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source: Players Guide 2
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Instead of relying on physical weapons, you draw from your inner resolve to manifest soul-bound knives. As you progress in power, you can use these knives to impose your will on your targets.

| Nightblade Progression |                                                       |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| Rogue Level            | Features                                              |
| 3rd                    | Psychic Blade, Psychic Bulwark                        |
| 7th                    | Enhanced Blades (+1)                                  |
| 11th                   | Home In                                               |
| 15th                   | Enhanced Blades (+2, spiritual weapon), Psychic Burst |

## Psychic Blade 

3rd-Level Nightblade Feature 

You manifest a portion of your soul into psychic blades. Whenever you take the Attack action, you can manifest a blade of psychic energy from your free hand and make an attack with that blade. The blade has the same statistics as a dagger, but it deals psychic damage rather than piercing damage. You can manifest a second blade in your other hand for two-weapon fighting.

If you use a psychic blade to perform a Pinning Shot (see Weapon Options in Player’s Guide), the blade remains until the creature frees itself or until you use Pinning Shot again.

## Psychic Bulwark 

3rd-Level Nightblade Feature 

You have spent time honing the power of your mind. You are resistant to psychic damage. 

In addition, when you take psychic damage, you can hold a portion of that energy within your mind until the end of your next turn. Once before the effect ends, you can add half the damage you took to a Psychic Blade attack.

## Enhanced Blades 

7th-Level Nightblade Feature 

Your psychic blade becomes magical, and you gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls with it.

Starting at 15th level, the bonus to attack and damage rolls increases to +2. As a bonus action, you can now manifest an extra blade that hovers over a point you can see within 60 feet of you. This effect works like the spiritual weapon spell, except the blade deals psychic damage, and your spellcasting ability is **INT**.

## Home In 

11th-Level Nightblade Feature 

Your psychic blades now act as beacons. The range of your Psychic Blade feature increases to 30/120 feet, and when you hit a target with a psychic blade attack, as a bonus action, you can teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 5 feet of the target.

## Psychic Burst 

15th-Level Nightblade Feature 

Your blades of your Psychic Blade feature hum with barely contained energy. When you use your Sneak Attack feature (see Player’s Guide) or score a critical hit with an attack roll with a psychic blade (which can include the psychic blade created by your Enhanced Blades feature), you can cause a burst of psychic energy to spill from the target. The target and each creature within 15 feet of it must make an **INT** save (**DC** 8 + your **PB** + your **INT** modifier), taking psychic damage equal to your Sneak Attack damage dice on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature with an **INT** of 3 (−4) or lower can’t be affected by this burst. 

If you use Psychic Burst as part of a critical hit, the target’s thoughts are also jumbled for 1 minute. Until this effect ends, each time the target makes an attack roll or ability check or makes a **CON** save to maintain concentration, it rolls a d6 and subtracts the number rolled from the attack roll, ability check, or **CON** save. The target can make an **INT** save at the end of each of its turns, ending this effect on itself on a success.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your **PB**, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.