Suppress Display? (Psionic Powers)

[RUMBLETiGER]

A psionic Power manifests with an Auditory, Material, Mental, Olfactory or Visual secondary effect.

Is there a feat, ability, item, etc, that could suppress this?

 

[Alzrius]

Yes, there is.

The first way is to make the appropriate skill check. From the SRD's section on psionic power displays:

Dispense with Displays
Despite the fact that almost every power has a display, a psionic character can always choose to manifest the power without the flashy accompaniment. To manifest a power without any display (no matter how many displays it might have), a manifester must make a Concentration check (DC 15 + the level of the power). This check is part of the action of manifesting the power. If the check is unsuccessful, the power manifests normally with its display.

If you don't want to make the check, and don't mind spending a feat to do so, there's a feat called Subtle Manifester in The Mind Unveiled, by Dreamscarred Press, that suppresses all displays unless you want to display them.

(Note that all of the above is for 3.5.)

 

[Sunseeker]

Yes, there is.

The first way is to make the appropriate skill check. From the SRD's section on psionic power displays:



If you don't want to make the check, and don't mind spending a feat to do so, there's a feat called Subtle Manifester in The Mind Unveiled, by Dreamscarred Press, that suppresses all displays unless you want to display them.

(Note that all of the above is for 3.5.)

Makes me wonder, with either the feat or the check would that mean that powers which create semi-physical objects(essentially a visual manifestation) such as soulblades and the like, would be invisible?

 

[Alzrius]

Makes me wonder, with either the feat or the check would that mean that powers which create semi-physical objects(essentially a visual manifestation) such as soulblades and the like, would be invisible?

I wouldn't say so - the listing for a visual manifestation is:

The manifester’s eyes burn like points of silver fire while the power remains in effect. A rainbow-flash of light sweeps away from the manifester to a distance of 5 feet and then dissipates, unless a unique visual display is described. This is the case when the Display entry includes “see text,” which means that a visual effect is described somewhere in the text of the power.

Obviously, this can be modified however, but it wouldn't make visible results of manifesting a power invisible.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Makes me wonder, with either the feat or the check would that mean that powers which create semi-physical objects(essentially a visual manifestation) such as soulblades and the like, would be invisible?

No, because that's the primary effect of the Power, while the display is the secondary, "not-actually-connected-with-anything-to-do-with-the-power-itelf" side effect, if we can call it that. We're only discussing the suppression of the display, not the effect of the Power.

Thanks guys!Now that I know what I was looking for, I found the line in XPH p.58.

 

[nijineko]

just by way of information, there is actually an official wotc feat which allows casters to mimic displays in order to pass of their casting as psionics.