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The Korranberg Chronicle: Psion's Primer - A Complete Psionics System

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The Korranberg Chronicle: Psion's Primer - A Complete Psionics System

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The Korranberg Chronicle - Psion's Primer

A Complete Psionics System

Within this book's pages, you'll find all you need to play psionic characters and create psionic campaigns:

3 Brand new psionic classes: the Empath, the Icon, and the Psion
9 Psionic subclasses, including three for Player's Handbook classes: the Mystic, the Occultist, the Wilder, the Dominator, the Kineticist, the Shaper, the Adamant, the Way of the Soulknife, and the Lurk
10 New or variant races with inherent psionic power: Kalashtar, Daelkyr Madblood, Dromites, Duergar, Elans, Blue Goblins, Dreamscarred Goliaths, Shulassakar, Thri-Kreen, and Psiforged Warforged
6 Psionic feats
38 Psionic items
Over 250 psionic powers
Over 40 psionic monsters and NPCs

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garret R May 19, 2023 6:16 pm UTC

Hi, i have some questions. it says it takes no action to drop focus on a talent - but does it take an action to focus on a new one? I'm playing a mystic empath, and when my party is in trouble, I focus on autonomous vitality. but if i can only switch powers once on my turn, i'm stuck as the healer (for the reaction healing outside of my turn), and can't attack with my other powers or do anything with my bonus action all combat. Is that correct? Or can i freely switch my talent and start my turn, switch to mindblade, give myself advantage with energy blade, attack, then switch back to healing for outside of my turn?

My other question is, are all my auras only for the others?

Anthony T May 25, 2023 5:23 am UTC

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Hi Garret,

Talents are cantrip spells with a casting time of 1 bonus action and a duration of Focus. So yes it requires a bonus action to begin focusing on a talent, since you can only focus on one after you cast it.

One thing you may have missed was the paragraph on augments with a reaction cast time:

Reactions. Several psionic augments have manifesting times of 1 reaction, but no accompanying trigger. You may use your reaction to manifest these augments at any time you wish, as long are you are focusing on the appropriate talent. If timing isn’t specified, you cannot react to another creature’s action before that action takes place, only afterward. As normal, you regain your reaction at the start of your next turn.

The meaning of is this that you can use these reactions even on your turn. That way, it is possible to juggle your healing and action, somewhat. If you start your turn focusing on Mindblade, you can make a mindblade attack with your Action, then...See more

DJ H March 17, 2023 8:00 pm UTC

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I Love this! I was going over this with one of my players recently and have 2 questions:
1) Are there any other resources of yours that add additional Talents/Augments/Subclasses? if not that's fine but I figured I'd ask.
2) have you considered making this available for print-on-demand? I'd love to get a physical copy of this but I'm not sure I could have it printed and it still look ok...

Anthony T March 19, 2023 12:35 am UTC

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Thanks DJ!

1) Not to my knowledge, but it would be really cool if other DMsGuild creators picked up the system and ran with it!
2) Unfortunately no, I don't have the resources to go back and redesign the entire book's layout for print. Sorry about that! But consider this my "Permission granted to print for personal use".

Sean S March 09, 2023 1:07 pm UTC

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Hello, I have another question about clarification.
If I have the Quori Atavist Du'ulora feat. It says I can only deal fire damage with the Energy Ray talent - does that apply to augments of talents as well, or only when using the talent's own attack?

Thanks

Anthony T March 15, 2023 1:55 am UTC

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Only the talent. If you have access to Augmentations you've developed your psionic talents to be broader than just what your spirit provides.

Sean S January 29, 2023 4:52 am UTC

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In the Psionic Savant feat it lists "energy beam" as one of the talents you can learn.
The only reference to that I could find was one of the Lesser Eidolon abilities.
I'm assuming that should probably be the "energy ray" talent instead.

Sorry to keep point out errors, I'm really enjoying the book and only hoping to make it better if/when an update is released.
Are there any plans to release a physical print?
I'd love to have a copy on my shelf with the rest of my references (after errors corrected, of course.)

Anthony T January 29, 2023 6:50 pm UTC

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Hi Sean!

I don't currently have any plans to update Psion's Primer, as my focus is on a new project I'm working on right now, but I appreciate the comments! Inevitably things will slip through editing, especially self-referential rules text like this, so it's nice to be able to set the record straight when one is found. Yes, the Psionic Savant feat should reference the Energy Ray talent.

As for a physical copy, I'm afraid that would be unfeasible at this point. The book's layout was done in Word, which is not conducive to actual print layout, so I would need to invest time and resources on redoing the entire book's layout in a print format. Unfortunately that is beyond my means.

Sean S January 31, 2023 4:44 am UTC

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It's disappointing there won't be an update.
I was hoping it would be a trivial thing to push out a new pdf.
But I've never published through DMG; I'm guessing it's not so easy now.

But, lacking an update, do you have, or are you willing to create a consolidated Errata doc?
If so, can you post a link to it?

And one more question - how would Energy Ray (and any augments) work with the Elemental Adept feat when the damage types coincide?
Or even more powerfully (potentially) the Relentless Energy ability of Shaper Psions?
If I use relentless energy to make my fire-specialized energy ray treat immunity as resistance would the Elemental Adept of fire then ignore that?

The Ardent and Relentless abilitites were explicitly stated to not work together; but as written, I think it makes sense the ability and the feat could go together. From a balance perspective though maybe they shouldn't. Since you specifically forbade Ardent and Relentless I think...See more

Anthony T February 01, 2023 6:41 am UTC

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Sorry to disappoint, Sean! It is unfortunately a little bit more involved than just typing in some new corrections. To pull back the curtain a bit, sometimes edits can cause cascading layout adjustments if changing the text causes paragraphs or lines to shift between pages. Also laying out the PDF with hyperlinks is a manual process for me, as any automated bookmarking I've tried doesn't produce results I find useful. So it can be a pretty big timesink for a few small corrections that I can easily clear up here.

That being said, if there is a kind of "critical mass" of corrections that need to be made, I may change my mind. So there's no plans for an update right NOW, but that doesn't mean there will never be one.

What I can do now is listen to your suggestion and add a very simple errata PDF alongside the book as a separate file, so you and any other customers can download it from your Library and see it all in one place. I'll work on getting that out soon.

For...See more

Sean S January 08, 2023 5:50 am UTC

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The Psion Shaper subclass has Emancipated Eidolon as an 11th level feature.
I'm guessing it was supposed to be 10th level?

Will the PDF be updated with this or any other corrections ?

Sean S January 02, 2023 6:20 pm UTC

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I was wondering on the Adamant and Lurk, why the Battle Trance and True Shot talents were mandated for each subclass?
While I can certainly understand why some (many) might "want" those particular talents, it seems odd that every Adamant must be a melee psionic user (at least a little bit) and every Lurk must be a psionic archer (or other ranged weapon).

I'll let my players ignore those mandates when I'm DMing but I was curious if there was a design reason I'm not considering that make them mandates instead of choices.

Anthony T January 03, 2023 10:44 pm UTC

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Your houserule is perfectly fine. The reason these subclasses are mandated is more flavor than anything else. Like why the Paladin can't smite with an unarmed strike. Nothing will break the game if you let paladins do a holy punch, it just isn't the assumed flavor of the class. The Adamant is meant to be a stalwart frontline wall of strength and willpower, and the Lurk is meant to be a shadowy assassin that kills at range. But if you want to allow your players the freedom to be something else, it won't break the system. Go for it!

Sean S December 28, 2022 10:59 pm UTC

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Shouldn't Mettle for the Adamant archetype be gained at 15th level instead of 14? Or was it intentional to move it one level earlier from where fighter archetypes usually get an ability?

Anthony T January 03, 2023 10:41 pm UTC

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Looks like this is just a typo. Subclass feature levels should be uniform for all a class's subclasses. It was not intentional to give the Adamant Mettle early.

Luke V May 15, 2022 2:32 am UTC

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The occultist's Pronounce Omen feature doesn't specify whether it is an action, bonus action, reaction, or otherwise. What is the intended action type?

Anthony T May 18, 2022 7:17 am UTC

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Hi Luke! This ability doesn't require an action.

Eðvarð Arnór S September 29, 2021 3:07 pm UTC

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Love this product, best use of Psionics system I have seen in 5th edition. One small Gripe. Why O why were the talents and augments not sorted by Talent trees and then by level alphabetically? I get why in the PHB the spells are in alphabetical order but in your book all augments fall under a specific Talent. Then why not have all augments follow that talent in Level order? I copy pasted all the augment into excel to be able to use Under its parent Talent otherwise I have to flip endlessly when looking up the effects of my power.
Again I must stress, I love this book :)

Anthony T September 29, 2021 8:46 pm UTC

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I hear you lol. It was rough deciding how to lay out the powers. I went with standard alphabetical because if someone is scrolling through looking for "telepathic weight", they'll assume it's alphabetical and start scrolling up or down depending on what other augment names they'll see on the page. But I can totally see organizing it that way too. It might be worth it to offer another pdf of just the powers, organized like you said. I dunno.

Eðvarð Arnór S October 05, 2021 9:32 am UTC

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Its a minor thing honestly. I really like the powers system you have made in this book. The Talents and Augments system really makes you focus in on a concept for your character in a way that selecting spells does not.

Kevin H July 11, 2021 6:50 pm UTC

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Where can I find the "GOLD EDITION"?

Quote from page, below:
The Psion's Primer GOLD EDITION now includes:

A third class, the Icon, a versatile half-"caster" psionic class! Unlock the power of the collective unconscious!
A new psionic race, the Shulassakar of Eberron!
More psionic monsters!
More Inspired NPC options!

Anthony T July 16, 2021 8:18 pm UTC

CREATOR

Hi Kevin! If you purchased Psion's Primer prior to the gold edition update, then all you need to do is redownload it from the link here on the product page, or your "My Library" page on the DMsGuild. If you purchased the book after the update, then the version you have is already the Gold bestseller edition.

June 22, 2021 4:37 am UTC

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Just wondering what your design goals or guiding principles were for this book? I picked it up and I'm looking at it side by side with the UA Mystic. So far, the biggest difference seems to be reigning in the Mystic "swiss army knife"?

I don't think anyone has asked this question yet, apologies if you've answered this elsewhere!

Anthony T July 01, 2021 1:32 am UTC

CREATOR

Hello! Thanks for your interest.

You are correct. I think the main failing of the Mystic is that it tried to fit the entire psionic system into a single class. None of the Mystic's options on their own are broken out of line with expected capabilities. It's just that, you have so many options that, round by round, you can essentially fill any role in the party. The "swiss army knife" problem, exactly.

For for the Psion's Primer, my main focus was to separate the "party support" and "psychic wizard" abilities of the Mystic into two classes, the Empath and the Psion. There are still ways to pick up options from each other's movesets, but they are limited (like the Bard's Magical Secrets class feature).

July 04, 2021 1:00 am UTC

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I like how you tied talents to augments too. I always felt like talents were pretty ancillary (or arbitrary?) to a mystics disciplines. Your system creates a tighter logical connection between the two. Great work!

Anthony T July 06, 2021 5:31 pm UTC

CREATOR

Thank you! Glad you're enjoying it!

July 08, 2021 11:31 pm UTC

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Hi, sorry man one more question - I'm converting a couple of my players characters from the old system to yours - did you ever do a mapping of the old talents/disciplines to your talent trees? I started doing a mapping of the obvious ones e.g. Bestial Form > Primal Metabolism but that actually seemed to fold multiple lines such as Diminutation and Giant Form as well.

Anthony T July 16, 2021 8:20 pm UTC

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Sorry, I don't think I have a list like that! Things aren't one-to-one. I did a lot of pruning and curating, as well as getting inspiration for many powers from the 3rd edition Expanded Psionic's Handbook. So they don't quite line up with disciplines, and I didn't think to record the changes I made from mystic, since the Primer was intended to be independent of it.

April 05, 2021 3:09 am UTC

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My Elan Shaper just hit 5th level! I can fully manifest Project Eidolon. Woot! The example for the 3rd level Eidolon has two Eidolon Abilities: Celerity and Resilient Form. Shouldn't the example only have only one of them? The Project Eidolon description reads that you get one Lesser Eidolon Abilities menu and apply it to the eidolon’s base statistics for free. To get another ability it would cost another 2PP correct? I must be missing something.

Anthony T April 05, 2021 5:39 am UTC

CREATOR

So glad you're having fun! So the thing you're missing is that Lesser abilities only cost 1 psi point over the minimum, not 2. Greater abilities cost 2. So at 5th level your psi limit should be 6, allowing you to get one Lesser ability for free, and the option to Intensify by 1 psi point over the minimum for a second Lesser ability.

Shawn B March 24, 2021 9:14 pm UTC

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Looking through the primer I see a way to "counterspell" psionics with Negate but I am not seeing a way to "dispel" an ongoing psionic power similar to dispel magic. Am I missing something?

Anthony T March 28, 2021 1:03 am UTC

CREATOR

There is no way to do it with psionics, true. However, all psionic augments are built off the talents. They "augment" the talent's effects, and all talents are actually cantrip spells. So effectively, any augment is an ongoing "cantrip" spell that has additional or altered effects layered on it. In the description of powers in chapter 3, it goes into some nitty gritty specifics, such as an augment increasing the cantrip-talent's "spell level" to the power level of the augment (including intensified options). Meaning that, if you, for instance, focus on Inertial Transference and then augment it with Accelerate at its minimum cost (a 3rd level augment), a caster can cast Dispel Magic and dispel the Accelerate effect as though it was a 3rd level spell, because Accelerate "augments" the Inertial Transference cantrip spell into a 3rd level magical effect.

Forrest D March 22, 2021 6:38 am UTC

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The psion power surge, as written effectively screws any higher lvl play. You have to pay HP, AND go in order for any effect equal to a 6th, 7th, 8th or Ninth lvl spell. So you can't start any encounter with one of your high lvl effects without working up to it, or wasting one or more of your abilities, HP and a large number of psi points early in the day just to have that highest level ability at hand.

Anthony T March 28, 2021 12:57 am UTC

CREATOR

This is intentional, yes. Part of the trade-off is that you can funnel the equivalent of all of your earlier level "spell slots" into several 5th level effects. This means psionics is a little more limited at 6+ level effects, but much much more efficient at 1-5 level effects.

Forrest D September 22, 2021 8:01 am UTC

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A little? It means you have an action penalty (of one round or more), a HP penalty (significantly more, depending on the power you want to use) and have to spend vastly more psionic points all for no reason to use a lvl 7+ power if you want to use it to begin with, as well as burning your slots from lvls 6+ if the power you wanted to use was above them. Each of which are once a day according to your rules. As opposed to magic, which is simply once a day. That's more than a little more limited. That's Psionics are worthless as a character option after lvl 13.

Anthony T September 25, 2021 6:40 am UTC

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I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree here. The way it's written it requires you to think more strategically for higher order effects than spellcasters do. Yes, you can't go in guns blazing with your highest level effect like a spellcaster can, so you have to think ahead. That's fine. And it's fine that you, clearly, do not like to have this requirement for high-level play. It sounds like Psion's Primer is not the book for you, and that's ok. You do you.

Steven G January 03, 2021 7:48 am UTC

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First off, this is an amazing book. I have been dying to play a psion in 5e, but I do have a few comments.

With Power Siphon, it's very conditional. I have gone through several fights and never been targeted with an effect that triggers one of the listed saving-throws. The ability is already very similar in flavor to Arcane Recovery (Wizard LVL 1). Could it possibly be made more reliable, like meditating during a short-rest instead? If not that way, then maybe make it have broader trigger conditions? Once per day is already a perfect balance.

The next one is Power Surge. I agree with Duncan W that posted back on September 20th that stepping up 2,4,6,8 really means that a character must burn 8 MAX HP and 4 psi points when he wakes up. I understand that I am sacrificing life for power, but I am wasting the psi points to get there since no one wants to get caught without high-level spells in any situation.

Lastly, about Duncan W's comment on overturned downward. Ablative Hide,...See more

Emerson A November 02, 2020 2:56 pm UTC

So is there a psionic talent spell sheet that is available for use?

Anthony T November 06, 2020 1:40 pm UTC

CREATOR

You mean like a character sheet page? Hmm. That's such a good idea, and honestly I'm kinda mad at myself for not thinking of it sooner! Lol

I've just been using the spell sheet, but I'm going to be thinking about this now. Do you have any suggestions on how you'd want the power sheet to be organized?

Emerson A November 25, 2020 11:57 pm UTC

Possibly with a psi point total and current psi points section? Sorry the reply is so late, I didn't see your response.

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