Dreamer (3.5e Class)

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Dreamer

The plane of dreams is a ever-shifting place, unreal and yet somehow there. Shaped by a billion minds, it is a potent source of psionic power. Every so often, someone is born with the talent to make their dreams into reality. They are the dreamers.

Making a Dreamer

Abilities: Dreamers psionic powers are Charisma based, allowing them to assert control over wild dream energy. Constitution is important for anyone seeking battle, and Dexterity covers their lack of heavy armor. Wisdom has its uses in skills, and Intelligence to gain more skills. Strength is rarely used.

Races: Any race capable of dreaming. As a result, elves cannot become dreamers. They do not know the experience of the dream.

Alignment: Any.

Starting Gold: 5d4×10 gp (125 gp).

Starting Age: As rogue.

Table: The Dreamer

Hit Die: d6

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special	Power Points/Day	Powers Known	Maximum Power Level Known
		Fort	Ref	Will
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2	Akashic Records, Sleep Touch	2	3	1st
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3	Efficient Rest, Read Dream (Detect Thoughts)	6	4	1st
3rd	+1	+1	+1	+3	Dreamcrafting	11	5	2nd
4th	+2	+1	+1	+4	Advanced Learning	17	6	2nd
5th	+2	+1	+1	+4	Instant Nap, Sleepwalk	25	7	3rd
6th	+3	+2	+2	+5	Read Dream (Divination)	35	8	3rd
7th	+3	+2	+2	+5	Psionic Dream/Nightmare	46	9	4th
8th	+4	+2	+2	+6	Advanced Learning	58	10	4th
9th	+4	+3	+3	+6	Mirror Mind	72	11	5th
10th	+5	+3	+3	+7	Dreamborn, Read Dream (Suggestion)	88	12	5th
11th	+5	+3	+3	+7	Reality Rejection	106	13	6th
12th	+6	+4	+4	+8	Advanced Learning	126	14	6th
13th	+6	+4	+4	+8	Waking Dream	147	15	7th
14th	+7	+4	+4	+9	Read Dream (Eternal Sleep)	170	16	7th
15th	+7	+5	+5	+9	Greater Sleepwalk	195	17	8th
16th	+8	+5	+5	+10	Advanced Learning	221	18	8th
17th	+8	+5	+5	+10	Evershifting Mind	250	19	9th
18th	+9	+6	+6	+11	Read Dream (Embed Mind)	280	20	9th
19th	+9	+6	+6	+11	Fantasia Fortress	311	21	9th
20th	+10	+6	+6	+12	Advanced Learning, Eternal Dreamer	343	22	9th
Class Skills (6 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) Autohypnosis (Wis), Bluff (Cha), Concentration (Con), Control Shape (Wis), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Disguise (Cha), Knowledge (all knowledges taken separately) (Int), Psicraft (Int), Profession (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis).

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the dreamer.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Dreamers are proficient with all simple weapons and light armor (but not shields).

Power Points/Day: A dreamer’s ability to manifest powers is limited by the power points she has available. Her base daily allotment of power points is given on Table: Dreamer. In addition, she receives bonus power points per day if she has a high Charisma score (see Table: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Power Points). Her race may also provide bonus power points per day, as may certain feats and items.

Powers Known: A dreamer manifests powers, which are drawn from the dreamer power list. A dream knows 2 powers + one power per class level. Unlike a psion, a dreamer may switch out its powers known each day when her power points refresh from the dreamer power list. A dreamer can make use of the Expanded Knowledge feat to add to its class list, but can only select mind-affecting powers with the feat. It can select any power through its Advanced Learning class ability. A dreamer can manifest any power that has a power point cost equal to or lower than her manifester level. The total number of powers a dreamer can manifest in a day is limited only by her daily power points.

A dreamer simply knows her powers; they are ingrained in her mind. She does not need to prepare them (in the way that some spellcasters prepare their spells), though she must get a good night’s sleep each day to regain all her spent power points. The Difficulty Class for saving throws against wilder powers is 10 + the power’s level + the dreamer's Charisma modifier. Dreamers choose their powers from the following list:

1st—astral construct, call to mind, conceal thoughts, defensive precognition, deja vu, demoralize, detect psionics, disable, distract, eidetic lock^CPsi, empathy, empty mind, guarded sleep^UP, know direction and location, mindlink, mind vault^Hyper, offensive precognition, offensive prescience, precognition, psionic daze, psionic sleep^Hyper, sense link, suppress compulsion^Hyper, telempathic projection

2nd—brain lock, cloud mind, detect hostile intent, disrupting lash^UP, dream prison^Hyper, ego whip, feat leech, forced sense link, id insinuation, inflict pain, induce pleasure^UP, mass missive, mental disruption, object reading, psionic minor creation, read thoughts, recall agony, sensitivity to psychic impressions, sensory gloom^CPsi, serenity^CPsi, share pain, sustenance, thought shield

3rd—cerebral phantasm^CPsi, danger sense, dispel psionics, evade burst, false sensory input, forced share pain, mental barrier, mental turmoil^CPsi, mind puncture, mind trap, psionic blast, psionic modify memory, psionic suggestion, psychic containment^CPsi, solicit psicrystal, touchsight

4th—aura sight, correspond, death urge, detect remote viewing, empathic feedback, head trip^Hyper, intellect feast^UP, intellect fortress, mindwipe, personality parasite, power leech, prophetic dream, psionic divination, psionic phantasmal killer^Hyper, remote viewing, schism, sensorineural cascade^Hyper

5th—bliss^UP, catapsi, dream travel, incarnate, leech field, psionic major creation, mind probe, persistent correspond^Hyper, psionic true seeing, power resistance, psychic crush, psychotic break^CPsi, shatter mind blank, suppress schism^CPsi, tower of iron will, unleash idbeast^Hyper

6th—aura alteration, co-opt concentration, crownfire^Hyper, greater precognition, mass cloud mind, mind switch, remote view trap, suspend life

7th—dream of the real^Hyper, dream's fatal embrace^Hyper, insanity, personal mind blank, psionic moment of prescience

8th—astral seed (reborn on Plane of Dreams), bend reality, erase presence^Hyper, psionic mind blank, recall death, shadow body

9th—affinity field, annihilate mind barriers, apopsi, apopsic hemorrhage^Hyper, genesis, hypercognition, id cascade^Hyper, intellect bomb^CPsi, microcosm, mind seed, pain affinity field^CPsi, reality revision, true creation

Maximum Power Level Known: This column determines the highest level power he can learn at this level.

To learn or manifest a power, a dreamer must have a Charisma score of at least 10 + the power’s level.

Akashic Records: The dreamer's mind passes into the plane of dreams, where all minds drift. Aware of her surroundings, she can draw information from the minds of the entire universe, shifting through the cloudy disjointed thoughts. She may make all Knowledge checks untrained and gains half her class level as a bonus to all Knowledge checks.

Sleep Touch (Su): With a touch the dreamer channels the plane of dreams, causing sleepiness in her target. With a standard action touch attack you deal 1d6 points of nonlethal damage to the target per class level. If you halve the damage the damage becomes lethal, as parts of their body become unreal and wink out of existence. If the opponent has 50% or less hp remaining, you can expend your psionic focus to deal your sleep touch attack, plus force a Will save DC 10 + 1/2 HD + Charisma or fall asleep. The latter part is a mind-affecting effect. A successful save grants immunity to the sleep effect for that creature for 24 hours.

Efficient Rest (Ex): At 2nd level, a dreamer is able to draw extra energy from a good night's sleep. You recover your class level in ability damage, and your class level squared in hp damage when you rest. This only applies when actually resting for 8 hours and restoring power points, and not any other ability (such as Instant Nap).

Read Dream: A dreamer can touch a sleeping creature and perform various actions. Though sleeping, the creature is not considered helpless against these abilities. Some of these abilities can be used on allies, or even yourself (once you have Sleepwalk). Each ability is a standard action and any saving throws are DC 10 + 1/2 HD + Charisma.

Detect Thoughts (Ps): At 2nd level you duplicate the effects of detect thoughts, but with a duration of concentration. You can also go into more detail, asking questions as if they were awake. If they do not wish to answer, they will continue to not answer in their mind but may betray their thoughts to the detect thoughts effect. When the creature wakes, they have no memory of being asked questions, treating it as if it were a dream. This allows a Will save to negate, and a successful save renders them immune until their next sleep.

Divination (Ps): At 6th level you can read the dreams of others, or even yourself, and duplicate the effect of commune once per person per rest.

Suggestion (Ps): At 10th level, you can leave the effect of suggestion in a sleeping target. The suggestion takes effect when they wake up, and they will have no memory of being affected by suggestion, treating it as if it were a dream. This allows a Will save to negate, and a successful save renders them immune until their next sleep.

Eternal Sleep (Ps): At 14th level you can make a currently sleeping creature fall into an eternal slumber. The creature makes a Will save to negate. If they fail, nothing will wake them up short of limited wish, wish, miracle, bend reality, or reality revision. The creature will neither need to eat, sleep, or breath, and will not age. They are in perfect status until the effect is broken. Waking Dream cannot be used in conjunction with this ability.

Embed Mind (Ps): At 18th level, you can embed your mind in a single creature (awake or asleep) with a touch attack. The creature makes a Will save to negate. If successful you keep a backup copy of your mind hidden within their own. If you die, the embedded mind will manifest, "possessing" its target creature and being able to speak through it, though not act. If a revival spell of any kind is cast on the creature with the embedded mind, you are revived with no level loss, experience, or gold cost. Willing allies are often the subject to this spell. You may only have one embedded mind at a time.

Dreamcraft (Su): The 3rd level dreamer is capable of imagining items and pulling them from the plane of dreams. As a standard action you may summon up any number of items up to 200 gp x your class level in items per day. The items can be mundane or magical, but they cannot be single use items or items with charges. A +1 sword or a silk rope is fine, but a wand of magic missile, a acid flask, or a belt with 3 charges a day is not. These items are clearly unreal and supernatural, and vanish in 24 hours.

Advanced Learning: At 4th level and every four levels beyond, the dreamer may learn a power not on her dream powers known list and add it to the list. It may be any power level she is able to cast, without restriction.

Instant Nap (Ex): A 5th level dreamer is the master of the power nap. Once per day as a swift action, the dreamer can willingly fall asleep, and recover hp and ability damage as if she took a full 8 hour rest as long as she remains asleep for at least 1 round. She does not restore her power points or is allowed to change out her powers known for the day. She remains asleep until awoken normally. Or, she would if it weren't for sleepwalk.

Sleepwalk (Ex): A 5th level dreamer doesn't let sleep get in her way. A sleeping dreamer is not helpless and can actually stand and take actions. They are less than lucid, and are staggered while asleep, but in this state they are immune to charms and compulsions, pain effects such as symbol of pain, and fear effects.

Psionic Dream/Nightmare (Ps): A 7th level dreamer gains the psionic versions of dream and nightmare, and may cast any combination of the two up to their Charisma modifier per day.

Mirror Mind (Su): A 9th level dreamer who succeeds on a saving throw (or is immune) against a mind-affecting effect rebounds the effect to the originator who must make the save at a -4 penalty. The dreamer is treated as the manifester/caster for the effect if they fail.

Dreamborn: A 10th level dreamer becomes one with the plane of dreams. They gain the dreamborn subtype, as well as its Unreality trait. They have a 20% miss chance against all melee and ranged attacks as they flicker in and out of reality. Effects which work on incorporeality work on this miss chance. They are considered natives to their home plane and the plane of dreams.

Reality Rejection (Ps): A 11th level dreamer can expend her psionic focus to remove effects currently afflicting her, restoring her to her own mental projection of herself. As a standard action the dreamer removes the ability penalty, blindness, confusion, dazing, dazzling, deafening, energy drain, exhausted, fascinated, fatigued, frightened, nauseated, panicked, paralyzed, petrified, shaken, sickened, or stunned conditions from herself. She can take this standard action even if she would normally be denied it (such as by being petrified) as an exception to the rule.

Waking Dream: A 13th level dreamer knows that reality is just another form of dream. Your powers which normally only work on sleeping creatures now work on awake creatures, though they get a +4 bonus on their saves. In addition, your mind-affecting abilities now effect those that are immune, but they gain a +8 bonus on their saves.

Greater Sleepwalk: At 15th level your sleepwalking ability improves. You are no longer staggered.

Evershifting Mind (Su): At 17th level, your mind is always in a dreaming state even while awake. It serves to befuddle those who would investigate your mind. You give off random, false information each round for any effects which would detect, divine, or scry about you. In addition, any mind-affecting effects you fall under have their duration limited to 1 round, immediately curing itself as your mind shifts and molds.

Fantasia Fortress (Ps): A 19th level dreamer can enter the plane of dreams at will. Treat this as a mage's magnificient mansion, though it is the same mansion each time and when unoccupied, it technically doesn't exist. Any items left inside re-appear when creatures re-enter.

Eternal Dreamer: At 20th level, a dreamer transcends and becomes a living dream. She gains the Outsider type with the dreamborn subtype, and counts as her original type when beneficial. She gains DR 10/crystal (such as crystal and deep crystal weapons), and fast healing equal to your Charisma score as your mind pieces itself back together. Finally, your miss chance from the dreamborn subtype now applies against magic attacks.

Epic Dreamer

Table: The Epic Dreamer

Hit Die: d6

Level	Special
21st	Dreamcrafting
22nd	Bonus Feat
23rd
24th	Advanced Learning
25th
26th	Bonus Feat
27th
28th	Advanced Learning
29th
30th	Bonus Feat
6 + Int modifier skill points per level.

Advanced Learning: You continue to gain advanced learning at 24th and every four levels beyond.

Bonus Feats : The epic dreamer gains a bonus feat (selected from the list of epic dreamer bonus feats) every 4 levels after 22nd.

Epic Dreamer Bonus Feat List: PENDING.

Human Dreamer Starting Package

Weapons: Longspear.

Skill Selection: Pick a number of skills equal to 7 + Int modifier.

Skill	Ranks	Ability	Armor Check Penalty
Autohypnosis	4	Wis	—
Bluff	4	Cha	—
Concentration	4	Con	—
Knowledge Local	4	Int	—
Knowledge Psionics	4	Int	—
Psicraft	4	Int	—
Sense Motive	4	Wis	—

Feat: Improved Initiative.

Bonus Feats: Psicrystal Affinity.

Gear: Chain Shirt.

Gold: 20 gp.

Campaign Information

Playing a Dreamer

Religion: A dreamer's religious life has little to do with their class choice. Some care nothing for the gods while others devote themselves to their cause.

Other Classes: Other classes may begrudge the dreamer, for they don't work for their power, it is something they are born and evolve into. In that respect, sorcerers know their pain. To the non-magical or psionic in nature, they may not care. They are just another caster to them.

Combat: You're a caster type with a specialization in dreams. Mind-affecting effects are common, so prepare to handle things which cannot be affected until you get sleepwalking. Your sleep touch is a potent nonlethal weapon, and you gain defensive abilities with Dreamborn and Eternal Dreamer, allowing you to stand and mix it up in close range when you can't blast from afar.

Advancement: Psionic advancing classes are best, especially those which expand your options.

Dreamers in the World

“	It's the stuff dreams are made of.	”
—Leng, Elan Dreamer

Daily Life: Many dreamers suffer from narcolepsy or sleep most of the day out of laziness, enjoyment, or literally getting lost in their own dreams. Some say they start having trouble determining which is the dream, and which is real.

Notables: They say those who fall within the deepest of deep sleeps end up meeting a mysterious figure known as Alice. Whatever you do, do not interact with her, for if you allow her into your dreams, you will never wake again.

Organizations: Dreams do not organize, and their collection is loose at best. They are strongest in Eberron, dealing with the Dreaming Dark.

NPC Reactions: Few care to bother with the difference between a psion and a particularly sleepy psion.

Dreamer Lore

Characters with ranks in Knowledge Psionics can research dreamers to learn more about them. When a character makes a skill check, read or paraphrase the following, including information from lower DCs.

Knowledge Psionics

DC	Result
10	Dreamers are psions with a focus on the world of dreams. They know their entire list of powers.
15	Dreamers are capable of inflicting nonlethal damage with a touch, damage which has been known to knock people out. Some can even pull this on creatures without minds.
20	Powerful dreamers are difficult to injure, for they are not truly there at all. Where they ever real to begin with?
30	Those who reach this level of success can research specific dreamers, their whereabouts, motives, lore about them, and other bits of trivia.

Dreamers in the Game

Adaptation: The unreal nature of the plane of dreams also fits well for the fluff for the plane of shadows.

Sample Encounter: The PC's dreams are haunted by the same figure, which draws them closer and closer to the same location. Within these haunted halls, the truth behind the visions of the eternally sleeping psion may be found.

EL 10: PENDING.

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