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I've heard fun things about Binders, that they are flavorful and flexible. What little I've seen of them looks like they're pretty fun to play. Since I don't have Tome of Magic and am too cheap to go out and get it, I decided to make my own version of Binding, mechanically similar but with a different theme. The idea is of taking psychic impressions, wisps of idea and emotion left over from strong concepts and events, and imprinting them on a willing psychic being (the imprinter). Such characters would gain abilities from the concepts that they imprint, but would also be influenced slightly by them. Stronger ideas would exert a greater influence, thus requiring greater experience and skill before being imprinted lest the imprinter lose himself in the process. Sound like Binding checks and pact-making to you?

Mechanically, the Imprinter would be somewhere between an actual Binder and a Psion. Unlike a Binder, not all of the Imprinter's abilities are reusable indefinitely. Manifesting is a significant part of their repertoire, as they gain a limited pool of power points from their class and powers to use them on from the Impressions used. Each Impression grants a couple of powers of the appropriate level and theme to be used as powers known while the imprint lasts. However, most or all Impressions still have a decent variety of passive and/or reusable abilities for when the PP supply runs out.

I figure the chassis of the Imprinter class would be similar or in between the Psion and Binder. Maybe poor BaB, 1d8 Hit Die, 4 skills/level, Charisma-based "manifesting", and a decent array of class features. One thing they'll definitely get is the ability to use Sensitivity to Psychic Impressions as a PLA, either often or at will. Other Clairsentience powers will also be available independent of the Impressions used. I've got some notes and ideas on some impressions below.

So, what do you think?









Psychic Imprinter (like Binding, but with Psionics)

takes on the psychic imprints of entities long gone, granting skills and improved psionic abilities.
Lower level imprints are based on general archetypes (the commoner, the guard, the merchant, etc.) but higher level ones take on great events, sites, or concepts (the Battle of Brindol, Slaughtergarde, Stories Around the Campfire, etc.).
An Imprinting check to avoid taking on aspects of the imprints personality or concept.
Minor psionic abilities (a small PP pool and some PLAs). However, in addition to their normal abilities, Imprints each grant a specific power or two appropriate to their Imprint level and to the concept imprinted.

Imprinting an impression costs PP equal to a power of that level. If you want to imprint higher level impressions, you'll have less PP to work with. Some impressions can be augmented, but you can't spend more PP on one than your imprinter level.

Lower level imprints will have more basic abilities. Higher level ones will have more interesting and/or open-ended abilities.

You cannot qualify for PrCs, feats, and other options using the abilities granted by an impression.




Mechanics:
Each impression has a level, a PP cost, and an imprinting DC. To imprint an impression, you must meditate for 1 minute. Upon completion, you must expend a number of PP equal to the impression's cost and make an Imprinting check. This is usually 1d20 + your imprinter level + your primary imprinting modifier. Whether or not you succeed on the check, you imprint the impression. However, a failed imprinting check may cause you to suffer certain restrictions when using the impression's abilities (similar to disobeying a Vestige's influence, you can suffer minor penalties for disassociating yourself with an impression, which results in minor penalties to that impression's abilities), while a successful check protects you from disassociating yourself from the impression. Unlike manifesting powers, you can spend more power points on an impression than your imprinter level. However, if you do, you cannot augment it. That is, you can spend power points to pay for the base cost of an impression you can imprint regardless of your imprinter level, but you cannot augment an imprint unless your imprinter level is high enough to meet the increased cost.
   Some impressions have augmentation options. These allow you to spend additional power points (and occasionally other resources) when imprinting them. If you do, you gain additional or more powerful abilities from the impression, but the DC of the imprinting check may be higher. Similar to manifesting powers, you cannot augment an impression by spending more power points on it than your imprinter level.
   Unless some event expunges them earlier, an impression stays imprinted until you next recover your power points. At that point, you can choose to expunge any or all imprinted impressions, or save some of them. If you choose to save any impressions, you must pay power points (and any other costs required) and make an imprinting check as though you were imprinting them initially. You can choose to change the augments of any impressions you keep. You do not, however, have to spend the normal time in meditation required to imprint the impression initially.
   Each impression has a personality, a way of viewing and reacting to the world that can influence anyone that imprints it. An imprinter who acts in a manner that is contrary to this personality disassociates himself from the impression, making it harder to use its granted abilities for a time. A successful imprinting check made when imprinting the impression prevents any risk of disassociation. A disassociated impression can be re-associated with 1 minute of meditation and a successful imprinting check (this does not prevent future disassociation, only the initial imprinting check does).



Glossary:

Disassociation: Each impression has a personality, a way of viewing and reacting to the world that can influence anyone that imprints it. An imprinter who acts in a manner that is contrary to this personality disassociates himself from the impression, making it harder to use its granted abilities for a time. A successful imprinting check made when imprinting the impression prevents any risk of disassociation. A disassociated impression can be re-associated with 1 minute of meditation and a successful imprinting check (this does not prevent future disassociation, only the initial imprinting check does).
Effect: The sum total of an impression's granted abilities, granted powers, and influence.
Expunge: The act of removing an impression that previously been imprinted. An expunged impression has no effect and does not count against an imprinter's maximum number of concurrent impressions. It is no longer considered imprinted.
Impression: An effect relating to strong emotions, ideas, and concepts. Psychic Impressionists and other imprinters imprint impressions upon themselves to gain various abilities.
Imprinter: A character that capable of imprinting impressions to gain their abilities.
Suppress: A suppressed impression temporarily has no effect, but still counts against an imprinter's maximum number of concurrent impressions.

Interesting take. I assumed psionic binders would be a matter of flavor change, though.

The vestiges are pretty much collections of flavored abilities and SLAs. That's all there is to them.

Slap some themed powers together and make a grimdark story for the vestige. Boom. It's done.

However, IMO, psionic vestiges should be about auras, crystals, ectoplasm, ancestral memories, n shit.
Enough about the grimdark, just as with the Warlock hogging Invocations down as their own thing it's gone on long enough.

I admire the variety.

Interesting take. I assumed psionic binders would be a matter of flavor change, though.

The vestiges are pretty much collections of flavored abilities and SLAs. That's all there is to them.

Slap some themed powers together and make a grimdark story for the vestige. Boom. It's done.

However, IMO, psionic vestiges should be about auras, crystals, ectoplasm, ancestral memories, n shit.
Enough about the grimdark, just as with the Warlock hogging Invocations down as their own thing it's gone on long enough.

I admire the variety.

That's pretty much what I'm going for, but with more emphasis on the "ancestral memories, n shit" part than the crystals and ectoplasm. And with a few exceptions, I plan to stay far away from the grimdark stories. Assuming I actually write some fluff for this stuff (I'm a lot better at thinking up mechanics than fluff), there will still be some grim, and some dark, but it will generally be balanced by hopeful and enduring.

Sounds like you should download the torrent.  

Maybe, but that's not really what I'm hoping to get out of this. Remaking mechanics based on existing mechanics is kinda fun. I had a blast making Metroid as Incarnum without any direct knowledge of actual Incarnum*, I can only hope that this will be as enjoyable. So far it's been fun to think about. I'd hate to spoil it by knowing exactly what I'm remaking, then it would just feel like copying. This way, I can well and truly make it my own.

Edit:
*Not entirely true. I did have access to the online stuff (Totemist class and about a dozen soulmelds) that I used as a basis for some simpler abilities and to judge what felt right. Chozo Warrior's chassis is almost a direct copy of Totemist's, too.

Impressions by level:
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1st
The Commoner - Common Sense (use Wisdom instead of Int for Knowledge skills and some other Int skills), Hard Work (Cannot be fatigued, speed not slowed for med/heavy armor or loads), Noncombatant (1 per 5 rounds, a creature attempting to attack you must make a Will save or lose the attack, immediate action activation), Power (Vigor, My Light)
The Guard - Weapon Training (Martial Weapon Proficiency, bonus to attack rolls), , (per 5 rounds ability), Power (Elfsight, Defensive Precognition)
The Sage - Knowledge is Power (insight bonus to damage rolls based on Knowledge checks), , , Power (Call to Mind, Precognition)
The Pickpocket - Sudden Strike (+1d6, +1d6/4 levels), Sneaky (bonus to Hide, Move Silently, and Sleight of Hand), , Power (Distract, Far Hand)

2nd
The Soldier - Armor Proficiency (Heavy Armor Proficiency, Shield Proficiency (not tower shields)), Allied Strike (1 attack/5 rounds causes an ally's next attack to gain a bonus to attack opponent or deal extra damage), Group Tactics (bonuses to hit when flanking, bonuses to adjacent allies' AC when using a shield), Power (Call Armor, Metaphysical Weapon, Dimension Swap as Psychic Warrior)
The Priest - , , , Power (Empathic Transfer, Body Adjustment)
Graveyards at Dusk - , , , Power (, )
The Con Artist - Charming Smile (take 10 on Bluff and Diplomacy), , , Power (Attraction, Psionic Charm, Read Thoughts)

3rd
The Arcanist - Tools of Magic (use spell trigger and spell completion as a Sorcerer of your imprinter level), Spell Boost (manifesting a power grants a bonus to spell/spell trigger/spell completion save DCs next round, using a spell/spell trigger/spell completion gives a boost to power save DCs next round), , Power (Dispel Psionics, Energy Missile)
The Scout - Skirmish (+1d6/+1), Speed Boost (+10 ft or more to movement speed, bonus to saves vs. movement impairing effects), Psionic Trapfinding (gain Trapfinding, +4 Search when focused, expend focus for +4 Disable Device), Battlefield Reconnaissance (1/5 rounds, true seeing for the round, swift action), Power (Hustle, Ubiquitous Vision)
Stories Around the Campfire - Inspire Courage (activate 5 rounds after effect has lapsed, effect lapses immediately when you stop performing, bonus based on imprinter level), Storyteller (bonus to Perform checks and Knowledge (history), gain Bardic Knowledge), , Power (, )
Duel at High Noon - Trigger Finger (1/5 rounds, if attacked while flat-footed, opponent provokes an attack of opportunity, you can draw a weapon to make the AoO with, can make ranged attacks for AoO), Psychic Reflexes (gain Combat Reflexes while focused, can manifest a touch or ray power to take AoOs with but must expend focus and spend +4 PP), Duelist's Foe (+2 attack and damage vs chosen foe, +2 AC and saves vs other creatures, bonuses improve with level), Power (Crystal Shard, Dissipating Touch, Touchsight)

4th
Slaughtergarde - Summon Fiend (1/5 rounds, summon an Evil Outsider as Summon Monster 4 or greater based on level), Gain Demon Traits, Shadow Maw (gain a bite attack that causes blindness and deafness, bite attack still functions while affected by Metamorphosis), Power (Metamorphosis, evil outsider forms only)
Koom Valley - Confusing Mists (create fog 1/5 rounds, attacks that miss from concealment may be redirected, creatures in the fog may be confused at higher levels), Accord of Kings (take 10 on Diplomacy and Sense Motive, no penalty for rushed Diplomacy), Dark Emotions (exude an aura of rage or calmness), Trolls and Dwarves (gain favored enemy Trolls and Dwarves), Power (Empathy, False Sensory Input, Steadfast Perception)
Changing Seasons - Passing Time (change which seasonal benefit you gain as a swift action, cannot return to previous season for 5 rounds, reduces duration remaining of effects affecting you), Seasonal Energy (energy powers can be manifested only with the current season's energy type, Winter = Cold; Spring = Sonic; Summer = Fire; Fall = Electricity), Energy Resistance (gain resistance to this season's energy type, value scales with level), Energy Touch (attacks and powers deal +1d6 damage of this season's energy type), Power (Time Hop, Energy Ball, Energy Ray)
The Perfectionist - Chasing Perfection (+2 to your highest ability score), Exacting Detail (take 20 in half the time, gain a Perfection bonus when you take 20), Quality Over Quantity (1/5 rounds, treat next single roll as if you took 20, takes a move+swift action to activate), Power (, )

5th
Castle Ravenloft - Vampiric Embrace (healed by negative energy but damaged by positive, DR/silver and magic based on imprinter level, fast healing based on level), Gaseous Form (use an improved Ectoplasmic Form on self as an immediate action, dismiss as free action, cannot use until 5 rounds after ending it), Aura of Darkness (Darkness effect (as spell) centered on yourself, this darkness does not obscure your vision, enemies within it suffer -2 to saves, activate or end as a swift action), Darkvision 60 ft, Power (Claws of the Vampire, Vampiric Weapon, Mindwipe, Mind Probe)
Tower of the Arcane Order - Psionic Spell Pool (at will, cast a Sor/Wiz spell from the PHB up to 3rd level, spend PP to cast higher level spells), Cooperative Magic (1/5 rounds, an ally's spell or power is enhanced), Arcane Absorption (gain SR, gain PP when a spell or power fails to penetrate your SR), Power (Metaconcert, Psionic Dimension Door, Psionic Identify)
Revolution - Open Rebellion (Unaffected by charm/compulsion effects, remove any such effects from an ally as a standard action 1/5 rounds), Against the Oppressors (+1d6 damage to creatures associated with an organization of your choice, +1d6 damage to creatures with more HD than you), , Power (Psionic True Seeing, Inertial Barrier, Escape Detection)


6th
The Battle of Brindol - Draconic Doom (natural armor, spell resistance, dragon wings grant flight, tail attack), Discipline of the Red Hand (Immune to fear, bonus to attack rolls when adjacent to an ally or within an ally's aura), Resolve of the Defenders (see through fog, smoke, and illusions, aura grants bonus to allies' saves), Power (Psionic Lion's Charge, Breath of the Black Dragon, )
Time of Troubles - Godslayer (+2d6 damage against outsiders), Aspect of Divinity (gain a domain, use 4th level or lower spells from it every 5 rounds), Touch of Mortality (Attacks ignore DR, Resistances, SR, and Regeneration), Power (Form of Doom, )
Broken Mirror - Refraction Shield (+4 deflection bonus to AC, reflect rays and other attacks), Shattered Reflection (use mirror image 1/5 rounds, false images explode when attacked), Disjointed Image (gain 50% miss chance against targeted attacks, failed attacks against you reduce it, successful attacks increase it), Power (Mass Cloud Mind, Dispelling Buffer)
Pools of Darkness - , , , Power (, )

7th
Legendary Heroes - Through Fire Justice is Served (powers you use don't damage allies, half the damage ignores resistances and immunities of evil creatures), A Hero's Will Never Falters (one negative effect on you is suppressed for 5 rounds, useable 1/5 rounds whenever a new negative effect affects you), Phoenix Rising (gain flight and fast healing), The Legend Continues (if you die while Legendary Heroes is imprinted, spells and powers that would revive you from death have no material or experience components and do not cost you any experience or levels), Power (Energy Wave, Energy Adaptation, Retrieve)
Black Omen - Destruction Rains From the Heavens (deal 12d6 damage in a large cylinder, 1/5 rounds, swift action in first round of combat), Arise From Darkness (gain flight, creatures beneath you are shrouded in crushing darkness), Existence Beyond Time (immune to effects that manipulate time, act while others are affected by time stop effects), Power (Quintessence, Temporal Acceleration, Energy Conversion)



8th
Watcher's Keep - Imprison Deity (use Imprisonment every 5 rounds, outsiders take a penalty on the save, only one creature imprisoned at once), Coward's Betrayal (bonus on bluff checks, Feint as a swift action, extra sneak attack damage), Demogorgon's Wrath (gaze attack causes confusion, melee attacks cause disease, tail attack causes negative levels), Power (Bend Reality, Psionic Telekinetic Sphere)



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Abilities and names without a home:
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- Never Give Up (act at negative hit points, immune to death effects, survive below -10 hp), Trust Your Instincts (reroll a roll with an insight bonus, 1/5 rounds), , Power (, )

Break Through (attack negates shield bonuses and Spell Reflection effects)

Final Destination - Master Hand (use telekinetic thrust, telekinetic maneuver, and telekinetic force as a single standard action 1/5 rounds, concentrate as a swift action), No Items (project an anti-magic field that only affects equipment), Fox Only (), (the first time you die each day while Final Destination in imprinted, you are revived as per True Resurrection after 1 round), Power (Recall Death, Psionic Greater Teleport)    ***Don't actually use this. No Items, in particular, is bad. I don't want to have to recalculate all stats.***

Final Showdown - , , Just One Shot (manifest a power at double ML with respect to PP caps, or make one attack at +5 to hit and quadruple damage, useable 1/5 rounds), Power (True Metabolism, Psionic Iron Body)


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Usual levels of powers gained
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A given imprint will usually grant 2 powers of its level, or 1 power of its level plus a couple of powers from lower levels. An imprint will rarely, if ever, grant more than 3 powers. Some cases in which that might happen are when the powers granted are redundant (multiple blasting Energy powers) or mutually exclusive (Vampiric Weapon with Claws of the Vampire). Higher level imprints may, occasionally, grant larger numbers of lower level powers in place of some higher level ones.
   The chart below is just a guideline for power distribution by level. Not everything will nor needs to follow it.


Imprint  \    Power
Level      \    Level

    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
1   2   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
2   0   2   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
    2   1   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
3   0   0   2   -   -   -   -   -   -
    0   1   1   -   -   -   -   -   -
    2   0   1   -   -   -   -   -   -
4   0   0   0   2   -   -   -   -   -
    1   0   1   1   -   -   -   -   -
    0   2   0   1   -   -   -   -   -
5   0   0   0   0   2   -   -   -   -
    0   1   0   1   1   -   -   -   -
    0   0   2   0   1   -   -   -   -
6   0   0   0   0   0   2   -   -   -
    0   0   1   0   1   1   -   -   -
    0   0   0   2   0   1   -   -   -
7   0   0   0   0   0   0   2   -   -
    0   0   0   1   0   1   1   -   -
    0   0   0   0   2   0   1   -   -
8   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   2   -
    0   0   0   0   1   0   1   1   -
    0   0   0   0   0   2   0   1   -

***Name of the impression***
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Descriptors: ***Does this impression have any descriptors? Also use Location, Concept, Event, and Role descriptors for different types of impressions.***
Level: ***The level that each class gets it at.***
Imprinting DC: ***The DC of the imprinting check made to imprint it. Generally equal to 15 + 3*level + points spent to augment it. Higher level impressions will therefore have slightly higher DCs for the same PP cost, which is good since they'll still have more interesting abilities.***
Prerequisites: ***Anything special required to imprint it, primarily based on abilities it may grant. For instance, a TWF-based impression might require Two Weapon Fighting or a Dexterity of 15. Failure to meet the prerequisites may cause the impression to be suppressed.***
Special Requirements: ***Any special requirements, primarily fluff-based. Special requirements are only checked on the initial imprinting, not when saving the impression from day to day.***
Story: ***A little fluff about this impression. Why is it important enough to last?***
Personality: ***How does this impression make you want to act? Fluff and roleplaying-based requirements only, nothing that requires you to change your actions in combat. You don't have to follow the personality, but there may be minor consequences (restricted to only affecting your ability to use the  impression's abilities) if you don't follow it. This may also include a minor bonus granted when the impression is stored in a Blank Slate psicrystal.***
   If you disassociate yourself with ***NAME***, ***something happens***.
   While ***NAME*** is stored in a psicrystal with the blank slate personality, that psicrystal gains the ***whatever*** personality, which grants its master ***whichever bonus it grants***.
Granted Abilities: ***NAME*** grants you the ***this, that, and the other*** abilities while it is imprinted upon you. ***What abilities does this impression give you for imprinting it?***
Granted Powers: While ***NAME*** is imprinted upon you, you gain knowledge of the ***this, that, and the other*** powers. ***What powers does this impression grant you knowledge of?***
Power Point Cost: ***How many PP does this cost to imprint? Should generally be the same as a power of the same level.***
Augment: ***What do you get for spending more PP when imprinting this? The imprinting DC should usually increase at a 1:1 rate for each PP spent to augment.***
When you imprint ***NAME***, you can augment it in the following ways:

• ***first way***
• ***second and subsequent ways***

In addition, for every additional power point that you spend to achieve any of these effects, this impression's imprinting DC increases by 1.
For every 2 additional power points that you spend to achieve any of these effects, the save DC of this impression's granted abilities increase by 1.
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NAME
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Descriptors:
Level: Psychic Impressionist NNN
Imprinting DC: DC
Prerequisites: None
Special Requirements: None
Story: ***A little fluff about this impression. Why is it important enough to last?***
Personality: ***How does this impression make you want to act? Fluff and roleplaying-based requirements only, nothing that requires you to change your actions in combat. You don't have to follow the personality, but there may be minor consequences (restricted to only affecting your ability to use the  impression's abilities) if you don't follow it. This may also include a minor bonus granted when the impression is stored in a Blank Slate psicrystal.***
   If you disassociate yourself with NAME, SOMETHING.
   While NAME is stored in a psicrystal with the blank slate personality, that psicrystal gains the WHATEVER personality, which grants its master BONUS.
Granted Abilities: NAME grants you the THIS, THAT, and THEOTHER abilities while it is imprinted upon you.
Granted Powers: While NAME is imprinted upon you, you gain knowledge of the THIS, THAT, and THEOTHER powers.
Power Point Cost: PP
Augment: When you imprint NAME, you can augment it in the following ways:

• FIRST
• SECOND

In addition, for every additional power point that you spend to achieve any of these effects, this impression's imprinting DC increases by 1.
For every 2 additional power points that you spend to achieve any of these effects, the save DC of this impression's granted abilities increase by 1.
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List of completed impressions
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1st

2nd
The Soldier - Armor Proficiency (Heavy Armor Proficiency, Shield Proficiency (not tower shields)), Allied Strike (1 attack/5 rounds causes an ally's next attack to gain a bonus to attack opponent or deal extra damage), Group Tactics (bonuses to hit when flanking, bonuses to adjacent allies' AC when using a shield), Power (Call Armor, Metaphysical Weapon, Dimension Swap as Psychic Warrior)

3rd
Duel at High Noon - Trigger Finger (1/5 rounds, if attacked while flat-footed, opponent provokes an attack of opportunity, you can draw a weapon to make the AoO with, can make ranged attacks for AoO), Psychic Reflexes (gain Combat Reflexes while focused, can manifest a touch or ray power to take AoOs with but must expend focus and spend +4 PP), Duelist's Foe (+2 attack and damage vs chosen foe, +2 AC and saves vs other creatures, bonuses improve with level), Power (Crystal Shard, Dissipating Touch, Touchsight)
The Scout - Skirmish (+1d6/+1), Speed Boost (+10 ft or more to movement speed, bonus to saves vs. movement impairing effects), Psionic Trapfinding (gain Trapfinding, +4 Search when focused, expend focus for +4 Disable Device), Battlefield Reconnaissance (1/5 rounds, true seeing for the round, swift action), Power (Hustle, Ubiquitous Vision)

4th
Koom Valley - Confusing Mists (create fog 1/5 rounds, attacks that miss from concealment may be redirected, creatures in the fog may be confused at higher levels), Accord of Kings (take 10 on Diplomacy and Sense Motive, no penalty for rushed Diplomacy), Dark Emotions (exude an aura of rage or calmness), Trolls and Dwarves (gain favored enemy Trolls and Dwarves), Power (Empathy, False Sensory Input, Steadfast Perception)
Changing Seasons - Passing Time (change which seasonal benefit you gain as a swift action, cannot return to previous season for 5 rounds, reduces duration remaining of effects affecting you), Seasonal Energy (energy powers can be manifested only with the current season's energy type, Winter = Cold; Spring = Sonic; Summer = Fire; Fall = Electricity), Energy Resistance (gain resistance to this season's energy type, value scales with level), Energy Touch (attacks and powers deal +1d6 damage of this season's energy type), Power (Time Hop, Energy Ball, Energy Ray)

5th
Castle Ravenloft - Vampiric Embrace (healed by negative energy but damaged by positive, DR/silver and magic based on imprinter level, fast healing based on level), Gaseous Form (use an improved Ectoplasmic Form on self as an immediate action, dismiss as free action, cannot use until 5 rounds after ending it), Aura of Darkness (Darkness effect (as spell) centered on yourself, this darkness does not obscure your vision, enemies within it suffer -2 to saves, activate or end as a swift action), Darkvision 60 ft, Power (Claws of the Vampire, Vampiric Weapon, Mindwipe, Mind Probe)
Tower of the Arcane Order - Psionic Spell Pool (at will, cast a Sor/Wiz spell from the PHB up to 3rd level, spend PP to cast higher level spells), Cooperative Magic (1/5 rounds, an ally's spell or power is enhanced), Arcane Absorption (gain SR, gain PP when a spell or power fails to penetrate your SR), Power (Metaconcert, Psionic Dimension Door, Psionic Identify)

6th
Broken Mirror - Refraction Shield (+4 deflection bonus to AC, reflect rays and other attacks), Shattered Reflection (use mirror image 1/5 rounds, false images explode when attacked), Disjointed Image (gain 50% miss chance against targeted attacks, failed attacks against you reduce it, successful attacks increase it), Power (Mass Cloud Mind, Dispelling Buffer)

7th
Black Omen - Destruction Rains From the Heavens (deal 12d6 damage in a large cylinder, 1/5 rounds, swift action in first round of combat), Arise From Darkness (gain flight, creatures beneath you are shrouded in crushing darkness), Existence Beyond Time (immune to effects that manipulate time, act while others are affected by time stop effects), Power (Quintessence, Temporal Acceleration, Energy Conversion)
Legendary Heroes - Through Fire Justice is Served (powers you use don't damage allies, half the damage ignores resistances and immunities of evil creatures), A Hero's Will Never Falters (one negative effect on you is suppressed for 5 rounds, useable 1/5 rounds whenever a new negative effect affects you), Phoenix Rising (gain flight and fast healing), The Legend Continues (if you die while Legendary Heroes is imprinted, spells and powers that would revive you from death have no material or experience components and do not cost you any experience or levels), Power (Energy Wave, Energy Adaptation, Retrieve)

8th
Watcher's Keep - Imprison Deity (use Imprisonment every 5 rounds, outsiders take a penalty on the save, only one creature imprisoned at once), Coward's Betrayal (bonus on bluff checks, Feint as a swift action, extra sneak attack damage), Demogorgon's Wrath (gaze attack causes confusion, melee attacks cause disease, tail attack causes negative levels), Power (Bend Reality, Psionic Telekinetic Sphere)

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Level 2 Impressions
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The Soldier
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Descriptors: Role
Level: Psychic Impressionist 2
Imprinting DC: 21
Prerequisites: None
Special Requirements: None
Story: ***A little fluff about this impression. Why is it important enough to last?***
Personality: ***How does this impression make you want to act? Fluff and roleplaying-based requirements only, nothing that requires you to change your actions in combat. You don't have to follow the personality, but there may be minor consequences (restricted to only affecting your ability to use the  impression's abilities) if you don't follow it. This may also include a minor bonus granted when the impression is stored in a Blank Slate psicrystal.***
   If you disassociate yourself with The Soldier, Group Tactics does not provide a bonus to your allies' Armor Class.
   While The Soldier is stored in a psicrystal with the blank slate personality, that psicrystal gains the resolved personality, which grants its master a +2 bonus on Will saves.
Granted Abilities: The Soldier grants you the Allied Strike, Armor Proficiency, and Group Tactics abilities while it is imprinted upon you.
Allied Strike (Ex): Once every 5 rounds as a free action, you can declare an attack you make (even one made as part of using a power) to be an allied strike. You must declare this before determining if you hit or miss. If your attack hits, the ally of your choice gains a +3 bonus on weapon damage rolls against the creature you struck. If your attack misses, the ally of your choice gains a +3 bonus on attack rolls against the creature you missed. These benefits last until the beginning of your next turn.
Armor Proficiency: While The Soldier is imprinted upon you, you gain proficiency with all types of armor (light, medium, and heavy armor), and with shields (except tower shields).
Group Tactics (Ex): While The Soldier is imprinted upon you, you excel in group combat. The bonus on attack rolls that you gain and grant by flanking increases by 1. Any allies adjacent to you while you are wielding a shield or while you are under the effects of the force screen power gain a +1 bonus to their armor class.
Granted Powers: While The Soldier is imprinted upon you, you gain knowledge of the call armor, dimension swap, and metaphysical weapon powers. You learn and manifest dimension swap as a Psychic Warrior this way.
Power Point Cost: 3
Augment: When you imprint The Soldier, you can augment it in the following ways:

• If you spend 4 additional power points, Armor Proficiency also grants proficiency with tower shields.
• For every additional power point you spend, the bonuses granted by Allied Strike increases by 1.
• For every 3 additional power points you spend, the bonuses granted by Group Tactics increase by 1.

In addition, for every additional power point that you spend to achieve any of these effects, this impression's imprinting DC increases by 1.
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Level 4 Impressions
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Changing Seasons
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Descriptors: Concept
Level: Psychic Impressionist 4
Imprinting DC: 27
Prerequisites: None
Special Requirements: None
Story: ***A little fluff about this impression. Why is it important enough to last?***
Personality: ***How does this impression make you want to act? Fluff and roleplaying-based requirements only, nothing that requires you to change your actions in combat. You don't have to follow the personality, but there may be minor consequences (restricted to only affecting your ability to use the  impression's abilities) if you don't follow it. This may also include a minor bonus granted when the impression is stored in a Blank Slate psicrystal.***
   If you disassociate yourself with Changing Seasons, the energy resistance granted by Energy Resistance is reduced by half and Energy Touch only affects weapon attacks. Any additional bonuses you gain for having the Unseelie Fey template are unaffected by this, and you do not suffer these penalties while in the season of your seasonal power.
   While Changing Seasons is stored in a psicrystal with the blank slate personality, that psicrystal gains the artiste personality, which grants its master +3 bonus on Craft checks.
Granted Abilities: Changing Seasons grants you the Energy Resistance, Energy Touch, Passing Time, and Seasonal Energy abilities while it is imprinted upon you.
Energy Resistance (Ex): You gain resistance 10 to your current seasonal energy type. This resistance improves to 20 if your imprinter level is at least 9, or to 30 if your imprinter level is at least 13.
   If you have the Unseelie Fey template, you also gain resistance 5 to the seasonal energy type or your templates seasonal power. If you are currently in that season, the resistance stacks.
Energy Touch (Su): Your attacks and powers are charged with your current seasonal energy type. Any successful attack you make or damaging power you manifest deals an additional 1d6 points of damage of your seasonal energy type, independent of the energy damage dealt attack or power normally.
   If you have the Unseelie Fey template, you also deal an additional 1 point of damage of the seasonal energy type or your templates seasonal power with successful attack you make or damaging power you manifest. If you are currently in that season, the damage stacks.
Passing Time (Su): When you imprint Changing Seasons, choose one season to begin in (winter, spring, summer, or fall). As a swift action, you can advance time around you, changing your seasonal powers and reducing the remaining duration of any effects affecting you. You immediately change to the new season, and any ongoing effects currently affecting you have their durations reduced by 1 round for every season you advance (in order, the seasons are winter, spring, summer, fall, and then winter again as the cycle begins anew). Effects whose remaining durations are reduced 0 rounds or less are removed as though their durations had run out normally.
   You cannot this ability to advance more than 3 seasons at once. Once you use this ability, you cannot return to any season you left or passed by for 5 rounds. Passing Time does not shorten the amount of time you need to wait before reusing any of your abilities (such as most breath weapons and the abilities granted by most impressions and vestiges).
Seasonal Energy: Depending on which season you are in (see the Passing Time ability), you have an affinity to one of four energy types. If you are in winter, your seasonal energy type is cold. If you are in spring, your seasonal energy type is sonic. If you are in summer, your seasonal energy type is fire. If you are in fall, your seasonal energy type is electricity. You can only manifest energy powers that allow you to choose what energy type they use if you select your seasonal energy type. Powers that do not allow you to choose your seasonal energy type can be manifested without this restriction (even if they have the option to choose the energy type of another season).
Granted Powers: While Changing Seasons is imprinted upon you, you gain knowledge of the energy ball, energy ray, and time hop powers.
Power Point Cost: 7
Augment: When you imprint Changing Seasons, you can augment it in the following ways:

• If you spend 6 additional power points, you can use Passing Time as an immediate action, even while you are unable to act.
• For every 5 additional power points you spend, the damage dealt by your Energy Touch ability increases by 1d6. This does not affect the bonus damage you deal for having the Unseelie Fey template.

In addition, for every additional power point that you spend to achieve any of these effects, this impression's imprinting DC increases by 1.
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Koom Valley
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Descriptors: Event, Location
Level: Psychic Impressionist 4
Imprinting DC: 27
Prerequisites: None
Special Requirements: None
Story: In Koom Valley, the trolls ambushed the dwarves, or maybe the dwarves ambushed the trolls. No one knows for sure, but this piece of shared history has kept rivalries between the two races strong and arguments heated even in times of peace.
Personality: You must try to find out the true story behind Koom Valley when you have the opportunity. While you do not necessarily need to perform active research in libraries or actively track down every piece of information you can, you must at least keep an ear open and try to piece together any clues you come across. Additionally, you must try to learn about dwarf and troll culture, society, and customs. If you are a troll or a dwarf, you must try especially hard to learn about the other.
   If you disassociate yourself with Koom Valley, the benefits granted by Trolls and Dwarves is halved and Accord of Kings does not prevent the penalty for making a rushed Diplomacy check, nor does it hasten your ability to gain knowledge with a Sense Motive check.
   While Koom Valley is stored in a psicrystal with the blank slate personality, that psicrystal gains your choice of the friendly and sympathetic personalities (chosen when you imprint Koom Valley), which grants its master a +3 bonus on Diplomacy and Sense Motive checks, respectively.   
Granted Abilities: Koom grants you the Accord of Kings, Confusing Mists, Dark Emotions, and Trolls and Dwarves abilities while it is imprinted upon you.
Accord of Kings (Ex): You can take 10 on Diplomacy and Sense Motive checks, even when you are distracted or threatened. You do not suffer the usual -10 penalty for making a rushed Diplomacy check, and you can gain information with a Sense Motive check ten times as fast (thus you can glean information in only a single round that would take you a minute to learn normally).
Confusing Mists (Su): As a standard action, once every 5 rounds, you can create a cloud of mist and fog as with the fog cloud spell. These mists billow outward, increasing the radius and height of their effect by 5 feet at the beginning of each of your turns. Additionally, creatures within the mist are subject to a minor confusion effect. Any time a melee or ranged attack originating from within the mist would miss because of concealment, the creature that misses must make a Will save. On a failed save, that attack is redirected to the creature's nearest ally within range and within the mist. The creature must make another attack roll to determine if the ally is struck, but the mist provides no concealment and does not interfere with line of sight for the purpose of this attack.
   You and your allies are unaffected by the confusing effects of the mist. The cloud lasts for a number of rounds equal to your imprinter level. If you imprinter level is high enough, you can have multiple clouds in existence at once. The confusing effect of this ability is a mind-affecting effect.
Dark Emotions (Su): You exude an aura that affects the emotions of those within 30 feet of you (including yourself). If you choose to emit anger, all creatures within the aura gain a +2 morale bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls, but suffer a -1 morale penalty to their Armor Class and saving throws. If you exude and aura of calmness, all creatures within the aura suffer a -1 morale penalty on attack rolls and damage rolls, but gain a +2 morale bonus to their Armor Class and saving throws.
   You can activate, suppress, or change the emotions of this aura as a move action. This is a mind-affecting effect.
Trolls and Dwarves (Ex): Your knowledge and understanding of Dwarves and Trolls, or your hatred and anger towards them, grants you a bonus on your interactions with these races and in combat with them (including subraces). You gain a +2 bonus on all Diplomacy, Knowledge, Listen, Sense Motive, and Spot checks when dealing with members of these races or their societies, and you gain a +2 bonus on weapon damage rolls against such creatures. Treat this as a Favored Enemy ability where beneficial.
Granted Powers: While Koom Valley is imprinted upon you, you gain knowledge of the empathy, false sensory input, and steadfast perception powers.
Power Point Cost: 7
Augment: When you imprint Koom Valley, you can augment it in the following ways:

• For every additional power point you spend, the range of Dark Emotions increases by 5 feet.
• For every 5 additional power points you spend, the bonuses granted by Trolls and Dwarves increases by 2.
• If you spend 6 additional power points, any creature within the area of your Confusing Mists must make a Will save each round at the beginning of its turn or act confused until its next turn (as per the confusion spell). You and your allies are not immune to this effect.

In addition, for every additional power point that you spend to achieve any of these effects, this impression's imprinting DC increases by 1.
For every 2 additional power points that you spend to achieve any of these effects, the save DC of Confusing Mists increases by 1.
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Level 6 Impressions
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Broken Mirror
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Descriptors: Concept
Level: Psychic Impressionist 6
Imprinting DC: 33
Prerequisites: None
Special Requirements: None
Story: ***A little fluff about this impression. Why is it important enough to last?***
Personality: ***How does this impression make you want to act? Fluff and roleplaying-based requirements only, nothing that requires you to change your actions in combat. You don't have to follow the personality, but there may be minor consequences (restricted to only affecting your ability to use the  impression's abilities) if you don't follow it. This may also include a minor bonus granted when the impression is stored in a Blank Slate psicrystal.***
   If you disassociate yourself with Broken Mirror, the miss chance granted by Disjointed Image improves by only half as much as normal when you or an image are struck (to a gain of 5% per attack), and the images created by Shattered Reflection do not damage their attacker when struck.
   While Broken Mirror is stored in a psicrystal with the blank slate personality, that psicrystal gains the observant personality, which grants its master a +3 bonus on Spot checks.
Granted Abilities: Broken Mirror grants you the Disjointed Image, Refraction Shield, and Shattered Reflection abilities while it is imprinted upon you.
Disjointed Image (Su): Light reflects off of you at strange angles, and does not follow a straight line after doing so. You appear up to 2 feet away from your actual position, causing attacks against you to suffer a 50% miss chance. A true seeing spell or similar effect reveals your true location, negating the miss chance. In addition, each time you are missed because of this miss chance, your image shift closer to your true location as the broken image repairs itself, reducing the miss chance granted by 10% (to a minimum miss chance of 20%). Each time you are struck, the image breaks a little bit more, increasing the miss chance granted by 10% (to a maximum miss chance of 50%). Treat this miss chance as resulting from concealment (although you are not actually considered to have concealment because of this).
   If you are not attacked for 1 minute, the miss chance granted by this ability resets to 50%. The miss chance granted by this ability also applies to any images of you created by Shattered Reflection, mirror image spells, and similar effects. Such images use the same miss chance that you have, and attacks against them raise or lower the miss chance granted by this ability as though they had hit or missed you.
Refraction Shield (Su): While you maintain you psionic focus, you gain a +4 deflection bonus to your armor class.
   Whenever a ranged attack targeting you (or an image of you created by Shattered Reflection, mirror image spells, and similar effects) misses, you can reflect it back to its source as an immediate action by expending your psionic focus. If you do, make a ranged attack roll against you attacker with the same modifiers as the original attack roll (do not count range increment penalties twice, and you may suffer different miss chances than your attacker due to concealment and the like). If you hit, treat the attack as though your attacker had targeted and struck himself.
   You cannot use this ability to reflect siege weapon projectiles.
Shattered Reflection (Ps): As a swift action, you can create 1d4 images of yourself, as per the mirror image spell. Unlike normal mirror images, these images also gain the benefit of any deflection bonuses to armor class that you have, and are affected by Disjointed Image (as described in that ability). Whenever an image is successfully attacked, it shatters, spraying shards of glass at its attacker. These glass shards deal 2d6 points of magic piercing damage (affected by damage reduction) and they dissolve into nothingness within 1 round. A successful Reflex saving throw negates this damage.
   If you are struck while at least one image remains, you automatically switch places with any adjacent image of your choice after resolving the attack and its effects (treat this as a teleportation effect). If you do, that image is destroyed and shatters as if it was struck by the attack that hit you.
   If you are already affected by a mirror image spell or similar effect when you use this ability, the two effects do not stack. Instead, all remaining images are improved as described above for the duration of this effect, and additional images are created only if Shattered Reflection would create more images than there are remaining from the prior effects (in which case it only creates new images equal to the difference). When the duration of Shattered Reflection expires, any remaining images created by it disappear as normal, and the improvements to any remaining images from existing mirror image effects are removed.
   The images created by this ability disappear after 5 rounds. After you use this ability, you cannot use it again for 5 rounds. Treat this effect as a 6th level power from the metacreativity discipline.
Granted Powers: While Broken Mirror is imprinted upon you, you gain knowledge of the dispelling buffer and mass cloud mind powers.
Power Point Cost: 11
Augment: When you imprint Broken Mirror, you can augment it in the following ways:

• For every 3 additional power points you spend, the number of images created by Shattered Mirror increases by 1 and the damage dealt when they shatter is increased by 1d6.
• If you spend 6 additional power points, the miss chance granted by Disjointed Image is only reduced by half as much as normal when you or an image are struck (to a loss of 5% per attack), and you can ignore all miss chances caused by concealment when reflecting an attack with Refraction Shield.

In addition, for every additional power point that you spend to achieve any of these effects, this impression's imprinting DC increases by 1.
For every 2 additional power points that you spend to achieve any of these effects, the save DC of Shattered Reflection increase by 1.
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Level 8 Impressions
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Watcher's Keep
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Descriptors: Location
Level: Psychic Impressionist 8
Imprinting DC: 39
Prerequisites: None
Special Requirements: None
Story: ***A little fluff about this impression. Why is it important enough to last?***
Personality: ***How does this impression make you want to act? Fluff and roleplaying-based requirements only, nothing that requires you to change your actions in combat. You don't have to follow the personality, but there may be minor consequences (restricted to only affecting your ability to use the  impression's abilities) if you don't follow it. This may also include a minor bonus granted when the impression is stored in a Blank Slate psicrystal.***
   If you disassociate yourself with Watcher's Keep, you can only use one of the options granted by Demogorgon's Wrath every 5 rounds instead of all three, and Outsiders do not suffer the -4 penalty on their saves against Imprison Deity unless you actually know their name and some facts about their life.
   While Watcher's Keep is stored in a psicrystal with the blank slate personality, that psicrystal gains the liar personality, which grants its master a +3 bonus on Bluff checks.
Granted Abilities: Watcher's Keep grants you the Coward's Betrayal, Demogorgon's Wrath, and Imprison Deity abilities while it is imprinted upon you.
Coward's Betrayal (Ex): When the Knights of the Vigil betrayed the god-child of Bhaal by attempting to seal him within the Watcher's Keep along with Demogorgon, their betrayal forever tainted the memory of Wather's Keep.
   You gain a +8 insight bonus on all Bluff checks you make while Watcher's Keep is imprinted upon you. In addition, you gain the Sneak Attack ability, allowing you to deal an additional 4d6 points of damage on all attacks that qualify. This otherwise functions as the Rogue ability of the same name.
   In addition, you gain the ability to feint as a swift action. If you have the Improved Feint feat or could otherwise already feint as a move, swift, or free action, this ability causes any victims of your successful feints to lose their Dexterity bonus to their Armor Class for all attacks you make until the beginning of your next turn.
   Finally, if you willingly attack a creature that considers you to be its ally, you deal an additional 2d6 points of damage on the first such attack you make each round. This is independent from the bonus Sneak attack damage that Coward's Betrayal may also grant you on these attacks.
Demogorgon's Wrath (Su): While Watcher's Keep is imprinted upon you, you gain access to a fearsome power similar to that possessed by the demon lord Demogorgon, who was once imprisoned within its walls. This grants you a confusing gaze, an enervating tail attack, and disease-causing strikes.
   As a standard action, you can cast your gaze upon an opponent within 60 feet that you have line of sight to. If that creature can see you, it must make a Will save or become confused for 1d4+1 rounds. This is a mind-affecting, compulsion effect.
   As part of a full-attack, you can make a secondary natural attack with a ghostly, demonic tail that manifests itself for this attack, disappearing immediately afterwards. Treat this attack as a magical incorporeal touch attack for the purposes of bypassing damage reduction, ignoring bonuses to Armor Class, and striking incorporeal creatures. The tail deals a base damage of 1d8 for a Medium creature, but does not deal any additional damage for your Strength. Additionally, any creature struck by your incorporeal tail immediately gains 1d4 negative levels. The Fort save DC to remove these negative levels is the same as the save DC of this impression.
   As a free action after striking a living creature with two or more melee attacks in a single round, or after making a successful attack roll with a power you manifest against such a creature, you can afflict that creature with a terrible rotting disease. The afflicted creature must make a Fortitude save or suffer 1d8 points of Constitution and Dexterity damage immediately, and again every 24 hours until it is dead. Unlike other diseases, this disease allows no subsequent saving throws to recover from it. This disease can only be removed by magical effects if the caster succeeds on a caster level check against a DC of 10 plus your imprinter level. Even the iron heart surge maneuver requires an initiator level check against the same DC, and can only be attempted once every 24 hours.
   You can use each of these options once every 5 rounds, and the use of one does not restrict the use of the other options in this way. However, you cannot use more than one of these options in a single round.
Imprison Deity (Su): Focusing inwards, you can turn the impression of Watcher's Keep within your mind into an imitation of the original, a prison strong enough to hold even deities. Turning your thoughts outwards once more, you can pull a creature from reality into the idea within your mind, holding it within your finely crafted mental prison.
   As a standard action you can imprison a single creature that you touch, as per the imprisonment spell. If the subject fails its Will save against this impression's DC, it is imprisoned. You can only have a single creature imprisoned at once. If you try to imprison a second creature, the first is immediately released, even if your attempt against the second is unsuccessful. Due to Watcher's Keep's design as a prison for demon lords, Outsiders subject to this effect always suffer a -4 penalty on their saving throws to resist this ability, as though you knew their name and some facts about their life, even if you don't.
   Unlike with the imprisonment spell, the subject is not entombed beneath the earth, but rather within your own mind inside the metaphysical concept of the Watcher's Keep. As such, a freedom spell or similar effect used at the locale where the subject was imprisoned does nothing, but must be used upon you instead. An imprisoned creature stays imprisoned indefinitely as long as you keep Watcher's Keep imprinted upon you, but it receives another saving throw to escape for each day that you do not have Watcher's Keep imprinted.
   You can release a creature that you have imprisoned with this ability as a standard action. It appears in the space of your choice within 30 feet of you. You cannot release a creature into an area that cannot support it or into which it does not fit, similar to summoning a creature with a Conjuration (summoning) spell. If you attempt to release a creature into such a location, nothing happens, although you still lose your action.
   Once you have used this ability, be it to imprison a creature or release one and regardless of its success or failure, you cannot use this ability again for 5 rounds.
Granted Powers: While Watcher's Keep is imprinted upon you, you gain knowledge of the bend reality and psionic telekinetic sphere powers.
Power Point Cost: 15
Augment: When you imprint Watcher's Keep, you can augment it in the following ways:

• For every 2 additional power points you spend, the insight bonus to your Bluff checks granted by Coward's Betrayal increases by 1. For every 4 power points spent this way, the bonus Sneak Attack damage also increases by 1d6.
• If you spend 5 additional power points, you can read the memories of the creature you have imprisoned. You can instantly gain knowledge of the creature's surface thoughts when you imprison it if you wish. Additionally, once per day while you have Watcher's Keep imprinted with this augment, you can ask an imprisoned creature a number of questions up to your imprinter level as though using the mind probe power (with a save DC equal to Imprison Deity's DC), treating the subject as though it was initially asleep each time you use this ability.  Activating this ability takes 1 minutes, and it is treated as a psi-like ability.

In addition, for every additional power point that you spend to achieve any of these effects, this impression's imprinting DC increases by 1.
For every 2 additional power points that you spend to achieve any of these effects, the save DC of Demogorgon's Wrath and Imprison Deity increase by 1.
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