears of sapient life. More than other mystics, you have homed in on the underlying current of emotion tangled in a complex push and pull with the tides of all thought and action. By extending your understanding ‐ even to those who would call themselves your enemies ‐ you offer the chance to dissolve and resolve conflicts in a way that few others could. When an emotional storm is brewing, you can guide all parties to the calm at its center.

Detect Feelings

3rd-level Empath feature

Whenever you use your Sentient Sense, you can see the surface shape of emotions in creatures you detect. The deeper truth of their thoughts is hidden from you, but you know whether a creature is feeling angry, afraid, happy, sad, or violent, for example, and gain a general sense of who or what, if anything, those emotions are being directed at if their subject is within 60 feet of you.

Soothe Ego

3rd-level Empath feature

You understand how to redirect feelings of shame or fear to more revitalizing pastures. As a bonus action, you can grant temporary hit points equal to one roll of your Psi Die + your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of 1 temporary hit point) to each creature of your choice within 5 feet of your focus field. When you grant temporary hit points to a creature in this way, you can choose one effect of the calm emotions spell to affect the target.

You can use this bonus action a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and regain all expended uses at the end of a long rest.

Shared Pain

6th-level Empath feature

Once per turn when a creature within 5 feet of either you or your focus field deals damage to another creature, you can choose for it to take psychic damage equal to one roll of your Psi Die, as it is subjected to the psychic feedback of the pain it has caused. Constructs and undead are unaffected, as are creatures immune to effects that read thoughts or feelings.

Swelling Emotion

11th-level Empath feature

When the size of your focus field increases using your Heightened Focus feature, creatures of your choice within 5 feet of the field must make a Charisma saving throw. A creature can willingly fail this save. On a failed save, you choose one of the following effects to influence the creature:

Joy. Happiness fills every limb with warmth and energy. Until the end of your next turn, the target's movement speed increases by a number of feet equal to 5 x your Intelligence modifier, and it adds your Intelligence modifier to attack rolls for the duration.

Misery. Dolorous fatigue bears down on every fibre. The target is under the effects of the slow spell until the end of your next turn.

                   A rare
                  lizardfolk Empath

A combination of telepathic reconnaissance and telekinetic agility allows you to mimic the capabilities of other creatures with great accuracy. As a bonus action, you can copy one action you have prior knowledge of from those available to a creature within 5 feet of your focus field. The target must have a challenge rating equal to or lower than your mystic level divided by 3, and not be a construct or undead.

Once you have copied an action in this way, you can use it yourself as an action on your turn. Attack rolls you make as part of a copied action use your Intelligence modifier and proficiency bonus, but any damage and additional effects of the action are resolved exactly as if performed by the target creature. The action is copied exactly as it is available to the target creature when you use this bonus action. For example, if you copy the Breath Weapon of a dragon wyrmling while the breath weapon has yet to recharge, your copy of it must also recharge. An action with a limited number of uses is copied with the current remaining number of uses available.

A copied action remains available to you until you use this bonus action again.

Reflect Visage

3rd-level Mirror Mind feature

You can expend 1 ki point to cast the disguise self spell, taking on the appearance of any target you currently have copied through your Reflect Aspect feature, so long as its appearance can be replicated within the limits of the spell.

Nomad

As their name suggests, nomads live to travel. The desire to collect knowledge and new experiences motivates them around worlds and even between them. It is not uncommon to find a nomad far from their home plane, taking in every delight of an entirely alien landscape through their enhanced senses.

                  A sojourning gnomad
                    in the snow

 Nomads cultivate a psychic connection to a shared world of sorts: a web of knowledge built between every sentient mind called the noosphere. In this web exists all information ever perceived ‐ a collection far too vast to see in its entirety across any lifespan. Nomads enjoy browsing the noosphere during their times of meditation and reflection, finding within it a taste, a sight, or a snippet of a story that inspires them to their next destination.

Journey of Ten Thousand Steps

3rd-level Nomad feature

Moving through time and space at an eccentric pace is second nature to you. You learn the misty step spell. It counts as a mystic spell for you. See the Psionic Loom mantra for the rules for casting mystic spells of 1st-level or higher.

In addition, whenever you cast a mystic spell of 5th-level or lower that teleports you or increases your movement speed as part of its effect, its ki point cost is reduced by 2.

Wandering Mind

3rd-level Nomad feature

You are accustomed to visiting new places and picking up new skills. You learn three languages of your choice. In addition, the speed of your focus field increases by 10 feet.

Moreover, as an action, you can choose a skill related to a creature, object, or piece of terrain inside the space of your focus field. You gain proficiency in the chosen skill if you don't already have it. If you are already proficient in the skill, you double your proficiency bonus for ability checks you make that use the chosen skill, unless they are already benefiting from a feature, such as Expertise, that doubles your proficiency bonus. You lose this proficiency or additional bonus when you use this feature to choose a different proficiency, or when you complete a short rest.

You can use this action a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once), and regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

You can give and draw vitality from yourself through bending your timeline. As an action, you can sacrifice any number of your own hit points to add to a pool of hit points that exists outside of present time. The pool begins at 0 hit points, and can hold a maximum number of hit points equal to your mystic level x 4.

Using your action, you can draw energy from the pool, reducing its total number of stored hit points by any amount you choose and regaining the same number of hit points.

                  Dragonborn Ouroboros
                  on the cusp of battle

Snaking Circle

3rd-level Ouroboros feature

Your past, present, and future are simply different muscles within the same chronological body, waiting to be directed by your mind. As an action, you can call up an apparition of your past or potential self through your focus field. The apparition appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the field, and must remain within its maximum range. It is identical to you, although you can decide if its place in your timeline confers small cosmetic changes. It shares all of your features, armor class, and hit points, but it cannot speak or take actions, bonus actions, or reactions. In combat, the apparition moves on your turn. It grants different benefits to you depending on where in your timeline you call it from:

Past. The observations of your past self grant uncanny knowledge of the present. While this apparition exists, any creatures, traps, or objects that it can see have disadvantage on attack rolls against you, and you have advantage on any Dexterity saving throws against effects they inflict and on attack rolls against them. If your apparition takes damage, you take the same amount of damage, which cannot be reduced in any way, and the apparition immediately vanishes.

Potential. The reactions of a future version of yourself to events can help to predict and overcome obstacles. While this apparition exists, its state changes to reflect decisions you contemplate, possibly granting you new information. For example, if you were considering investigating an alcove, your potential self might break out in acid burns, telling you that the alcove contains some trap. The exact information shown is at the DM's discretion. If you take damage, this apparition takes the same amount of damage, which cannot be reduced in any way. You can use your reaction when you take damage to cause your potential self to immediately vanish as you teleport to the space it occupied.

Your mental exercises enhance your mind's flexibility. Your focus field gains the following properties:

• Damage dealt through the telekinetic attacks of the field can be bludgeoning, piercing, psychic, or slashing damage, as you manipulate the field's shape to your whim.
• The range of attacks or effects delivered through the field by is extended by 5 feet.

Furthermore, at the end of a short or long rest, you choose one of the following properties. Your focus field gains the chosen property until the start of your next short or long rest:

• When you make a telekinetic attack through the field as part of the Attack action, you can target a second creature within 5 feet of your target with the same attack roll.
• When a target is forcibily moved by an effect originating from your focus field as a result of failing a saving throw, the target is moved an additional 5 feet.
• Your field's carrying capacity and the weight it can push, drag, or lift is doubled.

Sage Philosopher

3rd-level Psychic Sage feature

To maintain mental balance, your mind is always open to exploring new ideas. At the end of a long rest, you can replace one of the expressive mantras you know with a new one, provided you meet any prerequisites required to learn it.

    High Elf
   Psychic Sage

You direct the focus of your awakened mind through the veil separating the departed from the living, and pull through an advisor and ally in the form of an ancestral spirit. Your focus field transforms permanently into a spirit guide. It retains its maximum range, but loses all of its other properties, including the ability to make special shove attacks or train itself on a creature. Any other features that refer to your focus field, including Expressive Mantras, now refer to your spirit

guide instead. If a mantra requires the use of an action (other than the Cast a Spell action), a bonus action, or a reaction, it uses your spirit guide's action, bonus action, or reaction instead of your own.

The guide is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See this creature’s game statistics in the Spirit Guide stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the creature’s appearance and whether it has two limbs, four, or more; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.

In combat, the guide shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the guide can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

You can expend one use of your Reorient Thoughts feature as an action to cause the spirit guide to regain hit points equal to two rolls of your Psi Die.

At the end of a short or long rest when you draw all of your expended ki back into yourself, you can summon a new spirit guide to you. If you already have a spirit guide from this feature, the first one immediately vanishes. The guide also vanishes if you die.

Once on your turn (no action required) you can access the senses of a creature you are telepathically linked with. You see through its eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, when you return to your own senses. While perceiving through another creature's senses, you gain the benefits of any special senses possessed by that creature. Though you are blinded and deafened to your own surroundings, attacks against you do not have advantage, and your own attack rolls do not have disadvantage, so long as you can still see your own body through the borrowed senses.

You can hold a flame with your mind as simply as you could hold a pebble. When an attack that deals bludgeoning, cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, or thunder damage must pass within 15 feet of your focus field to reach its target, you can use your reaction to envelope the energy in your psychic power, possibly halting or redirecting it. The damage the target takes

from the attack is reduced by one roll of your Psi Die + your Intelligence modifier + your mystic level. If you choose for it to, the damage type of the attack becomes one of the other types listed above.

If you reduce the damage to 0, you can redirect the attack as part of the same reaction, causing it to hit another target of your choice within 30 feet of your focus field that you can see.

Inured to Materiality

11th-level Wu-Jen feature

At the end of a long rest, choose two of the damage types listed in your Elementalist feature. You gain resistance to the chosen damage types until the start of your next long rest. If you have resistance to a type of damage, you can spend 2 ki points as a reaction when you take damage of that type to gain immunity to it until the start of your next turn.

Enlightened Elementalist

20th-level Wu-Jen feature

You have meditated upon the fundamental forces of the universe and made them your own. You can choose four damage types, rather than two, at the end of each long rest using your Inured to Reality feature. You gain immunity to one of the chosen damage types until the start of your next long rest.

In addition, spells you cast or damage you deal using your Psi Die ignore resistances to damage of the chosen types.

                Human Wu-Jen

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Whenever you use your Dull Thoughts feature, you can spend 2 ki points and choose an additional number of creatures up to your Intelligence modifier that are within 60 feet of you to have their willpower diminished. Until the start of your next turn, any damage dice rolled by the chosen creatures are decreased by one size, down to a minimum size of a d2.

Natural Talent

Choose a material: crystal, metal, stone, water, or wood. Objects made of the chosen material count as half of their usual weight when carried, dragged, pushed, or pulled by your focus field, and are moved up to 10 feet, instead of 5 feet, when moved using your telekinetic shove. In addition, creatures wearing the chosen material have disadvantage on saving throws made against being moved by your focus field.

Persona Major

Prerequisite: 11th-level mystic

Titanic Will

Prerequisite: 7th-level mystic