Spellcasting and psionics use are not speeded up by this power, although this ability can be used to counter a magical slow effect. After the psionicist stops maintaining accelerate, he must rest for a number of rounds equal to the time he was accelerated, doing nothing but catching his breath. He does not suddenly age a year as the recipient of a haste spell would.

The power affects the psionicist's level in Hit Dice of creatures, provided they are in range. if more Hit Dice than that are in range, the smaller creatures are affected first (excess Hit Dice are lost). Creatures under this power do not escape, attack, starve themselves, or disobey basic commands (to move, sleep, work, etc.). They are not charmed and have no love of their captors.

The creatures remain under the power as long as they stay in range and the psionicist continues to pay the maintenance cost. Especially harsh treatment may cancel out the power's effectiveness. Allow mistreated creatures a saving throw vs. paralysation in such circumstances.

Exceeding racial maximums is dangerous. When an attribute is increased beyond the racial maximum and the user stops paying the PSP cost, he must make a system shock check; he suffers 1d6 points of physical damage if the roll fails.

If the psionicist's MTHAC0 resulted in a roll of 1, there is a backlash and he, too, ages 1d4 years.

If the psionicist passes his MTHAC0 by more than 10 points, he can mimic the features of a particular individual well enough to fool anyone who relies on appearance only to identify that person. If he is closely examined, the psionicist must make another MTHAC0 to see if his disguise works.

The exact effects of amnesia are left to the DM, but generally the victims remember how to talk, how to walk, how to eat, and other physical skills. Knowledge-based skills such as spellcasting, psionics use, or lock-picking would be temporarily forgotten, but talents such as proficiency with the bow or tumbling would not be.

Making a monster forget everything does not necessarily make it a nice person. General personality traits remain despite the loss of memory.

The psionicist must specify the time period which they wish to erase prior to attempting to activate the talent. The period of time forgotten and duration of the amnesia is based upon the number of power points expended:

At the end of the duration of the memory loss, a save vs spell is made: if successful, memories are recovered. If unsuccessful, the amnesia remains until the duration once again expires.

When the user activates this power, he temporarily gains one of the animal's attributes. He can gain the animal's Armour Class; movement rate and mode; physical attacks, damage, and THAC0; hit points; or any other special ability - though only one of these can be gained at a time. The attribute lasts for every round that the cost is paid. Switching to a different attribute requires a new MTHAC0 roll.

The character does undergo a physical change when this power is invoked. The extent of the change depends on the animal and the ability. For example, adopting a hawk's movement obviously requires wings, while attacking like a tiger calls for fangs and claws.

Once animated, all materials become flexible to some extent, though fluid motion is uncommon. The animated item moves more like a puppet. Its movements are jerky and clumsy, and if the item was rigid to begin with, it makes a loud creaking, groaning, or grating sound. It can move 60 feet per round (movement rate 6), in any direction chosen by the psionicist. It can attack as a club with a THAC0 of 20.

An animated shadow can't really do anything other than startle or amuse someone. It cannot attack or disrupt a mage's concentration. In this regard, it is similar to a cantrip's effect. It can serve as a diversion by entertaining someone or attracting a guard's attention.

In game play, the character must first pass a MTHAC0. If he does, the DM must reveal the percentage chance for the plan or action's success. Exact odds may be difficult or impossible to determine, but the DM should provide his most accurate, honest appraisal.

No one, not even a psionicist, can foresee the future with assured accuracy. Like precognition, the success of this power depends on how closely the characters adhere to their plans. Do they act as they intended? React as they intended? What factors did they fail to foresee? Every deviation steers events away from the predicted path. If this power is used, the DM should give the best answer he can, based on information the characters have. Factors they don't know about, and therefore can't take into account while forming a plan, can change things dramatically.

The Astral Plane is used to get to other destinations - a distant point on the Prime Material or a location on another plane, for example. When the user reaches his destination, a temporary physical body is formed there. It resembles the user's real body, and the two remain connected by the silvery cord. However, a temporary physical body isn't formed if the user travels to another location on the same plane as his real body. He can view that distant location in astral form, but he can't affect the area in any physical, magical, or psionic way.

The key word is "reasonable". The victim is completely fascinated, but he doesn't suffer from blind obsession. He won't leap into a fire or over a cliff, for example, or climb into the arms of a tarrasque (a bipedal killing machine). He can still recognize danger, but he will not flee unless the threat is strong and immediate. And if the danger is not apparent, (such as poison in a goblet of wine), the character could easily destroy himself in pursuit of the attraction.

Disguising a character's alignment or level is the easiest to do. The disguise is temporary, lasting only 1-6 hours. It has no effect on the character's real alignment or class, but a psionicist with aura sight will be fooled by the fake aura.

Because curses, geases, and quests are imprinted on the character's aura, they can be removed with this power. A psionicist who tries this suffers a -6 penalty to his power score and must expend 20 PSPs instead of 10. If the die roll is 1, the psionicist's patient must make saving throw vs. spells to avoid losing one experience level. (A slip of the psychic scalpel can close off vital parts of the brain.)

This power can be used twice per round (for two PSP costs and with two MTHAC0 rolls) to examine two different auras or the same aura twice. The user can be discreet, but he needs to gaze at the target. Using the power from a distance is less noticeable than using it up close.

The level (or Hit Dice) of the target character affects the MTHAC0 roll. The higher the level of the target, the tougher it is to interpret the aura. The power's Mental Armour Class should be improved by 1 for every three levels (or HD) the target has, rounded down. For example, an 8th-level target improves the power's Mental Armour Class by 2, making it Mental Armour Class 5 (and therefore harder to roll against).

The DM should relate game-related information in a story sense, rather than in mechanical terms. In the case of alignment, the user sees coloured light that represents an element:

1. blue (lawful);
2. gray (neutral);
3. red (chaotic);
4. white (good);
5. black (evil).

Relative level of power can be described as follows:

1. dim aura (a low-level target, 1st to 5th level);
2. bright aura (a mid level target, 6th to 13th level);
3. dazzling aura (a high-level target, 14th to 20th level);
4. blinding aura (a target above 20th level).

The aversion is "planted" in the victim's brain for one turn. It cannot be maintained for another turn unless the psionicist maintains contact throughout that turn.

The psionicist uses his regular THAC0 to determine whether he hits the target. If he succeeds, the missile inflicts 1d6 points of damage (assuming, of course, that the character made a successful MTHAC0 in the first place).

The banished creature returns to its original location as soon as the user stops paying the PSP cost. This boomerang feature won't harm the creature. If the creature has access to the Astral or Ethereal Planes, or if it can teleport between planes, it can try to return prior to the expiration of the power by rolling an Intelligence check at -3.

Available only to psionicists above level 20, this telepathic devotion appears in Appendix 3. DMs should understand its powers and limitations fully before using beastmasters within the Order.

Roles and the beastmasters: Any member of the Order may use beasts, provided they help him in his role. Entrants and mediators, for instance, use their beasts to seek and stamp out psionic heresy. Psiologists and cerebral masters use their beasts to further their research and understanding of psionics.

A psionicist uses this power to gain control over psionic beasts. This telepathic devotion is only available to psionicists of 21st level or greater.

This power controls only psionic creatures of animal, semi-, or low Intelligence (1-7). It does not affect humanoids or undead. Of the creatures already presented for DARK SUN campaigns, these can be controlled with this power:

• From the DARK SUN boxed set: Silk Wyrm
• From MC 12, Terrors of the Desert: Animal, Household - Critic; Antloid, Desert - Dynamis; Beetle, Agony; Cat, Psionic - Tagster and Tigone; Cistern Fiend; Cloud Ray; Drake - Air, Earth, Fire, and Water; Erdland; Floater; Kirre; Megapede; Pterrax; Razorwing; Silt Runner; Spider, Crystal; Zhac kal
• From other Monstrous Compendiums (only if these creatures are given psionic powers): Behir; Wyvern; Goblin Spider (MC 6, Kara-Tur Appendix)

Other creatures of the DM's creation can also be controlled, provided they fit this pattern.

On a successful MTHAC0, the psionicist gains control over the creature for the rest of that day. The maintenance cost for this power equals the creature's Hit Dice in PSPs per day. The maximum number of creatures the psionicist can control is equal to his level above 20th. Once the power is ended, the controlled creature wanders away toward its natural habitat.

While controlled, the creature uses all abilities as the psionicist wishes. The creature must still eat, and if taken out of its natural environment, it may perish if not properly cared for. Creature and psionicist share an empathic link (free of cost). If creature and psionicist become separated by more than 300 yards, the power fails.

If a controlled creature is slain, the psionicist suffers its loss severely. He immediately takes hit points of damage equal to the dead creature's original Hit Dice. The psionicist must save vs. paralysation or be knocked unconscious for 1d20 rounds.

First, the psionicist can easily control bleeding. As a result, he suffers two fewer points of damage from every attack against him which causes physical injury.

Second, by flooding key portions of his body with blood, the psionicist effectively cushions blows against him and reduces their effect. The character's armour class is reduced by one.

Each blink carries the psionicist 3d10 feet in a random direction. (Roll 1d8: 1 = straight ahead, 2 = ahead and to the right, 3 = to the right, and so on.) However, the psionicist's blinks will never carry him into a solid object or any kind of danger, such as a fire or cliff edge.

The psionicist may attempt to strike before he blinks, in which case he must beat his own blink initiative, or he can hold his action until the end of the round.

An attack in any form does not constitute an environment. For example, a character who can survive subarctic temperatures is still vulnerable to a cone of cold.

The information below is cumulative, so a result that hits MAC 6 yields the deceased's race, sex, and age. This power is difficult to use on very old remains. The more recently a creature died, the more accurate the reading will be.

The Constitution reduction isn't permanent, but it is debilitating and long-lasting. The user immediately loses bonus hit points that accompany high Constitution scores. His system shock and resurrection survival chances are reduced. All psychometabolic powers receive Mental Armour Class bonuses (making them harder to use) equal to the number of Constitution points that were cannibalized. The user recovers one cannibalized point of Constitution per week of rest. Rest means staying quietly in a safe place; adventuring is not allowed.

The process causes great discomfort. The outer layer of skin turns to very hard, insect-like material, with a huge carapace that gives more protection to the back and head. Any clothing or armour must be removed before the power is used - clothing is torn and ruined, while armour causes the power to fail. Once changed, the character gains a natural AC 2 on his limbs and front and AC 0 on the back and head. Dexterity immediately drops by 10 points, but after ten rounds of getting used to the new joints, the penalty is halved to -5. The character can still be recognized from the front, but his features are contorted and twisted.

Once the psionicist ceases to maintain the power, the character painfully transforms. The exoskeleton breaks away over five rounds, taking most of the skin with it. The character emerges bloodied, with hit points equal to level (or 1 if he was already severely wounded) and needing at least a full day's rest.

The psionicist suffers a -2 penalty to his MTHAC0 if his victim has a reason to be exceptionally wakeful. He also suffers a -2 penalty if his victim is a monster of some kind. Thri-kreen and other insects can he placed in a temporary state of torpor with this power, but the psionicist suffers a -4 penalty on his MTHAC0 when trying to affect such creatures.

This power makes the user extremely difficult to spot. For every round the power is in effect and the user remains still, he can avoid detection simply by successfully rolling against the power's Mental Armour Class. If the user moves, the Mental Armour Class score increases (to Mental Armour Class 5). Chameleon power is most effective in natural surroundings, where the user's colouration can best conceal him. In an urban setting, or in an area without natural cover during broad daylight, the power's Mental Armour Class score is improved to Mental Armour Class 3.

* Players with the Spelljammer boxed set should note that clairaudience works only within a given crystal sphere or plane.

Using clairaudience does not screen out background noise around the psionicist. If something in his own neighbourhood is raising a racket, he may have trouble hearing what is happening somewhere else. Clairaudience also does not give the psionicist the ability to understand a foreign or alien language, nor does it help him interpret sounds. For example, if the psionicist hears furniture scraping across the floor, he can only guess whether it's a chair or something else - just as if he heard it while blindfolded.

For example, a user trying to hear something 10,000 miles away would require a roll against a lower MAC. Instead of 8, for the closest range, the mental armour class would now be -2. If the user's MTHAC0 is 15, he needs to roll a 17 to successfully employ this power.

Clairvoyance doesn't replace normal vision. The user still sees what's around his physical location, with the distant scene superimposed. Closing one's eyes blocks the double vision and leaves only the distant scene. This power doesn't enhance vision, so hidden or invisible objects remain undetected. The distant scene is visual only; there is no sound.

The distance of the viewing spot modifies the power's MAC, as shown below.

*Players with the Spelljammer boxed set should note that clairaudience works only within a given crystal sphere or plane.

Clairvoyance does nothing to enhance the character's vision. Unless some other power or magic is at work, he still cannot see objects that are invisible, hidden in shadow, or behind other objects. This power also provides no sound, so the character actually sees a kind of silent movie (without subtitles, of course).

Once the viewing spot is chosen, it is fixed in space. To enjoy the view from another location, the psionicist must use this power another time, and make a new MTHAC0.

The psionicist's clairvoyant presence is undetectable by normal means. It cannot be dispelled, repelled, or kept away by any form of magic.

The player running the psionicist character can use this ability to remember detailed instructions or conversations to the word, even if he himself does not remember the exact content. This can come in really handy when trying to remember detailed instructions to a certain location or the exact wording of a complicated series of intricate passwords. The psionicist can also enter the trance to consider any problem, puzzle, or riddle, gaining a +2 bonus on any Intelligence checks to find a solution.

If used for photographic memory the trance lasts as long as it takes to completely take in all the information to be remembered. If used to solve a puzzle, the trance lasts as long as it takes the psionicist to make a single attempt to arrive at a solution for the situation at hand. An extended trance may last for several hours. Entire books may be memorized in this way.

While in cognitive trance, the psionicist suffers a -1 penalty to surprise checks. Combat or even conversation of the slightest sort will break the trance.

When expanding, the material forces its way around existing things. For instance, an expanding boulder on a surface of sand causes no damage, but compacted water poured into the cracks of stone severely damages the stone when it expands. If carefully applied, each cubic foot of compacted materials can cause as much as 25 structural points of damage on expansion. A creature that ingests compacted materials takes 1d20 points of damage per ounce taken in when the material re-expands. Expansion is quick, but not explosive.

As a side effect of compaction, the material receives a +4 bonus to all item saving throws.

Before this science actually works, the psionicist must engage in a psychic contest, pitting his power score directly against the victim's Strength. If the victim wins the contest, he breaks free (the psionicist still pays the power cost). In a tie, the contest continues into the next round, provided the psionicist maintains the power. The victim can't do anything else during this contest; all his effort is focussed on retaining control of his own body.

If the power works, the psionicist has rudimentary control over the victim's limbs. He can make the victim stand up, sit down, walk, turn around, etc. The body can be forced to attack physically, but with a -6 penalty on attack rolls (using the victim's own THAC0). The victim can't be forced to speak. In fact, he keeps control over his own voice and can say whatever he likes.

The victim must stay within the 80-yard range or the psionicist's control is broken automatically. If the body is forced to do something obviously suicidal, like walking off a cliff or poking at a red dragon, the victim can fight another contest with the psionicist to regain control (the adrenaline rush of imminent danger gives him renewed strength).

A fire's size can be increased by 100% or decreased by 50%. If the fire's heat is increased, it causes double damage. If its heat is reduced, the damage is halved. This applies to flaming torches, burning oil, and other normal fires, but not to magical fires such as fireballs or burning hands.

An animated fire can move up to 90 feet per round (MR 9). It can be shaped like a person or an animal, as long as it covers no more than 10 square feet of ground. If the fire moves away from its fuel, it can survive for only one more round, then dies out.

An animated fire can also attack by engulfing an opponent. The psionicist must make an attack roll using his regular THAC0. If successful, the attack causes 1d6 points of damage.

• Deepen existing shadows, making them inky black. A thief hiding in this shadow gets a 20% bonus on his ability roll.
• Lighten existing shadows, reducing a thief's hiding ability by 20%.
• Brighten a light source until it becomes blinding and hurts to look at it. This gives everyone exposed to the light a -2 penalty on attack rolls.
• Dim a light source so it resembles twilight. This does not affect anyone's attack rolls.
• Extend shadows into areas that are otherwise well lit. Only an existing shadow can be extended, but its size can be increased by 200% (i.e., its size can be tripled).
• Extend light into areas that are otherwise in shadow. Shadows can be reduced in size by 50%.

Control sound can also dampen a noise. The player must specify what sound his character intends to eliminate. For example, the user might quiet the strike of a hammer or erase the creak of a door. He couldn't eliminate both at once, however.

Wind above 19 miles per hour prevents anything smaller than a human from flying and imposes a -4 modifier on missile fire. On the water, such wind makes sailing difficult. Wind gusting at more than 32 miles per hour causes minor damage to ships and buildings. This wind also kicks up clouds of dust and prevents all but the largest creatures from flying. Wind more than 55 miles per hour prevents all flight, knocks down trees and wooden buildings, and may swamp ships. Wind more than 73 miles per hour is a hurricane gale.

There is no limit to the number of psionicists who join minds. Each participating psionicist must know the convergence power, however, and each must make a successful MTHAC0 in the same round. Then they are linked. All their PSPs flow into a single pool, from which each draws his strength. If one participant knows a power, now anyone in the group can use it.

Each participant can use psionic powers at the normal rate per turn: one defense and one other power per round. If the group is attacked psionically, the attack must overcome every working defense. If it does, the attack affects every character in the convergence, or as many as possible.

When the convergence is discontinued, PSPs that remain in the pool are evenly divided among all the participants. Fractions are rounded down, and no individual can exceed his usual maximum (extra points are lost).

In addition to inanimate objects, the psionicist also perceives forces - winds, water currents, or spell effects such as glyphs of warding, areas of reversed gravity, and so forth,

All living creatures larger than a microbe are perceived. Cosmic awareness detects invisibility detects evil/good, and detects magic without fail. Illusions are perceived for what they are. Creatures who are shapechanged or polymorphed are noted and their true forms understood. Ethereal, astral, phased, ectoplasmic, or gaseous creatures are seen as well. Details of the creature's equipment are detected clown to the number of gold pieces in their purses.

The character also hears all sounds and detects all smells within the area.

On the first round that this power is used, the psionicist perceives everything within a 10-foot radius around her. For each additional round the power is maintained, she may extend her perception radius by another 10 feet.

Before a psionicist can select this power, she must engage in research by intense meditation to gain a High Science, as described in Chapter Seven of The Will and the Way.

• Fits entirely within a sphere no more than 4 feet in diameter.
• Fits entirely within a cylinder no more than 20 feet long and 1 foot in diameter.
• Fits entirely within a cylinder no more than 2 feet high and 6 feet in diameter.
• Weighs no more than 10 pounds.

Only available materials within 20 yards of the psionicist can be used in the construction. However, these materials can be rearranged or restructured if the psionicist also has the power of molecular rearrangement. By combining these two powers, he could manufacture diamonds from coal dust or a sword from rocks containing iron ore.

If the die roll for the character's MTHAC0 is a 1, the sound is not quite true and may arouse suspicion in listeners. If a specific human voice is being mimicked, this happens on a roll of 1 or 2.

Created sounds cannot have any magical effect. The psionicist might duplicate a banshee's wail, for example, but it cannot harm anyone.

• One Round: Embers and coals are extinguished, metal becomes cold to the touch, skin becomes clammy, water condenses on object.
• Two Rounds: Small fires are reduced to cold embers, bone and chitin become brittle, skin becomes frostbitten (1d3 points of damage), liquids freeze.
• Three Rounds: Large fires reduced to embers, metal and wood become brittle, flesh freezes (1d8 points of damage). Damage does not increase after this round, but does continue at the rate of 1d8 per round.
• Four Rounds: Stone and obsidian become brittle.

Most items are not automatically destroyed by being frozen and then thawing out, but they may become more susceptible to breakage. Armour and weapons that become brittle due to cryokinesis must make saving throws versus crushing blows each time they deliver or receive blows in combat. (Thri-kreen who are struck while their chitin is brittle suffer double damage from any physical blow.)

No details about the type of danger are learned, or how or when the danger will strike. How much warning depends on the MTHAC0 roll. If the roll succeeds by +1 to +6, the user receives warning just moments before danger strikes. This gives him the opportunity to act before the danger strikes in the round, but no time to warn others. If the roll succeeds by +7 or better, the user knows whether danger is lurking within the area of effect a full round before it shows itself.

In addition to the above benefits, the power gives the user a +2 bonus to surprise rolls.

Once affected, the daydreamer pays little attention to his surroundings, making it much easier for someone to pick his pocket, slip past him unobserved, or otherwise escape his notice. Thieves gain a 20% bonus on their pick pockets, move silently, and hide in shadows scores. Other characters can perform these tasks as an average 4th level thief (pick pockets, 45%; move silently, 33%; hide in shadows, 25%). The DM can assign chances For success to other types of skulking and skullduggery.

A successful death field takes it toll on everyone inside it, including the psionicist. Before he initiates this power, he must decide how many hit points he will sacrifice. If the power works, the loss is inevitable; he gets no saving throw. Every other living thing within the death field must make a saving throw vs death. Those who succeed escape damage. Those who fail lose the same number of hit points as the psionicist. For the weak, that can mean death.

Deflect can be used on any thrown, fired, or hand-held weapon, including giant-thrown boulders or ballista bolts. It has no effect on creatures attacking with their own natural weaponry, such as teeth or claws.

The initial range is 30 yards, but by maintaining the power the psionicist can expand the radius of the search by 10 yards per round. At first, the character only detects the nearest location of what he 15 seeking, but by maintaining the power he can detect more sources at the rate of one per round, working from the nearest to the farthest.

The explosion causes destructive damage to the target, based on the MTHAC0 roll. If the roll is equal to the power's Mental Armour Class, 10% of the target area is destroyed. For every number rolled above the Mental Armour Class, an additional 10% is destroyed, up to a total of 8 cubic feet of material (by a single power use).

Monsters such as skeletons and golems targeted by the detonate power take damage based on the percentage of their mass that was destroyed, losing an equal percentage of hit points. Magically animated material, like golems, can make a saving throw vs. spell to resist detonation.

Weapons and armour that have been detonated receive penalties of -1 to attack rolls and AC values for each 10% destroyed. Magical items make a saving throw vs. disintegration to resist detonation. Vulnerable objects or living things within 10 feet of the target suffer 1d10 points of damage from the resulting explosion. A save vs. breath weapon reduces damage to half.

While this power is in effect, the psionicist's weapon ignores any armour worn by the victim. Only Dexterity and magical protection apply. For example, a gladiator with an 18 Dexterity in hide armour is AC 6 instead of AC 2. In the case of monsters, the DM must decide if the creature's Armour Class is due to thick, armour-like hide or natural quickness. In addition, the blade gains a +2 to hit and a +2 to damage rolls.

The dimension blade can also be used to cleanly sever inanimate objects, such as an opponent's weapon, a stone pillar, or the axle of a wagon. Any object struck by a dimension blade must make an item saving throw versus disintegration or be sliced in half.

The user finds himself engulfed in a featureless, inky grayness. He can't see where he is or where he's going. He has only his instinct to guide him, and he must make a Wisdom check every turn. If these checks succeed, he'll find himself at his chosen destination when he steps out of the dimensional realm. If any check fails, he strays off course by several miles. The DM can place the character in any location within the maximum distance he travelled from his starting point. It's up to the user to figure out his location, as the power does nothing to help him gain his bearings.

The user can take with him whatever he can carry, though bags of holding and other dimensional devices spill their contents if taken into the gray realm. If anything lives in the gray, it never bothers (or can't interact) with dimension walkers.

A door has only one side and no thickness; it doesn't exist from the "back" and can't be used to screen missile attacks. Up to five characters each round can use a door. If a group lines up, 10 can step through a round.

Commuting via this power is disorienting. Indeed, a traveller emerges dazed and can't attack or move for a round. Even just poking a head through a door requires a system shock roll. Failure means the hero loses 50% of his current hit points and passes out for 1d6 rounds.

Inanimate objects are not affected by exposure to the dimension's edge. In fact, a character can throw or fire objects through a portal, and they'll come out on the other side. Attackers suffer a -4 penalty on their to-hit rolls against targets on the other side of the dimension's edge.

Range: The normal range of this power - i.e., the maximum distance between the two portals - is 50 yards. The distance can be extended only with adjustments to the Mental Armour Class required to be hit, as shown below. Increasing the range does not increase the PSP cost, however.

The protection of the screen also applies to creatures trying to attack with tooth or claw, or other characters trying to grapple the psionicist. They pass through the screen, emerging on the opposite side. Most forms of energy, such as lightning bolts or flames, will also be diverted by the screen.

The dimensional screen has two limitations. First, the psionicist can't pierce his own screen with any weapon or form of energy (although some psionic powers may be used to mount indirect attacks on opponents outside the screen). Secondly, the screen fails if an object larger than the screen moves into contact with it the psionicist can't run through a mountain, or ignore the charge of a raging meltillot.

Clever opponents may find ways to attack the psionicist inside his screen. Magical spells like charm person, sleep, or cloudkill project no energy. Psionic powers also may penetrate the screen, as described above.

If the target is an inanimate object, it must save vs. disintegration; success means it is unaffected. If the target is a living creature, character, or an undead creature with free will, it must make a saving throw vs. death magic. If it succeeds, the creature feels only a slight tingle, but is otherwise unaffected. If the save fails, the creature is disintegrated (or 8 cubic feet right out of its center, which should be enough to kill most anything).

When domination is attempted, the target makes a saving throw vs. spell. If successful, the target isn't dominated. If the save fails, the target falls under the user's control for as long as the user pays the PSP cost. The PSP cost is dependent on the target's level, as shown below. Later, if the target is forced to do something against his alignment, he can attempt another saving throw to regain his free will.

If the victim does not pass out in one turn (the duration of this power's effects), damage scored against him is no longer doubled. However, the points of "pain damage" which he has an already incurred will remain in effect for another 1d6 rounds.

To use dream travel, the psionicist must be asleep. Once asleep, he begins fashioning a dream that involves travelling from his present location to his intended destination. At the beginning of the journey, the DM secretly makes a MTHAC0 for the character. If the check succeeds, the psionicist will reach his destination. If the check fails, the character will fall short 10% for each point that the die roll exceeded the power score.

If the DM wants, this MTHAC0 is all that's required to handle dream travel during a game. However, it's far more satisfying to actually roleplay the dream. The player creates the setting and describes his intentions, with the DM interrupting to change things arbitrarily and throw obstacles in the character's path. If the player overcomes the obstacles and solves problems inventively, the DM is justified in giving a bonus to the character's MTHAC0. If the dream is dull and lifeless, the DM can also penalize the MTHAC0.

The DM should remember that this is a dream; terrain on the journey may not resemble actual terrain, the character may be completely different, and the world may be completely strange. The length of the dream journey should be approximately the same as the real distance, however, and the final destination should be at least similar to the real destination. Such dream adventures should minimize combat and maximize problems, puzzles, and surreal atmosphere. If combat does occur, it has no effect on the character physically, but if he is killed, he wakes up, right where he started. All dream journeys take approximately eight hours to complete, successful or not.

Passengers: The psionicist can bring other characters along with him in the dream. His power score is reduced by one for each passenger he carries. Passengers must also be sleeping. A single MTHAC0 launches everyone on the dream journey. If the check fails, they still attempt the dream journey but fall short of their target. The psionicist must pay the PSP cost of the trip individually for each character accompanying him in the dream.

Intelligent animals can also be drawn into the dream, but normal animals (horses, dogs, falcons, whatever) are very difficult to bring along. The psionicist must make a separate MTHAC0 to draw in each animal and his power score is halved, rounded down, when making this check.

When the dream travellers reach their destination, they awaken. In the place where they lay sleeping, their bodies and any equipment carried or worn fades away. At the same time, they fade into being at their new location, still in sleeping posture, but fully awake.

The psionicist can move and attack as normal, and she is not invulnerable - she can be attacked normally by any opponent in front of or behind her. While she is two-dimensional, she suffers double damage from any successful attack.

The psionicist can also convert the following to ectoplasm: his clothing, armour, and up 0 15 pounds of equipment that he's carrying.

This attack assaults a target's self-esteem and individuality. It strikes like a glowing whip, its crack slicing open the wells of inferiority and worthlessness buried deep behind the target's defenses. For every 4 PSPs put into the attack (declared after a successful attack roll is made), the attacker rolls 1d6 to determine psionic damage against his foe. The defender (if psionic) loses that many PSPs or has his mind opened to further psionic contact if no PSPs remain. A failed attack costs 2 PSPs.

Ego whip has three ranges: short (40 yards), medium (80 yards), and long (120 yards). At medium range, the defender receives a bonus of 2 to his MAC; at long range, the bonus is 5.

If successfully used against an open mind, ego whip leaves the target dazed for 1d4 rounds, costing the attacker 4 PSPs. While dazed, all of a character's die rolls (initiative, attack rolls, damage, saving throws, etc.) receive a -5 penalty, the character can't cast spells above 3rd level.

See Psionic Combat).

Amount to add to the defender's Mental Armour Class (MAC) by defense mode used:

• Intellect fortress: -4 (pro-defender)
• Mental barrier: +2 (pro-attacker)
• Mind blank: +3 (pro-attacker)
• Thought shield: +4 (pro-attacker)
• Tower of iron will: -3 (pro-defender)

The psionicist retains his limbs and senses. Very dense bodies (stone or metal) reduce his Armour Class to 0 and give him en effective Strength of 21. Amorphous bodies give him the ability to slither under doors and elongate limbs, Gaseous bodies allow the psionicist to drift with the winds. Normal weapons may be unable to harm some forms, but magical weapons (and monsters capable of striking creatures hit only by magical weapons) can always harm the psionicist, regardless of his form,

The psionicist may change his form once per round without being forced to use an action. If he changes his form a second time, he must forego any other actions for that round.

In addition to the combat abilities of the various forms, the psionicist can always move in the element his body is composed of. For example, by changing to sand he gains the ability to burrow through sand at his normal movement rate. Some elemental bodies may be excellent camouflage; it's hard to see a character made out of nitrogen gas, for example.

Some substances will make normal weapons unable to harm the user. For example, a sword is unable to cut nitrogen gas, so a character would not be harmed by a sword blow while in that form.

*When used against non-psionic targets, contact is not required.

Item Requirements

An item must meet two requirements before it can be empowered. First, it must be of exceptional quality - worth 250% to 500% of the normal cost for an item of its type. Second, it must be new. The process of empowering must begin within 48 hours after the item is manufactured. If it is delayed longer, the item cannot be empowered. (If the psionicist still tries, he automatically fails Step One below, expending 50 PSPs.) If the item meets these two requirements, the psionicist can begin the empowerment.

Step One

At the start of each day, the psionicist must first prepare the item to receive psionic power. This costs 50 PSPs and requires a MTHAC0. If this check fails, the day is wasted; no further progress can be made until the next day.

Step Two

If the item has been prepared, the psionicist can give it access to a discipline. It can have access to only one discipline, never more, and the psionicist himself must have access to it. This step costs 100 PSPs and requires a MTHAC0.

Step Three

The psionicist can attempt to empower the item with any single power he knows within the chosen discipline. (The item must have been properly prepared on the same day.) The psionicist must make two successful MTHAC0s: first, a check for the chosen power (using the appropriate power score), and second, another empower check. If both checks succeed, the item has that psionic power, with a score two points below the psionicist's. If Step Three is successful, the psionicist expends another 100 PSPs. (Failure means he expends half that amount, as usual.)

Step Four

The psionicist can imbue the item with other powers by repeating Step Three. The item can acquire one power per day, provided it has been properly prepared (see Step One).

Step Five

When the item has acquired all the powers which the psionicist intends to give it, the psionicist can seal those powers within the item. To do this, he must prepare the item one more time (expending 50 PSPs), and make an endowment MTHAC0 one last time. If the item is sealed successfully, it can never gain any additional powers - but it can't lose them, either. An item that has not been sealed will lose one power per month until it is just a normal object again.

An empowered object has 8 PSPs per devotion and 12 per science. It has Intelligence equal to its maker's Intelligence minus 1d6 points, with a minimum of 12. Its ego is 2 points per devotion and 3 points per science. Unless it was empowered with another telepathic power, it communicates as indicated on Table 113, 'Weapon Intelligence and Capabilities" in the Dungeon Master's Guide (p. 186, AD&D 2nd Edition). Its alignment matches its creator's. The weapon has its own personality, however, and like all intelligent weapons, it will try to assert its independence at every opportunity.

The empowering process must be unbroken. If a day passes in which the psionicist does not at least try to prepare the object, it is finished as is. He cannot even try to seal the powers; they will wear off over the course of time.

In effect, this protects the psionicist against energy attacks. If the psionicist makes a successful MTHAC0, he can double the result of his die roll when saving against an energy attack. If the character makes a successful saving throw, he suffers no damage from the attack. If he fails, he suffers only half damage, regardless of what the spell description (if applicable) states.

When the character absorbs energy, he radiates visible light for a number of rounds equal to the points of damage he absorbed. If he suffered half damage, he radiates for that many rounds. If he suffered no damage, roll for damage anyway to see how long he glows. This glow is definitely noticeable, but it is soft, and illuminates no more than an area with a 2-yard radius.

Physical Strength cannot be raised above 18 psionically. The psionicist does not qualify for Exceptional Strength bonuses if he raises his strength to 18.

The psionicist receives an all-round sensory "snapshot" from the item's surroundings: visual, olfactory, aural, and temperature signals. The power itself gives no notion of direction or distance to the item in question, though the character can often deduce its location from the sensory signals.

If the item has been destroyed before the power is used, the check automatically fails. A concealed item (for example, in a pocket) gives a black visual image and insignificant olfactory, aural, and temperature signals.

Most intelligent creatures tend to think in words, so language can be a barrier to understanding. Unintelligent creatures think in pictures. Magical thought, such as when a wizard casts a spell, is unintelligible to this power. However, the user can recognize such thoughts as part of the spellcasting process. The PSP cost is shown below.

In ethereal form, the psionicist cannot be harmed - ethereal objects pass through one another easily. The psionicist cannot, in turn, harm other creatures or objects, or even pick them up or move them about.

The psionicist cannot directly teleport to the inner planes beyond the ethereal, but he can move there in ethereal form by simply crossing the border ethereal. Once he leaves the ethereal he regains his physical form and the power is ended. Otherwise, the power ends when he stops maintaining the power, and his body rematerialises exactly where it was before.

More information on the prime material, ethereal, border ethereal, and inner planes is given in the Priests section of Dragon Kings.

This power has no effect on clothing or equipment. Ability scores don't increase either. In other words, the character does not grow stronger simply because he became taller. However, being very big often has other advantages.

For example, a human could be made to look like a dwarf, but not like a parrot. A slamming door could be made to sound like a thunderclap or a cough, but not like rustling paper. Oil could be made to taste like garlic, but not like water. The PSP cost is shown below.

While fighting trance is in effect, the psionicist reduces any rear attacks to flank attacks, and any flank attacks are treated as if they were frontal attacks instead. The psionicist in fighting trance gains a +1 bonus to all initiative rolls, his Armour Class, all saving throws, and all attack rolls.

The psionicist's focus on his physical actions makes it difficult for him to concentrate on initiating any psionic powers. He suffers a -1 penalty to ail MTHAC0s he attempts while fighting trance is being maintained.

Because this armour is part of his body, the psionicist can enjoy its benefits without suffering any penalty he might have if he were actually wearing that type of armour. The armour created by this power weighs nothing, has no magnetic properties, and in no way encumbers the psionicist.

If the target dwarf encounters other, focussed dwarves, he considers their behaviour bizarre. Other dwarves see him as insane, but the target politely ignores suggestions that he is acting abnormally.

No dwarf willingly submits to this power. If the MTHAC0 fails or when it is no longer maintained, he most likely reacts with violence toward the psionicist, if he can identify the culprit.

In terms of existing combat damage, a creature probably has more damage to one half than the other; the psionicist can take advantage of this and increase the overall damage to the victim, but can no more than double the original damage. In reverse, the psionicist can duplicate the less damaged half, reducing damage possibly to zero. The DM decides how much damage is inflicted or healed. Once employed, the power affects the creature's entire body - selected portions cannot be exempted. After rounds equal to the psionicist's level, the creature resumes its normal form, though all damage inflicted in the meantime remains. Items carried by the creature are unaffected.

This power can have greater effect on creatures that are radially symmetrical (a starfish, for example). The psionicist can pick one portion and make all the others duplicate it, temporarily.

To use gird, the psionicist must first initiate and maintain the power he intends to affect. Then he must make a girding MTHAC0. If he succeeds, he automatically pays twice the normal PSPs for the girded power - or a minimum of 1 PSP per hour. To remove the girding, he must consciously decide to do so (no MTHAC0 is required). Otherwise, the girding remains in place until the psionicist runs out of PSPs. That means a psionicist who is unconscious or sleeping could awaken to find all his psionic strength girded away. If the psionicist wishes to reestablish a gird that he discontinued, he must make a new MTHAC0.

In general, the rules for adjudicating illusions on pages 84 and 130 of the Player's Handbook are appropriate for determining the effects of any hallucinatory effects. If the psionicist carefully constructs the hallucination and provides the victim with what he expects to see, the victim may not even receive a saving throw. The physical effects of hallucinations are psychosomatic: the victim may believe he is being mauled by a tembo, hut he is not really being harmed physically.

Maintaining a hallucination requires full concentration on the part of the psionicist. If he makes a physical attack or initiates another psionic power while maintaining this power, the victim instantly receives a saving throw versus spells with a +4 bonus to break free of the hallucination.

With heightened senses, the user has a good chance to notice thieves hiding in shadows or moving silently. This is represented by a thief's skill chance being cut in half if someone with heightened senses is observing him. Even if the thief is already hidden, he must roll again when the user of this power enters the area.

Someone with heightened senses can also track someone by sense of smell like a bloodhound. He must make an Intelligence check every turn to stay on the trail or to recover it if he loses it. While tracking, the user's movement rate is reduced by 50%. The trail can be no more than 24 hours old.

Ranges for the user's hearing and seeing are tripled while this power is in effect.

Further, he can ingest small quantities of possibly poisoned or impure foods, identifying the substance without causing himself harm.

The user can identify almost anything by touch. He can identify any item he has previously handled and can also tell if an item was handled in the last five minutes.

Thri-kreen can gain PSPs from other thri-kreen of the same pack within range. Other insects gain PSPs from their own kind within range. Characters using insect mind can choose one variety of insect within range to draw upon. All those within range lend an immediate bonus to the psionicist's PSPs, according to their size.

Smaller insects contribute fewer PSPs, but their numbers often more than make up for this. The PSPs are gained instantaneously; even if the insects move away before they are all used, the psionicist keeps them. The psionicist is taking advantage of the species-mind common among insects; the insects within range do not lose any psionic PSPs when the psionicist uses this power.

Id insinuation assaults a target's subconscious, like a mental battering ram tearing through the walls that separate primitive needs from social constraints. For every 6 PSPs put into the attack (declared after a successful attack roll is made), the attacker rolls 1d8 to determine psionic damage against his foe. If hit, the defender loses that many PSPs or has his mind opened to further psionic contact if no PSPs remain. A failed attack costs 3 PSPs.

Id insinuation has three ranges: short (60 yards), medium (120 yards), and long (180 yards). At medium range, the defender receives a bonus of 2 to his MAC; at long range, the bonus is 5.

If used against an open mind, id insinuation leaves its victim confused and powerless to act for 1d4 rounds. This use of the attack costs 6 PSPs.

Amount to add to the defender's Mental Armour Class (MAC) by defense mode used:

• Intellect fortress: +2 (pro-attacker)
• Mental barrier: -1 (pro-defender)
• Mind blank: -5 (pro-defender)
• Thought shield: -3 (pro-defender)
• Tower of iron will: +5 (pro-attacker)

Moving the psionicist requires a combined strength total that is at least 10 times greater than his immovability score (Con -5). If a character is pushing the psionicist, and makes a successful bend bars roll, that character can double the Strength he's contributing to the total. Even if a group manages to move the psionicist once, they may not be able to move him any easier the next time. The psionicist remains immovable until he stops maintaining the power.

This power has nothing to do with weight. A character will not crash through the floor because he made himself immovable. He has instead attached himself to the fabric of the universe, which is considerably more powerful than the strongest castle. He does, however, need a horizontal surface as an anchor. If the psionicist's MTHAC0 results in a 1, he attaches himself so well that even he can't break free simply by shutting off the power. He must pay the initial cost again (9 PSPs) to ree himself.

This power can have no effect on a dwarf's focus, However, other tasks the dwarf is undertaking can be affected.

The psionicist also knows immediately how many times this particular personality has een killed and raised from the dead. It is up to the players to put this information to use.

The power protects against damage from these forms of attack: any nonmagical missile weapon; any physical missile created by magic; any missile with magical bonuses; flames; some breath weapon attacks (depending on the nature of the breath); acid; gas; all forms of disintegration; and falling (damage is halved). Inertial barrier cannot stop missiles conjured from pure magic or protect against raw heat or cold, pure energy or light, or gaze weapons. An inertial barrier cannot keep enemies out, but it does slow them. Anyone trying to cross a barrier must stop moving when contact is made. In the next round, the barrier can be crossed (either entering or exiting).

Missile weapons, whether passing into or out of the barrier, inflict damage in a modified fashion because the power saps energy from the missile. If a missile strikes its target after passing through the barrier (in either direction), the attacker rolls for damage as normal. However, the defender then rolls the same die to see how much damage the barrier absorbed. (Note: The defender doesn't include any magical bonuses the weapon may have.) The defender subtracts his die roll from the attacker's damage total. If anything remains, the defender loses that many hit points. If the defender's roll equals or exceeds the total damage, the weapon falls harmlessly to the ground. If the missile is explosive, the barrier prevents weapon damage but not explosive damage.

The barrier does not differentiate the direction of travel. If a weapon is fired from the inside, the penalties above still apply.

If the target is an NPC who is being questioned, he is allowed a saving throw vs. paralysation to withstand the agony. If he fails, he begs for mercy and answers questions as the DM sees fit. If the user finds a way to employ this power in combat, the target is still entitled to a saving throw. Success means he grits his teeth and keeps on fighting. Failure means the pain imposes a -4 penalty to his attack rolls that round or disrupts and ruins spellcasting. PSP costs depend on the target's level.

The psionicist does not suffer the -6 penalty for contact with an insect or arachnid mind while this power is maintained. He instead receives a -6 penalty for contact with non-insect minds, and they suffer that same penalty when contacting him.

Also, with a greater understanding of insect thinking, the psionicist gains a 2 bonus to his Charisma score when dealing with insects. Conversely, he suffers a -2 penalty to his Charisma score when dealing with non-insect minds.

This power is commonly used when dealing with thri-kreen. Ambassadors to thri-kreen nations usually bring along a psionicist with this power. The power does not confer the ability to communicate - other powers must be employed. This power can be maintained while other powers are being used.

Unlike most other defenses, intellect fortress has an area of effect beyond the psionicist's mind, offering protection to other minds within that radius. Every mind within that area defends against telepathic attack with the psionicist's intellect fortress power score.

Amount to add to the defender's Mental Armour Class (MAC) by attack mode used:

• Ego whip: -4 (pro-defender)
• Id insinuation: +2 (pro-attacker)
• Mind thrust: -3 (pro-defender)
• Psionic blast: +4 (pro-attacker)
• Psychic crush: -1 (pro-defender)

A psionicist can initiate one other psionic power in the same round that he uses intellect fortress.

For example, Zenita is a psionicist with Con 15, Int 16, and Wis 17. She wants to intensify her Intelligence by 4 points. To do so, she must spend 20 PSPs initially (5 PSPs for each bonus point of Intelligence). Her Intelligence is raised 4 points to 20. Meanwhile, her Constitution and Wisdom scores drop 4 points (to 11 and 13, respectively). The increase in Intelligence affects psionic powers only. The drop in Constitution and Wisdom affects everything applicable except psionic strength points: psionic power scores, hit points, system shock rolls, saving throws, spell bonuses, spell failure, etc.

A psionicist can raise an ability score to a maximum of 25, provided he has enough PSPs and no other score is reduced below zero.

A character who is struck while under the effect of this power won't recover until a turn later, even if the psionicist stops concentrating on him and turns his attention elsewhere. As long as the character was under this effect when the blow was struck, he's out for 10 rounds.

Even if the victim of this power is never actually struck, his behaviour is likely to change. Fully expecting the next blow to kill him, he may stop attacking and simply parry, or try to flee, or even surrender and beg for quarter. If the character has not been struck, however, the psionicist must keep renewing the power every round; otherwise future blows will affect him normally.

"Invincible foes" can also work in reverse. In other words, an attacker can be made to believe that every blow he strikes is fatal. The belief is strong enough to create an illusion: even if the attacker barely scratches his foe, he sees the "victim" lying down, mortally wounded. He will continue to imagine that opponent lying on the ground until the opponent attacks again (it doesn't matter whom he attacks; any attack breaks the illusion).

This reversal has several consequences. Characters who have been "killed" - i.e., struck - can simply walk away from the fight, leaving their "corpses" behind. Or they can move into position and attack again, gaining a +2 bonus to hit. After this happens three times, the affected character must make a saving throw vs. spells. If it fails, he becomes convinced that his foes are unkillable and reacts accordingly. (PCs, of course, are free to react as they see fit.)

The user must make a separate MTHAC0 roll for each delusion and pay a separate PSP cost for each. A delusion is defined as one invisible character as perceived by one other being. The user can make anyone who is human size or smaller invisible with this power, not just himself. Note that this power affects vision only; observers may still be able to hear or smell "invisible" characters. PSP costs are as follows.

While iron will is in effect, the psionicist does not lose a hit point every round, as per the normal "-10" rule (see DMG page 75), but he will begin to lose hit points once he ceases to maintain iron will. Smart psionicists will bind their wounds before losing consciousness, or they may never wake up afterward.

The psionicist can also use his iron will to resist losing consciousness or control of himself through other means. If the effect the psionicist is struggling against normally allows a saving throw (a vampire's charm person ability or a psionic domination, for example) the psionicist gains a +4 on his saving throw while iron will is in effect. If the effect does not usually allow the victim a saving throw (a command or sleep spell, for instance), the psionicist gains the chance to attempt a saving throw versus spells with a -4 penalty.

Iron will acts as a reflexive power. It does not have to he maintained at all times in order to be effective. If a situation arises in which the psionicist needs the iron will power, he can drop what he is doing to initiate it. If he has not yet acted in the round, he has the choice of initiating iron will and aborting his intended action or of forgoing Iron Will to carry out whatever he had originally planned to do. Otherwise, he is forced to wait until the following round to initiate it.

While a psionicist maintains this power, he is immune to all physical impacts. A sword slash stops instantly when it touches his skin, arrows drop harmlessly at his feet, and monsters' talons and fangs can't harm him. The psionicist absorbs the damage of the blow and saves it for later use. Note that the psionicist can still be harmed by attacks that inflict their damage by contact, such as the energy-draining touch of an undead creature or the slow crushing attack of a giant python constricting its coils.

Using the stored energy requires the psionicist to make a physical attack. He can deliver any damage he has absorbed previously by touch, punches, or even through a hand-held weapon such as a sword. if he hits his opponent, the absorbed damage is added to any other damage the psionicist causes.

If the psionicist ceases to maintain kinetic control while he still has energy to dissipate, he immediately suffers 2 hit points of damage for every point of absorbed damage he did not expend. (The psionicist can make attacks on rocks, cacti, dead foes, or whatever to dissipate this energy. Item saving throws versus normal or crushing blows may apply)

This power can't be used to absorb damage from a fall. To do so, the psionicist would have to absorb his own kinetic energy (in this case, he is the moving object) which is something that the power is not capable of doing. This might be a valid subject for psionic meditation and research, however.

The character must also know his current location, Once initiated, the character gets a strong feeling of which way to go. ("Tyr is that way ...") The character's direction bump continually updates as long as he maintains this power, so he is certain to arrive et his destination eventually.

The higher a successful MTHAC0 roll, the more precise the location. A roll of +1 to +4 higher than the Mental Armour Class specifies a location within 10 miles. A roll of +7 or +8 higher than the Mental Armour Class targets an area within a mile. A roll of +9 or higher than the Mental Armour Class gives the location in a planar context ("the Astral Plane").

If the psionicist tries to transfer hit points when he has fewer than five remaining, he must make another MTHAC0. If this fails, he cannot transfer the points. In any case, he cannot transfer hit points if he has only one remaining.

The beneficiary of this power can never exceed his normal, healthy total of hit points.

Levitation isn't flying. The power provides no horizontal movement. The user can hover motionlessly and drift with the wind, or he can push off a wall or other fixed object and drift up to 60 feet a round in a straight line. He can't stop, however, until he meets another solid object, lowers himself to the ground, or stops paying the PSP cost. Two powers - control wind and project force - can help the levitating user propel himself forward and change direction. The use of these additional powers requires the extra expenditure of PSPs and MTHAC0 rolls.

The DM should make the MTHAC0 roll and keep it secret from the player. If the user doesn't detect anything, he won't know whether nothing's there or the power failed.

The character can absorb up to 10 more hit points than his healthy total, but these bonus points last only one hour. After that, if the psionicist still has more hit points than he should, the excess points vanish.

The effects of this power are simple: the psionicist can make the item attracted to other metal objects or repelled by other metal objects. Any metal objects within 20 feet of the magnetized abject are within its magnetic influence. Metallic creatures gain a saving throw versus spells to avoid being magnetized.

In deciding how magnetism affects an object, remember that a heavier object remains stationary, while a lighter object moves toward or away from it. If a character's short sword is magnetized and his friend standing beside him is wearing plate mail, the short sword will go flying over to stick to the armoured fellow - not the other way around. A creature holding or wearing an object under magnetic influence may attempt a Strength check to retain control of the item.

A character wearing metal armour can be immobilized if he fails his Strength check. Other effects are left to the DM's imagination, but small objects such as daggers can reach impressive speeds when attracted or repelled by magnetism.

The psionicist initiates the magnify power first. At the same time, he must designate which power he intends to improve. Unless he maintains the magnification, he must immediately use the power he wishes to improve (in the same round). Otherwise he can maintain the magnification until he uses the affected power (a costly endeavour). Once the power has been performed, magnify must be reinitiated to perform again.

The amount of magnification depends upon the psionicist's level: round up the psionicist's level divided by five (e.g., 1 >> 1, 7 >> 2, level 11 >> 3, 20 >> 4)

The trance ends when the user chooses to end it, by any moderate physical contact (a blow, shake, or slap), or when his PSPs are reduced to 0. As his attention is completely focussed on the psionic battlefield, any melee attacks against him hit automatically and cause maximum damage.

The MAC to hit is reduced by 1 (made more difficult) for each individual over two which the psionicist attempts to dominate. Each individual is attacked separately with the same Mental Armour Class.

Creatures that are burdened by extra-heavy armour suffer a -2 penalty to attack rolls and Armour Class and are reduced to of their normal movement Weapons that are made heavier or lightened suffer a -2 attack penalty and inflict-2 damage.

Light objects can be thrown or fired twice as far as normal. Very heavy objects can be lightened to make them easier to move. Some objects may be drastically affected by this power--a roof doubled in weight may collapse its supports, while a lightened anchor may not hold any longer. The DM should use his best judgment in deciding the exact effects of any particular mass manipulation.

The more massive the object the power is used upon, the more difficult it is to affect. Apply the following MTHAC0 modifiers for heavy objects.

Megakinesis is simply telekinesis on a truly grand scale. The psionicist can perform incredible feats of psychokinesis, moving objects that weigh thousands of pounds with the power of his mind.

Objects levitated by the psionicist can be moved at the rate of 60 feet per round - too slow to be used as weapons in combat, although heavy objects can be dropped on top of enemies who aren't paying attention to the psionicist. Living creatures picked up by megakinesis get a saving throw versus spells to avoid the effect if they do not wish to be moved around by the psionicist.

The psychokineticist may also use these enormous forces to open doors, pin an enemy in place, or bend or break things. For these purposes, he has an effective Strength score that varies with the amount of weight he wants to be able to move.

The cost and weight limits along with effective strength are as follows:

Amount to add to the defender's Mental Armour Class (MAC) by attack mode used:

• Ego whip: +2 (pro-attacker)
• Id insinuation: -1 (pro-defender)
• Mind thrust: -2 (pro-defender)
• Psionic blast: -5 (pro-defender)
• Psychic crush: +4 (pro-attacker)

A psionicist can initiate one other psionic power in the same round that he uses mental barrier.

Some forms have intrinsic advantages. Changing into a fish or rock renders the user immune to drowning, though he doesn't retain any senses not normally associated with his new form. He may opt to keep some of his own senses when he transforms, but these are likely to give him away.

Like any massive change of shape, metamorphosis causes great physical stress. The user must make a system shock roll. If the roll fails, he expends 6 PSPs, changes form only for 1 round, and immediately passes out for 2d6 turns.

In addition, mind bar protects a psionicist against all telepathic powers, except the five contact-establishing attacks. No telepathic power cart affect a barred mind unless the telepathic attack prevails in a psychic contest. (The defender uses mind bar.)

Amount to add to the defender's Mental Armour Class (MAC) by attack mode used:

• Ego whip: +3 (pro-attacker)
• Id insinuation: -5 (pro-defender)
• Mind thrust: +5 (pro-attacker)
• Psionic blast: -3 (pro-defender)
• Psychic crush: +1 (pro-attacker)

Mind blank is unique. Unlike the other four defense modes, it costs nothing to maintain. In fact, a character can still recover PSPs while using this power. That's because mind blank is almost instinctual; if a character knows it, it's nearly always active, even when he's sleeping or meditating. The power is inactive only if 1) the player announces it, or 2) the character uses another defense mode.

Even though mind blank has no PSP cost, it still constitutes psionic activity. If the power is active, a character is vulnerable to detection. He still may attract psionic feeders, or suffer some other unpleasant effect.

A psionicist can use one other psionic power (but not another defense mode) in the same round that he uses mind blank.

The psionicist can also suppress the basic needs of others while suppressing his own. To do so, he must pay an additional 10 PSPs per person and spend an additional hour of meditation per person. Each person being aided must be in physical contact with the psionicist throughout the entire period of meditation. Usually, all the characters hold hands, forming a continuous line or circle,

The psionicist can survive in this fashion for a number of days equal to his experience level, or five days, whichever is more. At the end of that time, he collapses from exhaustion. He must then rest one day for every two days spent sublimating his body's needs. Or he can be restored through 24 hours of complete healing. These rules also apply to any characters the psionicist has aided.

This attack stabs the mind of the defender, piercing thoughts and memories. For every 2 PSPs put into the attack (declared after a successful attack roll is made), the attacker rolls 1d4 to determine psionic damage against his foe. If hit, the defender loses that many PSPs or has his mind opened to further psionic contact if no PSPs remain. A failed attack costs 1 PSP.

Mind thrust has three ranges: short (30 yards), medium (60 yards), and long (90 yards). At medium range, the defender receives a bonus of 2 to his MAC; at long range, the bonus is 5.

If used against an open mind, mind thrust causes the target to lose the use of one psionic power (chosen randomly) for 1d6 days. This use of the attack costs 2 PSPs.

Beyond opening a closed mind, mind thrust has no effect on non-psionic minds.

Amount to add to the defender's Mental Armour Class (MAC) by defense mode used:

• Intellect fortress: -3 (pro-defender)
• Mental barrier: -2 (pro-defender)
• Mind blank: +5 (pro-attacker)
• Thought shield: +3 (pro-attacker)
• Tower of iron will: -5 (pro-defender)

Victims who are psionicists can protect themselves against the effects of mindflame by throwing up a simple mind blank or other defense, but any creature that does not know a psionic defense mode can be affected. The effects vary with the victim's level or Hit Dice:

Regardless of the effect, the victim is entitled to a saving throw versus death to avoid the effects of the mindflame. Creatures rendered comatose by the mindflame must make a second swing throw versus death or die at the end of their unconsciousness. Creatures rendered unconscious must make a second saving throw or lapse into a coma (without the risk of death).

Stunned creatures may not move, attack, initiate psionic powers, or cast spells, and suffer a -2 penalty to Armour Class. Dazed creatures may move at half normal speed, attack with a -2 penalty, and defend normally. They must make a successful saving throw versus spells to initiate a psionic power or cast a spell.

The effects of the mindflame can be corrected by psychic surgery, a limited wish, or a cure serious wounds or more powerful healing spell.

Mindflame is exhausting to the psionicist if invoked more than once in a day, the psionicist suffers a -4 penalty on his Mental Attack. It is also a very dark use of one's inner strength, and psionicists who maim lesser intelligences will find their alignments moving toward evil.

When a mindwipe is attempted, the victim saves vs. spells. If he succeeds, the mindwipe is thwarted for one round, but next round the psionicist can try again.

Each round of mindwiping has two important, immediate effects. First, it reduces the victim's Intelligence and Wisdom scores by 1 point. Second, it reduces his experience level or hit dice by 1 point.

These reductions have considerable impact. All characters may lose languages or proficiencies and their magical defense adjustment. Experience level and hit dice losses affect everything except hit points. The victim keeps all of his hit points regardless of what is wiped from his mind.

Intelligence and Wisdom losses affect wizards and clerics as if those losses were permanent. Clerics lose bonus spells, their chance of spell failure rises, and eventually they cannot cast spells. Wizards suffer reductions in their maximum spell level, their chance to learn spells, and their maximum spells per level.

When the number of available spells at a given spell-level drops, a character must make an ability check before attempting to cast a spell of that level. Wizards roll an Intelligence check. Clerics roll a Wisdom check. Both use current scores. If the check succeeds, the character can cast the spell. If it fails, he has forgotten the spell and can't cast any spell that round.

Mindwipe only seals off information; it doesn't erase it. All of a character's lost Wisdom, Intelligence, and experience levels can be restored through psychic surgery (a metapsionic science).

This power has no effect against creatures with neither stats nor hit dice.

• 1 round: readily flammable materials (e.g., paper, dry grass) ignite, skin becomes red and tender (1 point of damage), wood becomes dark.
• 2 rounds: wood smolders and smokes, metal becomes hot to the touch, skin blisters (1d4 points of damage), hair smolders, paint shrivels.
• 3 rounds: wood ignites, metal scorches (1d4 points of damage), skin burns away (1d6 points of damage), water boils, lead melts (damage does not increase after this round, but does continue).
• 4 rounds: steel grows soft.
• 5 rounds: steel melts.

Magical items receive saving throws against magical fire, but a +10 penalty is applied to the number needed. The heat produced by this power is highly destructive as it comes from inside the item instead of outside.

The rate of joining is approximately 6 square inches per round. If used on someone's armour, this will suffice to freeze one joint or fix one boot to the ground. A character immobilized in this fashion can usually wriggle out or tear free in one round, but a character wearing bonded plate mail is probably stuck for quite some time.

The DM must decide how vulnerable molecular manipulation makes larger, oddly shaped items (such as doors and shields). An object need not be in two pieces to be useless. A small boat, for example, is unsafe if it has a crack in its hull.

Converting one element to another is usually a simple operation, in which one ounce of material can be changed each hour. Typical conversions of this type include steel to lead, or any metal to gold. More complex rearrangement, like changing a metal to glass or changing a wooden goblet to a ruby goblet, takes four times longer.

The creation of gold coins from other metals is possible, but it's no way to get rich quick. At the rate of one ounce per hour, it would take 16 hours - about two work days - to change 10 copper pieces into 10 gold pieces, for a net profit of 9.9 gold pieces.

Molecular rearrangement is often used to create superior weapons. A psionically tempered weapon may receive a +1 on damage rolls (see "Weapon Quality" in Chapter 6 of the DMG). The process is time-consuming, however. For example, a typical short sword takes at least 40 hours to temper psionically. (The average short sword weighs 3 pounds, or 48 ounces, most of which is the blade.) A psionically tempered weapon does not automatically offer a +1 attack-roll bonus. In order to receive that bonus, the psionicist must

1. have the weaponsmithing proficiency and
2. make a successful proficiency check when he fashions the weapon.

The psionicist makes his MTHAC0 when the process is complete. If it fails, he did not waste all his effort. The difference between the character's die roll and his power score, multiplied by 10, equals the percentage of work which must be redone.

If the roll is 1, the item seems perfect but contains a hidden flaw which will cause it to break, or fail, or simply look wrong when it is put to use (the ruby goblet might leak, for example, or the sword might contain a soft portion which causes it to bend).

This power has no effect against living creatures weighing more than one ounce. Creatures weighing one ounce or less are killed if their molecules are rearranged.

Creatures walking or fighting are temporarily thrown off-balance and must make a Dexterity check to avoid stumbling and losing their action for the round. A running or charging creature must make a Dexterity check with a -4 penalty or take a running tumble for 1d4 points of damage. The victim is stunned for 1d2 rounds.

If this power is used on a falling character, it stops him instantly - and he begins to fall again. However, since his speed was reduced to 0, falling damage is only counted for the distance he fell after his momentum was neutralized.

It is hard to remove the momentum of heavy and fast-moving objects. The larger and faster an item, the more PSPs it costs to arrest its movement. it requires 5 PSPs to stop a man-sized creature (200 pounds) with a movement rate of 12, which is equal to walking at about four miles per hour. Each doubling of speed or weight costs an additional 5 PSPs, so it costs 25 PSPs to stop a charging half-giant in his tracks.

The power can throw pursuers off the right track. Used in a city's market, the collective rumours quickly place the psionicist all over town. Used among nomadic elves, the psionicist might be rumoured to be anywhere among the Seven Cities in a matter of days.

The psionicist must touch the skin of the victim, which can be a difficult proposition in combat - a normal attack roll to hit the victim is required. If he attacks successfully the effect on the victim is determined by the psionicist's initiation roll.

The victim may attempt a saving throw versus poison to avoid the effects of the psionicist's touch. Any of the effects can be neutralized by the application of a neutralize poison spell or the successful use of the antidote function of the science poison simulation, if the psionicist wishes, he can "pull his punch," using a lesser effect on the victim than that indicated by the MAC.

The amount of information gained depends on the MTHAC0 roll. Success rolls start with the number the user needs to get Mental Armour Class 7 and then improve from there, as noted below. The user learns the information listed, plus all results above it.

An object can be read only once per experience level of the psionicist; additional readings it that level reveal no additional information. When the psionicist gains a new experience level, he can try reading the same object again, even if his object reading score has not changed.

A phased character is not affected by gravity. He will retain any falling momentum he has, but when he arrives at the ground he is not harmed. He can move over solid ground at his normal movement rate, over water or quicksand at one-half normal, and through solid matter at one-quarter his normal move. He moves vertically at 10 feet per round. If the character fails to maintain phasing while passing through matter, he takes 3d10 points of damage, falls into a coma for 1d6 hours, and becomes trapped in the Ethereal Plane.

It is difficult to achieve contact with a phased mind. Any psionic attacks suffer a -4 penalty on their MTHAC0s, and the psionicist saves at +2 versus any mind-affecting magic or effects. Of course, these same penalties affect the psionicist's own attacks while phased.

If a hero is falling off a cliff and activates this power, he retains any momentum he had and phases into the ground 2.5 feet for every 10 feet he falls. He must then have enough PSPs to reverse his fall and phase out of the ground or suffer the consequences noted above.

The larger an object, the more difficult it is to phase. The rule of thumb is 1 PSP per 10 pounds, with a minimum cost of 10 PSPs. Phasing an object does not harm it. An object being phased cannot be affected by any physical force, but can be affected by other phased objects. A psionicist can use this power on his own sword to make it capable of harming another phased character.

Phased objects retain any momentum they had when they were affected, so a catapult missile will continue in its trajectory - it just won't do any damage when it strikes its target. Phased objects that were not moving stay where they were.

If the object is being worn or carried by an unwilling subject, the victim may attempt a saving throw versus spells to avoid the effect.

The psionicist can also perform rudimentary communication with controlled pheromone releases. He can send rudimentary information but has no means to interpret the answers received.

Thri-kreen regard this power as most distasteful, a savage abuse of psionics against the near perfect order of common insect life.

The reaction of the frightened character depends on the fear. He will defend himself if attacked (unless defending himself is somehow tied in to his phobia). A wizard may teleport away or use other spells to guarantee his safety. Other characters might freeze in place or flee for their lives. But all of their actions will be geared toward protecting against the fearsome object or situation.

This fear lasts as long as the psionicist maintains the effect. Once he stops, the fear fades back to its normal proportions, probably leaving the character slightly shaken and more than slightly chagrined.

The psionicist must remain still while using the power, or he gains no benefit from it.

The psionicist may attempt to switch a larger area than the normal 30-foot by 30-foot cube, For each additional 30-foot cube he attempts to transfer, he suffers an +1 increase to the MAC required. The psionicist may instead transpose a donut-shaped ring 10 feet in diameter on the inside and 10 feet wide. The transposed planes remain switched for as long as the psionicist maintains the power.

The exact effects of this power are left to the DM, but some guidelines apply. Inanimate objects can be partially transposed, so a castle may be half in the Prime Material Plane with the psionicist and half in the Elemental Plane of Fire. However, living creatures are either all in or all out. If a creature wanders away from its transposed area into the new surroundings, it doesn't return when the psionicist drops the power. Note that the psionicist may accidentally transpose an extraplanar creature when he grabs a chunk of its home plane and brings it to Athas.

The planes are not interrupted by their transposition; a piece of the Elemental Plane of Fire remains a roaring source of heat, transposing the base of a tower will not cause its top to fall, and so on. However, the new surroundings may affect the transposed areas eventually. A portion of Athas sent to the Plane of Magma would return a scorched wasteland.

Some possibilities with planar transposition include: creating a temporary oasis by transposing bare desert for a piece of the Elemental Plane of Water, opening a passage through a mountain by transposing a portion of the Ethereal Plane; sending a tower filled with enemy soldiers to the Abyss for a time (no telling what will be in it when the tower comes back); or hiding by surrounding oneself with a donut-shaped area of the Demiplane of Shadow or the Quasielemental Plane of Steam.

As noted above, planar transposition is a High Science. The psionicist cannot select this power as part of his normal advancement.

Plant mind does not allow the psionicist to communicate with plants, but it does give her a +2 bonus to her Charisma score when dealing with plants.

Any objects placed in the pocket dimension have no weight or bulk; the psionicist could carry 1,000 pounds of rock in his belt pouch, if he desired. However, when the psionicist ceases to maintain the power, the contents of the pocket dimension appear at the location of the access and drop to the ground. It is possible to damage things by placing a large object in a pocket dimension, putting the access in a tight space, and then ceasing to maintain the power.

Living creatures in the pocket dimension exhaust the air supply in about 15 minutes; however, the psionicist can leave the access partially open to allow air to circulate. The psionicist cannot enter his own pocket dimension, but can reach in and retrieve anything inside.

The psionicist can create the poison in her bloodstream or saliva. If she creates the toxin in her bloodstream, she can nick herself with a blade to get to it. Poisons the psionicist simulates can be used in their normal fashion; contact poisons can be used to poison victims with a touch, injective poisons can be smeared on weapons, and so forth. If the psionicist has an ingestive poison in her bloodstream and is bitten by a monster, that creature is affected normally by the venom.

An attack roll is required to hit an opponent with poisoned spittle or an envenomed blade, and the victim gets a saving throw appropriate to that poison type. A dose of the psionicist's poison remains potent for a number of rounds equal to her level or until it has been applied once.

This ability also has two secondary uses. First, the psionicist also learns how to construct antidotes for poisons she has been exposed to. She gains a +4 on any saving throw against poison, and a +8 bonus on poisons she can manufacture herself, Secondly, the psionicist can produce an antidote to treat someone else if that person has been poisoned with a toxin that the psionicist knows how to create.

The maintenance cost for this power is a one-time-only payment, made when the suggestion is implanted.

The DM makes the MTHAC0 secretly. If the check fails, the character gains no information. If the roll is 20 exactly, the character sees himself meeting his own death in a particularly nasty and grisly way and must make a saving throw vs. petrification. if the character fails the save, he is so completely shaken up by the vision that all his psionic power scores are reduced by three for 1d6 hours.

If the MTHAC0 succeeds, the character sees the most likely outcome of the actions described. The DM has some liberty in describing the scene and should use the d20 roll as a guide to how much detail to include. High rolls get more detail.

Even when it's successful, precognition offers no guarantees. The psionicist sees only one possible (albeit likely) outcome to a specific course of action. If the characters involved deviate from the actions the psionicist describes, then they are changing the conditions and the lines of time, thereby making other outcomes more likely. Die rolls (particularly for surprise, initiative, and normal combat) also play a large part in a precognition's inaccuracy. The DM cannot be expected to engineer die rolls to the players' advantage, and even events with 95% certainty fail to occur 5% of the time. Anyone who relies on precognition to the exclusion of caution and common sense is asking for trouble.

Precognition is tiring. Regardless of the outcome, a psionicist who has used this power must rest for at least one turn before he can use any other clairsentient powers (the use of other disciplines is not affected).

Before making the MTHAC0, the psionicist must spend a full hour alone with the subject (or isolated if he is using the power on himself). The two converse about the past and present, and the subject makes known his plans for at least the immediate future. If the subject is not completely honest with the psionicist, the MTHAC0 automatically fails.

The DM makes the MTHAC0 secretly. If successful, the psionicist gains a broad understanding of the target creature's prospects for one year in the future. The DM evaluates the target and give a general statement of one or two words. "Favourable or 'great riches" are appropriate responses, as are "little change" or even "possible death." The power gives no greater detail.

Spending additional power points gives a greater time span, though accuracy is still vague. Each five additional PSPs extends the prediction range by one year.

When the DM does not clearly understand the target's future, broader statements must be applied. The subject creature and the psionicist are both aware that these predictions are subject to change. The psionicist's impressions are based solely on "plot inertia" generated by past and present events.

Luck can be fickle. if a psionicist manipulates probabilities more than once in a day, there is a 50% chance that he suffers a penalty equal to the bonus he was trying to achieve.

The astral plane boasts nothing that would attract tourists, but its two-dimensional colour pools serve as highways to the outer planes. These pools, scattered randomly throughout the astral plane, provide connections to all surface layers of the outer planes.

Travel through the astral plane is speedy: 10 yards per minute per Intelligence point. However, distance on the astral plane does not equate to distance on other planes, After 1d6 + 6 hours of travel, the traveller reaches the colour pool he sought. There is a flat 75% chance that this pool leads to the exact destination the character wants. Otherwise, it is at least 10 miles off target - maybe more.

The psionicist can take other persons (as defined by the charm person spell) along on his probability trip. Each passenger costs 12 extra PSPs initially, plus 4 extra PSPs per hour, and adds one-half hour to the time needed to find the correct colour pool. Passengers must travel voluntarily; this power cannot drag a character into the astral plane against his will.

Combat on the astral plane is unusual. The traveller's physical body cannot affect astral bodies in any way. However, psionic powers do work against the minds of astral travellers. Most magical items do not work in the astral plane. Magical items which are keyed to a particular plane do function there, often with enhanced effect.

If the psionicist simply turns off this power while in the astral plane, he doesn't leave. Instead, he's stranded, unable to move except by physically pushing off of solid objects (which are extremely rare in the astral plane). He's also stranded if he runs out of PSPs or is knocked unconscious on the astral plane. The only exit from this plane is a colour pool.

If you'd like to learn more about travelling on the astral plane, see the AD&D handbook Manual of the Planes.

A probe can be tried during melee if the user is close enough and the target's mind is opened. The user knows when a probed spellcaster is casting a spell and what the general effects of that spell are. The user can learn the answer to one question per round, though DMs can alter this rate. Complex questions and answers may take longer than a round to resolve. The PSP cost is per the target's level, as shown below.

Project force can also be used to trigger traps, throw levers, open doors (not locked or latched), break windows, etc. No attack roll is needed, just the MTHAC0 roll to activate it.

This attack takes the form of a wave of mental force that jolts a defender's mind. For every 10 PSPs put into the attack (declared after a successful attack roll is made), the attacker rolls 1d12 to determine psionic damage against his foe. If hit, the defender loses that many PSPs or has his mind opened to further psionic contact if no PSPs remain. A failed attack costs 5 PSPs.

Psionic blast has three ranges: short (20 yards), medium (40 yards), and long (60 yards). At medium range, the defender receives a bonus of 2 to his MAC; at long range, the bonus is 5.

If used against an open mind, psionic blast causes 1d8 points of physical damage (hit point loss) for every 10 PSPs put into the attack.

Amount to add to the defender's Mental Armour Class (MAC) by defense mode used:

• Intellect fortress: +4 (pro-attacker)
• Mental barrier: -5 (pro-defender)
• Mind blank: -3 (pro-defender)
• Thought shield: +2 (pro-attacker)
• Tower of iron will: +3 (pro-attacker)

Other psionicists in the area of effect will not realize anything is wrong until they have actually used a power. If they are maintaining a power, they discover the inflated rate after paying twice the normal maintenance cost.

If two psionicists initiate psionic inflation in the same area, the psionicists must conduct a psychic contest. The loser's psionic inflation ceases. If both characters fail, then both cease their power maintenance. Reroll ties.

Power levels are as follows: 1) low psionic activity (1 to 5 PSPs per round); 2) moderate psionic activity (6 to 12 PSPs per round); and 3) high psionic activity (13+ PSPs per round).

To begin draining PSPs from the victim, the psionicist must establish contact. Once she has access to the victim's mind, she can begin draining PSPs. The MTHAC0 for psionic vampirism determines the rate of drain.

Although no permanent damage is caused by this power, it is unpleasant in the extreme and the victim will almost certainly want to fight back. Since the power only works against creatures with a PSP score (psionicists, wild talents, or psionic monsters), the victim is probably not helpless and may know a psionic defense to prevent the necessary contact.

Psionic strength drained by this power returns normally, just as if the victim had expended those points himself. If a victim is drained to 0 PSPs by psionic vampirism, he must make a saving throw versus death or fall unconscious for 2d6 turns.

Draining a victim of mental energy is usually an evil act, and psionicists who make extensive use of this power will find their alignments gradually twisting toward evil.

The psychic blade is an extension of the psionicist's own life energy. and it is treated as a +2 weapon for purposes of striking monsters immune to normal weapons. Because the blade is the psionicist's very life. it conveys special touch attacks back to his own body. Creatures that drain energy levels automatically drain a level from the psionicist each time he strikes them with a psychic blade. Monsters without minds (oozes, slimes, jellies, elementals, and golems) cannot be harmed by the psychic blade.

If the victim has a psionic defense mode operating when struck by the psychic blade, the psionicist must win a psychic contest against the victim for this power to cause any harm.

This power has a serious drawback. As long as the clone exists, the psionicist himself is practically a turnip. He retains only three senses: smell, taste, and touch. He cannot move, see, or hear. All his psionic powers are transferred to the clone. In effect, the immobile character is no longer a psionicist; not even psionic sense will reveal his true nature. He can be slain without any combat rolls if an opponent wishes to do so.

The clone can travel up to 60 feet from the psionicist. It can go anywhere the psionicist himself could go. For example, it can walk down a corridor, walk across acid (the clone has no substance and cannot be hurt), and swim (provided the psionicist can). Because the psionicist could walk through an unlocked door, so can the clone - although the clone passes through like a ghost. However, a clone cannot travel through walls or walk on water, because the psionicist could not either.

The clone is impervious to all forms of attack and damage except psionic or mental attack (which will affect the psionicist).

Like a terrible mental weight, this attack seeks to crush a defender's mind. For every 8 PSPs put into the attack (declared after a successful attack roll is made), the attacker rolls 1d10 to determine psionic damage against his foe. If hit, the defender loses that many PSPs or has his mind opened to further psionic contact if no PSPs remain. A failed attack costs 4 PSPs. Psychic crush has a range of 50 yards.

If used against an open mind, psychic crush causes 1d6 points of physical damage (hit point loss) for every 8 PSPs put into the attack.

Amount to add to the defender's Mental Armour Class (MAC) by defense mode used:

• Intellect fortress: -1 (pro-defender)
• Mental barrier: +4 (pro-attacker)
• Mind blank: +1 (pro-attacker)
• Thought shield: -4 (pro-defender)
• Tower of iron will: -2 (pro-defender)

Each subject, who is often called a host, must first be asleep. Next, the psionicist must make contact with the person's mind. Then he expends another 10 PSPs and makes a psychic drain MTHAC0. If he succeeds, the host falls into a trance which lasts 4-9 (1d6 + 3) hours. The character can be awakened with some difficulty before then, but he'll be groggy and disoriented for another hour.

While the host is in the trance, the psionicist can siphon psychic energy. Just as a vampire draws blood to grow strong, the psionicist drains Wisdom, Intelligence, and Constitution points. He can drain as much as he desires. For every ability point the psionicist drains, he gains 10 PSPs.

Any PSPs gained cannot be banked (added to the psionicist's total). They cannot be siphoned any faster than they are used. In other words, when the psionicist expends PSPs, he automatically draws these points from his host(s) - unless he specifies otherwise. The psionicist must remain within range of the entranced characters in order to draw strength points from them.

If he exercises moderation, the psionicist does not harm his hosts. A host only begins to suffer ill effects when he loses more than 50% of his psionic potential. (Potential equals Wisdom, Intelligence, and Constitution combined, minus 30 points. The table below shows the effects of excessive depletion. Psychic surgery can correct these problems.

Psychic impersonation does not alter any of the psionicist's other features. It only changes his identity to other creatures with psionic powers. Even then, a psychic contest with identity penetration or probe can penetrate the disguise.

While psychic impersonation is in effect, all of the user's psionic power scores are reduced by one.

This power has two special uses. First, it can help characters unleash their wild talents. If the user performs this kind of operation successfully, the patient gains a +2% bonus to his wild talent roll.

Second, the user can make the effect of any telepathic power permanent without any PSP costs. The power isn't bestowed upon the recipient, only the effect. This has the following restrictions: 1) The power must have a range greater than 0; 2) the surgeon must know the power and successfully use it on the patient; 3) the user can't do this type of operation to himself or another psionicist; 4) only one power can be made permanent per turn, and 5) if the MTHAC0 roll equals the MAC number, the procedure takes 2 turns. Likewise, this power can also remove a permanently implanted power. The PSP cost is determined by the target's level, as below.

This procedure can also be reversed; i.e., psychic surgery can be used to remove a permanently implanted telepathic effect.

He cannot necessarily tell someone how to get back to that starting point, however. If he is in a maze or dungeon, for example, he may know the starting point is 500 yards north, but he cannot retrace his steps through the maze automatically. Radial navigation does enhance his ability to do so, however. Every time the character comes to a decision point - e.g., "should I turn right or left?" - the DM makes a MTHAC0 for him. If the check succeeds, the character knows which way he came. If the roll fails, he isn't sure. (He can still maintain the power normally, however.)

Radial navigation can be helpful in several ways that are not obvious. For example, teleportation and other extraordinary means of travel become simpler. Let's say a character cannot see a particular location because he's blindfolded. He leaves that location, but uses radial navigation to get a fix on it. That means he can still teleport back there. Furthermoure, if the character has a fix on a place, he can reach it through the astral plane in just seven hours, the minimum possible (assuming of course that he can travel through the astral plane). And he can reach the same location by dimension walking (see the psychoportation discipline) with no chance of getting lost. Radial navigation can aid in telepathy, too. If the psionicist wants to make telepathic contact, and he has a fix on the target's location, he doesn't suffer the usual penalties for range.

If the character stops maintaining this power, he loses his fix on the location. He can get it back by resuming this power and making a successful MTHAC0 within six hours. After six hours, the location is lost. Only one location can be fixed at a time unless the character pays the maintenance cost individually for each.

Before powers can be stored, a receptacle must be prepared. Two types of containers are appropriate: a vessel prepared with empower (a metapsionic science), or a valuable gem that has been specially prepared using the receptacle power.

Empowered Vessel. Any vessel can serve as a receptacle for psionic energy if it is empowered first. The psionicist must perform the initial preparation and final sealing described earlier under "empower." He does not do anything further; the vessel needs no additional powers. It can hold PSPs equal to his psionic potential, multiplied by his experience level.

Valuable Gem. A gem can hold 1 PSP for every 100 gold pieces of its worth, rounded down. For example, a gem worth 650 gold pieces can hold 6 PSPs, and a gem worth 1,000 gold pieces can hold 10 PSPs. The gem still requires preparation, however. To do this, the psionicist must slowly fill the gem with PSPs - 1 per turn - until the gem reaches maximum capacity (lhoo of its value). The psionicist can do nothing else while filling the gem. When the task is complete, the psionicist must make a MTHAC0. If he fails, only one-half of the gem's capacity is useable.

Storing Points. Using his receptacle power, he can automatically place 1 PSP into a properly prepared container per round. When he is finished, the psionicist must make a receptacle MTHAC0. If it succeeds, all is well; if it fails, only half the points he expended are stored in the receptacle, while the rest are merely spent.

Using Stored Points. The psionicist can retrieve stored points automatically. The receptacle must be in contact with his flesh. He can never retrieve more points than the receptacle currently holds, nor can he retrieve so many that it raises his current psionic point total above his maximum. No matter how many receptacles he has, a psionicist can never store more PSPs than his maximum total. (For example, if his usual maximum is 100 PSPs, he can store no more than 100.) Only the psionicist who placed the points in the item can use them.

The danger of this power is receptacle loss. If the receptacle is damaged or destroyed, its contents (PSPs) are instantly subtracted from the psionicist's total possible points. This loss is temporary, but until the psionicist is once again back up to his full PSP score he recovers PSPs only half as fast as normal.

For example, let's assume Magnilda (a dual-class psionicist and warrior maiden) stands 6 feet tall. Five strength points reduce her height to 1 foot. Three more strength points halve her size three times: to 6 inches, then 3 inches, and finally to 1.5 inches.

Now let's assume Magnolia only wants to make her arm thin enough to slide through a keyhole. At its thickest point, her arm measures 4 inches across. Three strength points will reduce the thickness of her arm to 1/2 inch (from 4 to 2, then to 1, then to 1/2) without altering its length at all. She can now slide her arm through the keyhole and unlock the door from the inside.

Regeneration is a slow and tedious process. It requires one full turn to repair minor damage such as the loss of a finger, a broken bone, or nondestructive loss of eyesight or hearing. Three full turns are required to heal a badly broken bone or regenerate a mangled hand or foot, and as many as six turns to regenerate an arm severed at the elbow or eyes that were physically destroyed. The DM should use his best judgment in deciding how long it will take to repair any given injuzy

Regeneration can be used to repair the damage caused by a disease, but cannot cure a disease. It can also restore lost ability points (Constitution. Dexterity etc.) that may have been lost to the ravages of disease or injury. Regenerate cant improve a person beyond his original condition, so growing extra arms, for example, is not possible.

While this power is maintained, the psionicist does not suffer the -4 penalty for contacting a reptile mind. He does suffer a -4 penalty when trying to contact non-reptilian minds, as they do trying to contact him.

The psionicist's outward intelligence is severely reduced while the power is maintained. He cannot converse normally, and only responds to stimuli such as hunger, danger, territoriality, and reproduction. Among his reptilian peers, however, he is a genius. The power does not let the psionicist communicate with reptiles; this requires other powers. This power can be maintained while other powers are being used.

If this destruction is strongly against the character's alignment (such as making a temple repugnant to its cleric), the character gets to make a saving throw vs. spells to shake off the effect.

When retrospection succeeds, the characters tap into a universal, pervasive memory. They have access to any information that ever existed in anyone's memory regarding the incident they are investigating. The amount of detail that comes to mind depends on MTHAC0 results:

Memories bear the mark of the personalities who created them. The DM should roleplay the memories accordingly, not just recite information. If the psionicists' alignments differ significantly from the memories' alignments, reaction rolls are in order. Memories can be polite and helpful, or they can be cantankerous and downright rude. Memories which have lain undisturbed for centuries may be angered by the intrusion, or they may be delighted for the chance to air themselves out and bring the truth to light.

The psionicist must touch the missile and then fire it within two rounds - otherwise the power is lost. The psionicist must fire the missile, using his THAC0 for the attack roll.

If the missile is usually thrown, it returns to the psionicist's hand if it misses its intended target. If the missile is fired from a weapon, such as a bow or ballista, the missile returns and gently land at the psionicist's feet. This power removes the chance for an accidental hit on other enemies near the intended target - once the missile fails to hit the intended victim, it veers off for its return flight.

The power's effectiveness is measured in stages. The first stage is attained after the initial cost and successful MTHAC0. The second stage is reached on the first round that the power is maintained, and the third stage on any rounds maintained after that. After maintenance stops, the creature gradually recovers its agility, one stage per round until normal.

Affected creatures have difficulty communicating physically, and their powers of observation are severely impared. Spellcasters cannot perform somatic and verbal components if beyond stage one.

A character using this ability to attempt a dangerous feat of climbing, balance, or coordination gains a +4 (d20) or +25% (d l00) to whatever rolls are required. The character could use this ability to walk blindly across a room she knows to be full of traps and still receive the bonus on her chances to avoid the traps by Dexterity checks or saving throws. In combat, the psionicist gains a -2 bonus to her Armour Class and a +4 bonus to saving throws each round she maintains the power.

In addition to ethereal creatures, the psionicist can see phased or displaced creatures. Dimension walkers are revealed, and dimensional doors show as bright threads linking two portals. This power is useful when fighting ethereal or phased monsters such as ghosts and phase spiders.

If the psionicist rolls a MTHAC0 that hits -1 or better, he also can see the spell potential of a magic using character. A high-level wizard who has used up all of his spells would not have much potential, but one who had not expended any memorized spells would glow very brightly. This ability cannot detect priestly magic of any kind.

A successful MTHAC0 does not reveal the location of the watcher, it merely confirms the character's suspicion that he is being observed. If the observer is using clairvoyance or clairaudience to monitor the psionicist, the psionicist may attempt to obscure the watcher's scrying by winning a psychic contest against his watcher. If successful, the watcher cannot scry against the psionicist for 1d4 hours.

Since the player will know his character is under observation when. called upon to make this check, the DM should occasionally provide false alarms or make the character's MTHAC0 for him in secret.

Battles and betrayals, marriages and murders, childbirth and great pain - only events which elicited strong emotional or psychic energy leave their impression on an area. Everyday occurrences leave no residue for the psionicist to detect.

To determine how far into the past a psionicist can delve, divide the result of his MTHAC0 by two and round up. This is the number of strong events which he can sense. Only one event can be noted per round, however, beginning with the most recent and proceeding backward through time.

The character's understanding of these events is vague and shadowy, as if he were viewing a dream. The dominant emotion involved - anger, hate, fear, love, etc. - comes through very clearly.

The victims remain blinded or deafened for as long as the psionicist pays the maintenance cost to keep the power going. Blinded characters suffer a penalty of -4 to all attacks, saves, and Armour Class. Deafened characters suffer a -1 penalty, but the penalty could be increased depending on the circumstances. (For example, a character trying to use his blind fighting proficiency to engage a foe in total darkness is very susceptible to being deafened)

While in shadowform, the user only can be noticed by life detection, other types of psionic detection, or by a true seeing spell. He can't harm anyone physically or manipulate any corporeal objects, but he can use psionic powers.

This power is usually ineffective in bright daylight or on very dark nights. It works best in twilight conditions. The psionicist may use his own shadow to shadow walk.

Metal

For each round of softening, weapons incur a -1 penalty to attack rolls and cause one less point of damage, cumulatively. The armour class of metal armour increases one point per round of softening. After 10 rounds, any metal becomes soft and rubbery, but retains its shape.

Wood

Like metal, weapons with wooden shafts or handles suffer a -1 penalty to attack rolls and damage per round of softening. After six rounds, wood becomes stringy and rubbery but retains its shape. After 10 rounds, the grain can be split easily and a punch can break through even the hardest and thickest doors or chests.

Stone

After two rounds, stone becomes noticeably soft to the touch. After five rounds, it can be worked like stiff clay, but this is as soft as it gets.

Magical Items

Save vs. crushing blow to escape the effect entirely.

Living Tissue

No effect.

DMs can use their own judgement and the examples above to handle other materials.

Within the area of effect, the psionicist can choose to make the distance twice or one-half what it should be. In the passage above, he can make it appear to be 40 to 160 feet in length. A chasm could be made smaller, so es to be easily crossable, or greater to act as a defense. A friend's fall could be shortened to cause less damage.

Objects must be either wholly in or wholly out of the area of effect. The transition into the area of effect is unnoticeable.

As a secondary effect, the psionicist's gripping Strength increases to 20 for purposes of keeping hold of items.

When this power is initiated, the DM should roll the MTHAC0 in secret. The result of the psionicist's MTHAC0 determines the quality of the information he receives. However, no matter what the result is, the DM should try to be mysterious and vague in his answers. The spirits possess a lot of knowledge about a lot of different things arid matters, but they are not omniscient.

If the result is a failure, the psionicist finds no spirits to contact. The psionicist may ask one question per round of the spirit world. A clever character will cross-examine a spirit to determine its truthfulness.

First, the character must make a successful splice check. His power score is decreased 2 points for each power being spliced. For example, if he is splicing two powers, his score equals Intelligence -4. The initial cost of this endeavour is 5 PSPs for every power being spliced.

If the character passes this first MTHAC0, he must then initiate each spliced power in succession - without interruption. He does not have to make a separate splicing check for each of these powers, but he still pays their initial costs. Furthermoure, each spliced power has absolutely no effect at this time.

Once all the powers have been initiated, the psionicist must make a second splice check. (His power score is still reduced two points for each power being spliced.) If he fails this check, all his efforts are lost; the PSPs he spent are gone, and none of the powers works. If the MTHAC0 succeeds, the psionicist can maintain the splice by expending 1 PSP per spliced power per round.

At any later time (during which the splice has been maintained), the psionicist can unleash the spliced series of powers. In effect, he performs all of the spliced powers simultaneously - or with split second separations if desired. Success is not automatic. The psionicist must perform the individual MTHAC0s for these spliced powers when he releases them. He does not have to pay their initial costs again, however.

The maximum number of powers that a psionicist can splice equals his experience level. For example, a 2nd level psionicist can splice up to two powers, and a 3rd level psionicist can splice up to three. A complex splice is a long shot at best, however. As noted above, a psionicist's power score decreases two points for every power he attempts to splice. That means a character who attempts a five-power splice has a score of Int -10.

Mental attacks directed against the psionicist affect only half of the mind. Contact must be established separately with each half. If one half is destroyed, controlled, or subdued somehow, the other half can continue fighting independently and retains control of the body.

Before he attempts to make his personality whole again, the psionicist must make a saving throw vs. paralysation if any of the following is true: 1) he does not control both portions of his mind, 2) he has unrepaired psychic damage, or 3) is suffering unwanted contact. A successful save means that his mind returns to complete health and throws off all undesired influences. Failure means that the afflicted portion of his mind becomes dominant and he passes out for 1d6 turns, but regains consciousness free of undesired influences.

From the outside, the stasis field looks like a slightly shimmering, completely smooth silver globe. When something presses against the edge, it gives slight resistance, but the object passes through.

Inside the field, all is murky and dim. Light filters through from the outside, but it turns gray. A light source inside is only about one-fourth as bright as usual.

Time is 60 times slower in a stasis field. That is, for every round (or minute) that passes inside, an hour elapses outside. (This dilation is not apparent to those inside the field, however.) Each round the psionicist spends inside, he must pay 20 points to maintain the stasis field.

Energy and motion also change inside a stasis field. Energy magicks - e.g., fireball, magic missile, cone of cold, and flamestrike - have no effect; the spells appear and then fizzle in midair. Movement is slowed down visibly, and swift objects are affected more than slow objects. Character and creature movement rates are halved. A dagger can easily be pushed through someone, but a lightning-like slash with a sword is slowed to a graceful arc, almost like slow motion. A missile weapon is useless; the missile drifts lazily through the air, only to bounce off an unwary target or be dodged by a target who's looking.

If the psionicist keeps the stasis field centred on himself, it moves with him. He can transfer the focal point of the field to anything he touches, however. Then he can move freely within the field, or even leave it. If he does leave the field, the cost to maintain it is reduced to 1 point per round. (From one perspective, this is actually an increase in cost, since it equals 60 points for every round which passes inside. Remember, one hour outside equals one round inside.) While outside the field, the psionicist can roam up to 100 yards from it and still maintain the field. However, he cannot move the field from the outside. To move it again, he must re-enter it.

Maintaining this power doesn't count as an attack, but the discharge does. The psionicist must make an attack roll to hit his target, but only magical protections apply: armour and Dexterity do not.

There is always the danger of arousing the spirit itself, especially if its strength is being used for destruction of its domain. The base chance of having to explain oneself to the local spirit of the land is 5%. The DM may modify this chance according to the situation. The encounter itself should be roleplayed.

The psionicist can only disbelieve inanimate objects or effects with this power, since he finds it impossible to ignore living creatures. Some possible uses of the power include:

• Disbelieving's type of weapon, such as handheld weapons, bows and crossbows, or hurled weapons. No weapon of that type can harm the psionicist while he maintains the power.
• Disbelieving an entire type of magic, such as priestly or wizardly magic.
• Disbelieving a manifestation of an element, such as a bonfire or a rockslide.
• Disbelieving any one object, regardless of size (large or small), such as a boulder, an enemy's armour, or a magical item in an enemy's possession. The DM will have to decide what the exact effects of subjective reality are, but in general the disbelieved objects simply do not exist for the psionicist, He cannot be harmed by them, nor can he have any effect on them himself. The psionicist's enemies may be quite baffled 6y their inability to cut him to pieces or blast him to cinders.

The psionicist must be able to either see the object he is teleporting or he must know exactly where it is. If the psionicist left a steel sword hanging above the fireplace in his home, he can summon the sword, but if someone had moved the sword across the room, he could not summon it unless he used clairvoyance to see where it was.

If the psionicist tries to use this power to remove an object from someone else's person, the victim receives a saving throw versus spells to avoid the effect Note that any summoned object will appear in the psionicist's hand or on the ground beside him, so it is not possible to use this power to drop boulders on the heads of one's opponents.

The user chooses the plane from which the creature will come. He doesn't choose the creature, however; that's determined at random. A creature from the Elemental Planes is usually an elemental of the appropriate type. A creature from the Outer Planes could be a native or a visitor. DMs are encouraged to see the Planescape line for ideas.

This power offers no control over the summoned creature and doesn't return it to its home plane after a set amount of time - it merely teleports something from there to here. To be rid of the creature, the user must banish it, teleport it again, kill it, or somehow control it.

If the psionicist uses this power on a character who has not been frightened yet, the subject gains a temporary bonus of +4 to any morale checks or saving throws against magical or psionic fear effects. If the spell or power would not normally allow a saving throw, the psionicist may attempt a second MTHAC0 to see if his fear suppression defeats the effect anyway. This protection lasts one turn, plus a number of rounds equal to the psionicist's level.

The field persists only as long as the psionicist maintains it. The base maintenance cost is 1 PSP per round, but each spell level or magical power usage within the field adds l PSP to the maintenance cost. For example, a wizard who throws a fireball at a psionicist who is suppressing magic forces the psionicist to pay an extra 3 PSPs for that round's maintenance. Effects without a spell level should be equated to a similar spell. If there is no similar spell. the psionicists pays PSPs equal to 1 per Hit Die or level of the initiating creature.

This effect will temporarily disrupt enchantments in effect, so a charmed person is temporarily freed, polymorphed creatures return to their original form, and so on. Things that were changed by magic but are no longer magical, such as a stone bench that was created by a stone shape, do not change in form. A person stoned by a medusa's gaze remains that way. Once the psionicist ceases to maintain the power, all enchantments resume uninterrupted.

The psionicist can remain in suspended animation for a number of weeks equal to the results of his MTHAC0 - or less. When he wishes to put himself to sleep, he first decides when he wants to wake. Then he makes his MTHAC0. If the number rolled is less than the time he hoped to be "suspended," he awakens prematurely.

Another willing character can also be suspended for the same PSP cost (not at the same time as the psionicist, however). This has a preparation time of one hour and a range of touch.

Each character gains the other's physical attributes. However, both minds retain all their own knowledge and knowledge-based abilities. For example, a telepath who switches minds with a 10th level fighter gains a body with that fighter's hit points and physical attributes (Strength, Constitution, and Dexterity). However, he retains his own THAC0, proficiencies, and so forth.

The switch takes a turn to complete, and the process is quite traumatic. At the end of the turn, both characters must make system shock saving throws using their new Constitution scores. A character who fails this roll lapses into a coma for 1-100 hours.

Bodies that have undergone a personality switch tend to degenerate. Both characters must make a Constitution ability check every day. If a check fails, the character loses one point of Constitution. If his Constitution drops to zero, he dies.

This Constitution loss is temporary, but it does not reverse itself until the personalities are restored to their proper bodies. At that point, both bodies recover one point of Constitution per day until they reach their original scores.

The psionicist does not lose his psionic powers if his Constitution drops below 11. However, if a power score is based on Constitution - like this power's score is - the score drops accordingly.

Exposure to synaptic static for more than five rounds will give anyone a splitting headache. This has no game effect, but it will make NPCs and animals irritable.

Psionic blast has three ranges: short (20 yards), medium (50 yards), and long (90 yards). At medium range, the defender receives a bonus of 2 to his MAC; at long range, the bonus is 5.

If the linked creature takes poison orally, the telepath must make a saving throw vs. poison to avoid passing out and severing the link. The psionicist can't actually be poisoned this way, however.

The cost listed above assumes the object being moved weighs three pounds or less. For heavier objects, use the following:

• PSP cost equals the object's weight in pounds.
• The power's Mental Armour Class improves by a bonus equal to one-third of the item's weight, rounded down. For example, moving a 10-pound rock requires rolling against a Mental Armour Class of 5.

Telekinesis moves the targeted item up to 60 feet per round. Items moving at such a slow rate of speed don't make effective weapons, but items weighing more than three pounds can be used to disrupt spellcasting or psionic use. The user rolls his base THAC0 score to hit, with a penalty equal to one-third of the item's weight, rounded down. For example, if a hero whose THAC0 is 15 wants to attack a priestess whose AC is 0, he needs an 18 or better to hit her with a 10-pound rock.

Telekinesis can be used to perform very fine work, such as writing or sewing. The user must be capable of performing the work himself, and a second MTHAC0 roll (and second round of power use) is needed to complete fine work. If the hero wants to use the power to pull an item away from an opponent, use the rules for psychic contests, except that the defender uses his Strength score to decide the contest.

No object or force may pass the barrier, but abilities such as teleport or dimensional door may circumvent the barrier. Disintegration will destroy the barrier, but nothing else.

The barrier can not move once created. If the creator moves more than 20 yards from the barrier, the barrier collapses

When the psionicist fails to maintain the power or runs out of PSPs, she drops like a rock. She would be wise to land before this occurs.

The psionicist can still teleport to a place even if it has somehow changed from the way he pictures it. For example, if a room has been rearranged, or is currently on fire, such changes won't affect the teleport.

Teleports always take characters to a fixed location. For example, if a character tries to teleport into a gypsy wagon which is on the move, he'll arrive at the wagon's location when he last knew it. The wagon itself may be miles away by then. Also, if the character was picturing the wagon's interior, he will teleport to the space corresponding to the wagon's interior - which is several feet off the ground! Because the wagon itself has moved, the teleporter will fall when he arrives. (Imagine teleporting to a room on the fifth floor of a tower, only to discover the tower has been razed by marauders since your last visit.)

Teleportation is instantaneous. The teleporting character simply ceases to exist in his previous location and springs into being at the destination. There is a slight, audible "pop" at both ends, as air rushes into the sudden vacuum or is instantly displaced.

Restraints do not affect teleportation. A character who is tied up, shackled to a wall, or buried up to his neck can still teleport. The restraints remain behind.

Clothing, on the other hand, does accompany a character who teleports. He may also carry small items in his grasp or wear equipment (e.g., armour) on his person, not exceeding one-fifth of his own body mass. If he doubles the amount of PSPs expended, he can carry up to three times his body mass, or take along one or two other characters on whom he as a firm grasp.

A character can teleport any distance, but as the distance increases, so does the chance of failure and the cost in PSPs. Ranges, point costs, and power score modifiers are shown below.

If the teleportation die roll is a 1 or 2, the character and anyone else with him are momentarily disoriented by the jump. They can do nothing during the round which immediately follows the teleport. After that, they suffer a 2-point penalty to the following for 1d6 rounds: initiative die rolls, psionic MTHAC0s, and attack rolls.

Players with the Spelljammer boxed set should note that interplanetary teleports are possible only within the same crystal sphere. It is impossible to teleport between crystal spheres or different planes of existence.

In addition to interfering with teleporation, this power also prevents magical or psionic blinking and plane shifting, Teleport lock does not prevent travel by dimensional doors or dimension walk but does prevent shadow walking.

If the MTHAC0 fails, the points are still expended and the item is unaffected.

Players with the Spelljammer boxed set should note that interplanetary teleports are possible only within the same crystal sphere. It is impossible to teleport between crystal spheres or different planes of existence.

For example, here are three typical triggers: being reduced to 10 or fewer hit points, seeing a mind flayer, and being attacked by a magic missile spell. When such predetermined conditions are fulfilled, the character instantly teleports to the programmed location.

When the teleport is triggered, the user must have enough PSPs remaining to pay the teleport cost. (If he doesn't, the power fails to activate.) He must also make a teleport MTHAC0 roll based on the distance travelled. If the roll fails, the power doesn't work. The trigger remains active as long as the user pays the PSP cost.

No PSPs are spent when the trigger is defined, but the character spends two points per hour from that time just to maintain the trigger. The trigger remains in effect until the character stops paying the maintenance cost.

Amount to add to the defender's Mental Armour Class (MAC) by attack mode used:

• Ego whip: +4 (pro-attacker)
• Id insinuation: -3 (pro-defender)
• Mind thrust: +3 (pro-attacker)
• Psionic blast: +2 (pro-attacker)
• Psychic crush: -4 (pro-defender)

A psionicist can initiate one other psionic power during the same round in which he uses thought shield.

If the psionicist hastes herself by slowing down the timestream, she can maintain the power for a number of rounds (her own, not everyone else's) equal to her level. Movement, physical attack rates, and even spellcasting and psionic powers increase as well.

However, any spell or psionic power that leaves the psionicist's accelerated timestream (for example, casting magic missile at Or attempting to contact a nontime-dilated target) stands a chance of being disrupted. Each time the psionicist tries to do this, she must make a saving throw versus spells to successfully use her spell or devotion in the normal timestream.

If the psionicist slows herself by speeding up the timestream, the power lasts a number of her own turns equal to her level - so a 6th-level psionicist with a 1:20 factor of dilation can make 6 of her own turns stretch out for 120 turns (20 hours!) in the outside world. She can end the power at anytime, but her perceptions are slowed so much that she is automatically surprised by any enemy that approaches. Note that the psionicist consumes food and water and is affected by things like poison at her own pace, so this power can be used to reduce water consumption to zero or to slow poison.

If the psionicist is maintaining any other psionic powers, they are paid for only on her subjective rounds. If a psionicist was on a ship that sank, she could use levitation and time dilation to hover over the sea until another ship came along, since she is only paying the maintenance cost for levitation in her own creeping time frame.

First Round

The psionicist initiates the power. To observers, it looks as if nothing has happened.

Second Round

The psionicist's self from round three arrives, so there are now two psionicists. Both can act normally during this round, but the future self gains some advantages Since he's already lived through this round once and knows what to expect.

Third Round

The psionicist journeys back to round two to help himself, so there are no psionicists here. He has no existence at all during this round.

Fourth Round

The future psionicist who was borrowed from round three returns at the same spot and in the same condition he was in when round two ended. The time duplicate has ended.

In the second round, the future self has the option of automatically winning the initiative (since he knows what's going to happen) or holding his attacks until the end of the round. In any event, the future self gains a -4 bonus to Armour Class, +4 bonus to saving throws, and a +2 bonus to any attack rolls he makes.

If the future self is injured or killed, there is no effect on the present psionicist, other than the fact that he can cringe in anticipation of the wounds he's going to get and possibly die from. However, any injuries to the present self are immediately duplicated on the person of the future psionicist.

The psionicist enters a different reality when he uses this power. No one in the "still life" that surrounds him can see or detect him in any way. He can move freely through the environment, putting himself wherever he wants to be when he returns to normal time. But he cannot affect anything around him, nor can anything affect him. Even two time-shifted characters are completely invisible to each other. To the people in real time, the character simply vanishes and then reappears sometime later.

The character does not exist for any normal game purpose during the period when he is time shifted. If, for example, a fireball spell detonates in the room while the character is time shifted, the character is completely protected against its effects. In fact, unless the blast leaves visible effects (charred walls or corpses or sulfurous fumes), the character won't even know it happened. He sees none of the intervening events.

This power cannot help a character escape contact, however. If someone has established contact or tangents with the time shifter - and continues paying their maintenance cost - then the tangents or contact will still be in effect when the character returns to normal time.

Time shifting offers an obvious advantage in combat. A psionicist can leap one round into the future and manoeuvre into position for an attack. In that case, the shifter receives a +4 bonus to his attack roll. With enough time, he could even escape.

How long does a time shift last? If the psionicist travels one round forward, then he has one round in which to manoeuvre. If he travels two rounds forward, then it takes two rounds for reality to catch up. Three rounds is the limit. The farther (or longer) the trip, the more difficult it is to make, as shown in the table below.

Anyone and anything else inside the 3-yard radius is also protected using the psionicist's power score. Items are protected automatically, but living creatures or characters are protected only if the psionicist wants them to be. Each additional creature protected costs another PSP per round. This power cannot prevent someone from teleporting himself away; it only prevents teleporting from an outside source.

If the psionicist also knows the teleport other power, he may attempt to bring along one companion per level for an additional cost of 20 PSPs each. While the psionicist is gone, time keeps running in his normal setting: if he spends eight hours in the past, he must return to a point eight hours after the time he left

The Past: In the short term, the psionicist may wish to alter recent events by warning someone not to do something that he knows will turn out badly. He may travel back an hour to tell his companions (and his past self) not to storm the fortress, or whatever. The party may get a chance to replay the events in question - but the psionicist had better remember to go back and warn himself, even if things do turn out better, otherwise he will never receive the warning.

In the long term, the psionicist may try to recover lost information by speaking to people long dead. He may try to kill his enemies by assassinating their forebears. If the character tries to alter history, the DM should decide if he succeeds or fails. Sometimes the character's actions may have unexpected ramifications. For example, by killing Kaiak the Tyrant in his youth. the PC may pave the way for an even more terrible despot to arise.

The DM should be guided by two principles: once an event has been Changed once, it can never be changed again; and secondly, events tend to have a historical inertia. In other words, things have a way of working themselves out to be the same no matter what the psionicist does. The more important the event, the more difficult it is to change it.

The Future: The psionicist can journey to the future to see how an action will turn out or to uncover information not available in his own day. Like the past, the future is malleable; even the fact of the psionicist's visit changes the course of events in innumerable ways. Once the psionicist has glimpsed the future, historical inertia takes over and begins to bend events to follow the revealed time line. This destiny can only be avoided with great difficulty once it comes into being.

Whatever happens in the past or the future, the DM should use this power to make things more interesting. Ignore or apply paradoxes as desired to make the PCs life more entertaining and to keep the story going.

Like intellect fortress (a telepathic devotion), tower of iron will has an area of effect beyond the psionicist's mind. At 3 feet, it's very limited.

Amount to add to the defender's Mental Armour Class (MAC) by attack mode used:

• Ego whip: -3 (pro-defender)
• Id insinuation: +5 (pro-attacker)
• Mind thrust: -5 (pro-defender)
• Psionic blast: +3 (pro-attacker)
• Psychic crush: -2 (pro-defender)

A psionicist can initiate one other psionic power during the round in which he uses the tower of iron will.

Unlike the clerical spell true seeing, the true sight power does not confer the ability to see alignments, enchantments, polymorphed items, or secret doors.

Cleric: The power identifies the cleric's elemental sphere of worship.

Templar: The power identifies the sorcerer-king whom the templar worships.

Druid: The power indicates the general nature of the druid's guarded lands, but not their location.

Non-priest: The power correctly identifies the character as such. The psionicist knows the character's devotions and faith, if any, and also that he does not worship to gain magical spells.

This spell cuts through most deception. A templar masquerading as a cleric, or a druid wishing to pass unnoticed as such, cannot escape identification. The power does not indicate if the character is dual-or multi-classed, nor does it tell the character's level or alignment.

All characters within 50 feet of the psionic ultrablast must save vs. paralysation. Failure means they pass out for 2d6 turns. Those who pass out must immediately save vs. paralysation again. If they fail a second time, they lose all psionic power. Only psychic surgery can help them recover this loss.

Although the blast does not affect the initiator, the risks are great. If the MTHAC0 fails, he becomes comatose for 1d10 days. Some characters may think he's dead.

While this power is in effect, the psionicist can't be surprised by the approach of any creature or force. She is instantly aware of any changes in the area, but does not automatically spot the invaders - she only knows that something is coming.

This power only predicts naturally occurring weather, not magically induced conditions.

The other end of the wormhole will be of identical size and can be placed at any point the psionicist has ever seen, It can also be positioned at any place he can reference from where he currently is - for example, "10 miles east of where I am now" - whether or not he has ever actually been there.

Once created, the wormhole's entrances remain motionless. Anything can pass through, to be instantly transported to the other side, The psionicist could conceivably transport an entire army or a mekillot wagon by spending enough PSPs. If an object cannot fit entirely within the wormhole's mouth, it cannot be transported.

If the psionicist tries to use this power to transport an unwilling creature, the victim gains a saving throw versus spells to avoid being affected.

If the creature is forced out of the Prime Material plane, it is trapped in the other plane for 2d6 turns. It can return to the Prime Material when that time has elapsed.

If the creature is wrenched entirely into the Prime Material plane, it is trapped only as long as the psionicist continues paying the maintenance cost. As soon as he stops, the creature's dual existence is immediately reestablished.

Except where contradicted by the Monstrous Compendium, a creature wrenched onto the Prime Material plane suffers any or all of the following effects, at the DM's option:

• Its armour class is penalized 1d6 points.
• Undead lose the ability to drain life energy.
• Magical pluses required to hit the creature are reduced by 1.
• The creature is killed permanently if it loses all of its hit points.

The DM should impose any other penalties which seem appropriate, considering the creature and the other plane involved.