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frogglesmash
2014-11-07, 06:32 AM
Just putting out a simple request for the titles of any and all psionics splatbooks out there. I've of course, already checked out The Expanded Psionics Handbook and Complete Psionic Disappointment, I've also looked at Hyperconscious so anything beyond those would be great.

(Please indicate whether the book is 3.0/5 or pathfinder.)

Feint's End
2014-11-07, 07:33 AM
Well pathfinder has ultimate psionics which is IMHO better than everything 3.5 had to offer. Hyperconscious has a few very cool classes though so maybe port those to PF or port UP back to 3.5

Sian
2014-11-07, 07:53 AM
do note that Hyperconcious is Third party.

ranagrande
2014-11-07, 08:15 AM
The Mind's Eye stuff at archive.wizards.com is probably the best support for it in 3.5.

Xuldarinar
2014-11-07, 08:24 AM
The Mind's Eye stuff at archive.wizards.com is probably the best support for it in 3.5.

Seconded. I'd recommend the subpsionic content personally, but then again in part that is because I've updated (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?299103-D-amp-D-3-5-Expanded-Subpsionics-WiP-PEACH) it to 3.5 (and PF (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?366199-Ultimate-Subpsionics)) and expanded upon it, and I'm just a sucker for shadow themed content.


Mind's Eye, Expanded Psionics, Complete Psionics, and Hyperconciousness really cover most of it as far as I am aware. This site (http://dsp-d20-srd.wikidot.com/home) also has quite a bit in the way of psionic content.




Edit: XPH does seem to be the 4th core book, doesn't it? I would have liked ToM to get such support, even if not to the same degree. All it got was a few vestiges in other places, including a couple of psionic ones, and a web enhancement.

Gemini476
2014-11-07, 08:35 AM
Psionics is probably the most supported non-core subsystem, to be honest. There's material for it in Magic of Incarnum, Dragon Magic, most of the Eberron books IIRC, Races of the Dragon/Wild/Stone/Destiny, Sandstorm/Stormwrack/Frostburn, and even a bit in Weapons of Legacy. I'm sure that I missed some - that's mostly just going by which books are included in my Big List of Spells/Powers/Invocations/Etc.

XPH is basically a core book for all the support it gets.

Kelb_Panthera
2014-11-07, 08:56 AM
It's not technically a psionics splat but secrets of sarlona has a lot of good psionic stuff.

Fax Celestis
2014-11-07, 09:10 AM
Dreamscarred Press had Untapped Potential, a lot of which got ported to PF in Psionics Unleashed.

Psyren
2014-11-07, 09:16 AM
Most of the good ones have been mentioned so I'll just add Magic of Eberron, which gave us goodies like Psionic Artificer, Psiforged, Forced Dream and a few other things.



Edit: XPH does seem to be the 4th core book, doesn't it? I would have liked ToM to get such support, even if not to the same degree. All it got was a few vestiges in other places, including a couple of psionic ones, and a web enhancement.

It's the most popular subsystem, and for good reason. Grognards remember (some fondly) its presence in older editions of the game, and it's attractive to newer players coming from video games because it uses "mana."

Chronos
2014-11-07, 09:31 AM
Gemini467, you missed Lords of Madness. You can't very well have brain-eating abominations without psionics.

And Mind's Eye has some gems, but it's mostly 3.0 (which makes it harder to port, since psionics changed a lot in 3.5), and of what isn't, a lot is overly-complicated and brokenly overpowered. Drawing circuit diagrams for psionic tattoos is too much like work, and lets you do way too much. I think the only 3.5 Mind's Eye material I like are the psychic rogue and assassin, and the ones that interface with other subsystems (psionic vestiges and soulmelds).

Psyren
2014-11-07, 10:51 AM
Gemini467, you missed Lords of Madness. You can't very well have brain-eating abominations without psionics.

And Mind's Eye has some gems, but it's mostly 3.0 (which makes it harder to port, since psionics changed a lot in 3.5), and of what isn't, a lot is overly-complicated and brokenly overpowered. Drawing circuit diagrams for psionic tattoos is too much like work, and lets you do way too much. I think the only 3.5 Mind's Eye material I like are the psychic rogue and assassin, and the ones that interface with other subsystems (psionic vestiges and soulmelds).

Not all the 3.0 stuff is hard to port. Archpsion (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20021122b) and Planar Vanguard (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20031219a) for instance are rather easy.

And there is plenty of great 3.5 material in Mind's Eye that you're overlooking - things like Crystal Master, Constructor, Meditant, Psychic Theurge, and Soul Manifester. And for DMs, Body Leech and Subverted Psion make stellar psionic BBEGs.

Kelb_Panthera
2014-11-07, 10:56 AM
Oh yeah! I love the psionic tatt's article from mind's eye. I'ma dig up a link.

Here we go: Wired (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20031225a)

Gemini476
2014-11-07, 11:22 AM
Oh yeah! I love the psionic tatt's article from mind's eye. I'ma dig up a link.

Here we go: Wired (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20031225a)

Don't forget to link Re-Wired (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=4319), the homebrewish 3.5 update.

Because psionic tattoos are rad.

Madhava
2014-11-07, 11:53 AM
Complete Arcane. Because one level of Mindbender fits beautifully in so many builds. Great ability + no ML loss + no feat tax... what's not to love?

Player's Guide to Faerūn. Cognition Thief pairs best with Ardent, although the prereq's are a little brutal.

Edit: 3.5.