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Creed's Codex: Legends of the Psions
Creed's Codex: Legends of the Psions
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The dust storm made it all but impossible to see. The grit in the wind coated your body, your throat dry as parchment. Just as rapidly as the windstorm swirled into existance, it ceased and before you stood the walled stronghold of the psions—Zephyr's Veil. Here, amidst the sands of eternity, ancient scrolls whispered tales of the legendary psion masters—minds so powerful they shaped not just their destiny but the course of history itself. Their psionic prowess is yours to uncover, if you dare.
Creed’s Codex: Legends of the Psions brings new opportunities for adventurers to harness the might of the mind. This tome, rigorously reviewed by experts and playtested for balance, offers a fresh take on psionics for your 5E campaign. With powerful new abilities, intricate lore, and unique mechanics, this book is designed to help your characters stand apart from the rest.
What's Inside:
🔹Groundbreaking Psion Class: Martial class with 11 at-will psychic powers available such as energy transmutation and mind trick, which can be amplified with psi points.
🔹5 Mind-Bending Psion Subclasses: Explore time with the chronostrider, shift between various stances with the psiforge, or explore one of the limits of the mind with one of the other disciplines.
🔹34 Flexible Amplifications: Master your abilities with specializations such as moving allies out of harm's way with your mind as a reaction or gaining the benefits of half cover when you teleport.
🔹10 Inspirational Psion Builds: Class options defined to build your favorite psionic powered character such as Neo, Green Lantern, Jedi, the Grey Knights, and more.
🔹New Fungal Specias: The exochron species is a plant that builds an exoskeleton around itself to explore the world in a humanoid fashion.
🔹New Premonition Background: The chronosentinel apprentice gives you a celestial mentor and the ability to witness things that may come to pass in the future.
🔹42 Amplifying Class Modifications: With three progressively stronger options available for each class, further refine your build with options such as saving your cleric spell slots with high religion checks or increasing the range of your paladin auras.
🔹50 Fresh Feats: Offering eight feat paths, add one such as the apparition assassin, peacemaker, or centered fist on top of your character class to make a truly unique character.
🔹12 Psionic-Themed Spells: Fill the holes in your spell options with chords of chaos dealing damage, healing, or increasing movespeed determined by the dice or symbiotic shelter, seeking refuge inside one of your companions and enhancing their abilities while you hitch a ride.
🔹10 Upgradable Magic Items: Thematic magic items with multiple levels of rarity available to grow in power or be handed out at any tier of play.
🔹18 Captivating Creatures: With lore, tactics, sample encounters & loot, plot hooks, and an ability check interaction provided for the creatures, you have the flexibility you need to include these in your game.
🔹5 Psion Legends: Masters of each of the psion disciplines, these legendary teachers have retreated from everyday affairs, but the details are included for them to reemerge in your game.
🔹4 Powerful Factions: Centers of power with induction quests, membership perks, and all the details you need to include one or more of these in your world.
🔹Rich Lore: The Chronosentinels guard the timeline, but their visions of potential future paths are suddenly blocked by the Obsidian Veil. Zephyr's Veil and the psion legends play an unknown part. Explore the world on the precipice of an unknown event of epic proportions.
🔹No AI Illustrations: Art crafted in partnership with humans outputting masterpieces.
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Back when I played 3.5 picnics left a bad taste in my mouth. But the codex makes me want to give it all a shot again with all of its subclasses.
Thanks, Odon!
Credit is due here to the community. Key was bringing you all in, so we didn't recreate the messes we've seen in the past!
-Brendan
Legends of the Psions is a great resource for players looking for some fun new options at the table. One of the biggest selling points is the new Psion class. The Psion of Creed's Codex is a martial character, with abilities inspired by Jedi and other "psychic soldier" type characters, and plenty of opportunity to customize to fit one's playstyle.
Also included in the book is the new Exochron race, who will give players different bonuses depending on what class they take (almost like a favoured class bonus from Pathfinder, although it is mechanically different).
Feat Paths are also a new feature of the book. These are chains of feats (one feat acts as a prerequisite to the next) that almost act like a second archetype for your character.
If you're on the DM-side of the screen, there's monster stat-blocks with a lot of lore behind them that can help to flesh out Psions in your world.
Creed's Codex also keeps up a high quality of artwork, which was appreciated about Arcane Secrets. Overall, I am very pleased to give this book a place on my gaming shelf.
Thanks, Benjamin! The artists really outdid themselves for the artwork and you all helped bring about some really fun ideas.
The feat paths was a random remark in one of the surveys, and I couldn't be more pleased with how they turned out. You all are amazing!
-Brendan
Arcane Secrets of the Summoners has a lot of material and additions for each class. I have read every subclass and all the features and feats in the book, most of the latter pertaining to the summoners specifically. They are all unique and offer many choices to fit the playstyle anyone may wish. It was a little confusing at first, but with subsequent reads, it all comes together to form a wonderful book of summoners. If you and/or you're playgroup are looking for a true summoner, instead of playing wizards or sorcerers that summon, I highly recommend this entry in Creed's Codex.
Thanks, Mitchell!
Let me know if you have thoughts to add clarity, always love feedback and making the products even better!
-Brendan
I got this off a kickstarter and I am quite pleased with the results, I've read through every subclass, the new race, the feats, and much of the rest of the book. I am quite excited to start using it in my own campaigns. If you're looking for Psionic supplementals for your dnd campaign, this book is a fantastic addition!
Glad you're enjoying it, Mitchell!
Thanks for the early support. Love to hear how it fairs compared to the summoner in your mind one of these days!
-Brendan
This is a truly different addition to the almost 50 year legacy of D&D (actually Advanced D&D technically, by no reason to quibble over WotC/Hasbro mangled terminology). On the one hand the abilities evidenced in the writing and the careful crafting of the classes and subclasses is first rate and the summoner's created thereby are something lacking this type of depth in the WotC worlds, or they are lacking completely. On the other hand, that said, it is not necessarily an easy "pick up" and even more difficult if trying to fit into a non-WotC world. Depending on the design of the magic system, planes, how summonings work or DON'T in a world, the outcome may be different from that envisions in the Rules As Written (RAW). But on the gripping hand, this is not to say that it is not worth the trouble to thoroughly read the RAW and see what adaptation(s) might be required or simply be wise in a home-brew world. But, this is the nature of all materials that might be applied to a home-brew world/campaign.
Overall, the material is extremely well done and has a strong and unique flavor that adds to the D&D universe very well. Whether you use it as RAW or a starting point which needs modification to work with your home-brew campaigns it is a worthy addition
Thanks, Dan!
Happy to hear you enjoyed the implementation. Definitely a passion of love, and nothing makes me happier than hearing that it's appreciated!
-Brendan
And now I have One and it's amazing
That was pretty much my exact thought process when I embarked down the road of building the summoner!
-Brendan
Class and subclasses are very well written with tons of options, personal favorites are colossus and hivemind
Thanks, Dylan! Colossus was the first one I built. Who doesn't want a giant companion?!
-Brendan
This book has it all! New skills, spells, obviously class, and is incredibly well put together. I have the PDF and can't wait to get my hands on the physical copy. One of the first 3rd party books I bought for 5e and I am hooked.
Thanks, Daniel!
Stoked you're enjoying it! You certainly helped root out any issues with it during the playtesting after the Kickstarter campaign!
-Brendan
The summoners is a great addition to the 5e 3rd party content! Knight Vision Creative dots a great job reviewing and testing content and details from fan submitted content.
Thanks, Justin! You all have such amazing ideas. Inspiration is just a discord message away!
-Brendan
The class alone has a bunch of options for building, but then the subclasses crank it to 11. On top of that, the new spells feats and items are a lot of fun.
Thanks, Bones!
I'm super stoked to see the additional summoner subclass come to life in the Awakened Mind add-on from our last campaign!
-Brendan