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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.)
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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.
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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.
The Psikasha Expanded- Intrusive Thoughts playtest continues until October 11th, and thank you for all the comments and suggestions.
The following edits and changes have been made:
- Bastion- Resurgence of Faith ability effects have been clarified.
- Mentalist Troubadour Trope- Now selects a single psionic power list, and all powers moving forward gained from quirks are selected from that list (with a few exceptions).
- Mantle of the Mindful Body- Recovery of temp hp from Ablative Field clarified, Telekinetic Barrier is now able to block incorporeal touch effects, Telekinetic Reach now applies to unarmed strikes or a single natural attack.
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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.
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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.
Good to have some free peepin's for the Psikasha Expandend, Instrusive Thoughts public playtestin' stuff out there for PF1e, RecordedChaos. ;)
Psikasha Expanded- Intrusive Thoughts Edits and Updates
Hello everyone, RC here with some additional edits and updates. With the playtest ending soon I'm just trying to knock out the last few changes and suggestions.
The following edits and updates have been made:
- Mentalist Trope- Least, Lesser, and Greater Psionics quirks have been edited with Least now granting two 1st level powers and all of them granting increased power points. The Grand Psionics quirk was added, granting one power each for levels 1-3. Psionic Training quirk was removed, as granting access to every psionic feat was balance breaking, instead you now have the Metapsionic Training quirk that grants metapsionic bonus feats and the Mind Over Body quirk that grants access to a limited list of psionic feats and both can be taken multiple times.
The playtest is still planned to conclude Saturday 11 October, with the book being released by Studio M- with art by CCStabs
The following edits and updates have been made. Reminder that the playtest closes out 11 October!
- Bastion: Surge of Devotion- Levels which the bastion gains power points to augment maneuvers from surge of devotion changed. now gains 2 points at 6th, 3 points at 11th, and 4 points at 16th levels. This also alters the levels at which the Bastion's surge intensity increases. Attuned Counterpoint- altered the wording of the maximum granted attack bonus from having damage stored in the bastion's delayed damage pool to clarify the effects. Touch of the Goddess- edited wording of ability to clarify its effects. Surge of Devotion base risk of psychic enervation changed to 20% instead of 30%.
- Dissevered: Talents- dissevered now learns an additional talent from any other class's talent list at 5th level. Fragmented Psyche- wording altered for clarity when choosing a psionic power list when creating personas.
- Mentalist Trope: Mind Over Body Quirk- Spirited Psicrystal feat added to the list of available bonus feats.
- Ingenium: Lesser Psionic Symbiosis- Wording edited for clarity of the effects. Improved Bonded Knowledge- wording edited for clarity and range of ability increased to 60ft.
- Psichymist: Psichymical Focus- wording edited for clarity.
- Hungry Manacles: Wording of base effect and benefits of investing essence altered for clarity.
- Japa Mala of the Kinetic: Damage of base effect and from investing essence changed from 2 to 1d3.
- Crystallized Flesh: Lunar and Stormbound added to the list of classes who can learn the veil. Base benefits of expending charges now last 1 round, +1 round for each charge expended after the first. Wording for benefits of invested essence edited for clarity. Wording for Shoulders Bind effects edited for clarity. Wording for Blood Bind effects edited for clarity.
Hello everyone, the public playtest closes today at midnight. I will be leaving the link active until the book is published (on DriveThruRPG with my other books) under Studio M-.
Currently, my publisher has warned me that they are slammed and have a backlog of things to push out (like my Echoes of Magic and Kristal Moonhand's Intoxicating Petal martial discipline!) so I am hoping it gets released before the end of the year. Art will again be courtesy of the amazing CCStabs.
Thank you for all the interest you've shown in this playtest, from the suggestions and comments to the messages sent asking about things, I appreciate it.
Coming up next in November I plan to start the playtest for the next release, Deals with the Dark, Pacts of Fiend and Shadow. It will contain two new pacts for the Pactbound akashic class!
See you next time!
-RC