Requires Latent Psionics feat or Psionics ability from Background or Race selection.
You can fuel your psionic power with the resources of your body. With this feat, you can spend your hit dice to gain a bonus to your psi limit. When you spend hit dice, you roll the die, and take the amount as damage. This also reduces your maximum hit points until you take a long rest. Each hit die spent in this matter gives you a +1 to your psi limit for 1 round and the same number of temporary psi points. You can roll up to your proficiency bonus in hit dice as a free action each round. The +1 per hit dice to your psi limit only remains
in effect until the beginning of your next turn, but you retain the extra psi points until you use them, or until you take a short or long rest. You do not regain these spent hit dice or the reduction to your maximum hit points until you take a long rest.
For example, a 5th level rogue uses this feat to gain a bonus to his psi limit. He can spend up to 3 hit dice (his proficiency bonus), but must take 3d8 damage, say 15 in this case, which also reduces his hit point maximum by 15 until he takes a long rest. He gains 3 temporary psi points and a +3 to his psi limit, which allows him to use 6 psi points this round.
However, any hit points you lose from this feat can only be healed with a long rest. You are spending so integral a part of your very being to manifest psionic powers that only your body’s own natural resources can replenish this expenditure. No healing powers or spells, no greater restoration spell or restore vigor power – not even a wish spell – can restore these hit points. Each time you use this feat, afterwards there is some sort of physical cue others might be able to spot. The most common cues are the classic nosebleed, blood dripping from one or both ears, or a momentary stagger from the strain as your hand clutches your head in pain. You can attempt to hide this physical manifestation with use of a Dexterity (Stealth) check or Charisma (Performance) check opposed by the passive Wisdom (Perception) scores of observers.
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