Incorpereal and ethereal

[Diomeneus]

after looking through the core books for awhile trying to make a character for a certain purpose I eventually found the Etherealness ability for armor... then remembered ghost touch for weapons works both ways. Getting excited at the prospect of having an incorporeal character that can melee opponents as well as bypass armor I was horrified to realize that ethereal and incorporeal are two separate yet similar things...

With armor that has the etherealness ability the only way I can make myself incorporeal so that I can attack is if I actually manage to somehow get the Supernatural Ability ghosts have called Manifestion. Looking at the rules for creating magic items i was hard pressed to find the ones that allow me to make an item that has a supernatural ability and NOT a spell or spell like..

any help or suggestions on how to make a character incorporeal without adding the ghost template?

 

[blargney the second]

There's a maneuver in Bo9S that lets you become incorporeal. It's in the Shadow Hand discipline.

 

[Nifft]

An item in the Tome of Magic (Shadow Magic section) grants incorporeality on command.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Diomeneus]

alright i'll look up those two things! thanks guys

 

[moritheil]

The Unbodied template and the Psion Uncarnate may be options as well.

 

[Shin Okada]

Higher level Ninja can attack from Ethereal plane though only a limited time. They can also become Ethereal by themselves, of course.

 

[Jhaelen]

any help or suggestions on how to make a character incorporeal without adding the ghost template?

In MM5 there's also the phantom template. The low-cost version only makes you incorporeal when moving, iirc.

 

[Maleketh]

In MM5 there's also the phantom template. The low-cost version only makes you incorporeal when moving, iirc.

There's only one version - it just works differently depending on the templated creature's hit dice.

 

[Diomeneus]

yeah I'm gonna have me a look at the MM5 then... Tomb of Magic had no items... just a prestige class that was half caster/rogue kind of. My character is fighter or rogue.