D20:Psionic Items: Dorjes Rules

A dorje is a slender crystal that contains a single power. Each dorje has 50 charges when created, and each charge expended allows one use of that power. A dorje that runs out of charges is just a simple crystal.

A typical dorje is an elongated crystal of one color (or colorless), between 8 inches and 10 inches long and about 1/2 inch thick, which can weigh up to 1/4 pound. Occasionally, a dorje is decorated with carvings or inscribed runes along a face of the crystal. A typical dorje has AC 7, 7 hit points, a hardness of 8, and a break DC of 18.

Dorjes use the power trigger activation method, so manifesting a power from a dorje is usually a standard action that does not provoke attacks of opportunity. (If the power being manifested has a manifesting time longer than 1 standard action, however, it takes that long to manifest the power from a dorje.) The user must have the power on his class list, even if he knows the command thought. Additionally, to activate a dorje, a character must hold it in hand and point it in the general direction of the target or area to be affected.
Dorjes are normally created at the minimum manifester level required to manifest the power, and powers that can be augmented are not augmented when stored in a dorje. A dorje?s wielder cannot augment the power contained within the dorje. However, dorjes can be created at a higher manifester level than required to manifest the power. In this case, the dorje that holds an augmentable power is augmented, to the limit of the manifester level and the power?s augmentation maximums, if any. The manifester level of a dorje cannot be more than five higher than the minimum manifester level to use the power it contains.

[top]Table: Dorjes

Minor	Medium	Major	Power Level1	Market Price2
01?50	?	?	1st	750 gp
51?95	01?05	?	2nd	4,500 gp
96?100	06?65	?	3rd	11,250 gp
?	66?95	01?05	4th	21,000 gp
?	96?100	06?50	5th	33,750 gp
?	?	51?70	6th	49,500 gp
?	?	71?85	7th	68,250 gp
?	?	86?95	8th	90,000 gp
?	?	95?100	9th	114,750 gp
Some dorjes have higher manifester levels than the minimum power level, which give them commensurately higher costs. Any dorje that stores a power with an experience point cost also has an XP cost in addition to that noted here.

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