| Editor's Note: The Psi-Hunter is, technically speaking, an archetype of the Phrenic Slayer prestige class. However, I have integrated the two together so as to present it as a whole prestige class. |
Archetypes for prestige classes are a unique concept presented in Psionics Augmented - Seventh Path. Just as a class archetype does, the psi-hunter archetype modifies the phrenic slayer prestige class. If an ability isn’t noted as changed, it retains the original prestige class ability. In addition, for prestige class archetypes, the prerequisites presented in the archetype replace those of the original class.
The psi-hunter does not hunt psionic monsters like a phrenic slayer might: they hunt psionic individuals. Possessing a deep-seated fear and distrust of psionics and those who can use them, psi-hunters hone their mental techniques to keep psionicists out of their minds. Although not always evil, psi-hunters tend to not be good-aligned.
Alignment: Any.
HD: d10
Requirements[]
To qualify to become a psi-hunter, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.
- Base Attack Bonus: +4.
- Skills: Knowledge (psionics) 1 rank.
- Feats: Skill Focus (survival).
- Special: Cannot possess a power point pool.
Additionally, a character with the Track class feature does not need to have the Skill Focus (Survival) feat to become Psi-Hunter.
Class Skills: The psi-hunter’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Bluff (Cha), Knowledge (psionics) (Int), Perception (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), and Survival (Wis).
Skill Points at Each Level: 4 + Int modifier.
Class Features[]
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +1 | +0 | +0 | +1 | Favored Enemy +2, enemy sense |
| 2nd | +2 | +0 | +0 | +1 | Brain nausea (sickened) |
| 3rd | +3 | +1 | +1 | +2 | Lucid buffer (+2) |
| 4th | +4 | +1 | +1 | +2 | Favored enemy +4 |
| 5th | +5 | +1 | +1 | +3 | Power resistance |
| 6th | +6 | +2 | +2 | +3 | Brain nausea (nauseated), cerebral blind |
| 7th | +7 | +2 | +2 | +4 | Favored enemy +6 |
| 8th | +8 | +2 | +2 | +4 | Breach power resistance, lucid buffer (+4) |
| 9th | +9 | +3 | +3 | +5 | Cerebral immunity |
| 10th | +10 | +3 | +3 | +5 | Brain nausea (stunned), Favored enemy +8, rebound attack |
All the following are class features of the psi-hunter prestige class.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency[]
Psi-hunters are proficient with all simple and martial weapons and with all types of armor.
Favored Enemy (Ex)[]
When she enters the class, a psi-hunter formally declares all Humanoid enemies with the (psionic) subtype as the enemy she detests above all others. Due to her extensive study of her foes and training in the proper techniques for combating them, she gains a +2 bonus on Bluff, Perception, Sense Motive, and Survival checks when using these skills against her favored enemy.
Likewise, she gets a +2 bonus on attack rolls and weapon damage rolls against creatures of this kind.
These bonuses for favored enemies only work if the creature has the psionic subtype.
At 4th level the bonuses increase to +4, at 7th level to +6, and at 10th level to +8.
Enemy Sense (Su)[]
A psi-hunter can sense the presence of her favored enemy within 60 feet of herself, even if they are hidden by darkness or walls, but she cannot discern their exact location.
Brain Nausea (Su)[]
A psi-hunter of 2nd level or higher has developed an innate backlash effect when her favored enemy targets her with mind-affecting effects. Any time the psi-hunter makes a successful save against a mind-affecting effect from her favored enemy and has psionic focus, the favored enemy must make a successful Will save (DC 10 + ½ slayer level + Wisdom modifier) or be sickened for a number of rounds equal to the psi-hunter’s Wisdom modifier. At 6th level, the source is instead nauseated on a failed save. At 10th level, the source is stunned for one round on a failed save.
Lucid Buffer (Ex)[]
At 3rd level, a psi-hunter becomes especially skilled at resisting mental attacks. She gains a +2 competence bonus on saving throws against all compulsions and mind-affecting effects. This ability is active even if the psi-hunter is unconscious, stunned, or otherwise helpless. This bonus increases to +4 at 8th level.
Power Resistance (Su)[]
Upon achieving 5th level, a psi-hunter’s mind has learned how to protect not only against mind-affecting effects, but against varied forms of psionic attacks from her favored enemy. The psi-hunter gains power resistance equal to 13 + her class level against effects from her favored enemy.
Cerebral Blind (Su)[]
After reaching 6th level, a psi-hunter is protected from all devices, powers, and spells that reveal location. This ability protects against information gathering by clairsentience powers or effects that reveal location.
The ability even foils bend reality, limited wish, miracle, reality revision, and wish when they are used to gain information about the psi-hunter’s location (however, metafaculty can pierce this protective barrier). In the case of remote viewing or scrying that scans an area a psi-hunter is in, the effect works, but the psi-hunter simply isn’t detected. Remote viewing or scrying attempts that are targeted specifically at a psi-hunter do not work. This ability is active as long as the psi-hunter is not unconscious.
Dispel Psionics (Ps)[]
At 8th level, the psi-hunter learns to negate her enemies abilities outright. She can use the power dispel psionics as a psi-like ability a number of times per day equal to her Wisdom modifier with a manifester level equal to her class level.
Cerebral Immunity (Su)[]
On reaching 9th level, a psi-hunter gains protection from all devices, powers, and spells that influence the mind. This ability grants her a +10 resistance bonus against almost all mind-affecting powers and effects (though the psi-hunter can selectively allow powers or spells to affect her). The ability even foils bend reality, limited wish, miracle, reality revision, and wish when they are used to mentally influence a psi-hunter. This ability is active as long as the psi-hunter is not unconscious.
Dispel Psionics (Area) (Ps)[]
At 10th level, the psi-hunter can use her dispel psionics ability to effect an entire area, as if she had manifested the augmented Area Dispel version.