DCC Psion Power Draft: Pyrokinesis

With this draft, I am keen to know if anything seems off about material melting points. By the way, the going-nuclear ability is inspired by Firestarter.

Pyrokinesis

Pyrokinesis is the ability to speed up the vibrations of matter on a molecular level, giving rise to heat. Psions minus their ML from any fire damage they would take while manifesting this power.

Check Success: You can start to heat material, which is affected based on the number of rounds you concentrate. If you want to concentrate for a number of beyond your ML, you need to make another power check.

You may use Mind Burn to speed up the process; ability points spent reduce the number of rounds needed to achieve an effect on a 1 for 1 ratio.

Rounds	Effect on non-living targets	Effect on targeted creatures
1	Paper, dry grass,wool, and similar materials ignite.	Creatures feel mild pain. Fire-based entities disrupted (Will save to move).
2	Wood darkened, kindling ignited	1d4 damage. Mild blistering.
3	Logs ignited, metals are dropped unless their holder endures 1d4 damage.	1d6 damage.
4	Metals scorch for 1d7 damage. Water boils (1 cubic foot per ML). Leather ignites.	1d8 damage.
5	Logs reduced to embers and scorch for 1d8 damage, as does metal. Concrete grows brittle.	1d10 damage. Roll luck or be scarred.
6	Steel grows soft and scorches for 1d16 damage. Gold melts.	1d12 damage. Creature’s touch now does your ML in damage.
7	Materials scorch for 2d16. Adjacent creatures take 1d12 damage. Glass melts.	1d16 damage. Roll luck or be scarred. Creatures of HD lower than you can’t save.
8	Materials scorch for 3d12 damage. Steel melts.	1d20 damage.
9	Anyone within 20 feet will take 2d12 fire damage.	1d30 damage. Still receive half damage  if they save.
10	Molecules so excited that there is a chance of localized nuclear explosion (roll luck).	Atomized. Still receive 1d16 damage on a save.

Roll 1: Reduce the number of rounds needed to achieve an effect by up to 1d5. Creatures of HD less than your ML can’t save.

Roll 20: Roll 1d6. (1)You are feverish for the next 2 turns (1d4 stamina damage); (2) Success, but you ignite in supernatural flame (no damage to you or possessions) and scortch things for 1d5 damage per round; (3) Your clothes ignite (1d4 damage per round, full round action to put out the flames) ; (4) One of your possessions must make a save or explode (1d8 damage to adjacent creatures); (5) You accidentally summon a fire elemental that is angry at you; (6) Your insides boil for 1d14 damage, but a FORT save will reduce it by half.

How Psions Are Different From Other DCC Classes

This is a rough draft, and I've really played with the class tables, so let me now what you think.

How psions are different from core classes:

Psions can make for hardy adventurers, given time, but they start their careers relatively weak, as their special perception of reality causes them great stress and confusion. However, they catch up with a vengeance at later stages, and their Will saves become very powerful.

Psions have access to psionic powers, which are supernatural abilities initiated by the psion exercising their will on reality. While most classes have abilities that require you to try to roll high and reach or exceed a target DC, psions have to roll at or under their own ability scores. For a psion using a power, rolling low is good, just as with luck rolls in the core rules. The lower the better. Of course, when they perform more mundane actions, they try to roll high just like everyone else.

Many psion powers mention the die chain. For easy reference, the die chain is reproduced here:

d3–d4–d5–d6–d7–d8–d10–d12–d14–d16–d20–d24–d30

Power Points: If you are using powers from older iterations of D&D, you have power points as per those systems. This build doesn’t concern itself with power points beyond that. The powers in this supplement are balanced by manifester level rather than power points, but you may find mind burn reminds you of the flavor a bit.

Level	Attack	Crit Die/Table	Action Dice*	Powers	Ref	Fort	Will
1	+0	1d7/I	1d16	1d3+INT MOD	+0	+0	+1
2	+1	1d7/I	1d20	1d3	+1	+1	+2
3	+1	1d8/I	1d20	1d3	+1	+1	+3
4	+2	1d8/I	1d20+1d12	1d4	+2	+1	+4
5	+2	1d8/II	1d20+1d12+1d8	1d5	+2	+2	+4
6	+3	1d10/II	1d20+1d14+1d8	1d6	+2	+2	+5
7	+3	1d10/II	1d20+1d14+1d10	1d4	+3	+2	+5
8	+4	1d12/II	1d20+1d16+1d12	1d3	+3	+3	+6
9	+4	1d12/III	1d20+1d20+1d12	1d3	+4	+3	+7
10	+5	1d16/III	1d20+1d20+1d14	1d10	+4	+3	+8

*Psions can use one power per turn, in the place of their highest action die. Additional action dice can only be used for other actions, such as attacking.

Hit die: d5

Abilities:

Powers: At first level, psionicsts have a number of psychic powers equal to their intelligence modifier plus a 3-sided die (minimum one power). At each level thereafter, they gain more powers equal to a die roll as indicated on table P1 (the intelligence modifier no longer figures into the number of powers gained, but it will affect their manifester levels [see below]). Psions may learn powers automatically when leveling, or they may have to gain them through more esoteric means, as per the whim of the DM.

Mental Alacrity: At the beginning of their adventuring career, psions are often distracted by the happenings in their own mind and in nearby minds and other phenomena they take notice of via the mental plane. They start with a lower action die than most other classes, but quickly gain more action dice as they level up. They have an initiative bonus equal to the number of action dice they currently have.

Manifester level: Psions manifest powers, and powers often reference the manifester level of the psion. A psion’s manifester level is their ability modifier plus their class level, but the minimum a manifester level will ever be is 1. Different powers are based on different abilities, so a psion may be at different levels when manifesting different powers. Some power results constantly change to match the manifester level of the being that manifested them.

Mind Burn: A Psion can burn ability points after they make a power check they are not satisfied with, unless it was a natural 20 roll. If they choose to burn, they lose as many points of ability as they needed to roll under that ability when they first made the power check roll. After the power starts to take effect, the psion’s manifester level will most likely become lower until they recover ability points through rest. You burn through the ability that you are rolling your power check against, but you always have the option to burn intelligence or personality instead.

Raising Manifester level through Mind Burn: You may also burn the appropriate ability points, to increase your manifester level.The amount of points burnt increases manifester level for one success result of a power by an equivalent amount.

Mental Recovery: Psion minds and their inner strength regenerates quickly.For the psion, intelligence and personality damage each heal at a rate of 1d5 per night of rest.

Power Check Roll: To see if you use a psionic power correctly, you need to roll a d20 and score at a designated ability score or below (the default ability is intelligence, but some powers list other abilities to check against). Failure to do so means the power does not work.

Roll 1: When rolling a power check, rolling a 1 is good, called a power score in common parlance, and something cool as dictated by the power's "Roll 1" description happens.

Roll 20: When  a power check, rolling a 20 is bad, called a critical failure in common parlance, and something bad as dictated by the power’s “Roll 20” description happens. If something is allowing you to roll a smaller die, and you roll the highest result on that die, you need to roll a luck check or suffer bad effects as if you had rolled a 20. Sometimes rolling a 20 still causes the power to go off, albeit in a perverted form.