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SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

PSYCHIC CLASS FEATURE 1

A psychic’s power is born in the depths of their psyche, far from the surface. Your subconscious mind might represent the way your power comes to you naturally, or it may be a framework you use to safely access the infinite potential of your mind. Either way, your subconscious mind fundamentally shapes how you access and wield psychic magic. Choose a subconscious mind from the options starting on page 15, or options from other sources to which you have access. This choice will determine your key ability, special spellcasting components you use, and an action you can take while you have Unleashed your Psyche.

The core of how you cast spells comes from the subconscious portions of your mind. Because you cast spells using the power of your subconscious mind, you replace verbal components of spells with thought components. Thought components add the concentrate trait to the spell like verbal components do, but they don’t require you to speak. Details of each subconscious mind’s thought components appear in its entry. You select your subconscious mind at 1st level, and it determines the following.

Key Ability You gain an ability boost to your key ability score and use this ability modifier to determine your spell attack rolls and spell DCs.

Psyche Action This is a unique ability you can use while your Psyche is Unleashed.

TABLE 1: SUBCONSCIOUS MINDS
Subconscious Minds Key Ability Psyche Action Description
Emotional AcceptanceDA Charisma Restore the Mind Throwing yourself headlong into your emotions is what lets you access your power.
Gathered LoreDA Intelligence Recall the Teachings Tutors taught you specific axioms and lessons to help you harness your mind.
Precise DisciplineDA Intelligence Calculate Threats Meticulously aligning your thoughts brings your mental power into reality.
Wandering ReverieDA Charisma Fade into Daydreams Your imagination fuels your magic through instinct and free association.

Emotional AcceptanceDA

The mind’s truths come not in learned words or mathematical formulas but in deeper feelings and sensations. Emotions unlock the door to your power—you might consider your heart the source of your strength, or you might find that the infinite complexity felt in a moment expresses your power more efficiently than any string of mystic words ever could. Your thought components are emotions. You might summon the sense of freedom to buoy you through the air or let fear grip your heart even as you plant it in another’s mind. Emotion components tend to impart abstract or vivid effects to your visual and auditory spell manifestations as well as more intangible flashes of emotion, such as swirls of joyous color or a sense of growing melancholy.

Key Ability Your key ability score is Charisma.

Psyche Action Restore the Mind

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Gathered LoreDA

Many psychics are self-taught, frantically improvising how to best control their abilities before their power overwhelms them. Not you. Tutored by a mentor or classically trained at a facility for psychic development, you’ve learned techniques and teachings for best harnessing the mind, cataloging each expression of psychic power with a specific teaching, anecdote, or phrase. Your thought components are mantras you associate with a given spell, which you mentally repeat as you cast. You might silently utter a teaching of resilience as you spin force into a barrier or hear the first three notes of a traveling song as you slip through space. Mantra components often produce runes or symbols from your learnings that are unique to each spell you cast, causing your spell manifestations to resemble those of conventional spellcasters to a much greater degree than those of other psychics.

Key Ability Your key ability score is Intelligence.

Psyche Action Recall the Teachings

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Precise DisciplineDA

Determine intended outcome. Align thoughts. Identify and resolve distractions. Manifest. Intentional focus is the key to unleashing your abilities, whether that’s because your power naturally tends to precise, discrete effects, or because you’ve adopted strict discipline to ensure your mind can change the world only when you intend it to. Your thought components are calculations you make to determine the forces you need to call upon. Perhaps you mentally weigh the mass of an object against the force of gravity to levitate it or you might determine exactly how much energy is needed for an object to combust. Calculation components tend to impart ordered visual and auditory effects to your spell manifestation, such as regular tessellations of light, mathematical spirals, or harmonic tones.

Key Ability Your key ability score is Intelligence.

Psyche Action Calculate Threats

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Wandering ReverieDA

The subconscious is by definition buried below the surface. Thus, only by stripping away the clamor and interference of everyday thought can you bring this more fundamental part of your mind to bear. Whether through sleep, self-hypnosis, or special exercises to empty your mind, you’ve found a way to access a deeper, more chaotic state of free association that better channels your psychic power. Your thought components come from your imagination, images, and sensations your mind freely associates. You might have a passing daydream of small creatures bringing you an object as you telekinetically attract it or you may blink to find you’ve teleported to your desired location. Spell manifestations from imagination components have surreal or indistinct qualities, and the exact details fade quickly from observers’ memory, as sensations from a dream.

Key Ability Your key ability score is Charisma.

Psyche Action Fade into Daydreams

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