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Whispering

Whispering shapes a character's supernatural focus, training, and power set.

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Whispering Powers

42 powers, grouped by tier. The rules needed for quick reference are shown directly in each row.

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Tier 0

2

Vicious Mockery

Whisper an insult, secret, or cutting phrase laced with psychic force at one creature that can hear or understand you within range. The target must make a WIS save, taking 1d6 psychic damage and having disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn on a failed save.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 1d6
Type: Psychic
Save: WIS

Whispered Suggestion

Speak a short, subtle directive to one creature within range that can hear and understand you. The target must make a WIS save or follow a brief non-harmful command on its next turn, such as pause, look away, answer, kneel, approach, or drop a harmless object.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: 1 Round
Type: Command / Whisper
Save: WIS

Tier 1

4

Encode a message, memory-fragment, rumor, or short command into a thought strand, folded note, breath mark, or whispered charm you touch. The next creature you designate that touches or hears it receives the message privately and knows whether it was meant for them.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Touch
Duration: 8 Hours
Effect: 25 words
Type: Message / Whisper

Drive a needle-thin whisper into one creature’s thoughts. The target must make an INT save, taking 2d6 psychic damage and subtracting 1d4 from the next saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn on a failed save, or half damage only on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 2d6 / 1d4
Type: Psychic
Save: INT

When you succeed on a Deception, Persuasion, or Intimidation check using speech, a useful echo lingers. Before the duration ends, add 1d4 to another social check made against a creature that heard or heard about the first exchange.

Tier 2

4

Detect Thoughts

Listen for surface thoughts within the emanation. You can detect thinking creatures that know a language or communicate mentally. As an action on later turns, focus on one creature and learn what is most on its mind. If you probe deeper, it makes a WIS save; on a failure, you learn a fear, desire, lie, or looming concern.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self (30 ft.)
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 30 ft.
Type: Telepathy / Read
Save: WIS

Dissonant Whispers

Whisper a discordant phrase only one creature within range can hear. The target must make a WIS save, taking 3d6 psychic damage and using its reaction, if available, to move as far away from you as it safely can on a failed save, or half damage only on a success.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 3d6
Type: Psychic
Save: WIS

Tier 3

4

Send a whispered message of 25 words or fewer to a creature you know or can clearly identify by description. The target hears you in its mind and may answer immediately with up to 25 words. Across planes, the message may fail at the GM’s discretion.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Unlimited
Duration: Instant
Effect: 25 words
Type: Telepathy / Message

Suggest a course of activity in 25 words or fewer to one creature that can hear and understand you. The suggestion must sound reasonable and not be obviously self-destructive. The target must make a WIS save or follow the suggestion to the best of its ability until completed or the duration ends.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 8 Hours
Effect: 25 words
Type: Command / Charm
Save: WIS

Tongues of the Whisperer

Touch one willing creature. For the duration, it understands spoken, signed, and whispered language it perceives, and creatures that know any language can understand its speech, signs, and intentional whispers.

Tier 4

4

Distracting Chorus

Create a psychic chorus in a 20-ft. radius sphere. Creatures of your choice must make an INT save. On a failure, they have disadvantage on concentration checks, cannot benefit from advantage on Perception checks, and subtract 1d4 from the first attack roll or ability check they make each turn.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 90 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 1d4
Type: Psychic / Distraction
Save: INT

Implanted Directive

Plant a hidden command in one creature that can hear or understand you. The target must make a WIS save. On a failure, the command waits until a trigger you name occurs, then the creature carries out a brief non-self-destructive activity for up to 1 round.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 8 Hours
Effect: 1 round
Type: Directive / Whisper
Save: WIS

Tier 5

4

Give a verbal command to one creature that can understand you. The target must make a WIS save or become bound to carry out a service or refrain from a course of action. If it knowingly acts against the command, it takes 5d10 psychic damage once per day. The command cannot require certain death.

Action: 1 Minute
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 30 Days
Effect: 5d10
Type: Psychic
Save: WIS

Whisper over one creature’s memory of an event from the last 24 hours that lasted no more than 10 minutes. The target must make a WIS save or become charmed, unaware, and receptive while you describe the altered, erased, sharpened, or replaced memory. The memory takes hold when the effect ends.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 10 minutes
Type: Memory / Whisper
Save: WIS

Synaptic Static

Detonate a whispered phrase in a 20-ft. radius sphere within range. Creatures of your choice must make an INT save, taking 8d6 psychic damage and subtracting 1d6 from attack rolls, ability checks, and concentration saves for the duration on a failed save, or half damage only on a success. Affected creatures repeat the save at the end of each turn.

Tier 6

4

Directive Chorus

Issue a single whispered directive to up to three creatures that can hear or understand you within range. Each target must make a WIS save or follow the non-self-destructive directive on its next turn, such as halt, flee, kneel, drop it, approach, protect them, or stay silent.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: 1 Round
Effect: 3 targets
Type: Directive / Group
Save: WIS

When a creature within range damages one of your allies, whisper the pain back into its mind. The triggering creature must make a WIS save, taking psychic damage equal to half the damage it dealt on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Action: Reaction
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: Half damage
Type: Psychic
Save: WIS

Choose one creature within range. It must make an INT save. On a failure, choose one restriction: it cannot speak, cannot take reactions, cannot take bonus actions, or cannot use powers with verbal components. It repeats the save at the end of each turn.

Tier 7

4

Command Network

Link up to six willing creatures into a telepathic command web. Linked creatures can communicate on the same plane. When one linked creature takes the Help action, the assisted creature gains a +1d6 bonus to the aided roll instead of advantage. Once per round, one linked creature may move 10 ft. when another linked creature moves.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 10 Minutes
Effect: 1d6
Type: Telepathy / Command

Crowd Enthrallment

Choose any number of creatures in a 20-ft. radius sphere within range that can hear or understand you. Each target must make a WIS save or become enthralled. While enthralled, it has disadvantage on Perception checks and cannot willingly move farther away from you if it can perceive your voice.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 90 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 20 ft.
Type: Enthrall / Crowd
Save: WIS

Paranoia Spiral

Tier 8

4

False Consensus

Project a compelling psychic narrative into a 30-ft. radius sphere. Creatures of your choice must make a WIS save. On a failure, choose one belief: a creature is trustworthy, a creature is dangerous, fleeing is safest, cooperation is necessary, or silence is required. Affected creatures act consistently unless directly harmed or shown overwhelming proof.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 10 Minutes
Effect: 30 ft.
Type: Consensus / Rumor
Save: WIS

Your whispers become flawless. For the duration, when you make a Deception, Persuasion, Performance, or Intimidation check using speech, treat a d20 roll of 14 or lower as a 15. Powers that determine whether you are telling the truth read your statements as truthful unless Tier 8 or higher.

Action: Bonus Action
Use: At-Will
Range: Self
Duration: 1 Hour
Effect: 15
Type: Social / Voice

Power Word Stun

Tier 9

4

Collective Memory Rewrite

Choose up to six creatures within range. Each target must make a WIS save or become charmed, incapacitated, and receptive to your whispered revision of one event from the last 24 hours that lasted no more than 10 minutes. The change takes hold when the effect ends unless the target is harmed before then.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 1 Minute
Effect: 6 targets
Type: Memory / Mass
Save: WIS

Bind up to ten willing creatures into a superior whisper-network. Linked creatures communicate telepathically on the same plane, share sensory impressions, cannot be surprised while one remains conscious, and once per round one linked creature may use another linked creature’s successful INT, WIS, or CHA roll result.

Action: Action
Use: At-Will
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 10 Minutes
Effect: 10 creatures
Type: Telepathy / Overmind

Tier 10

4

Narrative Control

Choose any number of creatures in a 60-ft. radius sphere within range. Each target must make a WIS save. On a failure, choose one narrative: you are rightful authority, a creature is an existential threat, escape is rational, unity is necessary, or silence is safety. Affected creatures act consistently unless directly harmed or confronted with overwhelming contradiction.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 120 ft.
Duration: Concentration, 10 Minutes
Effect: 60 ft.
Type: Narrative / Voice
Save: WIS

Power Word Kill

Speak a killing word to one creature you can see within range. If the target has 100 hit points or fewer, it dies. Otherwise, it takes 12d12 psychic damage. Divine, artifact-grade, or story-protected creatures may instead suffer a GM-defined wound or condition.

Action: Action
Use: 1/Long Rest
Range: 60 ft.
Duration: Instant
Effect: 12d12
Type: Psychic

Sovereign Voice