Metapsionics
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Metapsionics (tabular overview) consists of a variety of advanced powers, often difficult and costly to perform. A psion who specializes in this discipline is known as a savant.
Cannibalize
Power Score: Con
Cost: 0
Discipline: Metapsionics
Range: 0
Area of Effect: Personal
Duration: Instananeous
Save: None
Prerequisites: 5th Level
Required For: None
This power allows the psionicist to cannibalize his own body for PSPs. When it is used, he converts one constitution point directly into 20 PSPs.
Psionic Residue
Power Score: Wis -3
Cost: 4
Discipline: Metapsionics
Range: 0
Area of Effect: Personal
Duration: Instananeous
Save: None
Prerequisites: 5th Level
Required For: None
Whenever thinking beings pass through an area, they leave a residue of psionic energy which permeates the vicinity. With this power, the psionicist is able to harvest this latent energy and add it to his own PSP total. He is only able to do this infrequently though as the energies take time to replenish themselves.
Psionic Vampirism
Power Score: Wis -3
Cost: 0
Discipline: Metapsionics
Range: Short
Area of Effect: 1 Creature
Duration: Instananeous
Save: Will: Half
Save DC: 12 + 1/2 psion level + WIS modifier
Prerequisites: Psychic Drain
Required For: None
With this power, the psionicist can drain psionic strength points from one psionic mind directly into his own. The target suffers 1d6 points of “damage" per level of the psionicist (save for half). This power requires the Psion to have broken through the other Psion's mental defenses before use.
Psychic Clone
Power Score: Wis -6
Cost: 50
Discipline: Metapsionics
Range: 0
Area of Effect: Personal
Duration: 1 turn / 2 levels
Save: None
Prerequisites: 5th Level, Clairvoyance/Clairaudiance
Required For: None
When this power is initiated, a clone of the psionicist steps out of his body. It is under his control, but the dividing of his mind renders him unable to dominate other creatures while it is in existence.
Psychic Drain
Power Score: Wis -6
Cost: 10
Discipline: Metapsionics
Range: 0
Area of Effect: Personal
Duration: Instantaneous
Save: None
Prerequisites: 6th Level, Contact
Required For: Psionic Vampirism
Psychic drain allows the psionicist to tap into the personal, psychic energy of other people to augment his own psionic strength. The host must be willing, but need not be a psionicist himself. The host’s intelligence, wisdom, and constitution are each lowered by one point, while the psionicist enjoys a burst of 30 PSPs added to his total. If he exercises moderation, the psionicist does not harm his hosts.
Receptacle
Power Score: Wis -5
Cost: Varies
Discipline: Metapsionics
Range: 0
Area of Effect: 1 gem
Duration: Permanent
Save: None
Prerequisites: 5th Level
Required For: None
This power allows the psionicist to store psionic energy in a special receptacle. Only gemstones have the right resonance to store psionic strength points, the purer the better. When he uses this power, the psionicist forces some of his own PSPs into the matrix of the gem. The Psion is only able to store up to their own max PSP's inside gems. These gems are also quite fragile due to the massive energy stored inside. Only the Psion that stored the power within the gems is able to use it.
Stasis Field
Power Score: Int -8
Cost: 45
Discipline: Metapsionics
Range: 0
Area of Effect: Personal
Duration: 1 round + 1 round / 10 levels
Save: None
Prerequisites: 17th level, Time Shift
Required For: None
A stasis field is a region in which time seems to slow to a crawl. Time within the field seems to come to a complete halt for all except the psionicist that created it. This power takes much focus and the Psion needs 3 rounds before he is able to manifest the power another time.
Ultrablast
Power Score: Wis -10
Cost: 75
Discipline: Metapsionics
Range: 0
Area of Effect: 30-foot radius
Duration: Instantaneous
Save: Will: Negates
Save DC: 10 + 1/2 psion level + WIS modifier
Prerequisites: 10th level, Psionic Blast
Required For: None
A character using psionic ultrablast can overwhelm and damage nearby psyches. To do this he casts horrid thought waves in all directions. All those within range must make a will saving throw or become rendered unconcious from the trauma. Even those that save suffer 3d6 points of damage. This is a very taxing power on the Psion and she has a chance of passing out from the strain of releasing the energy.
Wrench
Power Score: Wis -4
Cost: 15
Discipline: Metapsionics
Range: Medium
Area of Effect: 1 Creature
Duration: 1 round + 1 round / level
Save: Fortitude: Negates
Save DC: 12 + 1/2 psion level + WIS modifier
Prerequisites: None
Required For: None
This power affects only creatures which exist simultaneously on the Prime Material plane and another plane of existence. This includes undead, elementals, fiends, and archons, but excludes gods, demigods, and avatars. When such a creature is wrenched, it is forced entirely into the Prime Material plane temporarily. The armor class, spell resistance and saving throws of a wrenched creature are decreased by 2d6 each.