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Three New Soulmelds For Alignment Distinction MoI has several soulmelds aligned Good or Evil, but none aligned Lawful or Chaotic except for Incarnate Avatar and Incarnate Weapon. I felt that this was a huge hole begging to be filled, so began the process of filling it (though only began). I...

Changes to Two Critical Soulmelds Because the Incarnate of Balance exists, it is necessary to make changes to two critical soulmelds in order to fully incorporate it. Namely, Incarnate Avatar and Incarnate Weapon. Both need versions for the Incarnate of Balance, and in fact I made a specific...

The Current Version of the Incarnate I've been going back and forth for days on whether to edit my original post on the Incarnate to make a proper table, using the new forum's features, but now I solidly come down on the side of Not. I'll instead just post the current version of the class...

Tradition is never a reason. Tradition is an excuse. There is no logic in an appeal to tradition, only a statement that the tradition is the speaker's emotional comfort zone and the speaker therefore prefers not to leave it. That is not rational, nor is it an argument- only an appeal to emotion...

True Necrocarnate Changes and Archetypes Reading back over the Necrocarnate as I posted it back in 2011, I see no changes in the present version other than these: Class Skills: Add Disguise (CHA), Sleight of Hand (DEX), and Stealth (DEX) to the True Necrocarnate's class skills list. This makes...

Are you allowed to use Bard Archetypes, at all? There are a lot of good ones that change the way the class works; Archaeologist (which basically turns you into Indiana Jones) is probably the most popular.

Soulborn Archetypes Nobody but me has come up with Archetypes for these PF Incarnum classes, or at any rate if the other two have then they haven't told me about them. Since the Soulborn changes from my post on page 1 of this thread were very short and small, I figure I can just leave off with...

New Feats These are feats specifically designed to be used with this whole package of PF Incarnum rules. A couple are specific to Incarnum classes, but most are designed to let other classes use little bits of Incarnum if they want to. Only one of these (Necrotic Smite) has been playtested...

Updated Feats The following feats are originally from MoI, but required changes to bring them up to date. All of these have names done in Turquoise text, to call them out. Notice that I'm also including text and feats for Dreamscarred Press's psionics rules; the original MoI included feats for...

The rules specifically state that you can do it, so by RAW it's always "okay." But individual GMs can overrule that of course, and from a character-power perspective you'll usually end up with a significantly weaker character in the end (most Archetypes reduce the class's power from the...

Update on playtesting: I haven't playtested any more of these classes since the last time I posted about it; the same Soulborn character is still in the game (he got Raised after that death I mentioned and is now a nice round 10th level), but the Soulborn character gave me enough experience with...

The Elementborn Well, time to try out the new table feature of the Advanced Posting option on the new boards. I mentioned in a post up above that I'd made an Alternate Class for the Soulborn that bases itself on the Foundationist, in much the same manner that a "base" Soulborn "bases itself"...

IIRC, James Jacobs is on record as saying (in some thread or another on Paizo's boards- I tried Googling it but couldn't find it) that Monks are specifically designed to be better at defense than any other class. In other words, they're turtles (aside from that speed thing), and deliberately...

I've been lax in keeping up with this thread (shame on me!) but the changes made to the Incarnum base classes and stuff really have been extensive enough to demand more postings. So I'm going to bump this thread now, and try to kick my keister into gear to post about the changes on the weekend...

Actually, most assessments I've seen say that Paizo severely underpowered the Rogue, and corrected the mistake with the Ninja. ;)

Agreed. Dragon egg growth and life cycle information is fluff. Fluff is rules-neutral. There's no valid reason to exclude fluff from any game in a PF campaign, as long as no rules are harmed by the inclusion. I still use fluff from 1E AD&D and BECMI D&D in my own game setting, and the setting is...

No big issue. I just felt like being pedantic and correcting a few things. :):devil:

Point of disorder; the variant Paladins actually never appeared in the 1E book titled Unearthed Arcana at all. They appeared in the 3.5E book with the same title (which was a very different work). E. Gary Gygax had nothing whatsoever to do with Paladins of any alignment except Lawful Good; he...

I made a CG Paladin Alternate Class for my own setting, called the Freedom Knight. A bunch of powers are different for the FK than for the base Paladin, so I won't go into detail on that, but I decided it would make things more interesting to have the CG and LE Paladin variants focus on the...

Incorrect. Different people use different XP charts, and additionally, different people use different amounts of combat, story awards, etc. to advance PCs. There's also the rule that limits XP gain beyond what it takes to advance a level, until you actually do advance, which was a hol;dover from...