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 The pSion
“I ain’t never seen nothing like it. Now I’m usually an honest shopkeeper, but times are tough in the
wastelands, and one day this minotaur comes looking for dragon horn. He seemed an easy mark, so I
handed him my finest ‘dragon’ horn, and he looked pleased. Until…until his eyes rolled back and started
glowing. Then the goat horn started glowing. The minotaur’s eyes narrowed at me, and his deep,
gravelly voice rumbled, ‘Pathetic.’ Then he just walked away, and the damned psion took my lucky horn
without paying. I miss that goat.”
– Wasteland shopkeeper, on the dangers of dealing with psions

There are those who shake the ground with might
or magic, and then there are those who use pure
will to redirect the ever-present vibrations of
reality itself. Psions are those adventurers, indi-
viduals who have seen beyond the curtain and
tap the mysteries therein.
Web DM Wisdom:
The examples here of a
Unlocked by cataclysm
psion’s origins are just The apocalypse cleared the plane of chattering
a couple of ways your
psion could come about.
minds, allowing those with sensitive percep-
What inspires you when tions to hear the beckoning of this new psionic
you think about psions? force. With the gods gone and magic awry,
Is it jedi or Jean Grey? more and more such individuals are beginning
Commander Shepard or to listen to the call. Such a potent new power
Carrie? There are many
paths. Which will you represents hope for the communities struggling
choose? to survive in a post-apocalyptic landscape, but
it has also invited the attention of warlords and
profiteers who wish to exploit it. No matter the
motivation, a newly discovered psion is always a
hot commodity, and many do well to hide their
talents from strangers.
Disciplined masters
creating a psion
As you make your psion character, first con-
sider how you want to affect the wastelands.
Does your rage scorch a path across the land
in pursuit of sworn vengeance? Do crystals
sing in harmony to you with the consumption
of mental energies? Does your strategic use of
power restore life to those fighting for a brighter
tomorrow?
The wastelands are naturally unforgiving, but
you have mastered your mind and can fully con-
trol your path. You have extraordinary diversity
in what you can do to change the world. You are
more than able to pull your weight, but be care-
ful, because you can overexert yourself. That’s a
feature, not a bug.
Quick Build
You can make a psion quickly by following
these suggestions. First, make Intelligence your
highest ability score, followed by Constitution.
Second, choose the Nomad background. Third,
start with a rank in the Telekinesis discipline.

While the talent for psionic power is born rather
than made, mastering such power requires ar-
duous training. Untrained psions are likely to
destroy themselves and everyone around them
if their power goes unchecked, so many cloister
themselves in desolate corners of the wastes to
master their minds. Such psions live the lives of
sages, secluding themselves from the noise of
the world to focus their will inward. Only rigid
meditation and mental control allow a psion to
assess their full potential safely. Psionic power
is the pure expression of internal willpower to
affect the external environment.
Class Features
As a psion, you gain the following features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per psion level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution
modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your
Constitution modifier per psion level after 1st.
Proficiencies
Armor: Light armor
Weapons: Simple weapons
Saving Throws: Constitution and Intelligence
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight,
Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Religion

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Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in
addition to the equipment granted by your
background:
• (a) a light crossbow and twenty bolts or
(b) any simple weapon
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s
pack
• Leather armor, any simple weapon, and
two daggers
enhanced by expending power points. While us-
ing one of these abilities, you can never expend
more power points in a single instance than you
have ranks in its associated discipline.
For example, at 1st level, you may put a single
rank into the Telekinesis discipline, but when you
reach 3rd level, you may choose to either increase
the Telekinesis discipline’s rank by one or put a
rank into a different discipline. You may focus on
only one power at a time (as if concentrating on
a spell). The specific durations for each power are
detailed in its associated discipline.

Psionic Power Power Points

At 1st level, your innate psionic potential grants
you the ability to manifest psionic effects through
the prodigious power of your mind. Psionic ef-
fects are strange, supernatural manifestations
that take various forms, as detailed in the follow-
ing benefits.
Psionic Discipline
At 1st level, you may select one psionic discipline
from the “List of Psionic Disciplines” section and
gain a single advancement in that discipline. As
you level up as a psion, you gain the ability to put
ranks into new disciplines or continue to improve
your skills in a discipline you already know by
increasing its rank, as detailed in the Discipline
Advancement column of your class progression
table. Each ability granted by a discipline can be
The psion table shows how many power points
you have in order to manifest your psionic pow-
ers. Your class features and disciplines detail the
number of power points you must expend in
order to produce certain effects. You regain all
your expended power points when you finish a
long rest.
Zone of Influence
The farther something is away from you, the
more difficult it is to manipulate with your
psionic power. Any psionic effect you produce
has a range, called your zone of influence, which
is determined by your level as detailed in the
Zone of Influence column of your class progres-
sion table. When you manifest a psionic effect,
you cannot target or affect anything outside

The Psion
PROFICIENCY  DISCIPLINE POWER ZONE OF
LEVEL BONUS FEATURES ADVANCEMENT POINTS INFLUENCE
Psionic Power, Psionic
1st +2 1 2 50 ft.
Discipline, Psionic Recovery
2nd +2 Mental Modality 1 4 50 ft.
3rd +2 2 8 50 ft.
4th +2 Ability Score Increase 2 12 50 ft.
5th +3 3 16 60 ft.
6th +3 Mental Modality (2) 3 16 60 ft.
7th +3 4 16 60 ft.
8th +3 Ability Score Increase 4 16 60 ft.
9th +4 5 18 70 ft.
10th +4 Improved Psionic Recovery 5 18 70 ft.
11th +4 6 20 70 ft.
12th +4 Ability Score Increase 6 20 70 ft.
13th +5 7 22 80 ft.
14th +5 Mental Modality (3) 7 22 80 ft.
15th +5 8 24 80 ft.
16th +5 Ability Score Increase 8 24 80 ft.
17th +6 9 26 90 ft.
18th +6 Mental Modality (4) 9 26 90 ft.
19th +6 Ability Score Increase 10 26 90 ft.
20th +6 Burn Bright 10 30 90 ft.

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We wanted to create
a unique feel for the
disciplines, and with
as many iterations of
the psion as there have
been, that’s tough, but
I think we found a nice
niche. We wanted to
distinguish psionics
from spellcasting, so
leveled spells and
cantrips were the
first thing to go. The
Discipline advancement
system is scaled so
it feels like a more
natural progression of
psionic effects. It may
seem overpowered, but
to achieve that power,
you must sacrifice the
number of psionic
effects you have
access to.
Web DM Wisdom:
As a psion, falling
damage is your friend—
use it. If you hurl a target
and it doesn’t hit anything,
it still lands prone. But if
there’s a wall at the end
of its path, it takes 1d6
bludgeoning damage for
every 10 feet it traveled.
The same applies if you
throw the target into the
air and let it fall back to
the ground. This could
get tricky if you throw one
creature into another, but
I’d rule that the creature
not being hurled would
be allowed a Dexterity
saving throw to get out of
the way. If it fails, split the
damage evenly between
the tossed creature and
the target.
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this area. If a target with an ongoing psionic
effect leaves this area, the effect immediately
ends.
Psionic Ability
Intelligence is your ability for your psionic effects,
which represents the mental prowess required to
invoke psionic energy. You use your Intelligence
whenever a power or feature refers to your psion-
ic ability. Additionally, you use your Intelligence
modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a
psionic effect you manifest and when making an
attack roll with one, as follows:
Psionic save DC = 8 + your proficiency
bonus + your Intelligence modifier
Psionic attack modifier = your proficiency
bonus + your Intelligence modifier
Psionic Recovery
You have learned to regain some of your psionic
energy through meditation. Once per day, when
you finish a short rest, you can recover a number
of spent power points equal to your total num-
ber of discipline advancements.
Mental Modality
When you reach 2nd level, your powers have so-
lidified into a particular mental routine known
as a modality. Choose one of the following: the
Structured Mind, the Emotional Conduit, or the
Strategist, detailed at the end of the class de-
scription. Your modality grants you features at
2nd level and again at 6th, 14th, and 18th level.
List of Psionic Disciplines
Psionic disciplines represent the ways you can
control psionic power to affect the external
environment. Each discipline requires rigor-
ous mastery over particular portions of the
mind and the development of unique mental
processes. Successful advancement in even one
discipline represents the reward of countless
laborious hours of study and meditation.
Telekinesis
This discipline allows you to manifest your will
as physical force. You are able to move creatures
and objects with a strength far beyond the limi-
tations of your physical form.
Manipulate
You gain the ability to move or manipulate
objects by exerting your psionic power. As an
action, you can exert your will on one object you
can see within your zone of influence. You can
choose to expend your action round after round
to affect the same target or choose a new target.
If you switch targets, the prior target is no lon-
ger affected by your psionic influence.
You can try to move an object that weighs up
to 30 pounds in this manner. As part of the ac-
tion used to control the object, you can choose
to spend power points to increase the amount
of weight you can manipulate, as shown on the
Manipulate Weight table. If the object isn’t being
worn or carried, you automatically move it up to
30 feet in any direction, but not beyond your zone
of influence. You can exert fine control on objects
with your telekinetic grip, such as manipulating a
simple tool, opening a door or container, stowing
or retrieving an item from an open container, or
pouring the contents from a vial.
At Higher Ranks. When you spend at least 3
power points to use Manipulate in this way, you
also have the option to attempt to move a Huge
or smaller creature. The target must succeed
on a Strength saving throw versus your psionic
save DC or be affected by this ability. You are
still bound by the weight limits outlined on the
Manipulate Weight table.
Manipulate Weight
POINTS SPENT MAXIMUM WEIGHT
0 30 lbs.
1 100 lbs.
2 1,000 lbs.
3 2,000 lbs.
4 5,000 lbs.
5 10,000 lbs.
Psychic Crush
As an action, you unleash your psionic power
to crush something with your telekinesis. Make
a psionic attack against a creature or object of
your choice that you can see within your zone
of influence. On a successful hit, the target takes
1d10 bludgeoning damage. When you hit with
this attack, you can spend power points to in-
crease this damage by 1d10 per point spent.
Telekinetic Hurl
As an action, you may attempt to hurl a Huge or
smaller creature or object of your choice within
your zone of influence. If the target is a creature,
it must succeed on a Strength saving throw
versus your psionic save DC or be thrown up to
10 feet in a straight line in a direction of your
choice and fall prone. When you hurl a target in
this manner, you may increase the distance it is
hurled by expending power points. The distance
increases by 20 feet for each power point spent.
Psychoportation
This discipline allows you to manipulate the
spaces between dimensions and planes of ex-
istence. This knowledge opens doorways to
movement and control of the battlefield that
few can rival.
Dimensional Step
As an action, you can magically teleport your-
self to an unoccupied space you can see within
5 feet of you. By spending additional points, you
can increase the distance you can travel as speci-
fied on the Dimensional Step table.
Dimensional Step
POINTS SPENT DISTANCE
0 5 ft.
1 10 ft.
2 30 ft.
3 60 ft.
4 120 ft.
5 500 ft.
Transposition
As an action, you attempt to transpose yourself
and another target within your zone of influ-
ence. If the target is willing, this effect happens
automatically. If the target is unwilling, it must
succeed on a Strength saving throw versus your
psionic save DC or be pulled through dimen-
sional space and swapped with you. When you
declare the use of this feature, you may spend
power points to increase the DC of the save.
Each point spent in this manner increases the
DC by 1.
Baleful Anchor
As an action, you attempt to tether a creature
to a spot within your zone of influence, turn-
ing its own momentum against it. The target
must succeed on a Strength saving throw versus
your psionic save DC or have its speed reduced
to 0. A target tethered in this way takes 1d6
force damage at the start of each of its turns.
When a target takes damage in this way, you
can use your reaction to expend power points
to increase this damage, with each power point
adding an additional d6 of damage. At the end of
each of its turns, the target can attempt another
Strength saving throw, ending the effect on itself
on a success.
Clairsentience
This discipline allows you to read the energies
that suffuse reality and extrapolate information
from them. This knowledge allows you to assess
situations quickly to discover vital secrets or
counteract your enemies even as they strike.
Assess Aura
As an action, you may read the aura of a per-
son or creature you can see within your zone
of influence. When you read a creature’s aura,
you automatically learn its emotional state and
whether or not it is hostile toward you. When
you read an object, you learn if it was in the
presence of strong emotions within the last
three days and what those emotions were (if
any). For example, a pebble from a battlefield
may carry the psychic stain of violence and fear.
In contrast, a golden locket might convey love
and remembrance. At your GM’s discretion, an
object present during a truly momentous event
might carry an aura signature for much longer
than a three-day duration.
When you read an aura, you can choose to
expend a power point to ask one of the follow-
ing questions about the target. The GM offers a
truthful reply. The reply might be a short phrase,
provide only partial information, or be a state-
ment of the obvious. For each power point you
spend, you can ask one question from this list.
• What threat does it pose?
• What can it do?
• What does it want?
• What is it hiding?
• Where is it from?
Sight beyond Sight
As an action, you can use your psionic senses
to see in normal and magical darkness out to
a range of 10 feet. When you use your senses
in this way, you can choose to expend power
points to increase the range of your sight, add-
ing 10 feet for each power point spent.
At Higher Ranks. When you spend at least
3 power points to use your senses in this way,
you also gain the ability to see invisible creatures
and objects and perceive the original form of a
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 shapechanger or a creature that is transformed
by magic.
Forecast Conflict
As an action, you can read the tactics of your
enemies to increase your reaction time in
combat. For the next minute, whenever you at-
tempt a saving throw, you gain a bonus to the
saving throw equal to your Intelligence modi-
fier (minimum bonus of +1). When you use this
ability, you can spend power points to affect
allies as well. For each power point spent, you
can choose one ally who also gets to add your
Intelligence modifier to their saving throws for
the next minute.
This effect ends early if you fall unconscious
or use this feature again.
Psychometabolism
This discipline allows you to mediate bodily
forces, altering the state of those around you.
You are able to lend comfort or leech life itself.
Bolster Ally
As an action, you send a psychic rush to an in-
jured ally within your zone of influence, allowing
the target to immediately spend one Hit Die and
recover the total plus the target’s Constitution
modifier in hit points. When you use this fea-
ture, you can choose to expend power points to
increase the number of Hit Dice your ally can
spend, adding one additional Hit Die for each
point you spend.
Ease Malady
As a bonus action, you can target an ally affected
by an ongoing condition and reduce the DC of
What color will your
your target’s next saving throw by 1. When you
blade be? You are no
longer bound by canon. use this ability, you can choose to spend power
points to reduce the DC even further, as seen on
the Ease Malady table.
Ease Malady
POINTS SPENT DC REDUCTION
0 1
1 2
2 3
3 4
4 5
5 6
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Siphon Life
As an action, you attempt to make a touch attack
against a creature. On a successful hit, you deal
1d4 psychic damage and regain hit points equal
to half the damage dealt. When you successfully
hit, but before you roll damage, you can choose
to spend power points to increase this damage
by 1d4 per point spent.
Metacreativity
This discipline allows you to rearrange energy
to create tangible objects. You are able to cre-
ate new forms with pure will, whether they be
mundane items, weapons, or walls.
Construction
As an action, you create a Medium or smaller
nonmagical object or tool out of your pure force
of will. You can create tougher objects depend-
ing on how many points are spent on the item
based on the Item Durability table. The object
lasts until you dismiss or manifest this effect
again or until it is destroyed.
At Higher Ranks. When you spend at least 3
power points to create an item, you can choose
to create a Large or smaller object.
Item Durability
POINTS SPENT HIT POINTS
0 10
1 20
2 30
3 40
4 50
5 60
Force Weapon
As an action, you can create a melee weapon
made of pure force. This weapon is invisible
and cannot be removed from your grasp unless
you allow it. Attacks made with this weapon use
your psionic attack modifier, and a successful
hit deals 1d6 force damage. When you hit with
this attack, but before damage is rolled, you can
spend power points to increase the total damage
by 1d6 per point spent.
You may have only one of these weapons ac-
tive at a time, and it lasts until you dismiss it or
manifest this effect again.
Monomorototog easily determines this
"dragon horn" a fake and the vendor trying
to sell it a fool. The horn will be good for
wine though, so not entirely a waste of time.
 Barrier
As an action, you create a nonmagical barrier of
solid force at a point you choose within your zone
of influence. The barrier is a 10-foot-by-10-foot
panel that is 1 inch thick. When you use this
feature, you can spend power points to increase
these dimensions. For each point you spend, you
can either create another panel or add 1 inch of
thickness to a single panel. If you create multiple
panels, each must be contiguous with at least
one other panel. Each panel has AC 15 and 30 hit
points per inch of thickness. Reducing a panel to
0 hit points destroys it and might cause connect-
ed panels to collapse at the GM’s discretion. The
barrier lasts until destroyed, until you choose to
end the effect, or until you use this power again.
Telepathy
This discipline allows you to push the limitations
of the mind. This information grants ultimate
control over your own mental faculties and the
ability to touch the minds of other creatures.
If you force a Mind Mind Link
Link, what will you As an action you may telepathically link minds
choose to do? Sing all
with a willing creature within your zone of in-
night to keep the target
awake and give them fluence. When you establish this mind link, you
exhaustion? Distract a can choose to spend additional power points to
guard in order to get
connect with a number of additional creatures
past them? The weird
equal to the number of points spent. The crea-
ways to use this ability
are nearly limitless. ture does not have to share a language with you
but must understand at least one language.
At Higher Ranks. When you spend at least 3
power points, you may attempt to force a mind
link with an unwilling creature. The target must
succeed on an Intelligence saving throw versus
your psionic save DC to resist the link.
Psychic Probe
You attempt to probe the mind of a creature
you can see within your zone of influence. The
creature must succeed on an Intelligence saving
throw versus your psionic save DC or you immedi-
ately learn its surface thoughts. If the creature you
choose has an Intelligence of 3 or lower or doesn’t
speak any languages, the creature is unaffected.
When you use this effect, you can use an ac-
tion to attempt to probe deeper into the target’s
mind by expending power points. The number
of points you spend allows you to affect the tar-
get’s mind differently, as shown on the Psychic
Probe table.
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Psychic Probe
POINTS SPENT EFFECT
0 Gather
1 Learn
2 Extract
3 Suppress
4 Modify
5 Excise
• Gather – You learn the creature’s surface
thoughts—what is most on its mind at that
moment.
• Learn – You gain insight into the creature’s
reasoning (if any), its emotional state, and
something that looms large in its mind (such
as something it worries over, loves, or hates).
• Extract – You learn the answer to a specific
question you have (if the creature does not
know the answer, you learn that).
• Suppress – You suppress the creature’s memory
for 10 minutes. You can choose whether it
forgets the last 10 minutes or ceases to retain
new information for the next 10 minutes.
• Modify – You change a detail about an
existing memory the creature has. To do
this, you must know the specific memory
you are trying to affect, and the change
you make must make sense in the context
of the memory. Inserting the appearance
of a particular person, rewriting a few
minutes of a conversation that occurred, or
inserting a memory of an object that wasn’t
there are all acceptable examples.
• Excise – You cause the target to forget a
piece of information permanently. If it is
a specific memory, the memory cannot
be longer than an hour. If it is a specific
creature or object, the target forgets all
details about the creature or object but not
the impression that something was there.
Mind Spike
As an action, you attempt a psychic attack directly
into the mind of a creature you can see within
your zone of influence. Make an attack with your
psionic attack modifier. On a successful hit, the
creature takes 1d6 psychic damage. When you
hit with this attack, but before damage is rolled,
you can spend power points to increase the total
damage by 1d6 per point spent.