Manifesting: Must be able to manifest 7th-level or higher powers. Must know 4th-level or higher powers from at least 3 disciplines.
   Skills: Knowledge (Psionics) 15 ranks, Psicraft 15 ranks.
   Feats: Greater Psionic Endowment, Psionic Endowment, Skill Focus (Psicraft).

Hit Die: d4
        Base                                       -----Manifesting-----
        Attack  Fort Ref  Will
Level   Bonus   Save Save Save    Special
1       +0      +0   +0   +2      High Psionics    +1 of existing class
2       +1      +0   +0   +3      High Psionics    +1 of existing class
3       +1      +1   +1   +3      High Psionics    +1 of existing class
4       +2      +1   +1   +4      High Psionics    +1 of existing class
5       +2      +1   +1   +4      High Psionics    +1 of existing class

Class skills (2 + Int modifier per level): Concentration, Craft (alchemy), Knowledge (all skills, taken individually), Profession, Psicraft.
   An Arch-Psion with a chosen discipline (such as from the Psion class) also treats skills associated with that discipline as class skills.
   Seer (Clairsentience): Gather Information, Listen, Spot.
   Shaper (Metacreativity): Bluff, Craft (all skills, taken individually), Disguise, Use Psionic Device.
   Kineticist (Psychokinesis): Autohypnosis, Disable Device, Intimidate.
   Egoist (Psychometabolism): Autohypnosis, Balance, Heal.
   Nomad (Psychoportation): Climb, Jump, Ride, Survival, Swim.
   Telepath (Telepathy): Bluff, Diplomacy, Gather Information, Sense Motive.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Arch Psions gain no new weapon or armor proficiencies.

Manifesting: At each level an Arch Psion gains additional power points per day and access to new powers as if she had also gained a level in whatever manifesting class she belonged to before she added the prestige class. She does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (bonus feats, metapsionic or item creation feats, psicrystal special abilities, and so on). This essentially means that she adds the level of Arch Psion to the level of whatever manifesting class the character has, then determines power points per day, powers known, and manifester level accordingly.
   If a character had more than one manifesting class before she became an Arch Psion, she must decide to which class she adds the new level of Arch Psion for the purpose of determining power points per day, powers known, and manifester level.

High Psionics: The arch psion discovers secrets unknown to lesser psions. She gains the ability to select a special ability from among the following by permanently decreasing her daily power points total. The number of power points that are lost are listed below. At each level of this class, the Arch Psion can permanently select one of the following abilities. Each ability can be selected no more than once, unless otherwise stated.

Extra Power: You gain the Expanded Knowledge feat as a bonus feat. This High Psionics option permanently costs a number of power points equal to the normal power point cost to manifest the power learned this way. If the power learned is changed (such as through the psychic reformation power) the number of lost power points changes appropriately. This High Psionics option can be selected more than once. Each time, you gain Expanded Knowledge as a bonus feat again and lose an appropriate number of power points.

Innate Psionics (Ps): You gain the ability to manifest any one power you know as a psi-like ability twice per day using your highest manifester level as your manifester level for the psi-like ability. However, the power is only augmented to a total number of power points chosen at the time that this ability is selected (this is an exception to the rule that psi-like abilities are manifested as though augmented with a number of power points equal to their manifester level). This must be at least equal to the normal power point cost of the power and at most equal to the Arch Psion's manifester level when selecting this ability. She loses 11 power points, plus a number of power points equal to the chosen power point cost of the selected power. The Arch Psion can reduce the total power points spent to augment the psi-like ability by 6 to be able to use the psi-like ability 4 times per day, or reduce it by 12 to be able to use it 6 times per day (this reduction in augmentation cannot reduce the effective number of power points spent to less that the normal power point cost of the power). This High Psionics option can be selected multiple times. Each time, it can apply to a different power, or to the same power. In the latter case, additional uses of that psi-like ability can be gained at different augmentation levels as appropriate to the power points lost each time.

Mastery of Power Negation: An Arch Psion that knows the dispel psionics power can select to alter it so that it can be used to counter spells and powers as dispel magic. When used this way, the power gains the Counterspell option of the dispel magic spell, except that it can affect both spells and powers. This is an exception to the rule that powers cannot be countered. A spell (but not a power) countered this way is turned back on its caster as though it were affected by a spell turning spell, or is simply countered if it could not normally be affected by spell turning. This High Psionics option permanently costs 11 power points.

Power Focus: Your manifester level increases by 1. This High Psionics option permanently costs 11 power points. This option can be selected multiple times. It stacks with itself, but each time it is selected it costs 2 more power points than the previous time.

Psionic Energy Discharge: When you manifest a power that allows you to select the type of energy that it deals from among cold, electricity, fire, or sonic energy, you gain an additional option. You can choose to manifest the power using raw psionic energy. A power using such energy gains no special descriptor, deals damage of one die size smaller (1d6 becomes 1d4, 1d8 becomes 1d6, and so on), and deals untyped damage unaffected by resistances or damage reduction. Such a power is unaffected by power resistance. This High Psionics option permanently costs 11 power points.

Psionic Reach: You can use touch powers on targets up to 30 feet away. If the power requires a touch attack (melee or ranged), the arch psion must make a ranged touch attack. If selected a second time as a special ability, the range increases to 60 feet. This ability permanently costs 11 power points. This High Psionics option can be selected up to two times.

Sculpt Power: You can modify an area power by changing the area's shape. The new area must be chosen from the following list: cylinder (10-foot radius, 30 feet high), 40-foot cone, four 10-foot cubes, or a ball (20-foot radius spread). The sculpted power works normally in all respects except for its shape. You can further alter the shape to create spaces within the power's area of effect that are not subject to the power. The minimum dimension for these spaces is a 5-foot cube. This High Psionics option permanently costs 9 power points.

The Arch Psion is based on the Archmage PrC but adapted to psionics. Not all of the abilities translate correctly, but most are close enough. This version is updated to 3.5 psionics, so some of it has changed again.

Innate Psionics: This seems like a clunky wording. Basically, you pay a number of PP, minimum = powers normal cost, maximum = manifester level. The psi-like ability forever more manifests at the chosen PP value. If you spend 6 extra PP above that, you get it 4/day, 12 extra PP for 6/day, to a maximum total PP spent equal to your ML. Then you lose 11 more PP and call it a day.

Power Focus: Since manifester level boosts are generally rarer and more powerful than equivalent caster level boosts (and also grant extra power points in and of themselves), I gave this option a slightly higher cost that scales with how often it's been selected. The 3.0 version boosted save DCs and manifester level checks. The change from DC boosters to caster level boosters is another of the game design changes that occurred between 3.0 and 3.5, and can be seen in the Archmage PrC.

Psionic Energy Discharge: This is changed from the original version, which was an equivalent of the Archmage's Arcane Fire ability. I felt it stepped too much on the toes of energy ray and similar powers with psionics's augmentations, so I changed it to be a new option for those powers. This is especially relevant with Psionic Energy Substitution being rendered all but irrelevant by similar changes to the psionics system.

   Alignment: Any chaotic.
   Manifesting: Must be able to manifest 3rd-level or higher powers. Must know at least one power that can have the energy descriptor of his or her favored type when manifested.
   Skills: Concentration 8 ranks, Knowledge (Psionics) 4 ranks, Psicraft 4 ranks.
   Feats: Must have damaged or destroyed a structure or object by the use of a power of the favored energy type just to see what would happen or have survived a traumatic experience related to the character's favored energy such as being trapped in a burning building where someone close to the character died.

Hit Die: d6
        Base                                                                           -----Manifesting-----
        Attack  Fort Ref  Will                                              
Level   Bonus   Save Save Save    Special                                   
1       +0      +2   +0   +2      Energy Focus +1, Energy Lash, Favored Energy Type    ---
2       +1      +3   +0   +3      Lesser Energy Barrier                                +1 of existing class
3       +2      +3   +1   +3      Bolt of Energy                                       +1 of existing class
4       +3      +4   +1   +4      Energize Weapon                                      +1 of existing class
5       +3      +4   +1   +4      Energy Breath, Energy Focus +2                       ---
6       +4      +5   +2   +5      Energy Walk                                          +1 of existing class
7       +5      +5   +2   +5      Nimbus of Energy                                     +1 of existing class
8       +6      +6   +2   +6      Piercing Energy                                      +1 of existing class
9       +6      +6   +3   +6      Energy Death, Energy Focus +3,                       +1 of existing class
10      +7      +7   +3   +7      Energy Lord, Greater Energy Barrier                  +1 of existing class

Class skills (2 + Int modifier per level): Bluff, Climb, Concentration, Craft (all skills, taken individually), Intimidate, Jump, Knowledge (Psionics), Psicraft

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Kineticists gain proficiency with the whip.

Manifesting: At each level, with the exception of 1st level and 5th level, a Kineticist gains additional power points per day and access to new powers as if she had also gained a level in whatever manifesting class she belonged to before she added the prestige class. She does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (bonus feats, metapsionic or item creation feats, psicrystal special abilities, and so on). This essentially means that she adds the level of Kineticist to the level of whatever manifesting class the character has, then determines power points per day, powers known, and manifester level accordingly.
   If a character had more than one manifesting class before she became a Kineticist, she must decide to which class she adds the new level of Kineticist for the purpose of determining power points per day, powers known, and manifester level.

Favored Energy Type: At 1st level, a Kineticist chooses a favored energy type. This must be either acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic. As she gains levels in this class, she gains abilities that focus on the chosen energy type.
   If you select acid for your favored energy type, you gain an additional option when manifesting powers that allow you to select the type of energy to deal from among cold, electricity, fire, and sonic energy, but not acid. You can choose for such a power to deal acid damage instead. In such a case, the power ignores half of an object's hardness and requires a Fortitude save instead of a Reflex save to reduce the damage if applicable.

Energy Focus (Ex): At 1st level, you gain a +1 bonus to your manifester level when manifesting powers with descriptors of your favored energy type. This bonus increases to +2 at 5th level and +3 at 9th level.

Energy Lash (Ps): A Kineticist gains the ability to fashion a 15-foot-long whip of her favored energy type from unstable ectoplasm as a move-equivalent action. You take no damage from holding an energy lash you create, and if you release your hold, it immediately dissipates. The lash deals 1d8 points of damage of the favored energy to a target within 15 feet on a successful ranged touch attack. You can take Weapon Focus and Weapon Specialization (if you otherwise meet the prerequisites) in conjunction with the energy lash, as well as any feats that apply to the use of a standard whip. The whip remains in existence as long as you hold it.

Lesser Energy Barrier (Ex): At 2nd level, you learn the energy adaptation, specified power as a 2nd level power. If you already know it, you can choose to instead learn a single power of 2nd level or lower that can have your favored energy type as a descriptor when manifested, even from another class's power list. In either case, you gain the ability to expend your psionic focus while manifesting energy adaptation, specified to reduce its power point cost by 2 after including augmentations and metapsionics (to a minimum cost of 1), but only if you choose for the power to grant resistance to your favored energy type. The effect of this power is still limited by your manifester level.

Bolt of Energy (Ex): At 3rd level, you learn the energy bolt power as a 3rd level power. If you already know it, you can choose to instead learn a single power of 3rd level or lower that can have your favored energy type as a descriptor when manifested, even from another class's power list. In either case, you gain the ability to expend your psionic focus while manifesting energy bolt to reduce its power point cost by 4 after including augmentations and metapsionics (to a minimum cost of 1), but only if you choose for the power to deal damage of your favored energy type. The effect of this power is still limited by your manifester level.

Energize Weapon (Ex): At 4th level, you learn the claw of energy and weapon of energy powers as 4th level powers. If you already know both of them, you can choose to instead learn a single power of 4th level or lower that can have your favored energy type as a descriptor when manifested, even from another class's power list. In either case, you gain the ability to expend your psionic focus while manifesting claw of energy or weapon of energy to reduce the power's power point cost by 6 after including augmentations and metapsionics (to a minimum cost of 1), but only if you choose for the power to deal damage of your favored energy type. The effect of this power is still limited by your manifester level.
   Additionally, you gain the ability to have claw of energy and weapon of energy deal damage of your favored energy type instead of their normal energy types. This must be chosen when you manifest the power. If you do so, you can manifest it as a move-equivalent action instead of as a standard action.

Energy Breath (Ps): Beginning at 5th level, you can use the breath of the black dragon power as a psi-like ability once per day. It has a manifester level equal to your manifester level and deals damage and has the energy descriptor of your favored energy type instead of acid. If your favored energy type is acid, you can instead choose for the power to ignore half of the hardness of any object it damages and to require a Fortitude save instead of a Reflex save to reduce the damage. This choice must be made each time you use this psi-like ability.
   Additionally, once you know a power of 6th level or higher, you learn breath of the black dragon as a 6th level power. It deals damage and has the energy descriptor of your favored energy type instead of acid. If your favored energy type is acid, you can instead choose for the power to ignore half of the hardness of any object it damages and to require a Fortitude save instead of a Reflex save to reduce the damage. This choice must be made each time you manifest it.

Energy Walk (Su): Beginning at 6th level, as a free action a you can expend your psionic focus to literally walk on air. You can move at your normal speed in all directions, including vertically, but cannot move more than double your speed in a round. While energy walking, you leave footprints in the form of your favored energy type in the air (footprints of flame, a sheet of ice, sparking thunderclouds, floating globs of weak acid, invisible but audible sources of a buzzing sound, or other thematically appropriate effects) that disperse in 2 rounds, but your tread does not deal damage. You must pay 1 power point per round spent traveling in this fashion.

Nimbus of Energy (Su): Beginning at 7th level, you can activate this ability as a move-equivalent action. Motes of your favored energy that harm neither you nor your equipment engulf your entire body. While you are aflame, your primary manifesting score increases by 4, you can make a melee touch attack in place of a normal attack for 2d6 points of damage of your favored energy, and you gain damage reduction 5/magic. If you are struck in melee, the attacker takes 2d6 points of damage of your favored energy. This ability lasts for up to 1 minute per Kineticist level and is usable once per day.

Piercing Energy (Ex): Beginning at 8th level, you can expend your psionic focus while manifesting a power or activating a psi-like ability that deals damage of your favored energy to have half of the damage that it deals of your favored energy to ignore resistances and immunities.

Energy Death (Ps): Beginning at 9th level, you can expend your psionic focus and pay 13 power points as a full round action to overwhelm one living creature within 100 feet with lethal levels of your favored energy (such as through boiling its blood, freezing its heart, electrocuting its nervous system, dissolving its internal organs, causing it to explode due to vibrations at its resonant frequency, or other thematically appropriate effects). The target must succeed on a Fortitude saving throw (DC 17 + your primary manifesting ability modifier) or die horrifically. Even on a successful save, the target takes 4d8 points of damage of your favored energy type. Even creatures normally immune to your favored energy type can be killed by this ability (although they are still immune to the energy damage on a successful saving throw). This is the equivalent of a 7th level power.

Energy Lord (Su): At 10th level, you gain the ability to become a greater fire elemental once per day for up to 1 hour, as though using the metamorphosis power (despite the fact that a greater fire elemental with a changed subtype is not normally an allowed choice for the power). The elemental's energy type and subtype are altered to match the your favored type of energy and you do not gain the burn ability (unless your favored energy type is fire, see below). Additionally, you gain darkvision out to 60 feet and DR 10/- in this form. You and your equipment are unharmed by your new body for the duration, and are immune to damage of your favored energy type for the duration. You must maintain your psionic focus while using the ability or it may end prematurely. Each round in which you do not maintain your psionic focus counts at 10 minutes with respect to the remaining duration of this ability.
   In this form, you gain a subtype, an ability (in place of the fire elemental's burn ability) and a restriction according to your energy type.

   Acid Lord: An acid lord is forbidden from entering water or any other liquid except acid. You gain the Acid subtype and the Dissolve ability.
Acid Subtype (Ex): Acid immunity, +50% damage from electricity.
Dissolve (Ex): An acid lord's slam attack deals an extra 2d6 acid damage from the elemental’s acidic body. This acid damage ignores half the hardness of objects. Living creatures hit by a acid lord's slam attack also must succeed on a Fortitude save or be sickened from the fumes for 1d4 rounds. The save DC is equal to 10 plus 1/2 the elemental's hit dice plus the elemental's Constitution modifier. Creatures hitting an acid lord with natural weapons or unarmed attacks take acid damage as though hit by the elemental’s attack, and may also sickened if they are living creatures unless they succeed on a Fortitude save. Manufactured weapons that strike the acid lord take acid damage as though hit by the elemental’s attack, which ignores half of the weapon's hardness.

   Cold Lord: A cold lord cannot enter water but can walk on the surface of the water, which causes 5 cubic feet of water to instantly freeze beneath their feat; they cannot otherwise enter liquids. You gain the Cold subtype and the Freeze ability.
Cold Subtype (Ex): Cold immunity, +50% damage from fire.
Freeze (Ex): A cold lord's slam attack deals an extra 2d8 cold damage from the elemental’s frozen body. Those hit by a cold lord's slam attack also must succeed on a Fortitude save or be entangled by ice and chilled bodies for 1d4 rounds. The save DC is equal to 10 plus 1/2 the elemental's hit dice plus the elemental's Constitution modifier. Creatures hitting a cold lord with natural weapons or unarmed attacks take cold damage as though hit by the elemental’s attack, and are also chilled unless they succeed on a Fortitude save.

   Electricity Lord: An electricity lord is forbidden from entering water or any other liquid. You gain the Electricity subtype and the Shock ability.
Electricity Subtype (Ex): Electricity immunity, +50% damage from acid.
Shock (Ex): An electricity lord's slam attack deals an extra 2d6 electricity damage from the elemental’s electrified body. Those hit by an electricity lord's slam attack also must succeed on a Reflex save or become psionically and electrically charged. Charged creatures attract attract weapons, magic, and psionic powers, providing a -3 penalty to their armor class, spell resistance, and power resistance. This lasts for 1d4 rounds. The save DC is equal to 10 plus 1/2 the elemental's hit dice plus the elemental's Constitution modifier. Creatures hitting an electricity lord with natural weapons or unarmed attacks take electricity damage as though hit by the elemental’s attack, and also become charged unless they succeed on a Reflex save.

   Fire Lord: A fire lord cannot enter water or any other nonflammable liquid. A body of water is an impassable barrier unless the fire elemental can step or jump over it. You gain the Fire subtype and the Burn ability.
Fire Subtype (Ex): Fire immunity, +50% damage from cold.
Burn (Ex): A fire lord's slam attack deals an extra 2d8 fire damage from the elemental’s flaming body. Those hit by a fire lord's slam attack also must succeed on a Reflex save or catch on fire. The flame burns for 1d4 rounds. The save DC is equal to 10 plus 1/2 the elemental's hit dice plus the elemental's Constitution modifier. A burning creature can take a move action to put out the flame. Creatures hitting a fire lord with natural weapons or unarmed attacks take fire damage as though hit by the elemental’s attack, and also catch on fire unless they succeed on a Reflex save.

   Sonic Lord: A sonic lord is forbidden from entering areas affected by silence. You gain the Sonic subtype and the Resonate ability.
Sonic Subtype (Ex): Sonic immunity. All abilities based on sonic energy cease to function in an area of magical silence provided you fail the Will save. You may attempt the save to negate the silence, if centered on you, each round. If you succeed within the duration of the energy lord ability, you return to that form.
Resonate (Ex): A sonic lord's slam attack deals an extra 2d4 sonic damage from the elemental’s resonant body. This sonic damage ignores the hardness of objects. Those hit by a sonic lord's slam attack also must succeed on a Reflex save or begin resonating for 1d4 rounds. Resonating creatures suffer a -1 penalty to their attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, ability checks, and level dependent effects. The save DC is equal to 10 plus 1/2 the elemental's hit dice plus the elemental's Constitution modifier. Creatures hitting a sonic lord with natural weapons or unarmed attacks take sonic damage as though hit by the elemental’s attack, and also begin resonating unless they succeed on a Reflex save. Manufactured weapons that strike the sonic lord take sonic damage as though hit by the elemental’s attack, which ignores the weapon's hardness.

Greater Energy Barrier (Ex): Beginning at 10th level, you gain an additional augmentation option when manifesting energy adaptation, specified. If you expend 12 additional power points while manifesting energy adaptation, specified to gain resistance to your favored energy type, you also gain immunity to that energy type.

The Kineticist evolved formally into the Pyrokineticist. However, the two are very different. Pyro is focused on martial prowess with the energy type of choice (Mind's Eye added variants for the other 4 types). Kineticist is designed for psions and other full manifesters who want to spice up their blasting and add a little martial capability. The original version was also 7/10 manifesting. This one is 8/10 so you actually get a small ML boost to your favored energy in the end (or a significant one if you take Practiced Manifester). Since many of the abilities of the class are just replicas of existing powers, you now just get those powers (or a different, appropriate power if you already know it).

Energized Touch was kind of weak. It's a 1st level ACF for Psions (Kineticists), anyways, so it's not a big deal. Instead, Energy Lash is moved up like with the 3.5 Pyrokineticist.

Lesser Energy Barrier and Greater Energy Barrier are in place of the Energy Barrier ability. The 3.0 one was a weak version of a 2nd level power, but for free 1/day. Instead you just get the aforementioned 2nd level power for cheap when you want it, at least for your favored energy type. Energy immunity is also available at 10th level with Greater Energy Barrier.

Bolt of Energy gave low powered, at will energy damage with the option to augment it. This felt like it was basically replicating the energy ray power. Instead, Bolt of Energy now gives you a slightly more powerful power (the area effect energy bolt) for cheap, but not free.

Energized Weapon works with weapon of energy. It seemed the closest equivalent power.

Piercing Energy replaces the dead level at 8th from the changed Energy Barrier. Since psionics doesn't have an equivalent of Piercing Cold or Searing Fir,e (did I remember those two metamagics right?) a blaster focused on a single energy type has to deal with resistances and immunities somehow. It feels appropriate at 8th level, and has an appropriate cost compared to saving 4 PP on energy bolt.

Unlike the pyro's Heat Death, Energy Death costs PP. You're a near-full manifesting psion, you don't need free save or dies.

The 3.0 Kineticist was based on the fire-only Pyrokineticist. They didn't adapt the greater fire elemental form of Energy Lord at all to the other energy types, other than the subtype and restrictions. Now they each have a unique ability to replace Burn, too. Basing it on Metamorphosis seemed the simplest way of transforming, too.

   Manifesting: Must be able to manifest 3rd-level or higher powers.
   Skills: Intimidate 2 ranks, Knowledge (Psionics) 8 ranks, Spot 4 ranks.
   Feats: Alertness. Must also have any one of the following feats: Burrowing Power, Craft Universal Item, Improved Initiative, Inquisitor, or Opportunity Power.
   Special: Must perform the Ritual of the Oculist.

Ritual of the Oculist: Individual DMs should tailor the ritual to fit their campaign as far as gold piece expenditures and XP cost (it should have a negligible cost for 5th level characters, if any). It should be a psionic process that allows the character to grow a third eye.

Hit Die: d4
        Base                                                                                     -----Manifesting-----
        Attack  Fort Ref  Will                                              
Level   Bonus   Save Save Save    Special                                   
1       +0      +0   +0   +2      Foresight (-2), Low-Light Vision, Skill Bonus +2, Third Eye    +1 of existing class
2       +1      +0   +0   +3      Insightful Precognition, Uncanny Dodge                         +1 of existing class
3       +1      +1   +1   +3      Skill Bonus +4, Vigilant Sight                                 +1 of existing class
4       +2      +1   +1   +4      Foresight (+0), Mesmerizing Gaze                               +1 of existing class
5       +2      +1   +1   +4      Darkvision, Focused Eye, Skill Bonus +6                        +1 of existing class
6       +3      +2   +2   +5      Pain Gaze                                                      +1 of existing class
7       +3      +2   +2   +5      Auric Sight, Foresight (+2)  Skill Bonus +8                    +1 of existing class
8       +4      +2   +2   +6      Improved Uncanny Dodge                                         +1 of existing class
9       +4      +3   +3   +6      Skill Bonus +10, True Sight                                    +1 of existing class
10      +5      +3   +3   +7      Death Gaze, Foresight (+4), Gaze of Many                       +1 of existing class

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Bluff, Concentration, Craft (all skills, taken individually), Diplomacy, Intimidate, Knowledge (all skills, taken individually), Listen, Profession, Psicraft, Search, Sense Motive, Spot

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Percipients gain no new weapon or armor proficiencies.

Manifesting: At each level a Percipient gains additional power points per day and access to new powers as if she had also gained a level in whatever manifesting class she belonged to before she added the prestige class. She does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (bonus feats, metapsionic or item creation feats, psicrystal special abilities, and so on). This essentially means that she adds the level of Percipient to the level of whatever manifesting class the character has, then determines power points per day, powers known, and manifester level accordingly.
   If a character had more than one manifesting class before she became a Percipient, she must decide to which class she adds the new level of Percipient for the purpose of determining power points per day, powers known, and manifester level.

Foresight (Ex): Starting at 1st level, the Percipient adds a modifier to her initiative roll. Initially this is a -2 penalty due to the increased amount of information processed by her third eye, which includes occasional glimpses into the immediate future. As she gains levels as a Percipient, she gains the ability to better deal with this increased information in tense situations. At 4th level this penalty is negated. At 7th level this becomes a +2 bonus. At 10th level this becomes a +4 bonus.

Low-Light Vision (Su): At 1st level, you gain low-light vision or have your range tripled if you already possess it. This ability only functions while you maintain your psychic focus.

Skill Bonus (Ex): At 1st level, you gain a +2 bonus on Search and Spot checks. This bonus increases by +2 at every odd Percipient level thereafter.

Third Eye (Ex): When you finish the ritual at 1st level, you grow a physical third eye. While this eye provides many benefits, you lose the ability to directly use any third eye psionic items. Instead, by meditating for 1 minute with a third eye item in your possession, you can transfer its enchantments into your own third eye. If you do not have any enchantments already in your third eye, the psionic item becomes a mundane gemstone suitable for re-enchantment into a new third eye item. Otherwise, it gains the enchantments already present in your eye as your eye takes on the item's original abilities. The enchantments in your third eye can be suppressed as a psionic item, but are maintained even if your face item slot is occupied, such as by goggles or a mask.

Insightful Precognition (Ex): Beginning at 2nd level, you gain an insight bonus to your armor class equal to one half your Percipient level.

Uncanny Dodge (Ex): At 2nd level, you gain the Uncanny Dodge ability as the 2nd level Barbarian ability.

Vigilant Sight (Su): Beginning at 3rd level, you gain blindsense out to 30 feet and blindsight out to 10 feet. These effects are based on your ability to read the psychic auras of your environment, so magical silence does not obstruct it. This ability only functions while you maintain your psychic focus.

Mesmerizing Gaze (Su): At 4th level, you learn the brain lock power as a 2nd level power. When you manifest it against a living creature that can see you, it's save DC increases by 1, it can target and affect any living creature independent of its type and the power's augmentation, and it can affect creatures immune to mind-affecting effects. These benefits only apply against living creatures.

Darkvision (Su): Beginning at 5th level, you gain darkvision out to 60 feet, or add 60 feet to your existing darkvision range. This ability only functions while you maintain your psychic focus.

Focused Eye (Ex): Beginning at 5th level, all powers from the Clairsentience discipline cost 1 less power point to manifest than normal, to a minimum cost of 1 power point.

Pain Gaze (Su): At 6th level, you learn the inflict pain power as a 2nd level power. When you manifest it against a living creature that can see you, it's save DC increases by 2 and it can affect creatures immune to mind-affecting effects. These benefits only apply against living creatures.

Auric Sight (Su): Beginning at 7th level, you can see psionic auras clearly. While you maintain your psychic focus, you are considered to be under the effects of the arcane sight spell.

Improved Uncanny Dodge (Ex): At 8th level, you gain the Improved Uncanny Dodge ability as the 5th level Barbarian ability.

True Sight (Ex): At 9th level, you learn the true seeing, psionic power as a 5th level power. It costs 1 less power point to manifest than normal, to a minimum cost of 1 power point. This benefit stacks with the one granted by your Focused Eye ability.

Death Gaze (Su): At 10th level, you learn the recall death power as an 8th level power. When you manifest it against a living creature that can see you, it can affect creatures immune to mind-affecting effects. This benefit only applies against living creatures.

Gaze of Many (Su): Starting at 10th level, your ability to channel certain psionic powers through your third eye increases. Whenever you manifest or concentrate upon brain lock, inflict pain, or recall death as a standard action against a living creature that can see you, you can manifest or concentrate upon one of the above powers (the same or a different one) against a living creature that can see you as a swift action in the same round, instead of as a standard action. You can do this for a number of rounds each day equal to your Wisdom modifier plus one (minimum once per day).

Feat requirements changed. I don't like feat taxes. It's assumed you get Alertness via a psicrystal. The other feat is a thematic one from a list that should have something useful. Craft Universal makes Third Eyes and other useful items. Inquisitor gets you into Thrallherd. Stuff like that.

The gazes have been changed into modifications to existing powers against living creatures that can see you. Auric Sight is now a constant effect. The rest is pretty much the same, other than a bit of psychic focus use.

Overall, it gives a couple of powers known, the ability to actually use them against creatures immune to mind-affecting abilities (like every high-end wizard with mind blank), a few powers passively in effect, and a bit of a skill boost.

   Alignment: Any nongood.
   Manifesting: Must be able to manifest 3rd-level or higher powers.
   Skills: Knowledge (psionics) 8 ranks, Psicraft 8 ranks.
   Feats: Conjunctive Mind and at least one metapsionic feat.

Hit Die: d4
        Base                                                                          -----Manifesting-----
        Attack  Fort Ref  Will                                              
Level   Bonus   Save Save Save    Special                                   
1       +0      +0   +0   +2      Control Shadow, Subpsionic Feats                    +1 of existing class
2       +1      +0   +0   +3      Low-light Vision, Subpsionic Defense +1             +1 of existing class
3       +1      +1   +1   +3      Subpsionic Power +1, Tainted Construction           +1 of existing class
4       +2      +1   +1   +4      Subpsionic Shield                                   +1 of existing class
5       +2      +1   +1   +4      Subpsionic Defense +2                               +1 of existing class
6       +3      +2   +2   +5      Subpsionic Power +2                                 +1 of existing class
7       +3      +2   +2   +5      Darkvision, Dream Travel                            +1 of existing class
8       +4      +2   +2   +6      Greater Subpsionic Shield, Subpsionic Defense +3    +1 of existing class
9       +4      +3   +3   +6      Shadow Body, Subpsionic Power +3                    +1 of existing class
10      +5      +3   +3   +7      Subpsionic Double                                   +1 of existing class

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Bluff, Concentration, Craft (all skills, taken individually), Disguise, Hide, Knowledge (Psionics), Profession, Psicraft

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Shadow Minds gain no new weapon or armor proficiencies.

Manifesting: At each level, a Shadow Mind gains additional power points per day and access to new powers as if she had also gained a level in whatever manifesting class she belonged to before she added the prestige class. She does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (bonus feats, metapsionic or item creation feats, psicrystal special abilities, and so on). This essentially means that she adds the level of Shadow Mind to the level of whatever manifesting class the character has, then determines power points per day, powers known, and manifester level accordingly.
   If a character had more than one manifesting class before she became a Shadow Mind, she must decide to which class she adds the new level of Shadow Mind for the purpose of determining power points per day, powers known, and manifester level.

Subpsionic Feats: You gain the Insidious Mind and Tenacious Mind feats as bonus feats.

Control Shadow (Ps): You can manifest the control light power as a psi-like ability a number of times per day equal to your Shadow Mind level. When you manifest it this way, it has the Darkness descriptor instead of the Light descriptor.
   You learn the control light power as a 1st level power. Whenever you manifest control light, it has the Darkness descriptor instead of the Light descriptor.

Low-light Vision (Su): You gain low-light vision at 2nd level if you don't already have it.

Subpsionic Defense (Ex): Beginning at 2nd level, you gain a +1 bonus on your saving throws against powers from the Psychometabolism, Psychoportation, or Psychokinesis disciplines. This bonus increases by +1 for every three Shadow Mind levels you possess beyond 2nd.

Tainted Construction: You gain the Tainted Construction feat at 3rd-level as a bonus feat if you know the astral construct power. If you don't know the astral construct power, you instead gain the Expanded Knowledge (astral construct) feat as a bonus feat.

Subpsionic Power (Ex): Beginning at 3rd level, you gain a +1 bonus to your manifester level when manifesting powers from the Metacreativity, Clairsentience, and Telepathy disciplines. This bonus increases by +1 for every three Shadow Mind levels you possess beyond 3rd.

Subpsionic Shield (Su): Beginning at 4th level, you gain the ability to create a mobile disk of purple-black force as a swift action. This subpsionic shield is made up of shadowstuff and psychokinetic force and intercepts attacks, providing a +4 deflection bonus to your Armor Class and a 20% miss chance against attacks. You can see and reach through the shield and it moves out of the way when you attack, so it does not provide cover or concealment to opponents.
   The subpsionic shield lasts 1 round per manifester level per day and need not be used all at once. Creating or dismissing a subpsionic shield is a swift action.

Darkvision (Su): Beginning at 7th level, you gain darkvision out to 60 feet.

Dream Travel (Ps): Beginning at 7th level, you gain the ability to use dream travel as a psi-like ability once per day. In addition, once you gain the ability to manifest 7th level powers, you learn the dream travel power as a 7th level power.

Greater Subpsionic Shield (Su): Beginning at 8th level, your mastery of the subpsionic shield improves. It also grants you power resistance of 12 + your manifester level.

Shadow Body (Ps): Beginning at 9th level, you gain the ability to use shadow body as a psi-like ability once per day. In addition, once you gain the ability to manifest 8th level powers, you learn the shadow body power as an 8th level power.

Subpsionic Double (Su): Once per day at 10th level, you can use a standard action to create a double of yourself within 30 feet woven from shadowstuff and psychokinetic force. The double looks, sounds, and smells like you and has your ability scores, base AC, hit points, saves, attack bonuses, natural attacks, senses, and movement modes, but no equipment. Any apparent clothing or equipment is nonfunctional and the double's aforementioned statistics are as you would be without your equipment. Similarly, it does not benefit from any powers or effects active on you, even though it appears to. The double mimics your actions (including speech) unless you concentrate on making it act differently (a free action, see below). It can attack your enemies if given a weapon or items (since it can use anything you can). It does not have any other abilities you possess, even though it appears to use them as you do.
   You can see through the double's eyes and hear through its ears as if you were standing where it is, and during your turn you can switch from seeing through its eyes to seeing normally, or back again, as a free action. If you desire, any power you manifest whose range is touch or greater can originate from the double instead of from you. The double is quasi-real -- just real enough to manifest powers that you originate. You can use it to manifest powers on itself only if those powers affect non-living creatures.
   Mentally commanding the double is a free action. Using it as the originator of a power counts as an action for you and the double (the same action as manifesting the power). You must maintain a line of effect to the double at all times. If your line of effect is obstructed, or you manifest a power that teleports or plane shifts you or your double but not both, the double is dismissed. Causing you or your double to leave the plane you share dismisses the double.
   The double lasts 1 round per manifester level. The death of the double does not affect you or vice versa. The double still lasts to the end of its duration if you die, acting as you would were you still alive, including seeming to manifest illusionary powers. If the double dies before its duration ends, it acts as you would if you were dead (usually by slumping on the ground as a corpse).

Conjunctive Mind [Psionic]
Prerequisite: Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma 15.
Benefit: From now on, your powers and psionic abilities have become integrated with your subconscious mind. You can also activate subpsionic items without taking damage.
   You gain a +1 bonus to your manifester level when manifesting powers or psi-like abilities from the Metacreativity, Clairsentience, and Telepathy disciplines.
   The subconscious mind proves less than optimal for powers from the Psychometabolism, Psychoportation, and Psychokinesis disciplines. You suffer a -1 penalty to your manifester level when manifesting powers or psi-like abilities from these disciplines. You cannot use a psi-like ability if this reduces your manifester level to less than the normal power point cost of the power it mimics.
   From now on any psionic item you create is a subpsionic item.
Special: Knowledge of the subconscious mind has a price. When you acquire this feat, choose one of your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma scores. You suffer a -2 penalty to the chosen ability score for the purposes of ability checks, skill checks, fulfilling prerequisites, determining save DCs, and determining bonus spells and power points per day.


Insidious Mind [Psionic]
Prerequisite: Conjunctive Mind.
Benefit: You can use your subconscious mind to make your powers harder for non-subpsionic creatures to detect. When a non-subpsionic creature employs a psi-like ability, a psionic item, or a power (such as detect psionics) that can detect the psionic aura of one of your powers, the non-subpsionic creature must make a manifester level check (DC 11 + your manifester level) to successful detect your powers. Similarly, a non-subpsionic creature attempting to use a power to reveal the effects of one of your powers, such as detect teleportation, must make a manifester level check to reveal your power's effects. The non-subpsionic creature can check only once for each power used, no matter how many of your powers effects are operating in an area. This benefit only extends to powers you manifest from the Metacreativity, Clairsentience, and Telepathy disciplines.
   From now on, your ability to detect non-subpsionic powers is impaired. Any power you use to detect a non-subpsionic power from the Psychometabolism, Psychoportation, or Psychokinesis disciplines is successful only if you make a manifester level check against a DC of 9 + the manifester level. This penalty does not extend to powers from other disciplines; you detect them normally.
Special: Any creature that does not possess the Conjunctive Mind feat is considered to be a non-subpsionic creature. Non-subpsionic powers are powers manifested by creatures that were non-subpsionic at the time of manifesting.


Tenacious Mind [Psionic]
Prerequisite: Conjunctive Mind.
Benefit: You can use your subconscious mind to make your powers harder for non-subpsionic creatures to nullify. Your powers resist dispel attempts by non-subpsionic creatures. When a non-subpsionic creature makes a dispel check to dispel one of your Metacreativity, Clairsentience, or Telepathy powers, the DC increases by +4 (to 15 + your manifester level). This benefit does not extend to powers from other disciplines.
   From now on your ability to dispel powers manifested by non-subpsionic creatures is impaired. You suffer a -2 penalty on dispel checks to dispel a Psychometabolism, Psychoportation, or Psychokinesis power manifested by a non-subpsionic creature.
Special: Any creature that does not possess the Conjunctive Mind feat is considered to be a non-subpsionic creature.


Tainted Construction [Psionic]
Prerequisite: Conjunctive Mind, ability to manifest astral construct.
Benefit: As a subpsionic character, you can tap into the subconscious mind when shaping astral constructs. You can select astral construct abilities from an extended menu. Each special ability can come from your normal menu or Table 1-1: Subpsionic Extended Construct Abilities. Astral constructs you create are formed from a darker tainted ectoplasm. Their surface is a shimmering black bathed in a deep purple glow. As an additional benefit, the natural weapons and manufactured weapons that your tainted constructs use bypass damage reduction as though they were Evil-aligned.


Table 1-1: Subpsionic Extended Construct Abilities

Menu A

• Lesser Aura of Fear (Su): Creatures within 10 feet of the construct must make a Will save (DC 5 + 1/2 the construct's HD) or become shaken for as long as they remain within the aura's range. Creatures that make a successful saving throw against the fear need not make another saving throw unless they leave and re-enter the aura. Anyone whose HD exceed those of the construct are not affected. An astral construct with this ability cannot gain the aura of fear or greater aura of fear abilities.
• Lesser Withering (Ex): Each time a target is struck by the construct, it must make a Fortitude save (DC 5 + 1/2 the construct's HD) or take 1 point of ability damage to the ability score chosen by the manifester at the time the construct is created. An astral construct with this ability cannot gain the withering or greater withering abilities.

Menu B

• Aura of Fear (Su): Creatures within 20 feet of the construct must make a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 the construct's HD) or become shaken for as long as they remain within the aura's range. Creatures that make a successful saving throw against the fear need not make another saving throw unless they leave and re-enter the aura. Creatures that fail the saving throw must make an additional saving throw each round that they remain within the aura or instead become frightened for as long as they remain within the aura's range. Anyone whose HD exceed those of the construct are not affected. An astral construct with this ability cannot gain the lesser aura of fear or greater aura of fear abilities.
• Putrescence (Su): Any creature struck by the construct must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 construct's HD) or contract astral rot (incubation period 1d6 days; damage 1d3 Constitution). Unlike normal diseases, astral rot continues until the victim reaches Constitution 0 (and dies) or receives a remove disease spell or similar magic. Successful saving throws are not sufficient to cure a victim of astral rot.
• Withering (Ex): Each time a target is struck by the construct, it must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 the construct's HD) or take 1d3 points of ability damage to the ability score chosen by the manifester at the time the construct is created. An astral construct with this ability cannot gain the lesser withering or greater withering abilities.

Menu C

• Greater Aura of Fear (Su): Creatures within 30 feet of the construct must make a Will save (DC 15 + 1/2 the construct's HD) or become shaken for as long as they remain within the aura's range. Creatures that make a successful saving throw against the fear need not make another saving throw unless they leave and re-enter the aura. Creatures that fail the saving throw must make an additional saving throw each round that they remain within the aura or instead become panicked for as long as they remain within the aura's range. Anyone whose HD exceed those of the construct are not affected. An astral construct with this ability cannot gain the lesser aura of fear or aura of fear abilities.
• Greater Withering (Ex): Each time a target is struck by the construct, it must make a Fortitude save (DC 15 + 1/2 the construct's HD) or take 1d3 points of ability damage and 1 point of ability drain to the ability score chosen by the manifester at the time the construct is created. An astral construct with this ability cannot gain the lesser withering or greater withering abilities.

Subpsionic Items
   Psionic items created by those who use the subconscious mind are rare and dangerous. These items are nearly identical to items created by the conscious mind, but the differences that exist are profound.
   Powerlike effects manifested from subpsionic items have the same benefits and limitations that a subpsionic manifester has: Effects from the Metacreativity, Clairsentience, and Telepathy disciplines gain a +1 bonus to their manifester levels (though their costs are based on the original manifester level). Effects from the Psychometabolism, Psychoportation, and Psychokinesis disciplines have their manifester levels reduced by -1 (though their costs are based on the original manifester level).
   Subpsionic items can pose a serious danger to users that are not familiar with the subconscious mind. Activating a subpsionic item through power trigger, command thought, or use-activation deals 1d4 points of ability damage to the user unless the user has the Conjunctive Mind feat. The ability damage is applied to the primary manifesting ability score of characters with levels in psionic classes (or the highest of them if a character has multiple primary manifesting ability scores); creatures without levels in manifesting classes instead suffer Charisma damage. If the item functions continuously, the ability damage occurs at dusk each day or when the user takes off or puts aside the item, whichever comes first.


Forgotten Realms: When using these psionic feats in the Forgotten Realms setting, the subconscious mind is directly linked to the shadow weave. Psions that use these feats understand that they are using the shadow weave and are subject to all limitations and penalties that may be imposed as a result.

Shadow Mind is a useful class. You gain ML boosts, a few utility powers, extra skills, and as many feats as you gave up by not going straight Psion (although two of them are somewhat limited in their use). It might be worth a lost manifester level, but it's close. In any case, it wouldn't be the end of the world for psionics to get a full ML PrC with good class features like magic often gets.

Subpsionic Shield no longer has facing. Instead, it gives a deflection bonus to AC and its defensive bonuses have been reduced to about 2/3 of the original. Greater Subpsionic Shield is now a modification to the original rather than a separate ability, and its power resistance is actually meaningful now. Finally, Subpsionic Shield is now a swift action to generate. No more round/level defensive buffs as a standard action.

Subpsionic Double is a bit more restrictive than the original, but also clearer as it accounts for more situations.

Subpsionics's save DC boost has been changed to a manifester level boost across the board in being consistent with the 3.0 to 3.5 design changes along those lines. Tainted Construction's Putrescence ability has been moved from Menu C to B. It won't even show up in most fights and effectively only affects the PCs in the very long term (several days at least), if they don't just cure it immediately. The fear auras have also been changed. Aura of Fear (menu B) was exactly the same as the lesser aura of fear other than an improved DC.

Note that for the purposes of psionics-magic transparency, Claisentience, Metacreativity, and Telepathy are equivalent to Divination, Conjuration, and Enchantment, respectively, and that Psychokinesis and Psychometabolism are equivalent to Evocation and Transmutation, respectively, and Psychoportation has no equivalent school of magic. Abjuration, Illusion, and Necromancy have no equivalent psionic disciplines.

   Alignment: Any non-evil.
   Base Attack Bonus: +5.
   Feats: Improved Unarmed Strike, Combat Reflexes.
   Skills: Diplomacy 8 ranks, Sense Motive 4 ranks.

Hit Die: d8
        Base                                                       -----Manifesting-----
        Attack  Fort Ref  Will                                     Power   Powers  Level
Level   Bonus   Save Save Save    Special                          Points  Known   Known
1       +0      +2   +0   +2      Monk Abilities, Share Mind        1       1      1st
2       +1      +3   +0   +3      Share Mind (AC bonus +1)          3       2      1st
3       +2      +3   +1   +3      Psychoanalyst                     6       3      2nd
4       +3      +4   +1   +4      Share Mind (Cannot be flanked)   10       4      2nd
5       +3      +4   +1   +4      Share Mind (AC bonus +2)         15       5      3rd
6       +4      +5   +2   +5      Share Mind (Attack bonus)        23       6      3rd
7       +5      +5   +2   +5      Inquisitor                       31       7      4rd
8       +6      +6   +2   +6      Share Mind (Swap initiative)     43       8      4th
9       +6      +6   +3   +6      Share Mind (AC bonus +3)         55       9      5th
10      +7      +7   +3   +7      Share Mind (Grant Share Mind)    71      10      5th

Class skills (4 + Int modifier per level): Concentration, Diplomacy, Disguise, Forgery, Knowledge (Local), Knowledge (Nobility and Royalty), Knowledge (Psionics), Listen, Psicraft, Sense Motive

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Truth Seekers gain no new weapon or armor proficiencies.

Monk Abilities: A Truth Seeker's class levels stack with his Monk levels for the purpose of determining his unarmed damage, or with levels in other classes that grant that ability as a Monk. His class levels do not apply to other monk abilities such as flurry of blows, slow fall, and so on. A Truth Seeker without levels in Monk or similar classes instead gains the unaarmed damage of a Monk of his Truth Seeker level.

Power Points/Day: A Truth Seeker can manifest powers. His ability to manifest powers is limited by the power points he has available. His base daily allotment of power points is given on the table above. In addition, he receives bonus power points per day if he has a high Wisdom score (see Table: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Power Points). His race may also provide bonus power points per day, as may certain feats and items. If a Truth Seeker has power points from a different class, those points are pooled together and usable to manifest powers from either class.

Powers Known: A Truth Seeker chooses his powers from the Psion power list, the Seer power list, and the Telepath power list, but only those of the Clairsentience or Telepathy disciplines. At 1st level, a Truth Seeker knows one such power of his choice. Each time he attains a new level, he learns one new power. A Truth Seeker can manifest any power that has a power point cost equal to or lower than his manifester level. The total number of powers a Truth Seeker can manifest per day is limited only by his daily power points.
   A Truth Seeker simply knows his powers; they are ingrained in his mind. He does not need to prepare them (in the way that some spellcasters prepare their spells), though he must get a good night’s sleep each day to regain all his spent power points.
   The Difficulty Class for saving throws against Truth Seeker powers is 10 + the power’s level + the Truth Seeker's Wisdom modifier.

Maximum Power Level Known: A Truth Seeker gains the ability to learn 1st-level powers when he takes his first level in the prestige class. As he attains each new odd-numbered level, a Truth Seeker gains the ability to master more complex powers.
   To learn or manifest a power, a Truth Seeker must have a Wisdom score of at least 10 + the power’s level.

Share Mind (Ps): Truth seekers have the ability to connect to other minds and share thoughts and senses. Once per class level per day, you can create a lesser mindlink with one willing target. This functions as the mindlink power with a manifester level equal to your Truth Seeker manifester level, except that it can never be augmented. You can maintain Share Mind with only one creature at a time.
   In addition to the mindlink, you (not your partner) gain some advantages, based on your level:

• At 1st level, you tap into the emotions of your partner's mind. As a result, you gain any morale bonus or penalty that affects your partner.
• At 2nd level, the additional awareness of your partner's mind gives you a +1 insight bonus to AC. This bonus increases to +2 at 5th level and to +3 at 9th level.
• At 4th level, you gain even greater perception of your surroundings and cannot be flanked, provided you and your partner are within line of sight. You can still be flanked by a Rogue of four levels higher than your character level.
• At 6th level, by understanding how your partner is moving, you gain a +2 insight bonus to attack rolls against any target that both you and your partner threaten.
• At 8th level, you can communicate to such a degree with your partner's mind that you are able to act when your partner would normally act, or cause your partner to act more quickly. Once during the duration of any share mind, your can swap initiatives with your partner. This must be declared at the beginning of a round, before anyone has acted, and your partner must be willing.
• At 10th level, you can filter information back to your partner, bestowing any of the above abilities onto your partner, who acts as if he had used Share Mind on you. This ability lasts for 1 minute and can be used once per day. It can be activated as a free action.

  You gain these benefits whenever a mindlink is established between you another willing creature, regardless of whether or not it came from your Share Mind ability or even if it was you who manifested it. If you are already mindlinked with another creature when a new mindlink is established, you must choose whether to maintain your original partner or switch to the new linked creature. You can only have one partner at any given time.

Psychoanalyst (Su): Beginning at 3rd level, you gain a +2 bonus to Diplomacy, Bluff, Intimidate, and Charisma checks (but not other Charisma-based skill checks), but only while you maintain you psionic focus.

Inquisitor: You gain the Inquisitor feat as a bonus feat at 7th level, even if you do not qualify for it.

A simple conversion. The class's base manifesting progression became equal to the Psionic Fist's. The +2 bonus to AC got moved to level 5 to fill the dead level caused by removing psionic combat modes.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Summoners are proficient with all simple weapons, and with light armor.

Power Points/Day: A summoner can manifest powers. His ability to manifest powers is limited by the power points he has available. His base daily allotment of power points is given on the table above. In addition, he receives bonus power points per day if he has a high Charisma score. His race may also provide bonus power points per day, as may certain feats and items. If a summoner has power points from a different class, those points are pooled together and usable to manifest powers from either class. Bonus power points from having a high ability score can be gained only for the character’s highest psionic class.

Powers Known: A summoner chooses his powers as if he were a psion of the shaper discipline. At 1st level, a summoner knows two powers of your choice, plus astral construct. At every subsequent level, he learns one new power. A summoner can manifest any power that has a power point cost equal to or lower than his manifester level. The total number of powers a summoner can manifest per day is limited only by his daily power points.

A summoner simply knows his powers; they are ingrained in his mind. He does not need to prepare them (in the way that some spellcasters prepare their spells), though he must get a good night’s sleep each day to regain all his spent power points. The Difficulty Class for saving throws against war mind powers is 10 + the power’s level + the summoner’s Charisma modifier.

Eidolon: A summoner begins play with the ability to summon to his side a powerful outsider called an eidolon. The eidolon forms a link with the summoner, who, forever after, summons an aspect of the same creature. An eidolon has the same alignment as the summoner that calls it and can speak all of his languages. Eidolons are treated as summoned creatures, except that they are not sent back to their home plane until reduced to a number of negative hit points equal to or greater than their Constitution score. In addition, due to its tie to its summoner, an eidolon can touch and attack creatures warded by protection from evil and similar effects that prevent contact with summoned creatures.

A summoner can summon his eidolon in a ritual that takes 1 minute to perform. When summoned in this way, the eidolon hit points are unchanged from the last time it was summoned. The only exception to this is if the eidolon was slain, in which case it returns with half its normal hit points. The eidolon does not heal naturally. The eidolon remains until dismissed by the summoner (a standard action). If the eidolon is sent back to its home plane due to death, it cannot be summoned again until the following day. The eidolon cannot be sent back to its home plane by means of dispel psionics, but spells such as dismissal and banishment work normally. If the summoner is unconscious, asleep, or killed, his eidolon is immediately banished. The eidolon takes a form shaped by the summoner’s desires. The eidolon’s Hit Dice, saving throws, skills, feats, and abilities are tied to the summoner’s class level and increase as the summoner gains levels. In addition, each eidolon receives a pool of evolution points, based on the summoner’s class level, that can be used to give the eidolon different abilities and powers. Whenever the summoner gains a level, he must decide how these points are spent, and they are set until he gains another level of summoner.

The eidolon’s physical appearance is up to the summoner, but it always appears as some sort of fantastical creature. This control is not fine enough to make the eidolon appear like a specific creature. The eidolon also bears a glowing rune that is identical to a rune that appears on the summoner’s forehead as long as the eidolon is summoned. While this rune can be hidden through mundane means, it cannot be concealed through powers that changes appearance, such as metamorphosis (although invisibility, psionic does conceal it as long as the spell lasts).

Life Link (Su): Starting at 1st level, a summoner forms a close bond with his eidolon. Whenever the eidolon takes enough damage to send it back to its home plane, the summoner can, as a free action, sacrifice any number of hit points. Each hit point sacrificed in this way prevents 1 point of damage done to the eidolon. This can prevent the eidolon from being sent back to its home plane.

In addition, the eidolon and the summoner must remain within 100 feet of one another for the eidolon to remain at full strength. If the eidolon is beyond 100 feet but closer than 1,000 feet, its current and maximum hit point totals are reduced by 50%. If the eidolon is more than 1,000 feet away but closer than 10,000 feet, its current and maximum hit point totals are reduced by 75%. If the eidolon is more than 10,000 feet away, it is immediately returned to its home plane. Current hit points lost in this way are not restored when the eidolon gets closer to its summoner, but its maximum hit point total does return to normal.

Astral construct (Ps): A summoner adds astral construct to his list of powers known. He may manifest astral construct as a standard action, and its duration is increased to 1 minute/level. In addition, he may use astral construct as a psi-like ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + his Charisma modifier (the manifester level for this ability is the same as if he had manifested it normally). Drawing upon the psi-like version of this power uses up the same power as the summoner uses to call his eidolon. As a result, he can only use this ability when his eidolon is not summoned.

Bond Senses (Su): Starting at 2nd level, a summoner can, as a standard action, share the senses of his eidolon, hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching everything the eidolon does. He can use this ability a number of rounds per day equal to his summoner level. There is no range to this effect, but the eidolon and the summoner must be on the same plane. The summoner can end this effect as a free action.

Shield Ally (Ex): At 4th level, whenever a summoner is within his eidolon’s reach, the summoner receives a +2 shield bonus to his Armor Class and a +2 circumstance bonus on his saving throws. This bonus does not apply if the eidolon is grappled, helpless, paralyzed, stunned, or unconscious.

Maker’s Call (Su): At 6th level, as a standard action, a summoner can call his eidolon to his side. This functions as dimension door, psionic, using the summoner’s manifester level. When used, the eidolon appears adjacent to the summoner (or as close as possible if all adjacent spaces are occupied). If the eidolon is out of range, the ability is wasted. The summoner can use this ability once per day at 6th level, plus one additional time per day for every four levels beyond 6th.

Transposition (Su): At 8th level, a summoner can use his maker’s call ability to swap locations with his eidolon. If it is larger than him, he can appear in any square occupied by the eidolon. The eidolon must occupy the square that was occupied by the summoner if able, or as close as possible if it is not able.

Aspect (Su): At 10th level, a summoner can divert up to 2 points from his eidolon’s evolution pool to add evolutions to himself. He cannot select any evolution that the eidolon could not possess, and he must be able to meet the requirements as well. He cannot select the ability increase evolution through this ability. Any points spent in this way are taken from the eidolon’s evolution pool (reducing the total number available to the eidolon). The summoner can change the evolutions he receives from these points any time he can change the eidolon’s evolutions.

Greater Shield Ally (Su): At 12th level, whenever an ally is within an eidolon’s reach, the ally receives a +2 shield bonus to its Armor Class and a +2 circumstance bonus on its saving throws. If this ally is the summoner, these bonuses increase to +4. This bonus does not apply if the eidolon is grappled, helpless, paralyzed, stunned, or unconscious.

Life Bond (Su): At 14th level, a summoner’s life becomes linked to his eidolon’s. As long as the eidolon has 1 or more hit points, the summoner cannot be killed. Damage in excess of that which would kill the summoner is instead transferred to the eidolon. This damage is transferred 1 point at a time, meaning that as soon as the eidolon is reduced to -10 hit points, all excess damage remains with the summoner, killing him. Effects that cause death but not damage are unaffected by this ability. This ability does not affect spells like crystallise, microcosm, or other spells that do not cause actual damage.

Merge Forms (Su): At 16th level, as a full-round action, a summoner can touch his eidolon and the two can merge forms. This transformation includes all of the summoner’s gear. While merged in this way, the summoner is protected from harm and cannot be the target of powers or effects. All effects and powers currently targeting the summoner are suspended until the summoner emerges from the eidolon (although durations continue to expire).

The summoner can manifest powers while inside the eidolon by taking control of the eidolon for the duration of the casting. The summoner can direct all of the eidolon’s actions while merged, can perceive through its senses, and can speak through its voice.

The summoner can use this ability for a number of rounds per day equal to his summoner level. He can end this effect at any time as a swift action. The summoner emerges in a square adjacent to the eidolon if able. If the eidolon is returned to its home plane while the summoner is merged with it, the summoner is immediately ejected, taking 4d6 points of damage, and is stunned for 1 round.

Greater Aspect (Su): At 18th level, a summoner can divert more of his eidolon’s evolutions to himself. This ability functions as the aspect ability, but up to 6 evolution points can be taken. Unlike the aspect ability, the eidolon loses 1 point from its evolution pool for every 2 points (or fraction thereof) diverted to the summoner.

Gate (Sp): At 19th level, a summoner can expend a use of his astral construct psi-like ability to create a gate effect with a caster level equal to his manifester level.

Twin Eidolon (Su): At 20th level, a summoner and his eidolon share a true connection. As a standard action, the summoner can assume the shape of his eidolon, copying all of its evolutions, form, and abilities. His Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores change to match the base scores of his eidolon. He can choose to have any gear that he carries become absorbed by his new form, as with spells from the polymorph subschool. Items with continuous effects continue to function while absorbed in this way. The summoner loses his natural attacks and all racial traits (except bonus feats, skills, and languages) in favor of the abilities granted by his eidolon’s evolutions. The summoner retains all of his class features. The summoner can keep this form for a number of minutes per day equal to his summoner level. This duration does not need to be consecutive, but it must be spent in 1-minute increments. The summoner can end this effect as a free action.