Talent

Talent¶

Arare few people are born with the potential to harness psionic power, but only those who experience an awakening, a significant event that activates a talent's abilities, can tap into the mind's full potential. You are one of those people—a master of psionics and a source of incredible power created through sheer force of will. You can move and change matter, time, gravity, the laws of physics, or another creature's mind.

As a talent, you are limited only by the strength of your mind. But the ability to wield multiple powers at once and change reality at will involves a gamble. Every manifestation has a chance of harming you, and talents who use too much power too quickly pay a deadly price.

"I've seen what you can do! There is NO LIMIT to your power! All you have to do … is BELIEVE!"

Khorva

Basics¶

Starting Characteristics: You start with a Reason of 2 and a Presence of 2, and you can choose one of the following arrays for your other characteristic scores:

2, −1, −1
1, 1, −1
1, 0, 0

Weak Potency: Reason − 2

Average Potency: Reason − 1

Strong Potency: Reason

Starting Stamina at 1st Level: 18

Stamina Gained at 2nd and Higher Levels: 6

Recoveries: 8

Skills: You gain the Psionics and Read Person skills (see Skills in Chapter 9: Tests). Then choose any two skills from the interpersonal or lore skill groups. (Quick Build: Empathize, Psionics, Read Person, Timescape.)

1st-Level Features¶

As a 1st-level talent, you gain the following features.

Talent Tradition¶

Psionic abilities are grouped into categories according to their effects, with each category comprising one of many talent traditions:

Animapathy abilities allow you to manipulate, meld, and exchange the souls of living things.
Chronopathy abilities allow you to view future and past events, and to manipulate time to aid allies and hinder foes.
Cryokinesis abilities allow you to manifest and manipulate absolute cold to enemies and the environment alike.
Metamorphosis abilities allow you to strengthen and manipulate your body and the bodies of others to perform preternatural exploits.
Pyrokinesis abilities allow you to create and manipulate fire by interacting with the potential energy found in all things.
Resopathy abilities allow you to manipulate matter and space to create, alter, or displace your environment and the creatures and objects in it.
Telekinesis abilities allow you to physically manipulate creatures and objects.
Telepathy abilities allow you to communicate with, read, and influence the minds of other creatures.

You choose a talent tradition from the following options: chronopathy, telekinesis, or telepathy. Your talent tradition is your subclass, and your choice of tradition determines many of the features you'll gain as you gain new levels. (Other talent traditions will be featured in future products.) (Quick Build: Telekinesis.)

Clarity and Strain¶

The focus and precision of your thoughts grant you a Heroic Resource called clarity that empowers your psionic abilities.

Clarity in Combat¶

At the start of a combat encounter or some other stressful situation tracked in combat rounds (as determined by the Director), you gain clarity equal to your Victories. At the start of each of your turns during combat, you gain 1d3 clarity.

Additionally, the first time each combat round that a creature is force moved, you gain 1 clarity.

You can spend clarity you don't have, pushing that Heroic Resource into negative numbers to a maximum negative value equal to 1 + your Reason score. At the end of each of your turns, you take 1 damage for each negative point of clarity.

Whenever you have clarity below 0, you are strained. Some psionic abilities have additional effects if you are already strained or become strained when you use them. Strained effects can still impact you even after you are no longer strained.

You lose any remaining clarity or reset any negative clarity at the end of the encounter.

Talent Advancement Table¶

Level	Features	Abilities	Tradition Abilities
1st	Talent Tradition, Clarity and Strain, Mind Spike, Psionic Augmentation, Talent Ward, Telepathic Speech, Tradition Features, Talent Abilities	Two signature, 3, 5	—
2nd	Perk, Tradition Feature, Tradition Ability	Two signature, 3, 5	5
3rd	Scan, 7-Clarity Ability	Two signature, 3, 5, 7	5
4th	Characteristic Increase, Mind Projection, Mind Recovery, Perk, Skill Suspensor Field	Two signature, 3, 5, 7	5
5th	Tradition Feature, 9-Clarity Ability	Two signature, 3, 5, 7, 9	5
6th	Perk, Psi Boost, Tradition Ability	Two signature, 3, 5, 7, 9	5, 9
7th	Ancestral Memory, Cascading Strain, Characteristic Increase, Lucid Mind, Skill	Two signature, 3, 5, 7, 9	5, 9
8th	Perk, Tradition Feature, 11-Clarity Ability	Two signature, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11	5, 9
9th	Fortress of Perfect Thought, Tradition Ability	Two signature, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11	5, 9, 11
10th	Characteristic Increase, Clear Mind, Omnisensory, Perk, Psion, Skill, Vision	Two signature, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11	5, 9, 11

Clarity Outside of Combat¶

Though you can't gain clarity outside of combat, you can use your heroic abilities and effects that cost clarity without spending it. Whenever you use an ability or effect outside of combat that costs clarity, you can't use that same ability or effect outside of combat again until you earn 1 or more Victories or finish a respite.

Additionally, whenever you use any ability or effect that costs clarity within 1 minute of using another such ability, you take 1d6 damage and incur any strain effect from using the new ability.

When you use an ability outside of combat that lets you spend unlimited clarity on its effect, such as Minor Telekinesis, you can use it as if you had spent an amount of clarity equal to your Victories.

Mind Spike¶

You have the following ability, which can be used as a ranged free strike.

Mind Spike¶

A telepathic bolt instantly zaps a creature's brain.

Psionic, Ranged, Strike, Telepathy	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 2 + R psychic damage
12-16: 4 + R psychic damage
17+: 6 + R psychic damage

Strained: The target takes an extra 2 psychic damage. You also take 2 psychic damage that can't be reduced in any way.

Psionic Augmentation¶

Through meditation, you create pathways in your mind that enhance your statistics. Choose one of the following augmentations. You can change your augmentation and ward (see Talent Ward below) by undergoing a psionic meditation as a respite activity. (Quick Build: Force Augmentation.)

Battle Augmentation¶

You can wear light armor and wield light weapons effectively, even though you don't have a kit. While you wear light armor, you gain a +3 bonus to Stamina, and that bonus increases by 3 at 4th, 7th, and 10th levels. While you wield a light weapon, you gain a +1 damage bonus with weapon abilities, including free strikes. You can use light armor treasures and light weapon treasures.

If you have a kit, you can't take this augmentation.

Density Augmentation¶

You gain a +6 bonus to Stamina, and this bonus increases by 6 at 4th, 7th, and 10th levels. Additionally, you gain a +1 bonus to stability.

Distance Augmentation¶

Your ranged psionic abilities gain a +2 bonus to distance.

Force Augmentation¶

Your damage-dealing psionic abilities gain a +1 bonus to rolled damage.

Speed Augmentation¶

You gain a +1 bonus to speed and to the distance you can shift when you take the Disengage move action.

Talent Ward¶

Through meditation, you create a ward that protects you. Choose one of the following wards. You can change your ward and psionic augmentation (see above) by undergoing a psionic meditation as a respite activity. (Quick Build: Repulsive Ward.)

Entropy Ward¶

Your ward slows time for your enemies. Whenever a creature deals damage to you, their speed is reduced by an amount equal to your Reason score and they can't use triggered actions until the end of their next turn.

Repulsive Ward¶

You surround yourself with an invisible ward of telekinetic energy. Whenever an adjacent creature deals damage to you, you can use a free triggered action to push them up to a number of squares equal to your Reason score.

Steel Ward¶

Your ward reacts to danger, protecting you from future harm. Whenever you take damage, after the damage resolves, you gain damage immunity equal to your Reason score until the end of your next turn.

Vanishing Ward¶

Your ward allows you to slip away from threats. Whenever you take damage, you become invisible until the end of your next turn.

Telepathic Speech¶

You know the Mindspeech language (see Languages in Orden in Chapter 4: Background). Additionally, you can telepathically communicate with any creatures within distance of your Mind Spike ability if they share a language with you and you know of each other. When you communicate with someone this way, they can respond telepathically.

1st-Level Tradition Features¶

Your talent tradition grants you two features, as shown on the 1st-Level Tradition Features table.

1st-Level Tradition Features Table¶

Tradition	Features
Chronopathy	Accelerate, Again
Telekinesis	Minor Telekinesis, Repel
Telepathy	Feedback Loop, Remote Assistance

Accelerate¶

You have the following ability.

Accelerate¶

To your ally, it seems as though the world has slowed down.

Psionic, Ranged	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one creature

Effect: The target shifts up to a number of squares equal to your Reason score.

Spend 2 Clarity: The target can use a maneuver.

Again¶

You have the following ability.

Again¶

You step back a split second to see if things play out a little differently.

Psionic, Ranged	Triggered
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one creature

Trigger: The target makes an ability roll.

Effect: You can use this ability after seeing the result of the triggering roll. The target must reroll the power roll and use the new roll.

Feedback Loop¶

You have the following ability.

Feedback Loop¶

Creating a brief psychic link between an enemy and their target gives that foe a taste of their own medicine.

Psionic, Ranged	Triggered
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature

Trigger: The target deals damage to an ally.

Effect: The target takes psychic damage equal to half the triggering damage.

Minor Telekinesis¶

You have the following ability.

Minor Telekinesis¶

Wisps of psychic energy ripple visibly from your brain as you force the target to move using only your mind.

Psionic, Ranged	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one size 1 creature or object

Effect: You slide the target up to a number of squares equal to your Reason score.

Spend 2+ Clarity: The size of the creature or object you can target increases by 1 for every 2 clarity spent.

Spend 3 Clarity: You can vertical slide the target.

Remote Assistance¶

You have the following ability.

Remote Assistance¶

An ally gains the benefit of your intellect.

Psionic, Ranged	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature or object

Effect: The next ability roll an ally makes against the target before the start of your next turn gains an edge.

Spend 1 Clarity: You target one additional creature or object.

Repel¶

You have the following ability.

Repel¶

They aren't going anywhere, but you might!

Psionic, Ranged	Triggered
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one ally

Trigger: The target takes damage or is force moved.

Effect: The target takes half the triggering damage, or the distance of the triggering forced movement is reduced by a number of squares equal to your Reason score. If the target took damage and was force moved, you choose the effect. If the forced movement is reduced to 0 squares, the target can push the source of the forced movement a number of squares equal to your Reason score.

Talent Abilities¶

You manifest a variety of psionic powers that let you impact the environment, bolster your allies, and empower yourself. You can choose abilities across different talent traditions or focus on abilities tied to your chosen tradition to dedicate yourself to its power.

Signature Abilities¶

Choose two signature abilities from the following options. Signature abilities can be used at will. (Quick Build: Incinerate, Kinetic Grip.)

Entropic Bolt¶

You advance an enemy's age for a moment.

Chronopathy, Psionic, Ranged, Strike	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature or object

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: 2 + P corruption damage; p
12-16: 3 + P corruption damage; p
17+: 5 + P corruption damage; p

Effect: The target takes an extra 1 corruption damage for each additional time they are targeted by this ability during the encounter.

Strained: You gain 1 clarity when you obtain a tier 2 or tier 3 outcome on the power roll.

Hoarfrost¶

You blast a foe with a pulse of cold energy.

Cryokinesis, Psionic, Ranged, Strike	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 2 + R cold damage; M < WEAK, slowed (EoT)
12-16: 4 + R cold damage; M < AVERAGE, slowed (EoT)
17+: 6 + R cold damage; M < STRONG, slowed (EoT)

Strained: You are slowed until the end of your next turn. Additionally, a target slowed by this ability is restrained instead.

Incinerate¶

The air erupts into a column of smokeless flame.

Area, Fire, Psionic, Pyrokinesis, Ranged	Main action
📏 3 cube within 10	🎯 Each enemy in the area

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 2 fire damage
12-16: 4 fire damage
17+: 6 fire damage

Effect: A column of fire remains in the area until the start of your next turn. Each enemy who enters the area for the first time in a combat round or starts their turn there takes 2 fire damage.

Strained: The size of the cube increases by 2, but the fire disappears at the end of your turn.

Kinetic Grip¶

You lift and hurl your foe away from you.

Psionic, Ranged, Telekinesis	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature or object

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: Slide 2 + R
12-16: Slide 4 + R
17+: Slide 6 + R; prone

Strained: You must vertical push the target instead of sliding them.

Kinetic Pulse¶

The force of your mind hurls enemies backward.

Area, Psionic, Telepathy	Main action
📏 1 burst	🎯 Each enemy in the area

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 2 psychic damage
12-16: 5 psychic damage; push 1
17+: 7 psychic damage; push 2

Strained: The size of the burst increases by 2, and you are bleeding until the start of your next turn.

Materialize¶

You picture an object in your mind and give it form—directly above your opponent's head.

Psionic, Ranged, Resopathy, Strike	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature or object

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 3 + R damage
12-16: 5 + R damage
17+: 8 + R damage

Effect: A worthless size 1M object drops onto the target to deal the damage, then rolls into an adjacent unoccupied space of your choice. The object is made of wood, stone, or metal (your choice).

Strained: The object explodes after the damage is dealt, and each creature adjacent to the target takes damage equal to your Reason score. You also take damage equal to your Reason score that can't be reduced in any way.

Optic Blast¶

Your eyes emit rays of powerful enervating force.

Metamorphosis, Psionic, Ranged, Strike	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature or object

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 2 + R damage; M < WEAK, prone
12-16: 4 + R damage; M < AVERAGE, prone
17+: 6 + R damage; M < STRONG, prone

Effect: When targeting an object with a solid reflective surface or a creature carrying or wearing such an object (such as a mirror, an unpainted metal shield, or shiny metal plate armor), you can target one additional creature or object within 3 squares of the first target.

Strained: You gain 1 surge that you can use immediately, and you take damage equal to your Reason score that can't be reduced in any way.

Spirit Sword¶

You form a blade of mind energy and stab your target, invigorating yourself.

Animapathy, Melee, Psionic, Strike	Main action
📏 Melee 2	🎯 One creature or object

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: 3 + P damage
12-16: 6 + P damage
17+: 9 + P damage

Effect: You gain 1 surge.

Strained: The target takes an extra 3 damage. You also take 3 damage that can't be reduced in any way.

Heroic Abilities¶

You know a range of heroic abilities, all of which cost clarity to fuel them.

3-Clarity Ability¶

Choose one heroic ability from the following options, each of which costs 3 clarity to use. (Quick Build: Choke.)

Awe (3 Clarity)¶

You project psionic energy out to a creature and take on a new visage in their mind.

Psionic, Ranged, Strike, Telepathy	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature

Effect: If you target an ally, they gain temporary Stamina equal to three times your Presence score, and they can end one effect on them that is ended by a saving throw or that ends at the end of their turn. If you target an enemy, you make a power roll.

Power Roll + Presence:

3 + P psychic damage; I < WEAK, frightened (save ends) 6 + P psychic damage; I < AVERAGE, frightened (save ends) 9 + P psychic damage; I < STRONG, frightened (save ends)

Choke (3 Clarity)¶

You crush a foe in a telekinetic grip.

Psionic, Ranged, Strike, Telekinesis	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 3 + R damage; M < WEAK, slowed (save ends)
12-16: 5 + R damage; M < AVERAGE, slowed (save ends)
17+: 8 + R damage; M < STRONG, restrained (save ends)

Effect: You can vertical pull the target up to 2 squares. If the target is made restrained by this ability, this forced movement ignores their stability.

Precognition (3 Clarity)¶

You give a target a glimpse into the future so that they're ready for what comes next.

Chronopathy, Melee, Psionic	Main action
📏 Melee 2	🎯 Self or one ally

Effect: Ability rolls made against the target take a bane until the start of your next turn. Whenever the target takes damage while under this effect, they can use a triggered action to make a free strike against the source of the damage.

Smolder (3 Clarity)¶

Smoke flows from your enemy like tears as their skin begins to blacken and flake.

Psionic, Pyrokinesis, Ranged, Strike	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature

Effect: Choose the damage type and the weakness for this ability from one of the following: acid, corruption, or fire. The target takes damage before this ability imposes any weakness.

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 3 + R damage; R < WEAK, the target has weakness 5 (save ends)
12-16: 6 + R damage; R < AVERAGE, the target has weakness 5 (save ends)
17+: 9 + R damage; R < STRONG, the target has weakness equal to 5 + your Reason score (save ends)

5-Clarity Ability¶

Choose one heroic ability from the following options, each of which costs 5 clarity to use. (Quick Build: Inertia Soak.)

Flashback (5 Clarity)¶

The target is thrown several seconds back through time and gets to do it all again.

Chronopathy, Psionic, Ranged	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one ally

Effect: The target uses an ability with a base Heroic Resource cost of 7 or lower that they've previously used this round, without needing to spend the base cost. Augmentations to the ability can be paid for as usual.

Strained: You take 1d6 damage and are slowed (save ends).

Inertia Soak (5 Clarity)¶

Your psionic energy surrounds the target and pushes everything else away from them.

Psionic, Ranged, Telekinesis	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one ally

Effect: The target ignores difficult terrain and takes no damage from forced movement until the start of your next turn. Whenever the target enters a square while under this effect, they can push one adjacent creature up to a number of squares equal to your Reason score. When pushing an ally, the target can ignore that ally's stability. A creature can only be force moved this way once a turn.

Strained: You are weakened (save ends). While you are weakened this way, whenever you are force moved, the forced movement distance gains a +5 bonus.

Iron (5 Clarity)¶

The target's skin turns to hard, dark metal, impenetrable and dense.

Metamorphosis, Psionic, Ranged	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one ally

Effect: The target's stability increases by an amount equal to your Reason score, and they gain 10 temporary Stamina and 2 surges. This stability increase lasts until the target no longer has temporary Stamina from this ability.

Strained: You can't use maneuvers (save ends).

Perfect Clarity (5 Clarity)¶

You clear the mind of nothing but the goal.

Psionic, Ranged, Telepathy	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one ally

Effect: Until the start of your next turn, the target gains a +3 bonus to speed, and they have a double edge on the next power roll they make. If the target obtains a tier 3 outcome on that roll, you gain 1 clarity.

Strained: You take 1d6 damage, and you can't use triggered actions (save ends).

2nd-Level Features¶

As a 2nd-level talent, you gain the following features.

Perk¶

You gain one interpersonal, lore, or supernatural perk of your choice. See Chapter 7: Perks.

2nd-Level Tradition Feature¶

Your talent tradition grants you a feature, as shown on the 2nd-Level Tradition Features table.

2nd-Level Tradition Features Table¶

Tradition	Features
Chronopathy	Ease the Hours
Telekinesis	Ease Their Fall
Telepathy	Ease the Mind

Ease the Hours¶

You can increase the number of rounds in a montage test by 1 if the test would end before the heroes hit the success limit.

Ease the Mind¶

You gain an edge on tests made to stop combat and start a negotiation. Additionally, if you are present during a negotiation, any NPC who has a hostile or suspicious starting attitude has their patience increased by 1 (to a maximum of 5).

Ease Their Fall¶

Whenever you land after a fall, or if any falling creature lands within 2 squares of you, you can use a free triggered action to reduce the falling damage by an amount equal to 2 + your Reason score.

2nd-Level Tradition Ability¶

Your talent tradition grants your choice of one of two heroic abilities.

2nd-Level Chronopathy Ability¶

Choose one of the following abilities.

Applied Chronometrics (5 Clarity)¶

Time slows down around you. Your heartbeat is the only gauge of the extra moments you've gained.

Chronopathy, Psionic, Ranged	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Special

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: You target two creatures, one of which can be you.
12-16: You target three creatures, one of which can be you.
17+: You target four creatures, one of which can be you.

Effect: Until the start of your next turn, each target gains a +5 bonus to speed, they can't be made dazed, and they can use an additional maneuver on their turn. If a target is already dazed, that condition ends for them.

Strained: Your speed is halved until the end of the encounter.

Slow (5 Clarity)¶

Perhaps they wonder why everyone else is moving so quickly?

Chronopathy, Psionic, Ranged	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Three creatures or objects

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: The target's speed is halved (save ends), or if p
12-16: The target is slowed (save ends), or if P < AVERAGE, the target's speed is 0 (save ends).
17+: The target is slowed (save ends), or if P < STRONG, the target's speed is 0 (save ends).

Effect: A target can't use triggered actions while their speed is reduced this way.

Strained: The potency of this ability increases by 1 and you take 1d6 damage. At the start of each combat round while any target is affected by this ability, you take 1d6 damage. You can end the effect on all affected targets at any time (no action required).

2nd-Level Telekinesis Ability¶

Choose one of the following abilities.

Gravitic Burst (5 Clarity)¶

Everyone get away from me!

Area, Psionic, Telekinesis	Main action
📏 1 burst	🎯 Each enemy in the area

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 3 damage; vertical push 2
12-16: 6 damage; vertical push 4
17+: 9 damage; vertical push 6

Strained: The size of the burst increases by 1, and you are weakened until the end of your turn.

Levity and Gravity (5 Clarity)¶

You raise the target slightly into the air, then smother them against the ground.

Psionic, Ranged, Strike, Telekinesis	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature or object

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 6 + R damage; M < WEAK, prone
12-16: 10 + R damage; M < AVERAGE, prone
17+: 14 + R damage; M < STRONG, prone and can't stand (save ends)

Strained: You take half the damage the target takes.

2nd-Level Telepathy Ability¶

Choose one of the following abilities.

Overwhelm (5 Clarity)¶

You overload their senses, turning all their subconscious thoughts into conscious ones.

Psionic, Ranged, Strike, Telepathy	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 6 + R psychic damage; I < WEAK, slowed (save ends)
12-16: 10 + R psychic damage; I < AVERAGE, weakened (save ends)
17+: 14 + R psychic damage; I < STRONG, dazed (save ends)

Strained: You start crying, and you can't use triggered actions or make free strikes until the end of the target's next turn.

Synaptic Override (5 Clarity)¶

You control an enemy's nervous system. How pleasant for them.

Psionic, Ranged, Telepathy	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One enemy

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: The target makes a free strike against one enemy of your choice.
12-16: The target shifts up to their speed and uses their signature ability against any enemies of your choice.
17+: The target moves up to their speed and uses their signature ability against any enemies of your choice.

Effect: You control the target's movement. The target can't be moved in a way that would harm them (such as over a cliff), leave them dying, or result in them suffering a condition or other negative effect. However, you can move them to provoke opportunity attacks.

Strained: You take 1d6 damage and are weakened until the end of your turn.

3rd-Level Features¶

As a 3rd-level talent, you gain the following features.

Scan¶

You can extend your psionic senses beyond their usual range. Once on each of your turns, you can search for hidden creatures as a free maneuver (see Hide and Sneak in Chapter 9: Tests). Additionally, once you establish line of effect to a thinking creature within distance of your Mind Spike ability, you always have line of effect to that creature until they move beyond that distance.

7-Clarity Ability¶

Choose one heroic ability from the following options, each of which costs 7 clarity to use.

Fling Through Time (7 Clarity)¶

You hurl the target through the annals of time, forcing them to witness every moment of their existence all at once.

Chronopathy, Psionic, Ranged, Strike	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature or object

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: 3 + P corruption damage; P < WEAK, weakened (save ends)
12-16: 5 + P corruption damage; the target is flung through time, and if P < AVERAGER, they are weakened (save ends)
17+: 8 + P corruption damage; the target is flung through time, and if P < STRONG, they are weakened (save ends)

Effect: A target who is flung through time is removed from the encounter map until the end of their next turn, reappearing in their original space or the nearest unoccupied space.

Strained: You take 2d6 damage and permanently grow visibly older (the equivalent of 10 years for a human). If you obtain a tier 3 outcome on the power roll, you gain 2 clarity.

Force Orbs (7 Clarity)¶

Spheres of solid psionic energy float around you.

Psionic, Ranged, Strike, Telekinesis	Main Action
📏 Self; see below	🎯 Self

Effect: You create three size 1T orbs that orbit your body. Each orb gives you a cumulative damage immunity 1. Each time you take damage, you lose 1 orb. Once on each of your turns, you can use a free maneuver to fire an orb at a creature or object within 5 squares as a ranged strike, losing the orb after the strike.

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 2 damage
12-16: 3 damage
17+: 5 damage

Strained: You create five orbs, and you are weakened while you have any orbs active.

Reflector Field (7 Clarity)¶

A protective field reverses the momentum of incoming attacks.

Area, Psionic, Telepathy	Main action
📏 3 aura	🎯 Special

Effect: The aura lasts until the start of your next turn. Whenever an enemy targets an ally in the area with a ranged ability, the ability is negated on the ally and reflected back at the enemy. The ability deals half the damage to the enemy that it would have dealt to the ally and loses any additional effects.

Strained: The size of the aura increases by 1. Whenever your aura reflects an ability, you take 2d6 damage and forget a memory, as determined by you and the Director.

Soul Burn (7 Clarity)¶

You blast their soul out of their body, leaving it to helplessly float back to a weakened husk.

Animapathy, Psionic, Ranged, Strike	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: 6 + P damage; P < WEAK, dazed (save ends)
12-16: 10 + P damage; P < AVERAGE, dazed (save ends)
17+: 14 + P damage; P < STRONG, dazed (save ends)

Effect: The target takes a bane on Presence tests until the end of the encounter.

Strained: The potency of this ability increases by 1. You take 2d6 damage and gain 3 surges that you can use immediately.

4th-Level Features¶

As a 4th-level talent, you gain the following features.

Characteristic Increase¶

Your Reason and Presence scores each increase to 3.

Mind Projection¶

As a maneuver, you project your mind outside your body. While you are in this state, your body remains unconscious and prone, and your mind is a separate entity with size 1T. Your mind automatically has concealment, and can freely move through solid matter. If you end your turn inside solid matter, you are forced out into the space where you entered it.

Any abilities or features you use originate from your mind. Both your mind and your body can take damage while separated, with any such damage applied to your Stamina. Your mind is instantly forced back into your body if you take any damage, and you can immediately return to your body as a free maneuver.

Mind Recovery¶

Whenever you spend a Recovery to regain Stamina while strained, you can forgo the Stamina and gain 3 clarity instead.

Additionally, the first time each combat round that a creature is force moved, you gain 2 clarity instead of 1.

Perk¶

You gain one perk of your choice.

Skill¶

You gain one skill of your choice. See Skills in Chapter 9: Tests.

Suspensor Field¶

You can fly. While flying, your stability is reduced to 0 and can't be increased. If you can already fly, you have a +2 bonus to speed while flying instead.

If you are strained while flying and are force moved, the forced movement distance gains a +2 bonus.

5th-Level Features¶

As a 5th-level talent, you gain the following features.

5th-Level Tradition Features¶

Your talent tradition grants you two features, as shown on the 5th-Level Tradition Features table.

5th-Level Tradition Features Table¶

Tradition	Features
Chronopathy	Distortion Temporal, Speed of Thought
Telekinesis	Kinetic Amplifier, Triangulate
Telepathy	Compulsion, Remote Amplification

Compulsion¶

Whenever you obtain a success on a test using a skill from the interpersonal skill group while interacting with an NPC, you can ask them a question using your Telepathic Speech feature. The NPC must answer the question truthfully to the best of their ability.

Distortion Temporal¶

While you are not dying, time behaves irregularly around you in a 3 aura. That area is difficult terrain for enemies. Additionally, when an ally enters the area for the first time in a combat round or starts their turn there, they gain a +2 bonus to speed until the end of the turn.

Kinetic Amplifier¶

Whenever you force move a creature, you can spend up to 2 surges. For each surge spent, the forced movement distance gains a bonus equal to your Reason score.

Remote Amplification¶

The distance of your ranged psionic abilities increases by 5. Additionally, the range of your Telepathic Speech feature increases to 1 mile.

Speed of Thought¶

Once per combat round while you are not dying, you can spend 2 clarity when you use a triggered action to turn it into a free triggered action.

Triangulate¶

Whenever an ally uses a ranged ability while you are within the ability's distance, you can spend 1 clarity as a free triggered action to allow them to use the ability as if they were in your space.

9-Clarity Ability¶

Choose one heroic ability from the following options, each of which costs 9 clarity to use.

Exothermic Shield (9 Clarity)¶

You encase the target in psionic flame and allow them to flicker without fear of burning out.

Pyrokinesis, Psionic, Ranged	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one ally

Effect: Until the start of your next turn, the target has cold immunity 10 and fire immunity 10, and their strikes deal extra fire damage equal to twice your Reason score. Additionally, whenever an enemy attempts uses a melee ability against the target while they are under this effect, the enemy takes 5 fire damage.

Strained: The target gains 2 surges. You are weakened and slowed (save ends).

Hypersonic (9 Clarity)¶

You move fast enough to turn around and watch your foes feel the aftermath.

Area, Charge, Psionic, Telekinesis	Main action
📏 5 × 2 line within 1	🎯 Each enemy in the area

Effect: You teleport to a square on the opposite side of the area before making the power roll.

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 12 sonic damage
12-16: 18 sonic damage
17+: 24 sonic damage

Strained: If you obtain a tier 2 outcome or better, you are slowed until the end of your turn and each target is slowed until the end of their turn.

Mind Snare (9 Clarity)¶

You latch onto your prey's brain and don't let go, like a song they can't get out of their head.

Psionic, Ranged, Strike, Telepathy	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 10 + R psychic damage; R < WEAK, slowed (save ends)
12-16: 14 + R psychic damage; R < AVERAGE, slowed (save ends)
17+: 20 + R psychic damage; R < STRONG, slowed (save ends)

Effect: While slowed this way, the target takes 3 psychic damage for each square they willingly leave.

Strained: While slowed this way, the target instead takes 5 psychic damage for each square they willingly leave. You have a double bane on ability rolls made against the target while they are slowed this way.

Soulbound (9 Clarity)¶

You fire a piercing bolt of psychic energy that lances through two foes and leaves a faint intangible thread between them.

Animapathy, Psionic, Ranged, Strike	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Two enemies

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: 8 damage; A < WEAK, the target is stitched to the other target (save ends)
12-16: 13 damage; A < AVERAGE, the target is stitched to the other target (save ends)
17+: 17 damage; A < STRONG, the target is stitched to the other target (save ends)

Effect: If any target becomes stitched to the other, both targets are stitched together. While stitched together, a target takes a bane on power rolls while not adjacent to a creature they're stitched to. Whenever a stitched target takes damage that wasn't dealt by or also taken by another stitched target, each other stitched target takes half the damage the initial target took.

Strained: You target yourself and three enemies instead.

6th-Level Features¶

As a 6th-level talent, you gain the following features.

Perk¶

You gain one interpersonal, lore, or supernatural perk of your choice.

Psi Boost¶

Whenever you use an ability that is a main action or a maneuver with the Psionic keyword, you can spend additional clarity to apply a psi boost to it and enhance its effects. A psi boost's effects only last until the end of the turn which the ability is first used. You can apply multiple psi boosts to an ability, but only one instance of each specific boost. You can use the following psi boosts.

Dynamic Power (1 Clarity)¶

If the ability force moves a target, the forced movement distance gains a bonus equal to your Reason score.

Expanded Power (3 Clarity)¶

If the ability targets an area, you increase the size of the area by 1. If the area is a line, you increase the size of one dimension, not both.

Extended Power (1 Clarity)¶

If the ability is ranged, the distance gains a bonus equal to your Reason score. If the ability is melee, the distance gains a +2 bonus.

Heightened Power (1 Clarity)¶

If the ability deals rolled damage, it deals extra damage equal to your Reason score.

Magnified Power (5 Clarity)¶

If the ability has a potency, you increase that potency by an amount equal to your Reason score.

Shared Power (5 Clarity)¶

If the ability targets individual creatures or objects, you target one additional creature or object within distance.

Sharpened Power (1 Clarity)¶

If the ability has any power roll, that roll gains an edge.

6th-Level Tradition Ability¶

Your talent tradition grants your choice of one of two heroic abilities.

6th-Level Chronopathy Abilities¶

Choose one of the following abilities.

Fate (9 Clarity)¶

Your foe gets a glimpse of how it will end for them.

Chronopathy, Psionic, Melee	Main action
📏 Melee 2	🎯 One enemy

Effect: The target has damage weakness 5 until the end of your next turn. Whenever the target takes damage while they have this weakness, they are knocked prone.

Strained: This ability gains the Strike keyword as the vision hurts the target's psyche. You make a power roll, then are weakened (save ends).

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: 8 + P psychic damage
12-16: 13 + P psychic damage
17+: 17 + P psychic damage

Stasis Field (9 Clarity)¶

Keep everything as it was. Ignore everything that will be.

Area, Chronopathy, Psionic, Ranged	Main Action
📏 4 cube within 10	🎯 Each creature and object in the area

Effect: The area is frozen in time until the start of your next turn. Each object in the area is restrained and can't fall until the effect ends. Until the effect ends, creatures in the area who are reduced to 0 Stamina or would die stay alive, and objects in the area that are reduced to 0 Stamina remain undestroyed. Make a power roll that targets each enemy in the area.

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: P < WEAK, the target is slowed until the effect ends
12-16: P < AVERAGE, the target's speed is 0 until the effect ends
17+: P < STRONG, the target is restrained until the effect ends

Strained: Any creature or object force moved in the area takes 2 corruption damage for each square of the area they enter. Creatures and objects restrained in the area can be force moved. You are restrained until the effect ends.

6th-Level Telekinesis Abilities¶

Choose one of the following abilities.

Gravitic Well (9 Clarity)¶

You bend gravity into a fine point and pull your foes toward it.

Area, Psionic, Ranged, Telekinesis	Main Action
📏 4 cube within 10	🎯 Each creature and object in the area

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 6 damage; vertical pull 5 toward the center of the area
12-16: 9 damage; vertical pull 7 toward the center of the area
17+: 13 damage; vertical pull 10 toward the center of the area

Effect: Targets closest to the center of the area are pulled first.

Strained: The size of the area increases by 2. You also target yourself and each ally within distance.

Greater Kinetic Grip (9 Clarity)¶

You raise the target into the air without breaking a sweat.

Psionic, Ranged, Strike, Telekinesis	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature or object

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: Slide 4 + R; M < WEAK, the forced movement is vertical
12-16: Slide 8 + R; M < AVERAGE, the forced movement is vertical
17+: Slide 12 + R; prone; M < STRONG, the forced movement is vertical

Strained: The forced movement ignores stability. You take 2d6 damage and are weakened (save ends).

6th-Level Telepathy Abilities¶

Choose one of the following abilities.

Synaptic Conditioning (9 Clarity)¶

It's a subtle mindset shift. It's not that they're your enemy—you just don't like them!

Psionic, Melee, Strike, Telepathy	Main action
📏 Melee 2	🎯 One creature

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 10 psychic damage; the target takes a bane on ability rolls made to harm you or your allies (save ends)
12-16: 14 psychic damage; the target has a double bane on ability rolls made to harm you or your allies (save ends)
17+: 20 psychic damage; the target considers you and your allies to be their allies when using abilities and features (save ends)

Strained: While the target is under this effect, you no longer consider your enemies to be your enemies when using your abilities and features.

Synaptic Dissipation (9 Clarity)¶

You manipulate your enemies' minds and make them wonder if you were ever really there in the first place.

Psionic, Ranged, Strike, Telepathy	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Special

Effect: You target a number of creatures with this ability determined by the outcome of your power roll. You and your allies are invisible to each target until the start of your next turn.

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: Two creatures
12-16: Three creatures
17+: Five creatures

Strained: The effect ends early if you take damage from an enemy's ability.

7th-Level Features¶

As a 7th-level talent, you gain the following features.

Ancestral Memory¶

Each time you finish a respite, you can choose a number of skills you have up to your Reason score and replace them with an equal number of skills from the interpersonal and lore skill groups. These replacements last unil the end of your next respite.

Cascading Strain¶

Whenever you take damage from a strained effect or from having negative clarity, you can choose one enemy within distance of your Mind Spike ability to take the same damage.

Characteristic Increase¶

Each of your characteristic scores increases by 1, to a maximum of 4.

Lucid Mind¶

At the start of each of your turns during combat, you gain 1d3 + 1 clarity instead of 1d3.

Skill¶

You gain one skill of your choice.

8th-Level Features¶

As an 8th-level talent, you gain the following features.

Perk¶

You gain one perk of your choice.

8th-Level Tradition Features¶

Your talent tradition grants you two features, as shown on the 8th-Level Tradition Features table.

8th-Level Tradition Features Table¶

Tradition	Features
Chronopathy	Doubling the Hours, Stasis Shield
Telekinesis	Levitation Field, Low Gravity
Telepathy	Mindlink, Universal Connection

Doubling the Hours¶

While you have 5 or more Victories, you can undertake an additional respite activity during a respite.

Levitation Field¶

You have the following ability.

Levitation Field¶

You manipulate the air around your allies so they can move as freely through the sky as you can.

Area, Psionic	Maneuver
📏 3 burst	🎯 Each ally in the area

Effect: Each target can fly until the start of your next turn, and can immediately shift up to their speed. You can also shift up to your speed. While flying, a target's stability is reduced to 0 and can't be increased.

Spend 5 Clarity: The effects last for 1 hour instead.

Low Gravity¶

Your mind can carry your body through tough times. You ignore difficult terrain and don't need to spend additional movement while prone.

Mindlink¶

During a respite, you can choose a number of creatures up to your Reason score who you have communicated with using your Telepathic Speech feature, creating a telepathic link among all of you. Whenever a linked creature spends one or more Recoveries, each other linked creature can spend a Recovery.

Stasis Shield¶

You have the following ability.

Stasis Shield (3 Clarity)¶

You freeze time just long enough to bring the victim to safety!

Psionic, Ranged	Triggered
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self, or one creature or object

Trigger: The target takes damage.

Effect: The target is teleported to an unoccupied space adjacent to you, taking no damage and suffering no additional effects if this movement would get them out of harm's way.

Strained: You can't target yourself, and you take the damage and any additional effects instead of the target.

Universal Connection¶

The range of your Telepathic Speech feature increases to anywhere on the same world.

11-Clarity Ability¶

Choose one heroic ability from the following options, each of which costs 11 clarity to use.

Doubt (11 Clarity)¶

You tug at the strings of the foe's anima and unravel them, allowing someone else to take advantage of their drive.

Animapathy, Psionic, Ranged, Strike	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature or object

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: 10 + P damage; P < WEAK, weakened (save ends)
12-16: 14 + P damage; P < AVERAGE, weakened (save ends)
17+: 20 + P damage; P < STRONG, weakened and slowed (save ends)

Effect: This ability gains an edge against a target with a soul (see Draw Steel: Monsters). After you make the power roll, you or one ally within distance have a double edge on the next power roll you make before the end of the encounter.

Strained: You feel dispirited until you finish a respite. If you obtain a tier 3 outcome on the power roll, you and the target each have damage weakness 5 (save ends).

Mindwipe (11 Clarity)¶

You attempt to make them forget all their training.

Melee, Psionic, Strike, Telepathy	Main action
📏 Melee 2	🎯 One creature

Power Roll + Reason

≤11: 12 + R damage; R < WEAK, the target takes a bane on their next power roll
12-16: 17 + R damage; R < AVERAGE, the target takes a bane on power rolls (save ends)
17+: 23 + R damage; R < STRONG, the target has a double bane on power rolls (save ends)

Effect: The target can't communicate with anyone until the end of the encounter.

Strained: You take 3d6 damage.

Rejuvenate (11 Clarity)¶

You reshape the flow of time in the target's body to return it to an earlier state.

Chronopathy, Psionic, Ranged	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one ally

Effect: Choose two of the following effects:

The target can spend any number of Recoveries.
The target gains 1 of their Heroic Resource, and can end any effects on them that are ended by a saving throw or that end at the end of their turn.
The target gains 2 surges, and gains a +3 bonus to speed until the end of the encounter.

Strained: You and the target both permanently grow visibly younger (the equivalent of 20 human years, to the minimum of an 18-yearold). Additionally, you are weakened and slowed (save ends).

Steel (11 Clarity)¶

The target's skin becomes covered in tough metal.

Metamorphosis, Psionic, Ranged	Maneuver
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 Self or one ally

Effect: The target has damage immunity 5 and can't be made slowed or weakened until the start of your next turn. Whenever the target force moves a creature or object while under this effect, the forced movement distance gains a +5 bonus.

Strained: You can't use maneuvers (save ends).

9th-Level Features¶

As a 9th-level talent, you gain the following features.

Fortress of Perfect Thought¶

Your mind is an impenetrable palace that shields you from danger. You gain the following effects:

You can breathe even when there is no breathable air.
You have psychic immunity 10.
Creatures can't read your thoughts unless you allow them to.
Your Reason and Intuition are treated as 2 higher for the purpose of resisting the potency of abilities.
You can't be made taunted or frightened.

9th-Level Tradition Ability¶

Your talent tradition grants your choice of one of two heroic abilities.

9th-Level Chronopathy Abilities¶

Choose one of the following abilities.

Acceleration Field (11 Clarity)¶

You forcibly stuff more moments into a critical point in time, knowing full well you might need to steal some of your own.

Chronopathy, Psionic, Ranged	Main action
📏 Ranged 5	🎯 Three allies

Effect: Each target can use any main action available to them as a free triggered action, but they lose their main action on their next turn.

Strained: Make a power roll that targets you and each enemy within distance.

Power Roll + Presence:

≤11: 4 corruption damage; slowed (save ends)
12-16: 6 corruption damage; slowed (save ends)
17+: 10 corruption damage; slowed (save ends)

Borrow From the Future (11 Clarity)¶

You lean on future heroism to assist you in the now.

Area, Chronopathy, Psionic	Maneuver
📏 2 burst	🎯 Each ally in the area

Effect: The targets share 6 of their Heroic Resource among themselves, as you determine. A target can't gain more than 3 of their Heroic Resource this way. After using this ability, you can't gain any clarity until the end of the next combat round.

9th-Level Telekinesis Abilities¶

Choose one of the following abilities.

Fulcrum (11 Clarity)¶

You precisely manipulate the creatures around you.

Area, Psionic, Telekinesis	Main action
📏 Special	🎯 Each enemy and object in the area

Effect: Make a power roll to determine the area of this ability. Each target is vertical pushed 6 squares. You can target only objects of size 1L or smaller.

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 2 burst
12-16: 3 burst
17+: 4 burst

Strained: You can choose to reduce the size of the burst by 2 (to a minimum of 1 burst) to give the forced movement distance a +2 bonus. You take half the total damage all targets take from forced movement.

Gravitic Nova (11 Clarity)¶

Unbridled psionic energy erupts from your body and flashes outward, hurling your foes back.

Area, Psionic, Telekinesis	Main action
📏 3 burst	🎯 Each enemy and object in the area

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 6 damage; push 7
12-16: 9 damage; push 10
17+: 13 damage; push 15

Effect: On a critical hit, the size of the area increases by 3, and this ability deals an extra 10 damage.

Strained: You are weakened (save ends). If you scored a critical hit with this ability, you die.

9th-Level Telepathy Abilities¶

Choose one of the following abilities.

Resonant Mind Spike (11 Clarity)¶

You fire a telepathic bolt empowered by every consciousness within reach directly into your foe's mind.

Psionic, Ranged, Strike, Telepathy	Main action
📏 Ranged 10	🎯 One creature

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: 15 + R psychic damage
12-16: 24 + R psychic damage
17+: 28 + R psychic damage

Effect: This ability ignores cover and concealment.

Strained: The ability roll scores a critical hit on a natural 17 or higher. You take half the damage the target takes, and you can't reduce this damage in any way.

Synaptic Terror (11 Clarity)¶

You project a terrifying image into the brains of your foes, and their fear psionically invigorates your allies.

Area, Psionic, Telepathy	Main action
📏 3 burst	🎯 Each ally and enemy in the area

Effect: You and each target ally can't obtain lower than a tier 2 outcome on power rolls until the start of your next turn. Each target enemy is affected by the ability's power roll.

Power Roll + Reason:

≤11: R < WEAK, frightened (save ends)
12-16: R < AVERAGE, frightened (save ends)
17+: R < STRONG, frightened (save ends)

Strained: You can't use this ability if doing so would cause you to have negative clarity.

10th-Level Features¶

As a 10th-level talent, you gain the following features.

Characteristic Increase¶

Your Reason and Presence scores each increase to 5.

Clear Mind¶

The first time each combat round that a creature is force moved, you gain 3 clarity instead of 2.

Omnisensory¶

You have a +10 bonus to the distance of your ranged abilities. Addition ally, you don't need line of effect to a target of a ranged ability if the target is a creature capable of thought who you have previously had line of effect to.

Perk¶

You gain one interpersonal, lore, or supernatural perk of your choice.

Psion¶

At the start of each of your turns during combat, you gain 1d3 + 2 clarity instead of 1d3 + 1.

Additionally, you can choose to not take damage from having negative clarity. You can also choose to take on any ability's strained effect even if you're not strained.

Skill¶

You gain one skill of your choice.

Vision¶

You have an epic resource called vision. Each time you finish a respite, you gain vision equal to the XP you gain. You can spend vision on your abilities as if it were clarity.

Additionally, you can spend vision to use one additional psionic ability on your turn, provided you pay the entire cost of the ability in vision. If you choose to use a psionic ability that usually costs no clarity, you must spend 1 vision to use it.

Vision remains until you spend it.