WEAPON FINESSE [GENERAL]
You are especially skilled at using weapons that can benefit as much
from Dexterity as from Strength.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1.
Benefit: With a light weapon, rapier, whip, or spiked chain made
for a creature of your size category, you may use your Dexterity
modifier instead of your Strength modifier on attack rolls. If you
carry a shield, its armor check penalty applies to your attack rolls.
Special: A fighter may select Weapon Finesse as one of his
fighter bonus feats (see page 38).
Natural weapons are always considered light weapons.

PSIONIC MEDITATION [PSIONIC]
You can focus your mind faster than normal, even under
duress.
Prerequisite: Wis 13, Concentration 7 ranks.
Benefit: You can take a move action to become psionically
focused (see the Concentration skill description,
page 37).
Normal: A character without this feat must take a fullround
action to become psionically focused.

EXOTIC WEAPON PROFICIENCY [GENERAL]
Choose a type of exotic weapon, such as dire flail or shuriken (see
Table 7–5: Weapons, page 116, for a list of exotic weapons). You
understand how to use that type of exotic weapon in combat.
Prerequisite: Base attack bonus +1 (plus Str 13 for bastard sword
or dwarven waraxe).
Benefit: You make attack rolls with the weapon normally.
Normal: A character who uses a weapon with which he or she is
not proficient takes a –4 penalty on attack rolls.
Special: You can gain Exotic Weapon Proficiency multiple times.
Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new type of exotic
weapon. Proficiency with the bastard sword or the dwarven waraxe
has an additional prerequisite of Str 13.
A fighter may select Exotic Weapon Proficiency as one of his
fighter bonus feats (see page 38)

STAND STILL [GENERAL]
You can prevent foes from fl eeing or closing.
Prerequisite: Str 13.
Benefi t: When a foe’s movement out of a square you
threaten grants you an attack of opportunity, you can give
up that attack and instead attempt to stop your foe in his
tracks. Make your attack of opportunity normally. If you hit
your foe, he must succeed on a Refl ex save against a DC of
10 + your damage roll (the opponent does not actually take
damage), or immediately halt as if he had used up his move
actions for the round.
Since you use the Stand Still feat in place of your attack of
opportunity, you can do so only a number of times per round
equal to the number of times per round you could make an
attack of opportunity (normally just one).
Normal: Attacks of opportunity cannot halt your foes in
their tracks.

COMBAT REFLEXES [GENERAL]
You can respond quickly and repeatedly to opponents who let their
defenses down.
Benefit: When foes leave themselves open, you may make a
number of additional attacks of opportunity equal to your Dexterity
bonus. For example, a fighter with a Dexterity of 15 can make a total
of three attacks of opportunity in 1 round—the one attack of
opportunity any character is entitled to, plus two more because of
his +2 Dexterity bonus. If four goblins move out of the character’s
threatened squares, he can make one attack of opportunity each
against three of the four. You can still make only one attack of
opportunity per opportunity.
With this feat, you may also make attacks of opportunity while
flat-footed.
Normal: A character without this feat can make only one attack
of opportunity per round and can’t make attacks of opportunity
while flat-footed.
Special: The Combat Reflexes feat does not allow a rogue to use
her opportunist ability (see page 51) more than once per round.
A fighter may select Combat Reflexes as one of his fighter bonus
feats (see page 38)
A monk may select Combat Reflexes as a bonus feat at 2nd level.

Thicken Skin
Psychometabolism
Level: Egoist 1, psychic warrior 1
Display: Material and olfactory
Manifesting Time: 1 standard
action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 10 min./level
Power Points: 1
Your skin or natural armor thickens
and spreads across your body, providing
a +1 enhancement bonus to your
Armor Class.
Augment: You can augment this
power in one or both of the following
ways.
1. For every 3 additional power
points you spend, the enhancement
bonus increases by 1.
2. If you spend 6 additional power
points, you can manifest this power as
a swift action.

DEADEN BLOW
Metacreativity
Level: Guardian 1, lurk 1, psychic
warrior 1
Display: Material
Manifesting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One weapon
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Will negates; see text
Power Resistance: Yes; see text
Power Points: 3
Ectoplasm issues forth from your fingertips,
sheathing the weapon you touch in a rubbery
gray cocoon.
A single manufactured weapon is
sheathed in rubbery ectoplasm. The
ectoplasmic sheath transforms the
damage dealt by the weapon from lethal
to nonlethal damage. Unattended
weapons or weapons in your possession
are automatically sheathed.
If you manifest this power on an
attended weapon, the possessor of the
weapon is allowed a Will saving throw
to resist the attempt.
Augment: If you spend 2 additional
power points, this power can affect a
natural weapon. (The weapon is considered
to be attended, which means
that its possessor is allowed a save.)

Inflict Pain
Telepathy [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Psion/wilder 2
Display: Mental
Manifesting Time: 1 standard
action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Will partial; see text
Power Resistance: Yes
Power Points: 3
You telepathically stab the mind of
your foe, causing horrible agony. The
subject suffers wracking pain that
imposes a –4 penalty on attack rolls,
skill checks, and ability checks. If the
target makes its save, it takes only a
–2 penalty.
Augment: For every 2 additional
power points you spend, this power’s
save DC increases by 1, and the power
can affect an additional target. Any
additional target cannot be more
than 15 feet from another target of
the power.

Recall Agony
Clairsentience [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Psion/wilder 2
Display: Material
Manifesting Time: 1 standard
action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./
level)
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will half
Power Resistance: Yes
Power Points: 3
The fabric of time parts to your will, revealing
wounds your foe has received
in the past (or has yet to receive). That
foe takes 2d6 points of damage as the
past (or future) impinges briefl y on
the present.
Augment: For every additional
power point you spend, this power’s
damage increases by 1d6 points. For
each extra 2d6 points of damage, this
power’s save DC increases by 1.

Empathic Transfer, Hostile
Telepathy [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Telepath 3, psychic warrior 3
Display: Auditory and material
Manifesting Time: 1 standard
action
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will half
Power Resistance: Yes
Power Points: 5
You transfer your hurt to another.
When you manifest this power and
then make a successful touch attack,
you can transfer 50 points of damage
(or less, if you choose) from yourself
to the touched creature. You immediately
regain hit points equal to
the amount of damage you transfer.
You cannot use this power to gain
hit points in excess of your full normal
total. The transferred damage is
empathic in nature, so powers and
abilities the subject may have such as
damage reduction and regeneration
do not lessen or change this damage.
The damage transferred by this power
has no type, so even if the subject has
immunity to the type of damage you
originally took, the transfer occurs
normally and deals hit point damage
to the subject.
Augment: You can augment this
power in one or both of the following
ways.
1. For every additional power point
you spend, you can transfer an additional
10 points of damage (maximum
90 points per manifestation).
2. If you spend 6 additional power
points, this power affects all creatures
in a 20-foot-radius spread centered
on you.

STEADFAST BOOTS
Price (Item Level): 1,400 gp (5th)
Body Slot: Feet
Caster Level: 3rd
Aura: Faint; (DC 16) transmutation
Activation: —
Weight: 1 lb.
These thick, heavy boots are reinforced with
iron along the sole.
Steadfast boots help keep you on your feet.
You gain a +4 bonus on checks made
to avoid being bull rushed, overrun, or
tripped.
Furthermore, as long as you carry a
two-handed weapon, you are treated as if
you had readied that weapon against any
creature that charges you (and thus it deals
double damage if your attack is success-
ful), even if the weapon can’t normally be
set against a charge.
Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item,
bull’s strength.
Cost to Create: 700 gp, 56 XP, 2 days.

VANGUARD TREADS
Price (Item Level): 3,100 gp (8th)
Body Slot: Feet
Caster Level: 3rd
Aura: Faint; (DC 16) transmutation
Activation: —
Weight: 2 lb.
These massive boots have spiked, treaded soles
and look large enough to fi t a heavily armored
ogre. A row of inset amethysts runs around
the top cuff.
Vanguard treads provide you with superior
traction and stability, which provides the
following effects:
• You can move through diffi cult terrain
(such as rubble, undergrowth,
steep slopes, stairs, or snow) at normal
speed and without suffering any other
impairment.
• You are unaffected by slippery ice, wet
stones, or other surfaces where traction
is a problem.
• You gain a +8 bonus on attempts to
resist bull rushes and a +4 bonus on
grapple checks to resist a grapple
attempt if that grapple would move you
into another square.
Areas that have been magically manipulated
to impede movement (such as by an
entangle spell) still affect you, as do water,
quicksand, and other nonsolid surfaces.
You still have to slow down for narrow
paths requiring Balance checks and for
surfaces steep enough to require Climb
checks.
If the terrain deals damage (such as the
burning ground on the Elemental Plane
of Fire), you still take that damage.
The massive spikes and treads on the
soles of vanguard treads leave a distinctive
trail. Anyone following you gains a
+10 circumstance bonus on Survival and
Search checks made to track you.
Lore: Ancient giants made the fi rst
vanguard treads to aid their scouts in
navigating diffi cult terrain and hazards
(Knowledge [arcana] DC 15).
Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item,
spider climb.
Cost to Create: 1,550 gp, 124 XP, 4 days.