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Matter Agitation

Psychokinesis

Level

Chaos 2 [+], Psion/Wilder 1 [–]

Display

Auditory and material

Mft. Time

Standard action

Range

Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)

Area

2 sq. ft. of surface area of an object or creature

Duration

Concentration, up to 1 min./level

Save

None

PR

Yes

Cost

3 or 1

Source

XPH, 114

Published

April 2004

You can excite the structure of a nonpsionic, nonmagical object, heating it to the point of combustion over time. The agitation grows more intense in the second and third rounds after you manifest the power, as described below.

1st Round

Readily flammable material (paper, dry grass, tinder, torches) ignites. Skin reddens (1 point of damage).

2nd Round

Wood smolders and smokes, metal becomes hot to the touch, skin blisters (1d4 points of damage), hair smolders, paint shrivels, water boils.

3rd and Subsequent Rounds

Wood ignites, metal scorches (1d4 points of damage for those holding metallic objects). Skin burns and hair ignites (1d6 points of damage), lead melts.