CHAPTER 3
CHARACTER OPTIONS
If you have essentia, you can invest essentia in the soulmeld Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects as normal. See Table 2–1: Essentia Capacity on page 19 to do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a determine the soulmeld’s essentia capacity. new chakra. If you have the ability to bind a soulmeld to a chakra, you Normal: Without this feat, a soulmeld bound to a chakra can bind this soulmeld to any chakra available to you (as long closes the equivalent body space off from gaining the benefit as the soulmeld can be bound to that chakra). of a magic item. Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, choose a new UNDEAD MELDSHAPER soulmeld. [MONSTROUS] Despite having no soul of your own, you maintain the ability SHARE SOULMELD to channel incarnum through force of will alone. Prerequisites: Int 3, undead type. You can share a soulmeld with an ally with which you have a special bond. Benefits: Use your Wisdom score to determine the maxiPrerequisite: Ability to shape soulmelds and a familiar, mum number of soulmelds you can shape. If you would use animal companion, or mount with whom you can share your Constitution score to determine a soulmeld’s save DC, spells. use your Wisdom score instead. Benefit: At your option, any soulmeld shaped by you and currently affecting you can also affect your familiar, animal companion, or mount. The creature in question must remain within 5 feet of you to receive the benefit. If the creature leaves this radius of effect, it loses the benefits of the soulmeld A substitution level is a level of a given class that you take until such time as it returns within 5 feet. instead of the level described for the standard class. Selecting a substitution level is not the same as multiclassing—you remain within the class for which the substitution level SOULSIGHT [INCARNUM] You can attune your soul to sense living creatures near is taken. The class features of the substitution level simply you. When you use this feat, your eyes glow with a blue replace those of the standard level. luminescence. To qualify for a racial substitution level, you must be of the Prerequisites: Con 13, Wis 13, Concentration 4 ranks. proper race. For instance, to select a racial substitution level Benefit: Once per day, you can invest essentia into this of azurin cleric, you must be an azurin. feat. While essentia is invested in this feat you can activate The four races featured in this book—azurin, duskling, a limited form of blindsense, capable of pinpointing living rilkan, and skarn—each have racial substitution levels for creatures only, as a move action. This blindsense has a range one class from the Player’s Handbook. Added to these are equal to 5 feet per point of invested essentia. The blindsense racial substitution levels for a variety of existing races who lasts until the start of your next turn. Once the amount of can choose to become meldshapers. Essentially, each set essentia invested is chosen, it cannot be altered and remains of substitution levels presents a racially flavored variant invested for 24 hours. standard class for your game. The DM can add more racial If you have the ability to bind a soulmeld to your brow substitution level options (such as for azurin paladins or chakra, the blindsense granted by this feat is capable of duskling druids) as desired, using the ones presented here detecting both living and nonliving creatures. as guidelines. You gain 1 point of essentia. For each class with racial substitution levels, you can select each substitution level only at a specified class level. When you take a substitution level for your class at a given level, SOULTOUCHED SPELLCASTING [INCARNUM] you give up the benefits gained at that level for the standard By fusing your spells with incarnum, they become more class, and you get the substitution level benefits instead. You capable of overcoming enemy magic and spell resistance. can’t go back and gain the benefits for the level you swapped Prerequisite: Con 13. out—when you take your next level in the standard class, you Benefit: Once per day, you can invest essentia into this feat. gain the next higher level as if you had gained the previous level normally. You gain an insight bonus on dispel checks and on caster level checks made to defeat spell resistance equal to the invested For instance, if you are a 6th-level barbarian and take the essentia. Once the amount of essentia invested is chosen, it duskling barbarian substitution level for 7th level, you forever cannot be altered and remains invested for 24 hours. lose the benefits normally provided to a standard 7th-level You gain 1 point of essentia. barbarian (gaining instead the racial substitution benefits for an 7th-level duskling barbarian). When you gain another level SPLIT CHAKRA in barbarian, you gain the 8th-level benefits of the standard One of your chakras becomes capable of holding both a bound barbarian class. soulmeld and a magic item. Unless otherwise noted in the description of a racial Benefit: When this feat is selected, choose a chakra, such substitution level benefit, a character who takes a racial as hands. You can gain the benefit of a magic item that occusubstitution level gains spellcasting ability (increases in pies the body space equivalent of that chakra even while a spells per day and spells known, if applicable) as if he soulmeld is bound to that chakra. You can also bind a magic had taken this level in the standard class. A meldshaping item to the chakra. character likewise gains meldshaping ability (soulmelds,
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