Librarian

The Librarian should not play like a mortal caster with spell slots. The class should create moments like:

• I lash the enemy out of cover with a whip of force.
• I see the Warp's fingerprints on the door before we breach.
• I raise the ward before the daemon finishes its sentence.
• I spear the enemy's mind and watch the line steady.
• I refuse the gate the daemon came through.
• I Push the power, because the hood can scream for both of us.

Powers have base effects; a Librarian may Push a power to strengthen or modify it, choosing one Push Benefit before it resolves (the shared Push framework — future Librarius-specific options slot in without a rewrite). Pushing may trigger Perils. No spell slots, no spell levels.

Once per Safe Rest, when resolving Perils, choose one: roll twice and take the less severe result, or reduce a minor Perils consequence by one step. Never negates major Perils, Corruption, daemonic attention, or GM consequences the fiction demands. (Safe Rest is tracked as a Long Rest in Forge — the closest existing rest type.)

Spend your Bonus Action and choose at activation: +1 to your next Psychic Test this turn, or +1 to your next weapon attack this turn. Consumed on the matching roll, expires at end of turn, never stacks with itself. The active choice shows as an effect on the sheet. Use it from the Actions tab.

Spend your Bonus Action to ward yourself or one nearby ally until the start of your next turn: +1 on saves against hostile psychic powers and Warp/psychic damage taken reduced by 2. One warded target at a time — a new ward removes the old. Use it from the Actions tab.

While carrying your Psychic Hood or Warding Implant (any item with the Psychic Hood, Warded, or Anti-Psychic trait), you passively recognize hostile psychic activity nearby and gain +1 on saves against hostile psychic effects. The benefit never stacks across multiple hoods, is inactive without the item, and the item's own once-per-rest Perils effects remain on the item. Future psychic-disruption Reactions will build on this.

You are trained in force weapons: Force Swords, Psyker Staves, and future Force Axes and Staves. You activate psychic weapon traits (Psychic Focus, Force Conduit, Grounding Rod, Power Field/Psychic on force blades) on any valid weapon you wield — recognized by weapon traits, never by exact item name. Ordinary weapons gain nothing.

You use the six shared psychic disciplines through Librarius-flavored Discipline Trees, and you gain and spend Discipline Points — 2 at level 1, +1 at every even level. Specialize or spread across trees; each rank costs 1 point and requires the previous rank. A Librarian does not normally begin with malefic daemon-summoning content. Purchased ranks appear below under Talents & Features.

Choose when activated: +1 to your next Psychic Test this turn, or +1 to your next weapon attack roll this turn. The chosen bonus is consumed on the matching test and expires at the end of the turn. Does not stack with another activation.

• The choice is locked in at activation.
• Only the chosen test type benefits.

Forge VTT: Fully automated: the choice is visible as an effect on the sheet; the matching roll consumes it and shows it in the breakdown.

The target gains +1 on saves against psychic powers targeting them and reduces Warp or psychic damage taken by 2. Only one creature may carry this Librarian's ward — warding a new target removes it from the previous one.

• One warded target per Librarian at a time.

Forge VTT: Guided: the ward sits as a visible timed effect on the target and expires automatically; the save bonus and damage reduction are applied at the table.

• A Librarian starts with 5 Psychic Powers and 2 Discipline Points at level 1.
• Psychic Powers Known follow the universal table (5/6/7/8/9 at levels 1/5/9/13/17).
• Using a Psychic Power normally costs your Action (Use Power).
• Pushing may trigger Perils.
• Purchased Librarius Discipline ranks appear under Talents & Features in Forge VTT.

Librarians gain 1 Discipline Point at every even level.

This progression is a working draft. Final class balance may change after all classes are designed.