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Creed’s Codex: Legends of the Psionics (D&D 5E)

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The highly anticipated standalone sequel adds a psionic class, feats, magic items, spells, lore & more for your D&D 5E games!
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Here’s What’s Inside

Welcome to Creed’s Codex: Legends of the Psionics for D&D 5E! This book is a standalone sequel to my well-received previous book, Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners. Continuing the tradition, Creed shares the knowledge he has gathered, exploring psionics and the materials he found at their enigmatic stronghold, Zephyr’s Veil. 

A collaborative effort with my beloved community, each piece of content has been critiqued, playtested, and balanced to perfection, ensuring an extraordinary adventure awaits!

Psionic Class – Unleash the Power Within

Utilizing the strength of your mind to overcome obstacles before you, the psionic excels engaging in ferocious combat as well as putting their cerebral muscles to work unraveling complex mysteries.

  • Martial class with features providing increased durability, offensive might, and excellent utility.
  • At-will abilities that can be empowered with psi points.
  • Perform contested checks as you attempt to manipulate others.
  • Modular design provides streamlined character customization to realize your unique character concept.
  • 3 Unique subclasses provide distinct playstyles: AramamentClairsentience, and Psychoportation.
Armament Subclass Example
Looking for more? All the latest content including the product preview, alpha psionic class, and more are available in Discord. I love feedback, so if you have some, let me know!
Feats – Options For All Characters

The feat mechanic provides a perfect opportunity to provide exceptional flavor and mechanics to better fit your playstyle. This supplement will provide many feats – there’s a choice for every adventurer. 

In addition, we’ve utilized the feat mechanic to create a series of chained feats with interconnected abilities that build upon each other to produce a paragon path. 

  • All paragon paths are open to all classes
  • Paragon feats provide a +1 ASI in addition to interconnected features.
  • The five chained feats get progressively stronger.
  • There is a mix of combat and non-combat-focused paths.
Elemental Conduit and Peacemaker Paragon Paths

Perhaps you are a monk pursuing the Elemental Conduit paragon path to conquer lightning damage.  Maybe you decide your paladin wants to go the peacemaker route to facilitate resolutions on and off the battlefield. Paragon paths make room for an additional layer of specialization without adding a new mechanic.

Adventure Worthy Relics
Magic Items – Adventure Worthy Relics

A trove of magic items awaits. Artifacts handcrafted for every type of adventure – these will be worth the quest.

  • Several magic items usable by all, but which grow in power in the hands of a psionic.
  • Consumable items with varying degrees of strength.
  • Uncommon to legendary variants for many of the items to allow them to grow with the players or provide options at every tier of play.
  • Suggested prices are provided for each magic item.
Ancestral Shield – Helm of Synaptic Acceleration – Psi Bracers of Focus – Staff of the Dinosaur Warden
Spells – Shape Reality With Sorcery

Explore a carefully balanced selection of spells that offer a blend of offensive, defensive, and utility options. 

  • Add additional character and personalization to your spellcaster with these new spell options.
  • Cantrips that lack progressive strength increases, such as mage hand and shillelagh, now grow in power along with their counterparts.
  • Spells have been designed to fulfill requests from the community for holes within the current options.
  • Flavor text is provided with each spell highlighting usage ideas, design considerations, or ability combinations through descriptive, entertaining stories.
Atrophy – Blinding Dart – Chords of Chaos – Hammers of Healing – Mage Hand – Shillelagh
Playable Race – Exochrons Look For Answers

Uncover the mysteries of the frail yet resilient exochrons—a race that constructs powerful exoskeletons to protect themselves. The exochrons, or farwalkers as they are often referred to, pursue knowledge across the planes.

  • The features for the Exochrons change based on the class chosen.
  • Exochrons have progressive benefits, but two hindrances to overcome.
  • Expert engineers, the exochrons continually work to improve their exoskeleton.
Tiers

PDF $20

This tier includes:

  • Creed’s Codex: Legends of the Psionics PDF
  • Playtest Material will be available shortly after the campaign ends
  • Access to Playtest Sessions run by Knight Vision Creative
  • Early Release Content will be shared with backers as sections are finalized
  • Stretch Goals
PDF $20

Hardcover $50

This tier includes:

  • Creed’s Codex: Legends of the Psionics Hardcover
  • Playtest Material will be available shortly after the campaign ends
  • Access to Playtest Sessions run by Knight Vision Creative
  • Early Release Content will be shared with backers as sections are finalized
  • Stretch Goals
Hardcover $50

Hardcover + PDF + Extras $50

Kickstarter exclusive, this tier includes:

  • Creed’s Codex: Legends of the Psionics Hardcover
  • Creed’s Codex: Legends of the Psionics PDF
  • Playtest Material will be available shortly after the campaign ends
  • Access to Playtest Sessions run by Knight Vision Creative
  • Early Release Content will be shared with backers as sections are finalized
  • Digital Art Pack – A compilation of our artwork showcasing rough drafts through the final renderings of our most iconic illustrations.
  • Digital Tokens – Somewhere between 15 and 100 tokens for your digital games.
  • Digital Wallpapers – A curated selection of our finest artwork created to imbue your machine with unspeakable awesomeness. Available in portrait and landscape for both 1080p and 4K.
  • Stretch Goals
Hardcover + PDF + Extras $50
Project Timeline

The estimated project timeline will see all PDFs delivered in December 2023 except the Psionic Add-On. This one will be built while the Hardcover books are manufactured and delivered in Q2 of 2024. 

Add-Ons – Expand the Party

These add-on items can be added to any pledge.

$10 Psionic Campaign Add-On PDF

This add-on is still being defined by the backers here

We will design the cover, artwork, and content together!

At present it looks like it will be weighted with content in this order:

  • Subclasses
  • Feats
  • Character Races
  • Spells
  • Magic Items

$10 Martial & Spellcaster NPCs & Villains PDF

Power Bard – Mantle of Power

Martial & Spellcaster NPCs & Villains includes

  • 24 stat-blocks ranging from CR 1/2 to CR 15
  • 3 legendary creatures with lairs, followers, and legendary actions
  • Lore for each creature with suggested ability checks
  • Tactical descriptions for each creature providing inspiration for how they approach an encounter
  • 70+ plot hooks to introduce the npcs, provide side quest ideas, or general assistance in populating the world
  • 24 detailed skill and roleplaying encounters providing ability checks, recommended DCs, failure options, and successful conclusions
  • 95+ combat encounters providing suggested party level, difficulty, monster breakdown, and loot
  • 7 magic items
  • Sidebar suggestions for variations, modifying the rules, and quickly adjusting the CR of npcs
  • Detailed descriptions of the npcs

$30 Creed’s Codex: Legends of the Psionics Shard Tabletop VTT

Creed’s Codex: Legends of the Psionics will be ported into Shard Tabletop VTT.  The shard team did a fantastic job porting Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners, and we can’t wait to have this content added as well. The class will be available directly in the character builder.

Creed’s Codex: Legends of the Psionics – Shard Tabletop

$50 Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners Hardcover + PDF

*Previously available in the Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners Campaign

Evolutionist Subclass – Master of the Eidolon

Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners includes:

  • Summoning class
  • 8 subclasses, including a reimagined Eidolon for 5E
  • 4 additional invocations
  • 13 feats
  • 38 spells and the new enhanced upcasting mechanic
  • 11 new armor and weapon options
  • Symbiotic equipment that grows in power alongside your character
  • Armor, weapon, and symbiotic equipment crafting rules
  • 1 Magic Item
  • 3 Statblocks
  • The legendary power of convergence – empower your abilities, but
    risk triggering a cataclysmic event!

The standalone Creed’sCodex PDF is also available for $20.

$10 Magic Items & Exotic Equipment PDF

*Previously available in the Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners Campaign

Armor of Renewal | Armor of Exsanguination | Armor of the Golden Squirrel

Magic Items & Exotic Equipment includes:

  • 29 magic Items including: armor, rings, staffs, weapons, and wonderous magical items with suggested prices
  • 24 magic item rarity variations
  • 11 exotic equipment items
  • Exotic equipment crafting rules
  • 3 feats

$10 Summoner NPCs, Villains, & Their Summons PDF

*Previously available in the Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners Campaign

Archon Summoner

Summoner NPCs, Villains, & Their Summons Includes:

  • 27 stat-blocks ranging from CR 1/2 to CR 25
  • 10 summoner stat-blocks, including one named villain Sazor the Decayer
  • 3 new skeletons
  • Lore for each creature with suggested ability checks
  • Tactical descriptions for each creature providing inspiration for how they approach an encounter
  • 40+ plot hooks for the creatures to provide side quest ideas, descriptive flavor, or general assistance in populating the world
  • 15+ detailed skill and roleplaying encounters providing ability checks, recommended DCs, failure options, and successful conclusions
  • 60+ combat encounters providing suggested party level, difficulty, monster breakdown, and loot
  • Sidebar suggestions for variations, modifying the rules, and quickly adjusting the CR of creatures
  • Detailed descriptions of the creatures

$10 Coldforge Gauntlet PDF

*Previously available in the Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners Campaign

Coldforge Gauntlet – The Platform Arena Layout

Coldforge Gauntlet includes:

  • A replayable arena for levels 1-20
  • 28 new creature stat-blocks
  • 8 prebuilt opponent parties
  • 11 spells
  • 2 magic item
  • Modularly designed encounters
  • 3 different challenge templates provided
  • Roll tables provided to determine the competition
  • 6 battlemaps formatted for Roll20, Foundry, Fantasy Grounds, Grid, and Gridless
  • 6 creature tokens
  • Lore for each creature
  • 30+ plot hooks to introduce future adventures
  • Read-aloud text and sidebars with suggested variations
  • Rules to scale the encounter to any size and level between 1 and 20, even split-level parties

$10 Prison Break PDF

The players are hired to escort Jim to the prison. When Norman breaks in and Jim breaks out, both looking for the Tome of Demonology, the players are caught in the middle and will need to think quickly in order to survive the undead onslaught.

*Previously available in the Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners Campaign

Prison Break – The Prison Map Layout

Prison Break includes:

  • An adventure for 3rd, 7th, or 11th level characters with instructions to modify to your players’ level
  • 18 stat-blocks
  • 5 spells
  • 1 magic item
  • 1 battlemap formatted for Roll20, Foundry, Fantasy Grounds, Grid, and Gridless
  • 6 creature tokens
  • Lore for each creature
  • Tactical descriptions for each creature providing inspiration for how they approach this adventure
  • 40+ plot hooks to introduce npcs, provide side quest ideas, or general assistance in populating the world
  • Read-aloud text and sidebars with variations
  • Detailed descriptions of the npcs
Stretch Goals – Endless Potential

As we unlock additional stretch goals, I will continue to add more content to the book. My projects are community driven. I love to build content you’d love to have. Please let me know what you’d like to see in this survey!

Locked Stretch Goals
Unlocked Stretch Goals

In addition to stretch goals, we also have community goals with expanding our Discord server. For every milestone we hit, we’ll add an additional subclass to the book.

Discord Current Count: 615🔥

Discord – Social Stretch Goal

Discord has become the primary way we communicate with our community, and we’d love for you to jump in! Share with your community! Let’s fill our server up with amazing people who share our passion and unlock more subclasses while we are at it!

  • Alpha content is posted daily for feedback.
  • Concept artwork through final renderings posted for community review and suggestions.
  • All Knight Vision Creative playtesting is run through Discord.
  • An army of friendly and helpful folks ready to jump in and answer questions can be found within!

Backerkit

You’ll get an email from BackerKit inviting you to the pledge management platform a few weeks after the campaign ends. There, you’ll be able to finalize your pledge, pick up additional add-ons, and enter your shipping information.

Estimated Shipping

All shipping rates are estimates. The final price will depend on the final size of the book as we unlock more content through stretch goals. You won’t be charged for shipping until you provide your address in BackerKit.

Shipping Table

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

We had great success with our previous project, Creed’s Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners, and rave reviews from our backers. We couldn’t have done it without everyone who believed in us, and we are so thrilled with how the book turned out and the stories you all have shared of your summoning adventures. We’re looking forward to doing it again!

Discord Love!

The Team

Brendan Jonesrebandt – Knight Vision Creative Founder

Creative director of Knight Vision Creative, Brendan writes the content, organizes and runs the playtesting, commissions the artists, builds the art briefs, runs the marketing and advertising, serves as customer support, lines up the manufacturing, performs quality control, created a kickass choose-your-own-adventure email series if he does say so himself (he does), and in general does his best to pump out awesome content for you all to enjoy. When he has time, he loves to play D&D, and occasionally writes in the third person.

Knight Vision Creative Community – The True Heroes!

Whether you’re suggesting a new magic item in one of the surveys (the socks of vibration giving you 10ft of tremorsense was one of my favorites), critiquing the artwork associated with our new race in Discord (I clearly was the only one who liked #2 Exochron concept), or giving amazing feedback during one of the playtests (anyone who likes the skirmisher level 1 feature owes one of the playtest groups), this content would only be a shadow of the quality without all your feedback, ideas, and genuine enthusiasm. I couldn’t do it without you all!

Our Artist Partners Make The Products Shine With Holy (Sometimes Unholy!) Light

Azid, Eve, Nate, Noman, and Teguh have created amazing illustrations for our upcoming book, really bringing the content to life with visualizations ready to jump off the page and transport you to a world of magical experiences. The artists deserve all the love we can give them, deploying their mighty skills for us all to enjoy!

**All designs are subject to change as artwork is completed and playtests are run.**

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