Kineticist (Apath)

Unofficial rules compendium

Optional Rules

At second level, a kineticist can choose to replace the elemental defense ability and instead gain Weapon Finesse as a bonus feat. She can still learn the elemental defense of his primary element by choosing the expanded defense utility wild talent.

Kineticist Power Tables

This is an attempt to organize the kinetic blasts, infusions, and wild talents in a more readable format than the rulebooks.

Kinetic Blasts

All but simple blasts cost burn 2. The word "blast" has been ignored in names.

A kineticist can use all combination blasts he qualifies for. Note there are specific prerequisites that must be fulfilled, not all blasts listed for an element are available.

—	Aether	Void	Wood
Simple	Telekinetic	GravityOO NegativeOO†	WoodOO
Aether	Aetheric boost Force†	Aetheric boost Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡	Aetheric boost
Air	Aetheric boost	Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡	SpringOO
Earth	Aetheric boost	Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡	AutumnOO
Fire	Aetheric boost	Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡	SummerOO‡
Water	Aetheric boost	Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡	WinterOO‡
Void	Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡	VoidOO‡	Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡
Wood	Aetheric boost	Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡	—

—	Air	Earth	Fire	Water
Simple	Air Electric†	Earth	Fire†	Cold† Water
Aether	Aetheric boost	Aetheric boost	Aetheric boost†	Aetheric boost
Air	Thunderstorm‡	Sandstorm	Plasma‡	Blizzard‡ Charged water‡
Earth	Sandstorm	Metal	Magma‡	Mud
Fire	Plasma‡	Magma‡	Blue flame†	Steam‡
Water	Blizzard‡ Charged water‡	Mud	Steam‡	Ice‡
Void	Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡	Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡	Gravitic boostOO† Negative admixtureOO‡	Gravitic boostOO Negative admixtureOO‡
Wood	SpringOO	AutumnOO	SummerOO‡	WinterOO‡

† Energy blast. ‡ Compound blast, half of two different types, both resistances apply

Substance Infusion Wild Talents

The word "infusion" has been ignored in names. Numbers in parentheses are burn. Note that not all infusions listed for an element are available, some only work with specific blasts.

Level	Universal	Aether	Void	Wood
1	Draining (1)	Bowling (2) Pushing (1)	PullingOO (1) Pushing (1)	Pushing (1)
2	—	—	—	Entangling (2)
3	—	—	DarknessOO (2)	—
4	—	—	—	ToxicOO (3)
5	Grappling (3)	—	—	—
6	—	Disintegrating (4)	DarknessOO (4)	—
7	—	—	EnervatingOO (4)	Toxic, greaterOO (3)
8	—	—	—	—
9	—	—	—	—

Level	Air	Earth	Fire	Water
1	Pushing (1) Thundering (1)	Bowling (2) Pushing (1)	Burning (1)	Pushing (1) Quenching (1)
2	—	Entangling (2)	—	Entangling (2)
3	Magnetic (2)	Magnetic (2) Rare-Metal (2)	—	—
4	—	—	Flash (3)	—
5	—	—	Unravelling (3)	Chilling (3)
6	—	—	Brilliant (4)	—
7	—	—	Pure-Flame (4)	—
8	—	—	—	—
9	—	—	—	—

Form Infusion Wild Talents

The word "infusion" has been ignored in names. Numbers in parentheses are burn. Note that not all infusions listed for an element are available, some only work with specific blasts.

Level	Universal	Aether	Void	Wood
1	Extended range (1) Kinetic blade (1) Kinetic fist (1)	—	—	—
2	—	—	—	—
3	Extreme range (2) Flurry of blasts (2) Kinetic whip (2) Mobile blast (2) Snake (2)	Foe Throw (2) Force hook (2)	—	Impale (2)
4	—	—	SingularityOO (3)	—
5	Wall (3)	—	—	—
6	—	—	—	Deadly Earth (4)
7	—	—	—	—
8	—	Many throw (4)	—	—
9	—	—	—	—

Level	Air	Earth	Fire	Water
1	Gusting (1)	—	Fan of flames (1)	—
2	—	—	—	—
3	Torrent (2)	Impale (2)	Eruption (2) Torrent (2)	Impale (2) Torrent (2)
4	Cyclone (3)	—	—	—
5	Chain (3)	—	—	—
6	—	Deadly Earth (4)	—	—
7	Cloud (4)	Fragmentation (4)	Explosion (4)	Cloud (4) Fragmentation (4)
8	—	—	—	—
9	—	—	—	—

Utility Wild Talents

Numbers in parentheses is the minimum burn cost of the power.

Level	Universal	Aether	Void	Wood
1	Skilled kineticist	Basic telekinesis Kinetic cover Kinetic healer (1) Telekinetic finesse	Basic ChaokinesisOO Kinetic cover Void HealerOO (1)	RootsOO Thorn fleshOO (1) Woodland StepOO
2	Skilled kineticist, greater	Telekinetic haul	Eyes of the VoidOO No BreathOO	Merciful FoliageOO
3	Elemental grip Touchsight	Aether saturationOR Self telekinesis Telekinetic invisibility	Gravity ControlOO	BrachiationOO Thorn FleshOO (1) Warp WoodOO
4	Expanded defense	Telekinetic maneuvers	—	GreensightOO Plant DisguiseOO Shape WoodOO
5	Kinetic form (1) Spark of life Touchsight, reactive	Aether puppet Force barrier Self telekinesis, greater	Eyes of the Void, GreaterOO Gravity Control, GreaterOO	Plant PuppetOO Wild GrowthOO Woodland Step, GreaterOO
6	Ride the blast	Suffocate	Suffocate	Green TongueOO
7	—	Spell deflection	—	—
8	Reverse shift	Telekinetic deflection Telekinetic globe	—	—
9	—	—	Gravity MasterOO	Forest SiegeOO Wood SoldiersOO (1)

Level	Air	Earth	Fire	Water
1	Aerial adaptation Air cushion Air shroud Air's leap Air's rewach Basic aerokinesis Voice of the wind	Basic geokinesis Earth walk Jagged flesh (1) Kinetic cover	Basic pyrokinesis Cold adaption Fire sculptor Fire's fury Heat adaption	Basic hyrdrokinesis Cold adaption Heat adaption Ice walker Kinetic cover Kinetic healer (1) Slick Water saturationOR
2	—	Earth climb	—	Searing flame Veil of mists
3	Aerial evasion (1) Celerity Engulfing wings Windsight Wings of air	Earth saturationOR Tremorsense	Firesight Flame jet Heat wave (1) Smoke storm	Cold snap (1) Water manipulator Waterdancer
4	—	Enduring earth Shift earth	—	Ice sculptor Watersense
5	Air shroud, greater Windsight, greater	Earth glide Stone sculptor Tremorsense, greater	Flame jet, greater Flame shield (1) Trail of flames	Shimmering mirage (1) Waterdancer, greater
6	Suffocate Wind manipulator		Fire saturationOR (1)	Ice path Suffocate
7	—	Shift earth, greater	—	—
8	Weather master	—	—	—
9	Air saturationOR	Seimic master	From the ashes (2)	Tidal wave (1)

Table: Kineticist

This is the original table, completed with some maximum burn figures.

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special
1st	+0	+2	+2	+0	Burn, elemental focus, gather power, infusion, kinetic blast
2nd	+1	+3	+3	+0	Elemental defense, utility wild talent
3rd	+2	+3	+3	+1	Elemental overflow +1, infusion
4th	+3	+4	+4	+1	Utility wild talent
5th	+3	+4	+4	+1	Infusion (replace), infusion specialization 1, metakinesis (empower)
6th	+4	+5	+5	+2	Burn (2/rnd), elemental overflow +2, internal buffer 1, utility wild talent
7th	+5	+5	+5	+2	Expanded element
8th	+6/+1	+6	+6	+2	Infusion specialization 2, utility wild talent
9th	+6/+1	+6	+6	+3	Burn (3/rnd), elemental overflow +3, infusion, metakinesis (maximize)
10th	+7/+2	+7	+7	+3	Utility wild talent
11th	+8/+3	+7	+7	+3	Infusion (replace), infusion specialization 3, internal buffer 2, supercharge
12th	+9/+4	+8	+8	+4	Burn (4/rnd), elemental overflow +4, utility wild talent
13th	+9/+4	+8	+8	+4	Infusion, metakinesis (quicken)
14th	+10/+5	+9	+9	+4	Infusion specialization 4, utility wild talent
15th	+11/+6/+1	+9	+9	+5	Burn (5/rnd), expanded element, elemental overflow +5
16th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+10	+5	Composite specialization, internal buffer 3, utility wild talent
17th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+10	+5	Infusion (replace), infusion specialization 5, metakinesis (twice)
18th	+13/+8/+3	+11	+11	+6	Burn (6/rnd), elemental overflow +6, utility wild talent
19th	+14/+9/+4	+11	+11	+6	Infusion, metakinetic master
20th	+15/+10/+5	+12	+12	+6	Infusion specialization 6, omnikinesis, utility wild talent

Expanded Elements

Not elements in the classic sense, these power sets work just as the other elements of the kineticist.

Bibliokinesis

This is a work in progress.

The bibliokinesist focus on paper (or similar writing surfaces such as vellum or papyrus) and the written word in the form of books, tomes, and scrolls. The bibliokineticist creates works containing text from the Akashic Record, but most of this is pure gibberish — random letters and words without meaning or value. Many bibliokinesists strive to retrieve truths from the Akashic Record, some can do so at higher levels.

Variant bibliokinesists work with cards or with solid sculpted text, runes, or glyphs with only superficial differences.

New wild talents from this site are marked *.

Class Skills A bibliokinesist adds Linguistics and Spellcraft to her list of class skills.

Basic Manipulation: A bibliokineticist gains basic bibliokinesis*.

Simple Blast: A bibliokineticist can select either paper blast* or word blast* as her simple blast. She gains one of them when she first selects paper, and must select paper again with expanded element to gain the other. Which of her blasts work with which infusions is noted under infusion wild talents, below.

Defense: A bibliokineticist’s defense wild talent is shroud of words*.

Infusion Wild Talents The listed infusion wild talents are available to bibliokineticists at the indicated levels. Infusion talents have the new blasts they work with given in parenthesis after the name. 1st— pushing (paper, physical words). 2nd— entangling (paper, physical words), ethical words (energized words, paper, physical words, word)*. 3rd— elemental letters (energized words, word)*, impale (paper, physical words). 4th— cyclone (energized words, paper, physical words, word), spray (energized words, paper, word). 5th— universal unravel (energized words, paper, physical words, word)*. 6th— 7th— fragmentation (energized words, paper, physical words, word). 8th— many throw (energized words, paper, physical words, word). 9th—

Utility Wild Talents The listed utility wild talents are available to bibliokineticists at the indicated levels. 1st— basic bibliokinesis*, decipher script*, kinetic cover. 2nd— paper path*. 3rd— akashic primer*, paper cuts*, smoke storm. 4th— paper wings*, telekinetic maneuvers. 5th— paper kite*. 6th— 7th— 8th— akashic tome*. 9th—

New Simple Blasts

Paper Blast

Element(s) paper; Type simple blast (sp); Level —; Burn 0

Blast Type: physical; Damage slashing or piercing

You attack a single foe with cutting edges or piercing rolls of paper.

Word Blast

Element(s) paper; Type simple blast (sp); Level —; Burn 0

Blast Type: physical; Damage non-lethal bludgeoning

You batter a single foe by throwing a book or piece of solidified script at them.

New Compound Blasts

Energized Words

Element paper and one more element; Type energy (sp); Level —; Burn 2

Prerequisite(s) paper blast or word blast, any energy blast

Blast Type energy; Damage special (see text).

You enhance a simple blast you know, causing it to deal 1 additional point of damage of the same type for each of its damage dice; it otherwise acts as the simple blast. At 15th level, you can also infuse a composite blast with a second energy blast. To infuse a composite blast in this way, you must accept 1 additional point of burn.

Physical Words

Element paper and one more element; Type physical (sp); Level —; Burn 2

Prerequisite(s) paper blast or word blast, any physical blast (this includes a combination of paper and word blasts)

Blast Type physical; Damage any two of bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing (half each)

A burst of words that have physical substance.

New Defense Wild Talents

Shroud of Words

Element(s) paper; Type defense (su); Level —; Burn 0

You constantly surround yourself with a whirling torrent of words or paper to protect yourself from ranged attacks. All ranged touch attacks suffer a 20% miss chance against you. This ability has no effect on ranged weapon attacks. The miss chance increases by 5% for every 5 kineticist levels you possess beyond 2nd. By accepting 1 point of burn, you can increase the miss chance by 5% until the next time your burn is removed. You can continue to accept points of burn to increase the miss chance further, up to a maximum of 75%. Whenever you accept burn while using a paper wild talent, the energy surging through you causes your paper shroud to also affect physical ranged attacks and other ranged attacks that are not ranged touch attacks for 1 round.

You can dismiss or restore this effect as an immediate action.

New Infusion Talents

Elemental Letters

Element paper; Type substance infusion; Level 3; Burn 2

Associated Blasts energized words, word; Saving Throw none

You manifest the meaning of the words of your kinetic blast as elemental energy; air blast, cold blast, earth blast, electric blast, fire blast, water blast. This changes your kinetic blast into the simple blast selected. You need not know the element of the simple blast you emulate in this way. You can use a simple blast gained this way with for a composite blast and with any infusion that it works with that you know. This ability does not count as a prerequisite for learning any infusion.

Ethical Words

Element(s) energized words, paper, physical words, word; Type substance infusion; Level 3; Burn 2

Associated Blasts energized words, paper, physical words, word Saving Throw none

The words you call from the Akashic Record have deep ethical resonance. Select an alignment that is not opposed to your alignment, on either the good-evil or law-chaos axis. Your physical blast does damage of this type.

Universal Unravel

Element(s) paper; Type substance infusion; Level 5; Burn 3

Associated Blasts energized words, paper, physical words, word Saving Throw none

Your kinetic blast counters your foe’s magical effects. Whenever your infused blast hits a foe (and penetrates its spell resistance, if applicable), you can attempt a caster level check as if using a targeted dispel magic before determining whether the foe takes damage from the blast. You can choose to reduce the blast’s damage by half to increase your bonus on the caster level check by 2. You can ready this blast to use as a counterspell, if you do universal unravel works just like dispel magic used to counterspell; it ignores spell resistance and needs no attack roll, but only targets the spell used.

New Utility Wild Talents

Akashic Primer

Element paper; Type utility (su); Level 3; Burn 1

You create a text on a subject relevant to the immediate situation. You and anyone who takes a full-round action to read the paper can reroll a failed Knowledge or Linguistics check relating to the situation at hand. The information in the primer is very specific and not useful in any other situation.

Akashic Tome

Element paper; Type utility (su); Level 8; Burn 2

You create a book on any specific subject, such as the red dragons of mount Orfem or lore about a specific spell. The book contains extensive and detailed knowledge on this subject, and provides a +10 circumstance bonus on Knowledge, Linguistics, and Spellcraft checks about the subject. On a skill check of 40+, the book can give secrets only known to a few creatures and never recorded. On a skill check of 50+, the book can give information unknown to anyone (but recorded in the akashic record). The book is complex; it takes an hour of reading to find the answer to a specific question or subject.

Basic Bibliokinesis

Element paper; Type utility (su); Level 1; Burn 0

As basic telekinesis except that you use paper instead of telekinetic effects.

Decipher Script (Sp)

Element paper; Type utility (sp); Level 1; Burn 0

As comprehend languages except that it only applies to written text and symbols.

Paper Cuts (Su)

Element paper; Type utility (su); Level 3; Burn 1

You surround yourself with whirling slices of paper. For one minute per kineticist level, creatures adjacent to you when this ability is activated and at the start of your turn take 1d6 points of magical slashing damage.

Paper Kite (Sp)

Element paper; Type utility (sp); Level 5; Burn 0 Prerequisite(s) paper wings.

You create a kite or similar structure out of paper that you can ride, as phantom steed. The kite disappears as soon as you don't touch it.

Paper Path (Sp)

Element paper; Type utility (sp); Level 2; Burn 0

You can create horizontal or slanted surface of paper long a 30 ft. line, 5 ft. wide, creating a bridge or ramp. The path does not need to be supported and can go up to 10 ft. up or down over 30 ft. length. It counts as clear terrain and lasts until the end of your next turn. Each square of paper path can support up to 100 lb. per kineticist level, has hit points equal to your kineticist level, and is invulnerable to bludgeoning, piercing, and cold damage. You can accept 1 point of burn to increase the duration to 1 round per kineticist level and the length of the line to 30 ft. per level.

Paper Wings (Sp)

Element paper; Type utility (sp); Level 4; Burn 0

You make wings out of paper that give the benefits of fly for one round. If you are flying at the beginning of your next round, you must use this ability again or fall, gaining the breakfall benefits of fly. You can accept 1 point of burn to increase the duration to 1 round per kineticist level.

External Links

• N. Jolly's guide to the Pathfinder Kineticist
• Sphinx’s guide to the Telekineticist
• Rylar’s guide to the pyrokineticist
• The Mortonator’s guide to dipping with the kineticist
• Wild Talent Sorter Spreadsheet

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