A Colorless Adept is a psionic individual who belongs to a select guild called the Colorless Lodge. Colorless Adepts value psionic lore and the accumulated psionic powers of all members, sharing knowledge of their powers among each other. Colorless Adepts truly tap the mind's potential because they forge mental pathways that connect one adept to another, regardless of physical distance.
Nonpsionic characters gain little benefit from becoming a Colorless Adapt, fact, the prerequisites make it unlikely they can ever do so. Psions have by far the most to gain when joining the order, though psychic warriors also find it useful to expand their repertoire of powers (though at the expense of higher Hit Dice and their bonus feats, the choice is difficult few psychic warriors gain more than a couple levels). Some psionic creatures also qualify for the prestige class and can benefit from the abilities the class confers.
An adventuring party might encounter Colorless Adept NPCs in almost any otherwise standard psionic encounter. Thus, characters could meet members of this class anywhere adventure beckons and psionic beings congregate.
To qualify to become a Colorless Adept, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.
Membership: You must be a member of the Colorless Lodge.
Knowledge (psionics): 8 ranks.
Feats: Two psionic or metapsionic feats, one of which must be Sequester Power.
Spells: Ability to manifest psionic powers of 2nd level or higher.
Special: Prospective members must accept special commissions from the Lodge elders, to continue taking advantage of the adept's power sharing ability
The Colorless Adept class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Autohypnosis (Int, exclusive skill), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Knowledge (Int), Profession (Wis), Psicraft (Int), Remote Viewing (Int, exclusive skill), Speak Language, Spot (Wis), and Stabilize Self (Con, exclusive skill).
Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier
Hit Die: d4
| Level | Att. Bonus | Fort | Ref | Will | Special | Spells per Day |
| 1 | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Power sharing I | +1 level of existing class |
| 2 | +1 | +0 | +0 | +3 |
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+1 level of existing class |
| 3 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | Psionic combat mode | +1 level of existing class |
| 4 | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Power sharing II | +1 level of existing class |
| 5 | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Colorless fire |
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| 6 | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | Psionic combat mode | +1 level of existing class |
| 7 | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | Power sharing III | +1 level of existing class |
| 8 | +4 | +2 | +2 | +6 |
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+1 level of existing class |
| 9 | +4 | +3 | +3 | +6 | Psionic combat mode | +1 level of existing class |
| 10 | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Colorless rain |
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All of the following are class features of the Colorless Adept prestige class.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Colorless Adepts gain no additional
proficiency in any weapon or armor.
Effective Manifester Level: At every level indicated on the table for the prestige class, the character gains new power points per day and access to discovered powers as if he had also gained a level in the psionic class he belonged to before adding the prestige class. He does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (such as bonus feats, metapsionic or item creation feats, additional psionic combat modes, hit points beyond those he receives from the prestige class, and so on). He does gain the following benefits: an increased effective level of psionic manifestation, additional power points, psionic combat modes, effective additional levels for psicrystal powers, and additional free manifestations of 0-level powers. If a character had more than one psionic class before becoming a member of this prestige class, he must decide to which class he adds the new level for purposes of determining Effective Manifester Level.
Power Sharing (Sp): Beginning at 1st level, Colorless Adepts can share powers of certain levels. The range of available spellsincreases at levels 4 and 7.
Psionic Combat Mode: At 3rd level, a Colorless Adept can choose to learn one of the 10 psionic combat modes. At 6th and 9th levels, he can learn one additional psionic combat mode. The five attack modes are ego whip, id insinuation, mind blast, mind thrust, and psychic crush. The five defense modes are empty mind, intellect fortress, mental barrier, thought shield, and tower of iron will.
Colorless Fire (Sp): At 5th level, the Colorless Adept can direct colorless energy at foes. Like the power whitefire, color-less fire draws unstable ectoplasm from the Astral Plane unlike whitefire, the damage dealt has no energy descriptor and affects anything that can be affected by a spell-like ability (PR/SR applies). Colorless fire deals 10d4 points of damage to all creatures within the 20-foot-radius spread the adept designates within a range of 600 feet (the adept must be able to see the target area or a portion of it). Reflex saves (DC 17 + adept's key ability modifier) are allowed for half damage. Unattended objects also take damage. An adept can freely manifest colorless fire a number of times per day equal to his class level minus 2. Once the adept has used all free manifestations for a day, he can no longer use colorless fire as a normal power (it has no level or power-point cost). Colorless fire does not work in conjunction with the Trigger Power feat.
Colorless Rain (Sp): At 10th level, the Colorless Adept can direct a storm of colorless energy at foes the attack has no energy descriptor and affects anything that can be affected by a spell-like ability (PR/SR applies). Colorless rain deals 20d4 points of damage to all creatures within the 40-foot-radius spread the adept designates within a range of 800 feet (the adept must be able to see the target area or a portion of it). Reflex saves (DC 23 + adept's key ability modifier) are allowed for half damage. Unattended objects also take damage. An adept can freely manifest colorless rain a number of times per day equal to his class level minus 5. Once the adept has used all free manifestations for a day, he can no longer use colorless rain as a normal power (it has no level or power-point cost). Colorless rain does not work in conjunction with the Trigger Power feat.
Psionic characters that take levels in the Colorless Adept prestige class can share knowledge of powers, mind to mind. In all the multiverse, the hundreds of Colorless Adepts of every level assure that almost any power is available for the sharing.
A manifester can borrow a power at any distance but he must have used the Sequester Power feat on at least one power and designated the sequestered power to be shared. When a sequestered power is shared, the adept does not gain the additional power points per day he normally would for a sequestering a power instead, the sequestered/shared power becomes available to other Colorless Adepts everywhere. Likewise, the manifester can borrow from some other adept knowledge of one psionic power of the same level as the one he sequestered/shared. As usual when sequestering a power, the manifester temporarily loses knowledge of the sequestered power and may not manifest it for the day. The upside: The manifester now can borrow a number of powers per day equal to the number of powers he sequestered and designated as shared (he may borrow one power of the same level as each power he sequestered/shared). When the manifester borrows a power, he takes two full-round actions to concentrate on mentally contacting the "network" of shared powers. Knowledge of the desired power appears in the manifester's mind at the beginning of his next turn in the third round and can be used immediately, assuming the adept has the power points to manifest the power. However, if he does not manifest the borrowed power within one minute per effective manifester level, the borrowed power fades. Worse, the adept pays the power-point cost of the faded power as if he actually manifested it. Once the adept uses (or loses) a borrowed power in exchange for a sequestered/ shared power, he cannot use that same sequestered/shared power again that day to borrow another power however, he may have sequestered/shared several different powers that day and can use one of them to borrow another power. Despite a power's temporary presence in the manifester's mind, he cannot learn it, nor make a psionic item with it. Of course, he can learn the power later as a normal part of gaining a new level.
There are three stages of power sharing. An adept first joining the Colorless Lodge gains power sharing I privileges, which allow him to share and borrow psionic powers of 1st to 3rd level. Power sharing II allows 4th- to 6th-level powers, and power sharing III grants 7th- to 9th-level powers. No 0-level powers are available. Colorless Adepts whose other primary class is psion can use the power sharing "network" to borrow any power on the psion power list in the Psionics Handbook, as well as any additional spells designated by the DM. Adepts whose other primary class is psychic warrior can use the "network" to borrow any power on the psychic warrior power list, as well as others the DM designates. Psychic warriors rarely gain more than seven levels of the Colorless Adept prestige class, because power sharing III provides them no additional benefits (there are no psychic warrior powers higher than 6th level) in fact, most psychic warriors seem happy to take only the initial level of Colorless Adept.