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UA Mystic: Nomadic Step movement after teleport?
You can (probably) move 10 feet after you teleport with Step of a Dozen Paces. Firstly, from Step of a Dozen Paces:
you take a bonus action to teleport [...] and your speed is reduced to 0 until ...
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Can you replace Mage Hand with another cantrip after taking the Telekinetic feat and still benefit from the increased range?
No. You have to have both the feat and the cantrip to get the extended range.
The Telekininesis feat says, emphasis added:
You learn the mage hand cantrip. You can cast it without verbal or
somatic ...
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Is Ego Whip a charm-based attack?
No, it is not Charm Based
Unfortunately, Unearthed Arcana is play-test and incomplete. WoTC may not have purposefully left out that creatures Immune to Charm could avoid the effect, but it likely was ...
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How many times can the Psionic Talent Die be rolled before becoming unusable?
The psionic power die is a discrete-time Markov chain whose states correspond to the size of the die, as well as an absorbing state (the power die is exhausted). The Markov chain is governed by a ...
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How many times can a mystic use psionic body?
They can use it every time they die
You have quoted the relevant section and the only place where the ability is described.
At the beginning of Psionic Body it says:
You gain the following ...
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Could Touchsight be used to feel the presence of the microscopic or nanoscopic?
D&D is not based on the real world. There aren't viruses or bacteria, just diseases, curses, and poisons. Atoms may not even exist. It's much more "four elements of creation" and less &...
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If you manifest Fission, kill yourself on the last round, and revive yourself with psionic revivify next round, is your Fission duplicate permanent?
The duplicate is permanent, and it's you now; the corpse has no psyche to reunite any more
Fission says:
If you die, your duplicate remains in existence, and is for all intents you, but with two ...
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Can "x'/level" area effects be set at smaller sizes?
You can cast a spell at a lower caster level than normal, but the caster level you choose must be high enough for you to cast the spell in question, and all level-dependent features must be based on ...
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Are Githyanki under Nondetection all the time?
Githyanki from 3.5e and 4e do not have nondetection or any similar power.
In the 3.5e Monster Manual, pg. 128, gives us the spellcasting feature for Githyanki:
Psionics (Sp): 3/day—daze (DC 9), mage ...
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Do Mystic abilities count as spells for Rage-purposes?
Given this passage on page 9 under Duration: Concentration first sentence of the second paragraph.
Concentrating on a discipline follows the same rules as concentrating on a spell.
I ...
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Looking for an item: a crystal that stores memories, up to an entire personality?
Lost Empires of Faerûn describes telkiiras as "powerful lore-gems worn by the leaders of the mightiest elf clans. Each telkiira holds the knowledge, skills, and sometimes even a fragment of ...
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Can mundane crystal weapons break?
The fortified crystal possesses the properties of a similar masterwork steel weapon or armor
Unless your DM is using a houserule to incorporate steel weapon wear and tear, crystal weapons shouldn’t ...
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Are a Mystic's psionics (UA) affected by an antimagic field?
Yes, a mystic's psionics would be suppressed by an antimagic field
Antimagic field says:
Spells and other magical effects, except those created by an artifact or a deity, are suppressed in the sphere ...
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What creatures exist (besides the Githzerai) that associate psionics with anything besides Intelligence?
There are several published creatures with non-Intelligence-based psionics
By a quick search on D&D Beyond for mentions of "psionics" or "psionic", there are several creatures ...
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What powers can a psion select?
Your first option
This is the correct ruling:
I may select any power from the 1st-level psion/wilder powers list, as well as any level 1 power from the psychportation discipline powers. I may not ...
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Does Psychic Crush cause stunning on a successful save also?
No, it's not stunned ... the way it's worded it tells you what happens on a failed save:
On a failed save, a target takes 8d8 psychic damage and is stunned until the end of your next turn.
and ...
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Can "x'/level" area effects be set at smaller sizes?
A typical manifester generally can't opt to have a power affect a littler area
No general rule says that a manifester can change a power's listed area. However, manifesting a power at a lower ...
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Which psionics book is missing the least content?
Disclosure: I have worked for Dreamscarred Press, including on some of the titles I’m listing below.
A note on purchasing: buying directly from Dreamscarred Press’s own online store results in the ...
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What is the logic or fallacy behind the Perpetual Power Point trick?
An argument against the trick
Ultimately, Magic of Incarnum is ambiguous here. Below I address three possibilities for how the wording could be read.
A subtle distinction?
There is—arguably—a subtle ...
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What is psionics?
The third (current ca. 2017) revision to the Mystic class no longer tries to maintain a distinction between psionic powers and magic. Notably, the relevant portion of the description of psionics now ...
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Can a "psionic spell" be dispelled using the Dispel Magic spell?
Occult Adventures details psychic magic, not “psionics,” which is notably not “magic” at all. Paizo has never printed any psionic material—the psionic material for Pathfinder is all third-party, most ...
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What is the difference between a psychic character and one with a high Empathy skill?
Mostly the answer comes down to what your group decides is appropriate for your story: what can psychics do in your story that regular people cannot? (I'm not going to leave it at that though: there ...
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Stacking two different weapon buffs
They should stack.
Assuming you are using version 3 of the Mystic Class the +3 ability is Psionic Weapon:Augmented Weapon, and the +4 is Hone the Blade class feature of Order of the Soul Knife, I see ...
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Can you enchant gauntlets with the Magic Weapon spell or the Psionic Weapon mystic discipline?
No. Or at least, even if you can, it doesn't do what you want it to.
Note that there are no rules for gauntlets, so it's up to your DM whether gauntlets are weapons, or if they benefit your unarmed ...
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Under "Psionics-Magic Transparency" what kind of powers is a half-fey immune to?
From the psionic powers overview of the telepathy discipline:
For the purpose of psionics-magic transparency, telepathy powers are equivalent to powers of the enchantment school (thus, creatures ...
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Is there a Complete Psionic errata document?
There is no official errata released for the Complete Psionic sourcebook. However, there is an unreleased version that nijineko got from a designer (you can read about it here). You can check the ...
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Is there an official supplement about psionics or are they only mentioned in UA-material?
There is no supplement that directly lists all options of psychics, psionics or innate mental abilities that tap into one's power of the mind or is strictly about them.
There are several supplements ...
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How many times can the Psionic Talent Die be rolled before becoming unusable?
Many
This kind of problem is better suited to simulations, rather than AnyDice. The base principle; make a program which rolls dice according to our rules and counts how many rolls it gets to do ...
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How many times can the Psionic Talent Die be rolled before becoming unusable?
EDIT: Forgot about the Psi Replenish rules. Fixed.
Getting the mean for this problem analytically can be done by summing infinite series.
When rolling a d6 psionic die, the probability of going ...
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What creatures exist (besides the Githzerai) that associate psionics with anything besides Intelligence?
In previous editions, many different ability scores were used for psionic PCs.
This answer focuses primarily on PC options from previous editions - an answer looking at NPCs and monsters in 5th ...
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