.New Psionic Feats

A web enhancement for Hyperconscious: Explorations in Psionics by Bruce R. Cordell

With feats both ostentatious and subtle, psionic characters can enhance their prestige and power in the world, making his will manifest by their extraordinary actions.

In addition to presenting a wholly new adventure, complete with feats, prestige classes, monsters, items, and powers that support it, Hyperconscious: Explorations in Psionics updates all the psionics rules material from Malhavoc Press' EN World Award-winning previous psionics books, If Thoughts Could Kill and Mindscapes, to v. 3.5 of the d20 System. This material is now fully compatible with the Expanded Psionics Handbook.

The following free web enhancement supplements the new feats in Hyperconscious: Explorations in Psionics. Some of the listed prerequisites for these feats come from this book, so if you do not have it, you will need to make some substitutions.

Bewildering Energy [Psionic]
You use your preferred energy type with such mastery that those who witness it are impressed to the point of inaction.

Prerequisite: Ability to manifest the energy missile* power, Favored Energy†

Benefit: When you use an energy power that specifies a single target in conjunction with your favored energy (cold, electricity, fire, or sonic), the discharge of that energy is enhanced with a spectacular secondary visual or audible display, one calculated to overawe your foes. The foe that you strike with the energy power is dazed for 1 round. This feat cannot be used in conjunction with energy powers that target multiple foes.

Hyperconsciousness [Psionic]
You can gain acute awareness of your surroundings.

Prerequisite: Blind-fight

Benefit: You must maintain your psionic focus, plus spend a standard action each round in concentration. to use this feat. On each round you maintain both focus and concentration, you are treated as if you possessed blindsight 60 feet.

Latent Psi: Protected [Psionic]
Your desire for self-preservation opens up latent psionic ability, granting you protective powers.

Benefit: Another latent talent for psionics wakes, granting you the following psi-like ability:
Psi-Like Ability: 1/day—chrysalis† or slow light†. Manifester level 1st; save DC 11 + Charisma modifier + power level.

Special: You can use one or the other of your latent psi-like abilities once per day—you can't use both. Once you use one, you can't use the other for the rest of the day.

Note: Only those who already possess a smidgeon of psionic aptitude can call upon buried latent psi feats. Latent psi abilities cannot be augmented.

Vigilant Dreamself [Psionic]
You a pull an echo of yourself from the dreaming Shallows and instruct it to stay vigilant. (See Hyperconscious, Chapter Two, for more on the Shalllows, a realm of Dream.)

Prerequisite:Lucid Dreaming†

Benefit: If you have slept during the last 24 hours, a slowly dissipating echo of your dreamself from out of the Shallows accompanies you in the waking world. This dreamself is immaterial and normally only visible to yourself, but others may catch glimpses of its shadelike form on rare occasions (Spot check, DC 25). The vigilant dreamself trails behind you, ever watchful, helping to alert you to dangers or interesting sights. While you maintain your psionic focus, the vigilant dreamself grants you a +3 Shallows bonus to your Spot and Search checks.

The dreamself appears (if you've slept for at least one hour the previous night) when summoned (a standard action). Once present, the vigilant dreamself lingers for one hour.

Wear Mindscape Avatar [Psionic]
Plucking your avatar from the mindscape, you wear it like a second skin.

Prerequisite: Suppress Avatar†

Benefit: Each time your daily psionic power points are rejuvenated after a period of rest, you can choose to completely extract even the potential for your mindscape avatar to form, instead manifesting it in the corporeal world. For the remainder of the day (until your next rest and rejuvenation of power points), you may not take part in mindscape combat -- instead, you are treated as if the enemy mindscape combatant were using Overwhelm Buffer† on you. The next time you rest and gain back power points, you can choose to keep wearing your avatar, or let it fade back into mere potential (in which case you can partake normally in mindscape psionic combat; see Chapter One of Mindscapes or Chapter Three of Hyperconscious: Explorations in Psionics).

The benefit of extracting your mindscape avatar into the corporeal world is that it settles around you like a second skin, potentially granting you protection. While you maintain your psionic focus, you gain damage resistance 2/--. Moreover, the worn avatar perfectly overlays you and your equipment, but partly blocks ambient light, given you a shadowy appearance even in full daylight. This effect grants you a +2 circumstance bonus to your Hide checks (whether or not you are psionically focused).

NEW FEATS

* Power found in the Expanded Psionics Handbook.
† Feat, power, or other material presented in Hyperconscious.

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