SRD:Psionic (Feat Type)

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Psionic Feats

Psionic feats are available only to characters and creatures with the ability to manifest powers. In other words, they either have a power point reserve or have psi-like abilities.

Because psionic feats are supernatural abilities—a departure from the general rule that feats do not grant supernatural abilities—they cannot be disrupted in combat (as powers can be) and generally do not provoke attacks of opportunity (except as noted in their descriptions). Supernatural abilities are not subject to power resistance and cannot be dispelled; however, they do not function in areas where psionics is suppressed, such as a null psionics field. Leaving such an area immediately allows psionic feats to be used.

Many psionic feats can be used only when you are psionically focused; others require you to expend your psionic focus to gain their benefit. Expending your psionic focus does not require an action; it is part of another action (such as using a feat). When you expend your psionic focus, it applies only to the action for which you expended it.

List of Psionic Feats

Aligned Attack Body Fuel Boost Construct Combat Manifestation Epic Expanded Knowledge Epic Psionic Focus Expanded Knowledge Focused Sunder Ghost Attack Improved Manifestation Improved Metapsionics Inquisitor Mental Leap Metamorphic Transfer Narrow Mind

Overchannel Talented Power Knowledge Power Penetration Greater Power Penetration Power Specialization Greater Power Specialization Psicrystal Affinity Improved Psicrystal Psicrystal Containment Psicrystal Power Psionic Body Psionic Dodge Psionic Endowment Greater Psionic Endowment

Psionic Fist Greater Psionic Fist Unavoidable Strike Psionic Hole Psionic Meditation Psionic Shot Fell Shot Return Shot Greater Psionic Shot Psionic Talent Psionic Weapon Deep Impact Greater Psionic Weapon Speed of Thought Psionic Charge Up the Walls Wounding Attack

 

SRD Psionic Feats

Feat	Summary	Prerequisites
Aligned Attack	Your melee or ranged attack overcomes your opponent’s alignment-based damage reduction and deals additional damage.	Base attack bonus +6.
Body Fuel	You can expand your power point total at the expense of your health.	None
Boost Construct	Your astral constructs have more abilities.	None
Combat Manifestation	You are adept at manifesting powers in combat.	None
Expanded Knowledge	You learn another power.	Manifester level 3rd.
Fell Shot	You can strike your foe with a ranged weapon as if making a touch attack.	Dex 13, Point Blank Shot, Psionic Shot, base attack bonus +5.
Focused Sunder	You can sense the stress points on others’ weapons.	Str 13, Power Attack, Improved Sunder.
Ghost Attack	Your deadly strikes against incorporeal foes always find their mark.	Base attack bonus +3.
Greater Power Specialization	You deal more damage with your powers.	Power Specialization, Weapon Focus (ray), manifester level 12th.
Greater Psionic Fist	You can charge your unarmed strike or natural weapon with additional damage potential.	Str 13, Psionic Fist, base attack bonus +5.
Greater Psionic Shot	You can charge your ranged attacks with additional damage potential.	Point Blank Shot, Psionic Shot, base attack bonus +5.
Improved Psicrystal	You can upgrade your psicrystal.	Psicrystal Affinity.
Inquisitor	You know when others lie.	Wis 13.
Mental Leap	You can make amazing jumps.	Str 13, Jump 5 ranks.
Metamorphic Transfer	You can gain a supernatural ability of a metamorphed form.	Wis 13, manifester level 5th.
Narrow Mind	Your ability to concentrate is as keen as an arrowhead, allowing you to gain your psionic focus even in the most turbulent situations.	Wis 13.
Overchannel	You burn your life force to strengthen your powers.	None
Power Penetration	Your powers are especially potent, breaking through power resistance more readily than normal.	None
Power Specialization	You deal more damage with your powers.	Weapon Focus (ray), manifester level 4th.
Psicrystal Affinity	You have created a psicrystal.	Manifester level 1st.
Psicrystal Containment	Your psicrystal has advanced enough that it can hold a psionic focus that you store within it.	Psicrystal Affinity, manifester level 3rd.
Psionic Charge	You can charge in a crooked line.	Dex 13, Speed of Thought.
Psionic Dodge	You are proficient at dodging blows.	Dex 13, Dodge.
Psionic Fist	You can charge your unarmed strike or natural weapon with additional damage potential.	Str 13.
Psionic Shot	You can charge your ranged attacks with additional damage potential.	Point Blank Shot.
Psionic Talent	You gain additional power points to supplement those you already had.	Having a power point reserve.
Psionic Weapon	You can charge your melee weapon with additional damage potential.	Str 13.
Return Shot	You can return incoming arrows, as well as crossbow bolts, spears, and other projectile or thrown weapons.	Point Blank Shot, Psionic Shot, Fell Shot, base attack bonus +3
Speed of Thought	The energy of your mind energizes the alacrity of your body.	Wis 13.
Talented	You can overchannel powers with less cost to yourself.	Overchannel.
Unavoidable Strike	You can make an unarmed strike or use a natural weapon against your foe as if delivering a touch attack.	Str 13, Psionic Fist, base attack bonus +5.
Up the Walls	You can run on walls for brief distances.	Wis 13.
Wounding Attack	Your vicious attacks wound your foe.	Base attack bonus +8.

 

Epic SRD Psionic Feats

Feat	Summary	Prerequisites
Epic Expanded Knowledge	You learn another power.	Character level 21st, ability to manifest powers of the normal maximum power level in at least one psionic class.
Epic Psionic Focus	You can expend your psionic focus to greater effect.	Character level 21st, ability to manifest powers of the normal maximum power level in at least one psionic class.
Improved Manifestation	You increase your power point reserve.	Character level 21st, ability to manifest powers of the normal maximum power level in at least one psionic class.
Improved Metapsionics	You can manifest powers using metapsionic feats more easily than normal.	None
Power Knowledge	You add two additional powers to your list of powers known.	Character level 21st, ability to manifest powers of the normal maximum power level in at least one psionic class.
Psicrystal Power	Your psicrystal can manifest a power.	Character level 21st, Intelligence 25 or Charisma 25 (depending on which is your key ability score for manifesting).

 

Homebrew Psionic Feats

Homebrew feats using this type appear below. These are not part of the SRD, and are presented for ease of reference only. Click "Show" below to view them.

[show] Feat	Summary	Prerequisites
Acquire Mind Blade	You can create a weapon made of your own thoughts at will.	Bab +1 or Concentration 4 Ranks
Acquire Telepathy	You gain Telepathy with a ranged based on your strongest telepathy power.	Manifester Level 3rd
Adept Mindreader	You are an expert at reading people's mind.	Must be able to manifest read thoughts
Astral Power Armor	You summon a power armor made of an astral construct.	Must be able to manifest astral construct, manifester level 7th.
Biotic Initiate	A mysterious human, only known as The Shepherd, ventured far away from their home galaxy at the end of a brutal war for survival. After leaving, he began to teach naturally psionic races to harness biotics, a higher level form of telekinetic control by manipulating the Dark Matter that permeates through the Universe.	Int 16, 4 HD, Able of Manifest 1 Psychokinesis Power of level 1 or Higher
Biotic Vanguard	By delving deeper into the teaching of The Shepherd, you now understand the ideals of the Vanguard. To be the forward force of your party to lead them battle with brute force and disrupting the front line of any enemies you face.	6 HD, Con 18, Biotic Initiate
Bladeblast	The soulknife may concentrate all of the power within his mindblade and point it in a direction, annihilating all foes in that direction with his condensed psychic power.	Psychic Strike
Brain Drain	Drink power points like Amy Winehouse drinks the sauce.	Wildest Talents
Brain Thrust	Your mind thrust is much more effective at dealing actual physical damage.	Must be able to manifest mind thrust.
Crystal Master	Your crystal-based power deals additional damage and you may select hail of crystals no matter your power list.	Must be able to manifest Crystal Shard
Deep Mind	You have more power known and power points.	1st level Only
Dragonblooded Psion	Your psionic powers are empowered by your dragon blood.	Manifester level 1st, must have the dragonblood subtype
Dual Mind Blade	You can split your mind blade into two without Shape Mind Blade, and later gain the ability to wield larger mind blades while two-weapon fighting.	Mind Blade class feature
Enervation Explosion	When a psionic creature is dazed, their trapped psionic energy explodes outward uncontrolled.	None
Enervation Resistance	Reduce the chance of psionic enervation.	Psychic Enervation
Eternal Mindspring of the Psionic Mind	Even when your power points are drained, you always have 2 left to use.	Manifester level 6th
Extended Psychic Strike	The power you invest into your mind blade endures round after round, allowing you to continue to attack foes with barely a pause in the action.	Psychic Strike +1d8
Eyes of the Phoenix	You create several little flames around you, which you can fire at people or see through.	Manifester level 8th, Psionic Meditation
Favor of Nyx	You are personally favored by the Goddess of the Night and granted her lightnings	Manifester level 11th.
Focus of the Edgemaster	While in this mantra, you improve your chances of scoring critical hit and ignore immunity to critical hit.	Improved Critical, Weapon Focus, Autohypnosis or Concentration 8 Ranks
Focused Mind	You've learned how to push your psionic talents to the limit.	One Mental Grip strike, Manifester level 1
Form Mind Fullblade	You can shape your mind blade into a larger greatsword with reach, but that cannot be used to take attacks of opportunity with.	Shape Mind Blade
Free Psionic Focus	Always have 1 extra power point you can only use to obtain psionic focus.	None
Golden Psychic Potential	As a Golden One, you can tap into your incredible psionic potential.	Must be a Golden One.
Grasp of the Mindflayer	You gain the ability to manifest in a grapple, and manifest while attempting to pin a creature.	Illithid or Illithid HeritageCP
Hidden Manifestation	The powers you manifest are shadowed and indistinct from the landscape around you, allowing you to go undetected for the most part when manifesting.	Ability to manifest psionic powers
High Psionic Knowledge	You add a power of any list to all your power list.	1st Level Only
Improved Enervation Resistance	lessens the penalties associated with Psychic Enervation	Enervation Resistance
Improved Overwhelming Energy	Apply Overwhelming Energy metapsionics without any cost.	Overwhelming Energy
Improved Psychic Renewal	As Psychic Renewal, but without the cost.	Psychic Renewal, manifester level 12th
Improved Wild Talent	You gain the ability to use your wild talents to manifest powers in a similar way to manifesters.	Wild Talent or Hidden Talent
Inborn Surge	You have a stronger wild surge and suffer from enervation less.	Wild Surge +1
Inertial Shot	You can focus your mental energy into a projectile or thrown weapon to increase its damage potential by increasing the force it releases on impact.	Psionic Shot, Base Attack Bonus +4
Influence of the Entity	You call upon the power of the Entity to manipulate the false world you created to make the creatures that fell under it your thralls.	Must be able to manifest microcosm, power of the entity and psychic thesis (microcosm) feats.
Insight	You are able to see incoming attack coming, allowing you to deftly dodge out of the way.	BAB +5 or Psicraft 8 Ranks
Ioun Psicrystal	Embed Ioun Stones in your Psicrystal.	Psicrystal Affinity or similar; Must own at least one Ioun stone.
Iris Mantle	Add invested essentia to your manifester level when manifesting power from one of your mantle	Con 13, Access to one psionic mantle
Lapis Augment	You can spend additional power points when using Lurk Augment equal to invested essentia.	Con 13, Lurk AugmentCPsi
Lasting Psychic Warrior	Double the base power points of the psychic warrior and similar classes.	Limited psionic power point progression like the Psychic Warrior (under 150 points or less by 20th).
Manifester Focus	Choose a class which does not give full manifesting progression (or none at all), it now gives full or partial progression... for manifester level at least.	Manifester Level 5th, Psicraft 4 ranks
Mantra of Ascension	As long as you are in a Mantra you gain temporary power points.	Psionic Meditation, Mantralist and two additional [Mantra] feats
Mantralist	Allow you to maintain multiple mantra at the same time.	Psionic Meditation, one other [Mantra] feat.
Martial Psionic Meditation	You can regain your psionic focus as part of an attack.	None
Mental Analyst	You are capable of reading the thoughts of creature normally immune to it and even use your mind-affecting power on them.	Psycheblade 1st, INT 13+
Mental Touch	The practitioner of the way of the Mental Grip must understand that not only can he use his psionic abilities to aid his physical ones, he can use his psionic abilities to outright replace his physical ones.	Psionic Meditation, Three Mental Grip maneuvers (at least one must be a stance), Base Attack Bonus +6
Mindsight, Variant	You can pinpoints creature psychically.	Must possess the Telepathy special ability.
Monastic Knife	Use a mind blade in conjunction with monk fighting techniques	Form Mind Blade, Shape Mind Blade, Stunning Fist, Improved Unarmed Strike
Mystical Meditation	You can use your intense psychic might to activate awakened center more easily.	Psychic Meditation[1], Deep Psychic Meditation [2] and Psionic Meditation
Narrow Mind	Your ability to concentrate is as keen as an arrowhead, allowing you to gain your psionic focus even in the most turbulent situations.	Wis 13.
Overdrive	You use your Overchannel to greatly increase your melee attack power rather than augmenting a power.	Overchannel or Oversurge
Oversurge	You can greatly increase your manifester level at the cost of your well being.	Must have a con score.
Phobiavore	Putting the fuel in Nightmare Fuel!	Int/Cha 18, Manifester Level 1
Physical Manifestation	Gain access to a series of unique powers which drain hit points instead of power points.	Con 13, Psychic Warrior 1st
Power Recoil	You move in the opposite direction of any power you manifest.	Must be able manifest a 1st level power.
Practiced Psionics	After learning a few new tricks, you've redoubled your efforts to master your manifesting.	Ability to manifest powers, power point reserve
Precognitive Instinct	You have flashes of insight allowing you to react to future events.	Must be able to manifest precognition.
Precognitive Sneak Attack	You use precognitive abilities to strike your opponents where they don't expect it.	Sneak Attack +1d6, able to manifest a 1st level clairsentience power
Psi-Ki Fist		Stunning Fist, must have a psionic power point pool
Psionic Artificer	You are able to fabricate magic item with extreme speed and finesse.	Craft Universal Item, must be able to manifest psionic fabricate
Psionic Brute	You have learned to control your anger, harnessing the psychic potential of your rage, and manipulating the flow of adrenaline in your body, at your choosing.	Rage 2/day, a power point reserve.
Psionic Energy Specialization	You specialize in a single element with your energy-based powers.	Must have two "Energy" powers known, such as energy ray
Psionic Energy Surge	You are an expert at channeling energy through your psionic powers.	Must be able to manifest one energy power (such as energy ray).
Psionic Expertise	You have additional power points.	None
Psionic Far Shot	You can use your latent psionic energy to reduce environmental effects on your projectiles that would hamper their effectiveness.	Far Shot, Point Blank Shot, Psionic Shot, Base Attack Bonus +9
Psionic Meditation, Variant	You can focus your mind quickly and efficiently.	None
Psionic Metamage	You blend the realm of metapsionic and metamagic. You can use one has either or both.	At least one metamagic feat and one metapsionic feat.
Psionic Reserve Power	Gain an at-will 1st level power that doesn't scale.	At least 1 power point and one power known.
Psionic Tongue	You can speak any language as long as you maintain mental focus.	None
Psionic Word	You can use your psionic abilities to empower your truespeech.	Autohypnosis 4 ranks, Truespeak 4 ranks, must be able to use 1st level utterances
Psychic Berserk	You go into a psionic berserk, greatly augmenting your abilities at the cost of safety.	Wild Surge +1
Psychic Potential Awakened	You gain manifesting much like a psion, using your soulblade or soulknife level -2.	Soulblade or Soulknife 3rd
Psychic Swordsman	Psychic warrior and warblade levels stack for initiator and manifester level.	Weapon Aptitude
Psychic Thesis	As Arcane Thesis, for psionic powers	Knowledge (Psionics) 9 ranks, ability to manifest powers
Psychic Vampire	You drain the minds of others to heal yourself.	Manifester level 5th, must know either claws of the vampire, psychic vampire, or vampiric blade, at least two Telepathy powers., mind trap, hostile telepathic transfer
Psychokinetic Grip	You have emerging telekinetic abilities, which allows you to move object telekinetically.	None
Shadow Telepath	You can use Shadow Manifesting to replicate Telepathy powers.	Shadow Manifesting
Skin of the Construct, Variant	You can meld with your summoned astral construct, gaining some of its abilities for the power's duration	Able to manifest the power astral construct, Boost Construct feat
Slipstream Shot	You can charge a projectile or thrown weapon to ignore many types of impediments.	Fell Shot, Psionic Shot, Base Attack Bonus +8
Slow Levitation	While psionically focused you can slowly hover around.	None
Sublime Psychic	You've been trained in the exotic discipline of the Mental Grip.	Swordsage 3rd or Warblade or Crusader 6th, Autohypnosis 3 ranks or Skill Focus (Autohypnosis).
Sublime Soulknife	Mind blade is discipline weapon, soulknife levels increase initiator level.	Blade meditation (any), mind blade.
TK Specialist	You are very good at moving creatures and object telekinetically.	Must be able to manifest TK Force, manifester level 3rd
Tactile Telekinesis	You have telekinesis on your fingertips.	1st level only, must know at least one psionic power of the psychokinesis discipline.
Telekinetic Puppet	You can puppet your own body around.	Must be able to manifest TK force, manifester level 5th
Telepathy Stacker	If you have multiple sources of telepathy, they stack instead of overlap.	Telepathy
Total Recall	You can recall what was forgotten, and improve the Call to Mind power.	None.
Tranquil Meditation	This mantra make it easier to enter psionic focus and grant minor benefits, however also carries penalties.	Autohypnosis or Concentration 6 Ranks
Transcendent Sight	As long as you are in this mantra you can defeat illusions with your sight.	Must be able to manifest 3rd level Clairsentience power
Unarmed Mind Blade	When you reshape your mind blade, you can change it into a faintly glowing aura that augments your unarmed strikes with the abilities of your mind blade.	Ability to generate a mind blade, shape mind blade class feature.
Unfettered Overchannel	You increase the power of your overchannel feat.	Overchannel and Talented
Unfettered Talent	You are a real psionic now!	Hidden talent or Wild Talent
Weaponized Mind Blade	You can shape your mind blade into any other type of weapon you are proficient with.	Shape Mind Blade class feature
Wildest Talents	You gain a number of power point as if you were a Psion of your character level -3.	4 HDs, Wild Talent or Hidden Talent

 

Epic Homebrew Psionic Feats

Homebrew feats using this type appear below. These are not part of the SRD, and are presented for ease of reference only. Click "Show" below to view them.

[show] Feat	Summary	Prerequisites
Improved Metapsionics-CE	Metapsionic powers you manifest cost 2 power points less than normal (to a minimum of 1 power point).	Four metapsionic feats, Psicraft 24 ranks.
Multifocus	You can use and regain your psionic focus quickly enough to use it multiple times.	Epic Psionic Focus, Psionic Meditation, Concentration 24 Ranks, Character level 21st, ability to manifest powers of the normal maximum power level in at least one psionic class
Psicrystal Power-CE	Your psicrystal can manifest powers in your steed.	A psicrystal, Manifesting Ability Score 25 (Int, Wis, or Cha), Psicraft 24 ranks

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