Psionic creatures come in all shapes and sizes, as shown by this latest release in the Psionic Bestiary product line. The dredge and mind-numb swarm offer a psionic ooze and psionic swarm.
Unlike most oozes, the dredge has a level of sentience from its psionic nature, leaping at targets from far away and dissolving with its touch, while the mind-numb swarm is the physical embodiment of random thoughts, deafening nearby creatures with thousands of thoughts all turned into a cacophony of noises.
In 2011, Dreamscarred Press held a contest for a psionic bestiary. The monsters from that contest are being released in a series of releases and will ultimately be compiled into a single psionic bestiary book.
Written by Michael McCarthy, with artwork by Tsailanza Rayne.
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This installment of the Psionic Bestiary-series is 5 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD, leaving 2 pages of content, 1 per creature. So what are these creatures exactly?
The CR 5 Dredge is a cool idea - a psychokinetic ooze that may launch itself over quite some distances at prey and leach power points from those it tries to consume.
The CR 10 Mind-numb Swarm, spawned from idle thoughts and lost concentration, is simply brilliant, though: Not only does it feature an illusory burn-quality, it also emits a cacophonous, deafening aura that hampers concentration and may actually regain hp if adversaries lose concentration. Awesome concept and cool critter!
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are top-notch, I didn't notice any glitches. Layout adheres to a no-frills two-column b/w-standard and the original b/w-artworks are nice. The pdf has no bookmarks, but needs none at this length.
This installment of the Psionic Bestiary-series provides us with two nice, cool and unique creatures for a low price - seeing that I like both creatures in both concept and execution, I have nothing to complain and will thus gladly settle for a final verdict of 5 stars + seal of approval - these critters are worth their asking price.