Hardening, Psionic

You rub your hands along the length of the object, manifesting the power. A warm red glow emits from your hands, strengthening the object.

This power increases the hardness of materials. Paper becomes harder to tear, glass becomes harder to break, wood becomes more resilient, and so on. For every two manifester levels, add 1 point of hardness to the material targeted by the power. This hardness increase improves only the material’s resistance to damage. Nothing else is modified by the improvement. For example, a longsword (treat steel as iron, base hardness 10) affected by a hardening power manifested by a 12th-level manifester would have hardness 16 for the purpose of ignoring damage caused by someone making a sunder attack. The sword’s hit points, attack and damage modifiers, and other factors are not affected. A hardening power does not in any way affect a substance’s resistance to other forms of transformation. Ice still melts, paper and wood still burn, rock still becomes transmutable to mud with the proper spell, and so on.

This power affects up to 10 cubic feet of material per level of the manifester. If manifested upon a metal or mineral, the power affects only 1 cubic foot per level.

Augment: Base effect improves hardness by 5. Every 4 additional power points adds 1 point of hardness.