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Psionic Prestidigitation
« on: February 28, 2010, 02:38:48 PM »
Prestidigitation, psionic
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Level: Psion/Wilder 1, Lurk 1
Display: Visual and Material
Manifesting Time: 1 standard action
Range: 20 ft. (+5ft per level)
Target, Effect, or Area: See text
Duration:    1 hour/level
Saving Throw:    See text
Power Resistance: No

Prestidigitations are minor tricks that novice psionic characters use for practice. Once manifested, a prestidigitation power enables you to perform simple psionic effects for the duration. The effects are minor and have severe limitations. A prestidigitation can slowly lift 5 pounds of material. It can color, clean, or soil items in a 5-foot cube each round. It can chill, warm, or flavor 5 pound of nonliving material. It cannot deal damage or affect the concentration of spellcasters or manifesters. Prestidigitation can create small objects, but they look crude and artificial. The materials created by a prestidigitation power are extremely fragile, and they cannot be used as tools, weapons, or spell components. Finally, a prestidigitation lacks the power to duplicate any other spell or power effects. Any actual change to an object (beyond just moving, cleaning, or soiling it) persists only for the duration.

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For every additional powerpoint spent the powers numeric functions increase by 5.

(This can replace the Far hand power)

So for 2pp You can lift 10 pounds of materials, clean or soil a 10ft cube each round, chill and warm 10 pounds of material
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Re: Psionic Prestidigitation
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 02:49:17 PM »
I can see why one would create this, but I can't think of anyone who would waste a precious power spot for this. In general, if you want to play around with cantrips, play a wizard (or other arcane caster), or invest in UMD and get a wand.

There are so many other 1st level powers as psionic character could take, and honestly this isn't worthwhile when they could be taking any of the others. Extending the duration from 1 hour to 1 hour/level doesn't really make up the difference in utility.

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Re: Psionic Prestidigitation
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2010, 03:01:25 PM »
well any suggestions for making it more worthwhile as a level 1 power?


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Re: Psionic Prestidigitation
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2010, 05:52:31 PM »
I love the idea from a Role-playing sense, but I do have to agree with the scat few powers you get to know, few would probably pick it up. Sadly I do not have ideas to make it more attractive.
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Re: Psionic Prestidigitation
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2010, 10:39:27 PM »
Throw in simple colored light and sound effects as per dancing lights and ghost sound I guess. Psionics don't have much in the way of light sources.

Allow augmentation to increase the complexity of the light/sound to minor illusion levels or to increase the affected areas.
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Re: Psionic Prestidigitation
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2010, 12:28:14 AM »
If you augment by at least 10 PP, and, by giving up 1 hour of duration, you can manifest (at no PP cost, but otherwise normally) 1 psionic power of (total PP - 10)/2.

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Re: Psionic Prestidigitation
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2010, 01:03:02 PM »
Make it a free class feature for Psions.

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Re: Psionic Prestidigitation
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2010, 01:07:54 PM »
Psions used to have 0-level powers, and I think you could manifest them for free a certain number of times per day. They were done away with in the 3.0 to 3.5 transition, along with psionic combat and defense modes. I think if you throw in the effects of dancing lights and ghost sound it might be worth a power known to some people... Or maybe get rid of the restriction of not being able to use created materials as tools, etc. If you want to create big volumes of stuff but take a long time doing it, you'd pick Psionic Minor Creation as a power known. If you just wanted to toss out tools and other things quickly, you'd pick this.
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Re: Psionic Prestidigitation
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2010, 04:17:50 PM »
Yeah, back in 3.0, you could cast a 0-level Power (called a "talent") several times per day for free.  I think it was three plus your manifester level, but I could be wrong.  After that point, they each cost 1 PP.

It really wouldn't be hard to add them back in.  Also, you could pull Detect Psionics and a few others off of the level 1 list as well.
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Re: Psionic Prestidigitation
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2010, 08:00:11 AM »
my GM approved my power and I took, coming in real handy. At level 6 I will craft it into an at will psionic item. Then I can psychic form it out and replace it with better stuff.