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High Psionics: Power Sources

H IGH P SIONICS

P OWER S OURCES

Author: Robert van der Meer

Editor: Jeremy Smith

Proofreading: David Wickham

Design / Layout: Jeremy Smith

Interior Illustrations: Aaron Henson, V. Shane, Maciej Zagorski

Cover Illustration: Rick Hershey, Standard Stock Art: Issue 3 by Empty Room Studios Publishing

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High Psionics: Power Sources

I NTRODUCTION

Psionics is the art of tapping the mind’s potential.

There is a myriad of ways to tap that energy, though

only a few are mentioned. These ways, called pow-

er sources, are merely the most common. Just like

no mind is the same, so is each character’s power

source unique. In this supplement, you will ﬁnd

several exotic power sources intended to give you

the inspiration to play an interesting and unique

psionic character. The power sources described

here are written as whole character concepts, how-

ever, nothing prevents you

from drawing inspi-

ration from these to

play a truly unique

character.

These power

sources do not change

the class features of

your psionic character,

they merely change the

look and feel. You

still manifest powers

as normal, and you

gain no additional

beneﬁts or drawbacks.

They simply serve as a

way to differentiate your

character. To this purpose,

each entry gives you a few

suggestions on how to play

your character. However,

you are not forced to choose

particular skills, feats, or

powers. Also, you are not

tied to the power sources

listed here; this supplement

is far from exhaustive. You are

free and encouraged to think

of your own power sources, using those presented

here as only a starting point of possibilities.

Your character does not need be able to manifest

powers to use this supplement. He or she merely

needs to be psionic in one way or another. For

example, your elan rogue might be possessed by an

unbodied instead of being a reborn human. Or you

might play a soulknife who has razor-sharp crystals

embedded in his hands. Regardless of the character

that you play, this supplement is intended to serve

as inspiration for how you play.

Each power source is presented in a format that

separates eight categories of information, in addi-

tion to providing an overview of that power source.

This was done to let you ﬁnd what you want at a

moment’s glance. With the exception of the Ad-

aptation category, everything in this supplement

can be used in any system utilizing psionics. In

addition, if you want, you can even apply these

power sources to a spell-casting character as well,

although no speciﬁc examples are given for this.

Simply change the text to explain your magical

ability, rather than your

psionic power.

Your character

should be unique,

and this supple-

ment is an effort to

help you achieve

just that, so enjoy

creating and playing

your psionic character!

DREAMS

The mind is an inﬁ-

nite metaphorical plane, where

all things are possible. This becomes

obvious when you dream. But dreams

are usually controlled by the subcon-

scious, and it is usually impossible

to even know you are dream-

ing. However, you can en-

ter lucid dreams, where

you know that you

are dreaming. In a

lucid dream, you

can will anything to

happen. This lets you

change your dreams

like a deity can change his plane. You have learned

how to bring your dreams to reality, letting others

experience your dreams and your nightmares. Like

a dream, you can be calm and serene one moment,

and wrathful and terrifying the other.

Background: Just like everyone, you have

dreamed for as long as you have slept. However,

you have become conscious when you dreamed.

This may have happened through sheer coincidence,

intense meditation, or even outside interference. If

The varied options of psionic power sources allow a player to

decide how the character received his power

High Psionics: Power Sources

it was through meditation, maybe you lived in a

monastery where everyone was taught how to enter

a lucid dream. However, as you practiced your

lucid dreams, you wanted reality to bend to your

will as in your dreams. This eventually happened,

whether it was through your determination or

further meditation. It may even have happened

like your lucid dreams, coincidentally. If you are a

wilder, that is most likely.

Characteristics: You want to dream as often as

you can. In your dreams, you have already mastered

your powers; you want to do that in your waking

life as well. You may be addicted to dreaming.

After all, why would you live in reality when you

can do anything you want when you dream? Maybe

you were addicted to dreams, and now desperately

seek to overcome that addiction. You may be easily

upset when things don’t go your way, because

you expect them to. However, you could also care

less, knowing that you can do everything again in

your dreams. Either way, you are likely to have a

mercurial and passionate personality.

Appearance: You do not have an exceptional

appearance. However, there may be subtle hints of

your psionic talent. You may have an otherworldly

appearance, as you subtly change your body to look

more like your dream body. However, you may also

look like a beggar, because you pay no attention to

your appearance in the waking world. You might

keep a trinket or two with you that reminds you of

an exceptional dream. You may have taken it with

you when you woke up, or you may have brought it

into the waking world through a power.

Adventures: You adventure to live your dreams

in the waking world, and to experience things so

you can dream of them more accurately. Whenever

you see something new, you may want to learn how

it interacts with you. If you know powers of the

telepathy discipline, you may be interested in the

dreams of others as well. You might adventure to

experience the dreams of foreign people or even

monsters. Perhaps you have met someone through a

lucid dream, and you adventure to ﬁnd that person.

You might have seen an omen in your dreams,

which has led you to become an adventurer.

Manifestations: Whenever you manifest a power,

it comes from your dreams. This may mean that

a power’s effects literally come out of your mind.

If you manifest a power with a duration, its effect

may gradually phase in as it comes out of your

dreams and into the waking world. Your displays

could be details of the dream from which you

manifest your power. For example, if you manifest

a power that brings pain to an opponent, it might

perceive sensations that you associate with pain.

The area around the manifestation might shift and

stir as reality rearranges itself into a representation

of your dream.

Adaptation: There is no predisposition among

dreaming manifesters towards a speciﬁc character

class. The wilder has intense dreams—and

nightmares—and unleashes them upon his friends

and foes. Whenever a wilder enters a wild surge,

she taps even deeper into her most intense dreams.

The psychic warrior isn’t just the master of his

dream surroundings, but his dream body as well.

He grows wings and appendages in the waking

world as easily as in his dreams. If you can affect

the dreams of others as well, you might have an

afﬁnity for the telepathy discipline, and if you see

omens in your dreams, the clairsentience discipline

comes natural to you. Whenever you manifest

powers of those disciplines, you call images

forth from your dreams. Because they represent

dreams so accurately, they are common amongst

manifesters who tap their dreams.

Daily Life: Your daily life is a waking

dream—literally. Whenever you aren’t dreaming

or adventuring, you want to live your dreams as

best as you can. This may mean that you indulge

yourself, or it may mean that you seek out the

serenity of your dreams; daily life could be too

busy for you. You might teach others to enter lucid

dreams, letting them control their dreams almost

like you control the waking world. If you lived in

a monastery before you became an adventurer, you

might return there to share your experiences and

dreams with your fellow ascetics.

NPC Reactions: It is very likely that those you

meet are unaware of their dreams. They could

feel like they feel in their dreams whenever you

manifest a power, and that might unnerve them. It

might also appease them, causing them to see you

as someone who can make their dreams come true.

However, if you teach people how to enter lucid

dreams, your reputation could precede you. People

might seek your guidance to enter lucid dreams,

or at least banish nightmares. If you can explain

High Psionics: Power Sources

dreams, you might be seen as a fortune teller, even

if you do not know any powers of the clairsentience

discipline.

have one, large crystal embedded in your chest, or

you may have a plethora of smaller ones scattered

on your body. As you become more powerful, so

do your crystals. You may embed more crystals, or

they may grow spontaneously. If you have multiple

crystals, each one may be keyed to a speciﬁc power.

In that case, you have carefully altered that crystal’s

psionic resonance to fuel your power. Because you

still need the power of your mind to manifest your

powers, this has no effect on how many times you

can manifest a speciﬁc power.

Adventures: You may have become an adventurer

for any reason, but your crystals have likely played

a role. It is likely that you adventure to ﬁnd more

crystals, even if you do not want to embed them.

You may want to discover new kinds of crystals,

or you may want to amass a hoard of crystals. If

it is the former, you might be a prospector of a

psionic organization. In addition, you seek more

experience. This experience can be new ways to tap

your crystals, new designs that channel a crystal’s

resonance, and new foes to manifest your powers

against.

Manifestations: Your manifestations typically

draw upon the crystals in your body. When you

manifest a power, a crystal might glow or vibrate

on its own accord. An exceptionally potent power,

such as a power that has an XP cost, might even

cause a crystal to eject or shatter. The crystals are

bonded to your mind and body, so you can easily

represent a loss of XP with destroyed crystals. A

wilder, whose powers are fueled by emotions, may

cause her embedded crystals to glow ominously

bright whenever she enters a wild surge. A telepath,

on the other hand, might enthrall her foes not with

a captivating gaze, but with the hypnotic swirling

within a crystal on her forehead.

Adaptation: Powers which interact with

crystals, like hail of crystals , are a natural choice

for you. However, other powers can also be

adapted. For example, your astral constructs may

be crystalline constructs instead of ectoplasmic

constructs. Manifesters of this power source often

cut their crystals before embedding them. Those

manifesters take ranks in the Craft (gemcutting)

skill to increase the value of their crystals. If you

take the Scribe Tattoo feat, you can embed crystals

instead of scribing tattoos. These may be temporary

crystals which eject or shatter after use, or they may

E MBEDDED C RYSTAL

Crystal is valued for its natural psionic resonance

by manifesters. Many psionic items, including

dorjes and power stones, are made out of crystal.

Even the psicrystal is a crystal construct of its

creator’s mind. Because of crystal’s psionic

resonance, it does many things for a manifester.

Some manifesters take their afﬁnity for crystal a

step further, and embed crystals into their bodies.

This lets them enhance their innate psionic abilities

with their body, as well as with their mind. While

these manifesters are abhorred by most because of

their partially crystalline bodies, they are powerful

and to be reckoned with.

Background: You have had an afﬁnity with

crystals long before you began embedding them in

your body. You might have been a noble dressed

with gems, a peasant who looked at a gem cutter’s

shop with awe, or a miner who dug the crystals up.

But unlike others, who merely valued their gems as

jewelry, you saw something more in the crystals.

Maybe you felt their psionic resonance, or maybe

it was merely a hunch or a ﬂash of insight. For a

while, you kept your crystals close to you, but you

eventually found a way to keep them even closer;

by embedding them. You might have manifested

your powers before that happened, but you felt

the crystals harmonize with your mind, which

expanded your psionic talent to a degree you could

never have achieved on your own.

Characteristics: You know your crystals better

than a blacksmith knows his forge. You can tell

an onyx apart from a jet with a mere glance, and

you can see the tiniest imperfections in a crystal.

However, you might also get a hunch when you

come near large veins of crystal. While you are

far from a rod of metal and mineral detection, you

are extraordinarily attuned to crystals, which lets

you sense their psionic resonance. When asked

to describe a color, you think of a crystal before

anything else. When asked to appraise an object,

you speak in terms of crystal values rather than

gold and silver pieces.

Appearance: Your most notable feature is that

you have crystals embedded in your body. You may

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