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<blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 6233679" data-attributes="member: 29746"><p><strong>Experiment: Metameld feats</strong></p><p></p><p>This is a highly experimental idea that I haven't had the opportunity to properly test yet, but I thought them up a few months ago and have been going back and forth on whether to post them here. The basic notion behind these is: since spellcasters have Metamagic feats, and manifesters have Metapsionic feats, shouldn't Incarnum users have something similar for soulmelds? The only guidance we get towards such a notion in MoI itself is the feat <span style="color: #00ffff"><strong>Expanded Soulmeld Capacity</strong></span> on page 38; it works on only one meld at a time, but you can take the feat multiple times to affect more than one meld simultaneously.</p><p></p><p>I took that idea and ran with it, building out three more feats and in their structure blazing a trail for how to create others in the future. Any of you running Incarnum games, feel free to put these in and give them a try, see how they work and what can/should be changed about them (if they should even exist at all). Comments, in other words, are encouraged here!</p><p></p><p>I also slightly changed the wording of the original feat, and copied its new text below along with the other three. Here are the four currently existing Metameld feats:</p><p></p><p>[h=4]<span style="color: #00ffff">Expanded Soulmeld Capacity</span> [Metameld][/h] Your soul's tie to Incarnum allows you to maintain more essentia in a single soulmeld.</p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> CON 15, Meldshaper level 1.</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> When you shape your soulmelds, choose one soulmeld. Your essentia capacity for that soulmeld is increased by 1 (up to a maximum of your CON bonus).</p><p> Each time you shape your soulmelds, you can change the soulmeld that benefits from this feat.</p><p> If you unshape the soulmeld that benefits from this feat, or the soulmeld unshapes involuntarily (for example, if you use up the maximum range of <em>Dimension Door</em> in your Cerulean Sandals), then the soulmeld that you shape to replace it automatically benefits from this feat unless you decide otherwise. In order to cause one of your other shaped soulmelds to benefit from this feat, after unshaping the soulmeld which formerly benefited from it, you must first unshape the soulmeld you wish to benefit, and then reshape it specifically using this feat.</p><p><strong>Special:</strong> You can take this feat multiple times. For each time you take this feat, you can apply its effects to one additional soulmeld while shaping (or reshaping, as described above). You can't apply this feat's effects more than once to the same soulmeld, even if you have more instances of the feat than your total number of soulmelds shaped.</p><p></p><p>[h=4]Persistent Soulmeld [Metameld][/h] Your meldshaping skill allows you to double the duration of one soulmeld's effects.</p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> CON 15, Meldshaper level 1, 3 ranks in Spellcraft.</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> When you shape your soulmelds, choose one soulmeld. Double the duration of any activated or triggered effects of that soulmeld that are not instantaneous or permanent. If the soulmeld places limits on the duration of any such effects, then those limits also double. For example, if you apply this feat's effects to an Apparition Ribbon bound to your Throat, then when you become Incorporeal it lasts for 2 rounds plus 2 per point of invested essentia (instead of 1 round plus 1 per essentia), and the daily limit increases to double your meldshaper level. Applying this feat to Lucky Dice causes the Dice to grant the bonus for 2 rounds plus 2 per point of invested essentia, rather than 1 round plus 1 per essentia. If you apply this feat to a Revolutionary's Cloak, then the daily limit on <em>Freedom of Movement</em> increases to double your meldshaper level.</p><p> Each time you shape your soulmelds, you can change the soulmeld that benefits from this feat.</p><p> If you unshape the soulmeld that benefits from this feat, or the soulmeld unshapes involuntarily (for example, if you use the <em>Control Winds</em> power of a Tornado Crown bound to your Pattern), then the soulmeld that you shape to replace it automatically benefits from this feat unless you decide otherwise. In order to cause one of your other shaped soulmelds to benefit from this feat, after unshaping the soulmeld which formerly benefited from it, you must first unshape the soulmeld you wish to benefit, and then reshape it specifically using this feat.</p><p><strong>Special:</strong> You can take this feat multiple times. For each time you take this feat, you can apply its effects to one additional soulmeld while shaping (or reshaping, as described above). You can't apply this feat's effects more than once to the same soulmeld, even if you have more instances of the feat than your total number of soulmelds shaped.</p><p></p><p>[h=4]Widen Soulmeld [Metameld][/h] Your meldshaping skill allows you to double the range and area of one soulmeld's effects.</p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> CON 15, Meldshaper level 1, 3 ranks in Spellcraft.</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> When you shape your soulmelds, choose one soulmeld. The range of any activated or triggered effects of that soulmeld double. If the soulmeld has any such effects which work on an area, as opposed to specific targets, then the area affected is also doubled. For example, if you apply this feat's effects to Crackling Chains, then the range of the Electricity-dealing ranged touch attack increases to 60 feet- and if you bind it to your Pattern Chakra, then the length of the Line of Electricity becomes 20 feet per point of invested essentia rather than 10 feet per essentia. Applying this feat to a Basilisk Mask does not change the effect of the Low-Light Vision (since that does not have a specific range), but the range of the Darkvision it grants increases to 60 feet per point of invested essentia (instead of 30 feet per point), and if you bind it to your Totem Chakra then the range of its Petrify power increases to 60 feet. If you apply this feat to a Diadem of Purelight, then the soulmeld illuminates a radius of 40 feet plus 20 per point of invested essentia, instead of 20 feet plus 10 per essentia.</p><p> Each time you shape your soulmelds, you can change the soulmeld that benefits from this feat.</p><p> If you unshape the soulmeld that benefits from this feat, or the soulmeld unshapes involuntarily (for example, if you use the explosive attack of Bloodwar Gauntlets bound to your Arms), then the soulmeld that you shape to replace it automatically benefits from this feat unless you decide otherwise. In order to cause one of your other shaped soulmelds to benefit from this feat, after unshaping the soulmeld which formerly benefited from it, you must first unshape the soulmeld you wish to benefit, and then reshape it specifically using this feat.</p><p><strong>Special:</strong> You can take this feat multiple times. For each time you take this feat, you can apply its effects to one additional soulmeld while shaping (or reshaping, as described above). You can't apply this feat's effects more than once to the same soulmeld, even if you have more instances of the feat than your total number of soulmelds shaped.</p><p></p><p>[h=4]Empower Soulmeld [Metameld][/h] Your meldshaping skill allows you to make one soulmeld's effects 50% more powerful than normal.</p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> CON 17, Meldshaper level 1, 7 ranks in Spellcraft.</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> When you shape your soulmelds, choose one soulmeld. All variable, numeric effects of that soulmeld (except for the duration of any triggered or activated effects) are increased by half, including numbers affected by essentia investment (such as skill bonuses). For example, if you apply this feat's effects to Cerulean Sandals, then your Speed increases by 7.5 feet per point of invested essentia, and if the soulmeld is bound to your Feet, then the maximum range limit for the <em>Dimension Door</em> power increases to 15 feet per meldshaper level (instead of 10 feet). Applying this feat to a Crystal Helm does not change the saving throw bonus (since it is not variable), but the deflection bonus to AC becomes +1.5 per point of invested essentia (1 point of essentia still grants only a +1 bonus, but 2 points grants a +3 bonus, 3 points grants a +4, and so forth). If you apply this feat to a Thunderstep Boots, then the Sonic damage increases by 50% from the rolled number.</p><p> Using this feat requires that you "bind" the affected soulmeld to the feat, using one of your available Chakra Binds. This does not change the Chakra the soulmeld occupies, nor the Chakra it is bound to if you choose to actually bind it to a Chakra, but it does consume one of your available Chakra Bind "slots" while the soulmeld is affected by the feat. If you do not have an available Chakra Bind to spend on using this feat, then you cannot use the feat until you gain an open Chakra Bind somehow (for example, by unbinding a previously-bound soulmeld).</p><p> Each time you shape your soulmelds, you can change the soulmeld that benefits from this feat.</p><p> If you unshape the soulmeld that benefits from this feat, or the soulmeld unshapes involuntarily (for example, if you use up the maximum duration of <em>Invisibility</em> in your Midnight Cloak), then the soulmeld that you shape to replace it automatically benefits from this feat unless you decide otherwise. In order to cause one of your other shaped soulmelds to benefit from this feat, after unshaping the soulmeld which formerly benefited from it, you must first unshape the soulmeld you wish to benefit, and then reshape it specifically using this feat. When the soulmeld benefiting from this feat is unshaped, you regain the Chakra Bind that is used up by the feat, until and unless you shape a new soulmeld affected by the feat.</p><p><strong>Special:</strong> You can take this feat multiple times. For each time you take this feat, you can apply its effects to one additional soulmeld while shaping (or reshaping, as described above). You can't apply this feat's effects more than once to the same soulmeld, even if you have more instances of the feat than your total number of soulmelds shaped. Each time you benefit a soulmeld using an instance of this feat, you must use up another Chakra Bind to do it; thus, if you have taken this feat twice and wish to Empower two soulmelds, then you must use up two Chakra Bind slots to do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paradox42, post: 6233679, member: 29746"] [b]Experiment: Metameld feats[/b] This is a highly experimental idea that I haven't had the opportunity to properly test yet, but I thought them up a few months ago and have been going back and forth on whether to post them here. The basic notion behind these is: since spellcasters have Metamagic feats, and manifesters have Metapsionic feats, shouldn't Incarnum users have something similar for soulmelds? The only guidance we get towards such a notion in MoI itself is the feat [COLOR=#00ffff][B]Expanded Soulmeld Capacity[/B][/COLOR] on page 38; it works on only one meld at a time, but you can take the feat multiple times to affect more than one meld simultaneously. I took that idea and ran with it, building out three more feats and in their structure blazing a trail for how to create others in the future. Any of you running Incarnum games, feel free to put these in and give them a try, see how they work and what can/should be changed about them (if they should even exist at all). Comments, in other words, are encouraged here! I also slightly changed the wording of the original feat, and copied its new text below along with the other three. Here are the four currently existing Metameld feats: [h=4][COLOR=#00ffff]Expanded Soulmeld Capacity[/COLOR] [Metameld][/h] Your soul's tie to Incarnum allows you to maintain more essentia in a single soulmeld. [B]Prerequisites:[/B] CON 15, Meldshaper level 1. [B]Benefit:[/B] When you shape your soulmelds, choose one soulmeld. Your essentia capacity for that soulmeld is increased by 1 (up to a maximum of your CON bonus). Each time you shape your soulmelds, you can change the soulmeld that benefits from this feat. If you unshape the soulmeld that benefits from this feat, or the soulmeld unshapes involuntarily (for example, if you use up the maximum range of [I]Dimension Door[/I] in your Cerulean Sandals), then the soulmeld that you shape to replace it automatically benefits from this feat unless you decide otherwise. In order to cause one of your other shaped soulmelds to benefit from this feat, after unshaping the soulmeld which formerly benefited from it, you must first unshape the soulmeld you wish to benefit, and then reshape it specifically using this feat. [B]Special:[/B] You can take this feat multiple times. For each time you take this feat, you can apply its effects to one additional soulmeld while shaping (or reshaping, as described above). You can't apply this feat's effects more than once to the same soulmeld, even if you have more instances of the feat than your total number of soulmelds shaped. [h=4]Persistent Soulmeld [Metameld][/h] Your meldshaping skill allows you to double the duration of one soulmeld's effects. [B]Prerequisites:[/B] CON 15, Meldshaper level 1, 3 ranks in Spellcraft. [B]Benefit:[/B] When you shape your soulmelds, choose one soulmeld. Double the duration of any activated or triggered effects of that soulmeld that are not instantaneous or permanent. If the soulmeld places limits on the duration of any such effects, then those limits also double. For example, if you apply this feat's effects to an Apparition Ribbon bound to your Throat, then when you become Incorporeal it lasts for 2 rounds plus 2 per point of invested essentia (instead of 1 round plus 1 per essentia), and the daily limit increases to double your meldshaper level. Applying this feat to Lucky Dice causes the Dice to grant the bonus for 2 rounds plus 2 per point of invested essentia, rather than 1 round plus 1 per essentia. If you apply this feat to a Revolutionary's Cloak, then the daily limit on [I]Freedom of Movement[/I] increases to double your meldshaper level. Each time you shape your soulmelds, you can change the soulmeld that benefits from this feat. If you unshape the soulmeld that benefits from this feat, or the soulmeld unshapes involuntarily (for example, if you use the [I]Control Winds[/I] power of a Tornado Crown bound to your Pattern), then the soulmeld that you shape to replace it automatically benefits from this feat unless you decide otherwise. In order to cause one of your other shaped soulmelds to benefit from this feat, after unshaping the soulmeld which formerly benefited from it, you must first unshape the soulmeld you wish to benefit, and then reshape it specifically using this feat. [B]Special:[/B] You can take this feat multiple times. For each time you take this feat, you can apply its effects to one additional soulmeld while shaping (or reshaping, as described above). You can't apply this feat's effects more than once to the same soulmeld, even if you have more instances of the feat than your total number of soulmelds shaped. [h=4]Widen Soulmeld [Metameld][/h] Your meldshaping skill allows you to double the range and area of one soulmeld's effects. [B]Prerequisites:[/B] CON 15, Meldshaper level 1, 3 ranks in Spellcraft. [B]Benefit:[/B] When you shape your soulmelds, choose one soulmeld. The range of any activated or triggered effects of that soulmeld double. If the soulmeld has any such effects which work on an area, as opposed to specific targets, then the area affected is also doubled. For example, if you apply this feat's effects to Crackling Chains, then the range of the Electricity-dealing ranged touch attack increases to 60 feet- and if you bind it to your Pattern Chakra, then the length of the Line of Electricity becomes 20 feet per point of invested essentia rather than 10 feet per essentia. Applying this feat to a Basilisk Mask does not change the effect of the Low-Light Vision (since that does not have a specific range), but the range of the Darkvision it grants increases to 60 feet per point of invested essentia (instead of 30 feet per point), and if you bind it to your Totem Chakra then the range of its Petrify power increases to 60 feet. If you apply this feat to a Diadem of Purelight, then the soulmeld illuminates a radius of 40 feet plus 20 per point of invested essentia, instead of 20 feet plus 10 per essentia. Each time you shape your soulmelds, you can change the soulmeld that benefits from this feat. If you unshape the soulmeld that benefits from this feat, or the soulmeld unshapes involuntarily (for example, if you use the explosive attack of Bloodwar Gauntlets bound to your Arms), then the soulmeld that you shape to replace it automatically benefits from this feat unless you decide otherwise. In order to cause one of your other shaped soulmelds to benefit from this feat, after unshaping the soulmeld which formerly benefited from it, you must first unshape the soulmeld you wish to benefit, and then reshape it specifically using this feat. [B]Special:[/B] You can take this feat multiple times. For each time you take this feat, you can apply its effects to one additional soulmeld while shaping (or reshaping, as described above). You can't apply this feat's effects more than once to the same soulmeld, even if you have more instances of the feat than your total number of soulmelds shaped. [h=4]Empower Soulmeld [Metameld][/h] Your meldshaping skill allows you to make one soulmeld's effects 50% more powerful than normal. [B]Prerequisites:[/B] CON 17, Meldshaper level 1, 7 ranks in Spellcraft. [B]Benefit:[/B] When you shape your soulmelds, choose one soulmeld. All variable, numeric effects of that soulmeld (except for the duration of any triggered or activated effects) are increased by half, including numbers affected by essentia investment (such as skill bonuses). For example, if you apply this feat's effects to Cerulean Sandals, then your Speed increases by 7.5 feet per point of invested essentia, and if the soulmeld is bound to your Feet, then the maximum range limit for the [I]Dimension Door[/I] power increases to 15 feet per meldshaper level (instead of 10 feet). Applying this feat to a Crystal Helm does not change the saving throw bonus (since it is not variable), but the deflection bonus to AC becomes +1.5 per point of invested essentia (1 point of essentia still grants only a +1 bonus, but 2 points grants a +3 bonus, 3 points grants a +4, and so forth). If you apply this feat to a Thunderstep Boots, then the Sonic damage increases by 50% from the rolled number. Using this feat requires that you "bind" the affected soulmeld to the feat, using one of your available Chakra Binds. This does not change the Chakra the soulmeld occupies, nor the Chakra it is bound to if you choose to actually bind it to a Chakra, but it does consume one of your available Chakra Bind "slots" while the soulmeld is affected by the feat. If you do not have an available Chakra Bind to spend on using this feat, then you cannot use the feat until you gain an open Chakra Bind somehow (for example, by unbinding a previously-bound soulmeld). Each time you shape your soulmelds, you can change the soulmeld that benefits from this feat. If you unshape the soulmeld that benefits from this feat, or the soulmeld unshapes involuntarily (for example, if you use up the maximum duration of [I]Invisibility[/I] in your Midnight Cloak), then the soulmeld that you shape to replace it automatically benefits from this feat unless you decide otherwise. In order to cause one of your other shaped soulmelds to benefit from this feat, after unshaping the soulmeld which formerly benefited from it, you must first unshape the soulmeld you wish to benefit, and then reshape it specifically using this feat. When the soulmeld benefiting from this feat is unshaped, you regain the Chakra Bind that is used up by the feat, until and unless you shape a new soulmeld affected by the feat. [B]Special:[/B] You can take this feat multiple times. For each time you take this feat, you can apply its effects to one additional soulmeld while shaping (or reshaping, as described above). You can't apply this feat's effects more than once to the same soulmeld, even if you have more instances of the feat than your total number of soulmelds shaped. Each time you benefit a soulmeld using an instance of this feat, you must use up another Chakra Bind to do it; thus, if you have taken this feat twice and wish to Empower two soulmelds, then you must use up two Chakra Bind slots to do so. [/QUOTE]
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