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Intrusive Thoughts Playtest Ends Soon!

The Psikasha Expanded- Intrusive Thoughts playtest comes to a close on October 11th, and i sincerely appreciate all the comments and suggestions.

The following edits and changes have been made:

• Bastion- Blessing of Fervor emotion effects have been edited for clarity.
• Biokinetic Adept- feat renamed to Entropic Adept, no longer offers positive energy as active energy type. feat now allows user to deal positive energy damage to undead, negative energy damage to living targets, and untyped damage to constructs and other targets. no longer requires expending psionic focus, but reduces the overall damage the power deals by half.
• Crystallized Flesh- effects of shoulders bind edited for clarity.
• Warsuit of the Psionic Juggernaut- bind effects edited for clarity and balance.

Again, the playtest ends 11 October. As with all my previous releases the playtest doc will remain available until the book is published. My publisher (Studio M-) has a backlog currently so it might take a month or more before its published (Echoes of Magic is also currently in the backlog). The next release will be Deals With the Dark- Pacts of Fiend and Shadow horror games and it is planned to begin mid-November. It has two new pacts for the pactbound class with new pact spirits and is compatible with both the Pactblade and Hexbound archetypes.

Really impressed by how much depth this playtest has! The integration between psionics, akashic magic, and Path of War feels ambitious but well thought out.

I especially like the recent tweak to the Entropic Adept feat — making the energy type adaptive while cutting the damage in half feels like a fair tradeoff for the added flexibility.

Thank you for the feedback! The idea and some of the content for this release has been rattling around for a while for the most part, glad to finally get it out there as a coherent whole. The name ended up being very appropriate.

As for Entropic Adept, I ended up taking a look at psionic powers as a whole and the Athanatism discipline (which is functionally the psionic approach to necromancy) and noticed while it has themes of entropy and death it has no parallel to positive energy. In fact, I couldn't find a single psionic power that dealt with positive energy. In light of that, I altered the feat after some conversations with a friendly author who has more of a focus in psionics.

Intrusive Thoughts Playtest Ends Soon!

The Psikasha Expanded- Intrusive Thoughts playtest comes to a close on October 11th, and i sincerely appreciate all the comments and suggestions.

The following edits and changes have been made:

• Bastion- Blessing of Fervor emotion effects have been edited for clarity.
• Biokinetic Adept- feat renamed to Entropic Adept, no longer offers positive energy as active energy type. feat now allows user to deal positive energy damage to undead, negative energy damage to living targets, and untyped damage to constructs and other targets. no longer requires expending psionic focus, but reduces the overall damage the power deals by half.
• Crystallized Flesh- effects of shoulders bind edited for clarity.
• Warsuit of the Psionic Juggernaut- bind effects edited for clarity and balance.

Again, the playtest ends 11 October. As with all my previous releases the playtest doc will remain available until the book is published. My publisher (Studio M-) has a backlog currently so it might take a month or more before its published (Echoes of Magic is also currently in the backlog). The next release will be Deals With the Dark- Pacts of Fiend and Shadow and it is planned to begin mid-November. It has two new pacts for the pactbound class with new pact spirits and is compatible with both the Pactblade and Hexbound archetypes.

Updates and Edits 2!

The following new updates and edits have been made:

• Telekinetic Servant- determination was made that it now requires the psicrystal containment feat as a prerequisite.
• Hungry Manacles- New minor veil that damages and drains the vital energies of the target!
• Warsuit of the Psionic Juggernaut- New psionic enhanced armor veil that enfolds you in ectoplasmic energies that grant psionic powers and limited astral suit customizations.

Updates and Edits!

Hello everyone, some updates and edits have been made:

• Bastion- edits made for clarity on Whispered Prayer and Attuned Counterpoint
• Mentalist Troubadour Persona Trope- edits made to the persona quirks, with some being removed as they were unbalanced.
• Telekinetic Servant- suggestion made to allow Mind Limb feat be an alternate requirement for Natural Telekinetic feat. Its possible, but I don't know if adding transparency with Spheres of Power and Psionics would be good balance-wise.
• Orrery of the Psychokinetic- Descriptors altered to reflect that it gains a descriptor matching your active element. Removed all the elemental descriptors as they are transient and not constant due to this.
• Psicrystal Wyrd- Edits made to the Power Stone Capacity ability for clarity as to how the wyrd uses its stored power stones.
  

Hello everyone!

The public playtest for Psikasha Expanded- Intrusive Thoughts has officially begun! Its a Pathfinder 1e 3pp playtest and inside you can find tons of new content that touches on the Psionics optional system for Pathfinder 1e originally created by Dreamscarred Press and options for Akashic Magic and even Path of War! Here is the link to the playtest doc.

Inside you can find a ton of new feats, class archetypes, and veils including the following:

• - A new psionic options for the Troubadour champions of the spheres class, a new akashic Cryptic archetype, a new akashic and psionic archetype for the Symbiat spheres of power class, a new psionic archetype for the Epilektoi path of war class and more.
• - Two new cults for the Thug class.
• - New akashic racial traits for psionic races and a new alternate racial trait for the Mineralite race.
• - New psionic shard feats!
• - New veils, minor veils, and veil sets themed around psionics!
• - New options for psicrystals and even a new creation called a Psicrystal Wyrd!
• - And much more!

(Note: All AI art are placeholders while I wait for the artist I worked with on in my previous books, CCStabs, works her magic.)

[U]The end of the Echoes of Magic Public Playtest[/U]

Hi Everyone!

With the end of August the playtest for Echoes of Magic has come to a close. Thank you for all the comments, suggestions, and interest you have shown in this effort. I will be finishing final edits and formatting before handing it over to my publisher (Studio M-). They have already alerted me that they are swamped with all the projects they are working on so the book doesn't have a tentative release date at this time. As with my last books, the link on here will stay active until the book is published (you'll be able to find it on DriveThruRPG like all my other books).

As of right now, the book will likely be broken into two parts as it is currently 173 pages, which is frankly way too big. Even with the shrinkage my other books have had (which is about 1/3) from the google doc to the PDF. The two planned releases are intended to be pushed at the same time and right now the first book is tentatively called Echoes of Magic: What is Spoken and will have all the words of power content, words of power feats, locutor PrC, and new veils. The second book is Echoes of Magic, Those Who Listen and will contain all of the class archetypes, other two prestige classes, alternate racial traits, the new Vira-Lorr race, and all of the other feats. Separated out like they are currently each doc is around 85 pages so once they are converted they will be much more manageable for the publisher and also cheaper for purchase.

Coming up middle to end of September the next big playtest will begin, which will be Psikasha Expanded- Intrusive Thoughts and it will contain new archetypes combining psionic and akashic power and new psionic shard feats (among other things!).

Once again, thanks for everything!

-RC

-Final Content Added!!-

Hi Everyone! The final piece of planned content has been added! The Sigil of Transmutation, a veil that allows the user to alter their own density to provide defensive and utility effects and can be shattered for even stronger (but short lived) benefits.

With this all planned content has been added. The playtest will continue to the end of this month, and then it will officially end. My Publisher (Studio M-) has already told me they will try to begin edits as soon as they can, and I will let everyone know on here before it is released. Given the unknown timeframe, I have decided to leave the document up and available until the book goes on sale through DriveThruRPG.

Hope you have enjoyed the playtest thus far. Its been longer than I originally planned, and the next Playtest should begin middle to end of September. It will be Psikasha Expanded- Intrusive Thoughts and it will contain new archetypes combining psionic and akashic power and new psionic shard feats (among other things!).

Echoes of Magic Updates: Edits to the Runeblade and New Legendary Magus Tomes

Hi everyone!

There are some recent updates for Echoes of Magic! There have been some changes to the new Runeblade Magus archetype, Magus Arcana, the two Legendary Magus Tomes, and the Celestial Tiara and Dance in the Moonlight veils.

• Runeblade: Runic Armaments ability now allows veils from the new Runes of the Thaumaturge veil set to be selected.
• Magus Arcana: Runic Armor and Runic Shield magus arcana now also allow veils from new Runes of the Thaumaturge veil set to be selected.
• Tome of the Invoker: Tome abilities no longer require essence to be bound, instead they are now spell-like abilities. They are each usable 1/day and can be recovered by spending arcane potential.
• Tome of the Veilbound: Abilities altered to lower overall power. Instead of using Kheshig veil list now grants title veils as previously being able to bind any veil was very unbalanced. 1 fewer overall veil shaped by the tome.
• Celestial Tiara & Dance in the Moonlight Veils: Headband bind effect now allows the veilweaver to use Perform (Comedy) in place of Bluff to feint as part of a move action while moving up to half their movement speed and belt effect meant for Dance in the Moonlight moved to the veil it belongs to!
  

New Content: The Miserere, an Akashic Magic and Path of War Paladin Archetype!

The crusaders of some sacred orders sing hymns as they charge into battle and tattoo sacred runes upon their skin, their words seeking mercy not only for themselves, but also for the poor fools who know not what comes for them.

Hi all! A new archetype has been added to Echoes of Magic as we wind down the Public playtest!

The Miserere is a defender of their chosen religion's doctrine. More scholarly than their fellow crusaders, but able to mark enemies as true foes of their faith and allies and create powerful runic auras to bolster their companions.

Only one piece of content remains to be added to the playtest, stay tuned!

-Echoes of Magic Playtest Extension and Updates-

Hello Everyone!

RC here with news about the Echoes of Magic Playtest and other releases. First, the Echoes of Magic public playtest will be extended until the end of August, as my day job ramping up unexpectedly it has been giving me little time to finish the remaining content (Sigil of Transmutation and Miserere Paladin/Antipaladin archetype).

I apologize for the delays and hope everyone has enjoyed the content thus far.

Due to this, the next two releases Psikasha Expanded- Intrusive Thoughts and Expanded Mythic Options: Path of War and Akashic Magic will be delayed. Intrusive thoughts will be starting in mid-September and Expanded Mythic Options will hopefully start mid-October.

Again, these delays weren't something I planned for or expected and I am working to minimize how much they affect things moving forward.

Finally, the updates! Below are the recent updates and changes to Echoes of Magic!

• Sigil of Evocation- Removed effect allowing it to be used as a move action after casting an evocation spell.
• Magian- Scholar of Sigilism now starts with knowledge of 3 base veils known, Akashic Bond's Veilbound Familiar option base effect now gains 2x level + Int Mod HP and gains insight bonuses to attack/dmg rolls. It also now acts as an Improved Familiar at 10th level. Veilbound Weapon option gains special attack effect at 10th and treats it as a spell for feats and abilities.
• Runeblade- Runic Armor magus arcana now allows you to grant armor spikes to the created armor if taken a second time. Runic Shield magus arcana now has links for shield bash damages. New ability Mnemonic Recall alters Spell Recall and Improved Spell Recall effects. New Capstone ability Sigilistic Apotheosis added.

Echoes of Magic Update: The Amanuensis, A New Alternate Class

Amanuensis (Protean Scribe Alternate Class)

Those who seek to find the lost language of magic often forget that it possesses a written form, an ancient and powerful script whose strokes hold dreadful power. If speaking the language of magic causes reality to bend, how far would writing those syllables twist the world?

This an alternate class for the Protean Scribe, a class originally released by LJP Design as part of their Classes of Neoexodus publications. Go take a look at it on the playtest doc!

Echoes of Magic Update- Words of Power Rules Clarifications & Archetype Edits

Several edits have been made, see below for the list.

As always, please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc!

• Target Words- Rules for target words clarified, doubled up and unnecessary text removed.
• Class Word Lists- Words for the occult classes (Medium, Mesmerist, Occultist, and Psychic) edited, new words added to their lists and some levels changed.
• Learning and Using Words of Power & Class Specific Rules- Edits made for clarity and further explanation on what is being added to Words of Power support given.
• Venator, Solfege, Prydyn- Changed max shaped veils to 7

-Updates and Edits Continued-
Some new content has been added! The final veil from the Regalia of the Celestial Maiden!
As always, please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc!

-Starlight Gloves: Gloves that allow the veilweaver to provide Temporary Hp to allies they touch and eventually retributive armor and damage against those who would dare harm your friends.

-Updates and Edits Continued-
Some edits made to two of the alternate racial traits and a new feat for the Cailleach Changeling added.

As always, please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc!

• -Cailleach Changeling: Edited Riven Brand racial ability for clarity. Sacred Woad ability renamed to Ritual Scarification.
• -Rune Giant Scion Half-Giant: Edited Runemarked racial ability for clarity, removed the bonus essence it granted.
• -Bind Riven Brand: New feat for the Cailleach changeling that allows them to bind their chosen brand veil and empowers it when they use their racial claws to harm a foe.

-Updates, Edits, and New Content-
A couple changes have been made and new content added! The fourth veil of the Regalia of the Celestial Maiden veil set has been added!

As always, please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc!

• -Dance in the Moonlight: a new veil that grants new uses for the Perform (Dance) skill and allows the veilweaver to grant bonuses to ally's d20 rolls and eventually penalties to enemies.
• -Ardent Prestige Class: Impassioned ability wording for ability edited for clarity. Ever Shifting Muse ability edited for clarity and the 6th level improvement now allows use as a standard action.
  

-Updates and Edits-
Several changes have been made and new content added! The third veil of the Regalia of the Celestial Maiden veil set has been added!

As always, please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc!

• -Venator- Initial and Maximum shaped veils reduced by 1 (to a maximum of 6). Huntcraft ability improvement at 10th level now ignores 1 point of DR/Hardness instead of 2. 15th level ability effects edited for clarity. Runic Literacy ability now grants words from the Druid word list. Hunter's Adaptation ability's 18th level improvement now allows the venator to change any number of their bodily adaptations at-will as a full-round action.
• -Locutor PrC- Archaism ability edited for clarity. Polyglot ability is now linked to the feat. Linguaphile ability edited for clarity.
• -Maiden's Voice- New veil that empowers the veilweavers words, granting new uses for the Perform (Sing) skill and the ability to call upon an animal emissary to aid them.

-Update, A New Akashic Class Archetype: The Tenebrosum-

As shadows twist the familiar into the unknown and terrifying, so too does the presence of a Tenebrosum warp the world around them. Their touch can transform what was comfortably mundane into eldritch and terrible mockeries.

Hello all and welcome to another update to the Echoes of Magic Public Playtest!

This time the update is a new Archetype for the Eclipse and Eclipse Retold akashic class, the Tenebrosum.

The Tenebrosum's very touch can painfully twist the mind and body of their foes, and they gain additional power when shaping veils tied to the mind, darkness, or fleshwarping.

Several changes have been made and new content added!

The second veil of the Regalia of the Celestial Maiden (more Veilor Moon jokes, still blaming Rooroom) veil set has been added! Please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc!

• -Venator (a Wordcasting and akashic Ranger archetype) has the following edits: Companion's Collar veil added to the Veil of Nature ability, links added for the Akashic Hunter feats
• -Robes of the Crescent Moon (formerly Robes of the Moon): a new veil that allows the veilweaver to swap between identities like a legendary hero
• -Sigil of Necromancy: weal and woe effects have been renamed to boon and bane to keep them distinct from Sigil of Divination effects

-Updates and Edits-

Several changes have been made and new content added!

• -Table of Contents added to help navigate the document
• -Slippers of the Celestial Maiden veil has been renamed Dance in the Moonlight
• -Edits made for clarity on the Unbound Potential ability for the Unbound Prestige Class, prohibiting the veils it shapes from being used with akashic treasures
• -Sigil of Necromancy veil added, allows veilweavers to manipulate the scales of life and death
  

-Updates and Additional Content-

Several edits have been made and the first veil of the Regalia of the Celestial Maiden (cue Veilor Moon jokes, blame Rooroom) veil set has been added! Please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc! The playtest is slated to continue until the end of July.

• -Work has been done on the Amanuensis (Protean Scribe Archetype), it will be out soon!
• -Celestial Tiara, a veil that crowns you with the light of the moon and stars to give you new uses for Perform (Comedy)!
• -Edits for clarity made to the Words of Power section.
  

-UPDATES-

Hello everyone! Some updates and edits were made:

• -Order of Appearance: The Words of Power content has been moved to the beginning of the book, given the other content is based off it or uses it this only made sense.
  
• -Prydyn Bloodrager Archetype: Runeweaving now has a link to the Daevic Veil list. Unleash Bloodrunes and Wordweaving ability effects edited for clarity. Bloodbinding ability now allows binding of blood chakra veils at 13th level. Bloodrune Mastery edited for clarity.
  
• -Solfège Bard/Skald Archetype: Veilweaving ability edited for clarity.
  
• Lastly, a Rules Clarification:
  anonymous wrote:

  For the Experimental Spellcaster feat could you confirm that: (1) Spherecasting satisfies the “Ability to cast spells” prerequisite; or (2) The Spell Dabbler or Spell Adept feats (Ultimate Spheres of Power p425) satisfies the “Ability to cast spells” prerequisite? Alternately could you create a spheres equivalent feat to Experimental Spellcaster?

  To sum up, yes, both the ability to cast sphere effects and the spell dabbler/adept feats qualifies as the ability to cast spells. As for creating a spheres version of Experimental Spellcaster, that I will have to think on, simply due to how the two systems would mesh could be problematic. Worth giving consideration though.

The power of magic echoes forth across all peoples, it whispers in the ears of those who are downtrodden and those who live in opulence alike. Used by the mightiest mage and the simplest cantrips, its utterances can be found throughout history and fantasy, sparking both wonder and terror.

Hello all! The public playtest for Echoes of Magic is finally here!
(Note: All AI art are placeholders while I wait for the artist I worked with on Shards of Power and Whispers of Immortality to work their magic.)

It's a Pathfinder 1e 3pp playtest that expands upon the use of magic in the pathfinder 1e, giving new options for Akashic Magic and the optional Words of Power subsystem introduced in Ultimate Magic!, adding a ton of new words, new optional rules to balance out the system including a soft redux to the rules for combining words, and support for the 1pp classes that were released after Ultimate Magic that never received support (like the hybrid and psychic magic classes!).

This release includes a ton of new feats, racial archetypes, prestige classes, class archetypes, and even provides support for the optional words of power system for so called 1.5pp classes like Omdura and Vampire Hunter.

Playtest Doc can be found here, go take a look!

Some of the things you can find inside:

• -41 New Effect Words
• -6 new Meta Words
• -5 New Target Words
• -10+ New Class Archetypes
• -3 New Prestige Classes
• -4 New Alternate Racial Traits
• -1 Completely new race: The Vira-Lorr, a race of planetouched seers that possess a third eye that sometimes sees more than it should.
• -18 New Feats
• -1 New Minor Veil
• -14+ New Veils!
• -And Much More!

More content will be released as the playtest goes on, so make sure you look in on it!

And with that, the Pactbound playtest is officially over! I greatly appreciate all the comments and suggestions given, and look forward to the upcoming Echoes of Magic playtest which will be starting sometime in March-April this year.

I hope to have Pactbound go into formatting and editing, as well as receiving the rest of the Art from the Amazing CC Tay. Hopefully the book should be out on DriveThru RPG around the same time the next playtest starts.

Once again, thank you for all the interest this passion project of mine has received. Pactbound was actually started even before my other two books and I am thankful it is finally seeing the light of day.

I will continue to post updates on my Patreon and Discord, and will post on here when the book is up for sale. Till next time!

Good to have some free peepin's of them Pactbound Akashic Binder stuff out there to be viewin' for PF1e, RecordedChaos. ;)

I usually have my content available for free to use on Library of Metzofitz several months after the book has started being sold. I'm doing this because I love it and will continue to do so!

Good to have some free peepin's of them Pactbound Akashic Binder stuff out there to be viewin' for PF1e, RecordedChaos. ;)

I thought so too lol. The playtest is coming to a close at the end of January. The Artist I've worked with for my other two books is making more neat things to go in this one and hopefully the book should be out in March. Depends on how long editing and formatting take.

Pactbound Playtest [PEACH]

Some are born with power, some gain power through study and careful application of intellect, and some gain power through force of will or faithful prayer. Then there are those who are willing to pay for power, to gain what they want by bargaining with beings great and terrible from realms beyond the mortal plane.
Pactbounds are the last of these. They have some inherent power, but their desire for more calls them to make a pact with a planar emissary to gain a connection to that plane that enhances their power and grants them the ability to call upon spirits of that plane to aid them by sacrificing the power of their very soul.

So, I've been working on this content on the side while working on Shards of Power and Whispers of Immortality and its finally ready for playtesting!
(Note: All AI art are placeholders while I wait for the artist I worked with on Shards of Power and Whispers of Immortality to work their magic.)

Pactbound is a full 20 level base class for Pathfinder 1e that uses the Akashic Magic subsystem from Dreamscarred Press. The class relies on the player devoting themselves to powerful extraplanar beings, be they Deities, Elementals, Fey, or otherwise to make Pacts. This allows them access to akshic veils and the ability to summon spirits from their pact.

Inside you can find:

• -The Pactbound- a full 20 level class
• -6 Pacts- including Astral, Celestial, and Draconic, with their associated spirits
• -2 Archetypes- the Pactblade (a PoW initiation archetype that gains access to disciplines based off their pact) and the Hexbound (a brand and hex using pactbound that weakens enemies)

Playtest Doc can be found Here!