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Ultimate Psionics is just that—the ultimate book on psionics, combining nearly all of the material in Psionics Unleashed and Psionics Expanded into a single hardcover book. But not only does Ultimate Psionics contain existing content, over seventy pages of brand new material has been added (separately released as Psionics Augmented for those who already have Psionics Unleashed and Psionics Expanded), giving more character options, advice for game masters on using psionics, and even an example of completely altering the theme of psionics from the power of the mind to runic magic, to help you understand how easy it is to change the feel of psionics without changing the system so that it can easily fit into any campaign.

Ultimate Psionics is an over-400 page hardcover book that includes:

  • Ten psionic races, including the brand new forgeborn and noral, with racial archetypes, advanced racial options, and more
  • Ten psionic classes from the psion and soulknife to the aegis and vitalist, giving everything you need to have an all-psionic party
  • Psionic skills and feats, including over forty brand new psionic feats such as Assassin's Venom, Deep Focus, and Telepathic Link
  • Over 100 pages of psionic powers, including 0th level psionic talents new powers like T’Nail’s Ardent Legion
  • Nineteen psionic prestige classes, including the brand new Dark Tempest prestige class
  • More psionic items than could ever be found in any treasure horde, including legendary items like the Heartstaff and the Dancing Robes of Sharatwan and over 10 pages of brand new psionic items like the greater psicrystal staff, the tactician's chessboard, and more.
  • An entire section for advice and tips for game masters on introducing and using psionics, including the most commonly encountered rules mistakes, how to handle transparency, and variant themes if you don't want mental power and prefer psionics to be a form of magic.
  • And much more!

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5/5 —

At the time of writing this review there are 10 reviews of it already. Plus each expansion has reviews and the first product has 13 reviews. There are threads on Paizo's forums and other places on the internet. The book is often on the top ten list of Paizo's third party sales. There are arguments about the power level and articles about it and the publishers have two more entire subsystems coming out with a Kickstarter money, forums of fans and is often quoted as the only third party publisher allowed at certain tables.

What the heck am I supposed to say after all that?! I can't review this. Its probably the most acclaimed third party product in all of Pathfinder. Everybody loves it, and if you don't you probably aren't going to be too thrilled with any other third party product or someone is going to come along to explain why you not liking it makes you a dirty poopy-head, and they're right! Well if you're okay with the very idea of psionics to begin with.

What's going on in this book is that it's a compilation of the psionic stuff that came out before it making for a fat book rivaling the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, detailing new races, new classes, magic items, feats, archetypes and prestige classes all supporting psionics. In fact it might as well be the core rulebook for psionics. If you get this book you have pretty much a core rulebook full of information on an entire class of magic and enough classes and subclasses and prestige classes and options to keep you busy for years.

But what are psionics? In a nutshell it's 'mind magic'. If you want to make a crystal ball massaging gypsy curse dealing psychic you're going to be disappointed. This is more like Esper or Psychic Pokemon variety mind magic making it feel kind of like psuedo-scientific ESP stuff than talking to spirits or new age tarot reading. But these guys aren't just bending spoons, they're generating mind-light sabers and shooting psychic lasers. This is all centered around a new way to cast their spell-like 'Powers' with a pool of points representing their psionic energy. Its a neat system, especially if you're tired of spell slots, but not each of the classes in here are based around the powers. you get a few that use their mind to do other things like create armor and weapons, plus you get some feats so anyone can tap into their mind and do a few tricks. Its a new world, a whole new way to play. Once you crack it open and start playing it's hard to dismiss. Its just a cool bunch of options.

So why did I buy this? What made me go "okay, I'm going to use this." Well for one you can see most of the options on d20pfsrd.com, which helps you figure out if you think this system is more broken than a core rulebook wizard. I went ahead and did the legwork of comparing the best powers to Magic spells and how well they can cast and found powers to be overall weaker than magic with superior casting options but way less variety so the strongest psionic class comes off about as powerful as a well made Sorcerer. I also liked having the option of presenting casting that felt less ole-timey for when I wanted to run a steampunk or space campaign. It's also the most 'complete' alternate system experience I've ever seen, and trying it with newer players they were able to pick it up much and understand it faster than vancian casting. So it won me over. Five stars all around. You just cant lose with this book.

Words can't describe.

5/5 —

This book is absolutely amazing. Dreamscarred Press show us once again that they're the undisputed masters of flavorful, balanced psionics. This beautiful book has a place of honor on my shelf right next to my Core Rulebook, and if I could only pick one rules supplement to use in a campaign, it would be this one by far.

The Essential Psionic Book

5/5 —

It's been said a hundred times, but Dreamscarred Press creates fantastic products. Where they shine the most is in their psionic material. This book is *the* book for psionics, hands down.

I don't have anything to add that's not already been said. So I'll keep this very short. This book's cover was done by Wayne Reynolds, appropriate for a book of this quality. However, plenty of the artwork in this book is less than stellar. I expected more from a giant of a 3pp company (as giant as they get, anyways).

Despite some of the underwhelming art, the text inside is filled with as much psionic crunch and flavor you could ever ask for. There's a reason this is the go to book for psionics. It has absolutely everything you need and more. If you're thinking about adding psionics to your game, don't wait. Get this book now!

Awesome Book!

5/5 —

Gotta say that having it in my hand makes it even more impressive than the PDF I fell in love with. Now that I can't rely on PDF word search I am really impressed by the formatting in the book.

Everything is easy to find. When I have a question it's very easy to find an appropriate answer by perusing the ToC. The title "Ultimate Psionics" really applies as just about all the character concepts I could want as a Pdionic can be made from all the Base Classes, Archetypes, and Prestige Classes detailed!

The only downside was that my mailman stuffed it too roughly into my mailbox and it bent in some of the back cover's corner. The damage is pretty minor and impossible to see on my bookshelf, so I'm not getting too down over it.

The only singular problem with this book is that the pages are a bit more fragile than I would like.

Edit: After about a year of using this book on the table I can say that it still deserves 5 stars, excellent book.

THE Definitive Psionics Book

4/5 —

This won't be a long review, because I can't compete with Endzeitgeist's excellent reviews. It's really a small list of glitches that affected my impressions of the books.

First, the good stuff. Fixes to original base classes are great and were necessary, as well as changing some of the feats and the addition of 0 level powers. All good. The expanded list of powers is amazing, and the new classes, for the most part, are pretty interesting. More on that in a second.

The artwork is good, not stellar but, but good. My only gripe with it is once again a female ophiduan was shown with hair and breasts. They're reptiles for Pete's sake, and it clearly says in their description they are hairless. Grr.

There are an uncomfortable number of typos and some awkward sentence structuring, but it's easy enough to extrapolate what's being said in each case. I wish that they'd proofread things a bit more thoroughly.

My biggest "gripe" is the Dread seems unnecessary in my book. It's focus is very narrow and would've made a better psion prestige class, in my opinion, just as the marksman would've been a better psychic warrior PrC.

Overall I'm going to give the book 4 stars, largely for the truly amazing amount of work that went into it. But the glaring typos and curvaceous ophiduan really bugged me.

Addendum. I received two copies 4 days apart with the same order number, though I only purchased one. I've been in touch with Paizo Customer Service and as soon as I get paid I'll be sending the extra copy back so that someone else might enjoy it.

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Jeremy Smith wrote:
Geppou wrote:

The color hardcover it's listed as backorder atm.

Does it means it is already sold out?

And if so, when are new copies going to be aviable?

Quite a few copies were damaged in transit. We're trying to get that resolved.

Does that mean availability of scratch & dent pricing for some of them?

Publisher, Dreamscarred Press
Kryzbyn wrote:

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How many have been mailed out?
Will we get a notification when ours has been shipped?

If you were a Kickstarter backer or ordered from Dreamscarred, dozens have gone out so far and I'm shipping copies each day. I haven't sent out notifications, because I'm mostly focused on getting the books out of the door, but I am keeping track of who has received a shipment and once I get the bulk sent, I'll be sending out an update.

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Tietar wrote:
Jeremy Smith wrote:
Geppou wrote:

The color hardcover it's listed as backorder atm.

Does it means it is already sold out?

And if so, when are new copies going to be aviable?

Quite a few copies were damaged in transit. We're trying to get that resolved.
Does that mean availability of scratch & dent pricing for some of them?

I'm not sure yet, they may need to go back to the printer for replacement. I'm still working with the printer on sorting out the shipment damage.

Publisher, Dreamscarred Press

It looks like there may be some scratch & dent stock available soon. I'm still working through it, but signs are pointing to "yes."
Jeremy Smith wrote:
It looks like there may be some scratch & dent stock available soon. I'm still working through it, but signs are pointing to "yes."

Ughhhhh. You're a horrible person. Know the thing about "must not buy another copy"? Crap. Crap. Crappity crap crap. I just kind of want this too much to wait (entirely) for my KS limited edition.

/me watches the thread like a hawk.
Anguish wrote:
Jeremy Smith wrote:
It looks like there may be some scratch & dent stock available soon. I'm still working through it, but signs are pointing to "yes."

Ughhhhh. You're a horrible person. Know the thing about "must not buy another copy"? Crap. Crap. Crappity crap crap. I just kind of want this too much to wait (entirely) for my KS limited edition.

/me watches the thread like a hawk.

I know exactly how you feel.

Jeremy, how are you shipping these for the KS folks? If you've said before I don't remember.

I need to know which trucks I need to be stalking.
Publisher, Dreamscarred Press
Spiral_Ninja wrote:

Jeremy, how are you shipping these for the KS folks? If you've said before I don't remember.

I need to know which trucks I need to be stalking.

They're being shipped USPS.

Thanks Jeremy.
Publisher, Dreamscarred Press

No problem! I got some shipped today at lunch and hope to get some more done once the kids are asleep.

What's the current status on mythic psionics?
Publisher, Dreamscarred Press
137ben wrote:

What's the current status on mythic psionics?

It's currently in playtesting

Dark Archive

Finally, I got my color book today. Just a few minutes ago.
Chris Ballard wrote:
Finally, I got my color book today. Just a few minutes ago.

I am so jealous. :(

Actually that is great and gives me hope that the waiting is almost over.

So I have a question: my order status has changed from "preorder" to "back order". Is there a general span of time I ought to be looking at before my book will ship? The funding amount was preauthorized on my account (and for some reason is no longer showing up as preauthorized; is this going to hit later?), so I had assumed that there would be no issues with shipping once the book had actually arrived at the warehouse.

In short, am I looking at a lengthy weeks-long delay for receipt of my book, or is this more like "Should be a couple of days, and it'll ship"?
Webstore Gninja Minion

The final charges to your account do not happen until we actually ship your product. In your situation, "backorder" means that we don't currently have enough stock to fulfill it (largely due to the earlier mention of damaged books). How long it will take to fulfill is not something I have an estimate for, alas.
Liberty's Edge
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Sooooo Order the Bundle and may get book at some point?

Thanks, Liz. Hopefully sooner than later, but I understand with the issue of the damaged books.

Anorak, I've already dropped just shy of $100 for the color book and shipping; PDFs don't currently appeal to me as I don't have a device that makes reading them as optimal as having the actual rulebook; ebooks work fine on a Kindle, PDFs... not so much. Consequently, I won't be adding more money to have the bundle.

Particularly since I think anyone who buys the hardcover book ought to be given the PDF for free, but I understand that isn't Paizo's business model, and I don't begrudge them that choice. :)
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 4
Silentman73 wrote:
Particularly since I think anyone who buys the hardcover book ought to be given the PDF for free, but I understand that isn't Paizo's business model, and I don't begrudge them that choice. :)

Though to be clear, this is a Dreamscarred Press Product and they make that determination. In this specific case, Paizo is the vendor selling and distributing the book through their store. That saves Dreamscarred Press from needing the infrastructure to run their own store and it raises the product visibility.

Paizo does actually give PDFs with the books that they publish, if you subscribe to the specific product line.
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Anorak wrote:
Sooooo Order the Bundle and may get book at some point?

As soon as replacement copies arrive in the warehouse, yes! :D Hopefully no more than a couple weeks at best.

I am very interested in the Ultimate Psionics color hardcover.
If I order one today, will I still get one?
And if I do get one, what month would it mostly likely come?

Thanks.
Tatum wrote:

I am very interested in the Ultimate Psionics color hardcover.

If I order one today, will I still get one?
And if I do get one, what month would it mostly likely come?

Thanks.

Per the post right above yours, yes, you'll still get one, and it will happen (hopefully) within the next couple weeks.

Any word or ETA no the herolab stuff?

Still working on converting the existing psionics datasets to the new HL code and updating them to UP versions as go along. Hopefully, it shouldn't be much longer before have something to show for it...

Yeah i´m really exited about that. We´ll have a psionics only campaign soon and having that new stuff on herolab will just make life so much easier.

I don't know if now is the best time to ask, but well the Psionic Bestiary be released soon?
The Exchange

Just got my hardback yesterday and you know what Jeremy, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNLJDR-XbVY

Thank you for all the hard work. I read the intro and was just like, "Man these guys are awesome! They took one of my favorite things and somehow, some way, made it better.

Axial - we are working on the Bestiary as we speak, we're aiming for a late March, early April release.

The Todd - thankyou for the kind words, and yes it IS fluffy! ;)

Andreas Rönnqvist
Dreamscarred Press

I got the copy I ordered from Paizo yesterday. So far really liking it, although wow...it's a dense tome.

Mine is still on back order. I understand this isn't Paizo or DSP's fault, but... maybe I'm just not cut out for preordering things. I think Amazon has spoiled me. :(

My copy comes from my pledge on the Psionic minis Kickstarter. So I have no idea when it will be shipped.
silverhair2008 wrote:
My copy comes from my pledge on the Psionic minis Kickstarter. So I have no idea when it will be shipped.

I ordered mine through the Ultimate Psionic kick starter so I am in the dark also when I will receive mine. In the meantime I have the PDF to read.

Webstore Gninja Minion
Silentman73 wrote:
Mine is still on back order. I understand this isn't Paizo or DSP's fault, but... maybe I'm just not cut out for preordering things. I think Amazon has spoiled me. :(

The copies that we received had a higher than normal amount of damage, making them unsuitable for our product standards. We are awaiting replacements, but I don't have an ETA yet on when we'll get them.

Publisher, Dreamscarred Press
silverhair2008 wrote:
My copy comes from my pledge on the Psionic minis Kickstarter. So I have no idea when it will be shipped.

We just started rolling out the pledge manager to handle getting shipping address and rewards selection for backers of the Psionic Miniatures project.

They should be shipping next month (since tomorrow is the end of the month and all).
Publisher, Dreamscarred Press
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Saint Bernard wrote:
silverhair2008 wrote:
My copy comes from my pledge on the Psionic minis Kickstarter. So I have no idea when it will be shipped.
I ordered mine through the Ultimate Psionic kick starter so I am in the dark also when I will receive mine. In the meantime I have the PDF to read.

I've been shipping copies out to backers from the Ultimate Psionics project every day, there's just quite a few to process. But they are going. :)

This is out in hardcover now? How did I miss this announcement? And curse the world because I live on a very small fixed income and EGAD do I want this book!

Jeremy Smith: In the PDF under Archetypes, is it on purpose that the links in the shortcut menu on the left lead to the normal classes again?
Instead to the archetypes?
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Hayato Ken wrote:

Jeremy Smith: In the PDF under Archetypes, is it on purpose that the links in the shortcut menu on the left lead to the normal classes again?

Instead to the archetypes?

No, and I'm working on an update of the PDF to fix that.

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I'd like to take a moment to thank Dreamscarred Press for their great products and the Paizo community in general for the support 3rd party publishers. Also, my fortunes have taken a turn for the better and I'm now able to get my own copy of "Ultimate Psionics". So come on, backorder faery! Hustle up!
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2010 Top 4

I am curious, will this hardcover be in supply and available at PaizoCon? If just a few copies?

I live in a rural community with no local FLGS. Also, freelancer cash flow is sporadic. But I'm thinking I will come to the Con with discretionary cash to buy goodies and this might be something I would pick up there.

I know I could get it sooner by ordering, I'm just looking at options.

This is as much for Jeremy to know it would be cool to have some in stock when his preorders and Kickstarter customers taken care of (sorry that's obvious but I'm saying it anyway). And Paizo, so that maybe they can grab a couple copies for the convention store.

Thanks folks!
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Jim Groves wrote:
I am curious, will this hardcover be in supply and available at PaizoCon? If just a few copies?

Having this in the store at PaizoCon is on my list. :D

Waiting for this book is killing me...

Got the PDF and can only say: It´s totally awesome and worth the money!

The PDF layout could be better on about 10 pages and there is one link glitch, but that´s all i have to moan. Didn´t find any writing errors so far. It´s the same level of quality as in Paizo products, at some points it might even outsmart some :D
The art is very good too, the only thing i don´t like so much are the Blues pictures, they should have been more cute, maybe blue Yodas. But that´s very much personaly opionated.

Writing my first review about this book is on my to do list^^

Any ideas when the back orders on the color hardback will hit the warehouse? And subsequently, my mailbox.....
Publisher, Dreamscarred Press

This month is the best estimate I can give. I received confirmation from the printer that they have requested replacements for the damaged copies, but until they arrive, I'm waiting to see if they get them replaced. Since this is our first time using this printer, I don't have the same history I do with our other printer (our normal printer doesn't do hardcovers).

Thanks, Jeremy!
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Got my Kickstarter copy

Wish I could have splurged for the color version but the B&W one is pretty good. You avoided the problems that Psionics Unleashed had with their B&W version nicely

Damn it's a big book though
Not as bit as the Core Rules but Bigger than Ultimate Equipment
Liberty's Edge
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Just purchased the .pdf yesterday to replace my Psionics Unleashed and Psionics Expanded tomes. A great updated compilation I might add. However, one thing is sorely missing: an index. That tends to be one of the first places I go to look up particular subject matter and yet no index exists. I would welcome Dreamscarred Press to amend its .pdf copy to include an index. (It need not even be cite-linked.) Please. And Thanks!

I meant this to be in this thread, not PE's.

Poop. Jeremy, I think I missed one.

circumstance shield appears to give a +2 bonus when you read any of the summary descriptions in the applicable class lists, but the power itself says a +1 bonus.

Sorry. I tried to proof everything but... so... many... words. <Grin>
Dark Archive

I notice that the bestiary is still not listed on Paizo, is it going to be available here?
Same goes for the minis?
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