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Message: <blockquote data-quote="willows" data-source="post: 5330864" data-attributes="member: 79929">I was looking over Magic of Incarnum, which is full of bad game mechanics with a cool idea inside, and I was wondering how to handle it in 4e. This is the beginning of my efforts to do that.In this conversion, incarnum energy is depicted a little differently than the 3e version; incarnum abilities create very transient displays. The visual effect is of flashing lights, sudden crackles and booms, etc.The chakra mechanic is going to be central to all the incarnum classes; dailies will expend large amounts of chakra for large effects.SoulbornYou have a rare power: you can feel the flow of incarnum in your very blood and bones. With hard training and mental discipline, you have learned to shape this energy into a formidable weapon.Role: Defender. Your supernatural power flows through you, gracefully redirecting or dissolving the attacks of enemies.Power Source: Incarnum. You shape the life-energy that moves through the world into evanescent tools, or simply run it through your body to create wondrous effects.Key abilities: Constitution, Dexterity, CharismaArmor Proficiencies: Cloth, leather, hide, chainmail, light shieldsWeapon Proficiencies: Simple melee, Miltary melee, Simple rangedBonus to Defense: +2 Reflex HP at First Level: 15 + Con scoreHP per each level gained: 6Healing Surges per day: 8 + Con modifier Trained skills: From the class skill list below, chose 3 trained skills at 1st level.Class Skills: Athletics, Endurance, Heal, History, Insight, Religion Class Features: Soul Bastion: Your inherent incarnum projects a field of protective energy. You get +1 AC, or +3 if any of your chakras are open.Incarnum Charge: Through inborn talent and dedicated training, you have learned to capture the fleeting energy that flows through all living things. You can release this energy to enhance your attacks. You capture this energy in the power centers of your body – points that are called chakras. The soulborn has access to five chakras: crown, throat, heart, hands, and feet. A charged, or open, chakra can be released to add effects to certain powers.Inner Sanctum Chakra: One of your chakras is the seat of your soul. Since your soul is a powerful nexus of spiritual energy, you gain certain benefits, depending on where it is located. Choose one of these options:Crown Soul: You have a heightened awareness, giving you a +3 bonus to opportunity attacks.Throat Soul: You have a powerful presence. When you hit with an opportunity attack, you gain combat advantage against the target until the end of your next turn.Heart Soul: You have a resilient heart. Once per round, when you hit with an opportunity attack, you gain 2 temporary HP. Increase to 4 at 11th level and 6 at 21st level.Soulborn Defense: Your combat training gives you access to the following powers: Flash Step and Soul Mark. These allow you to maintain combat superiority by remaining close to your opponents and punishing them for attacking your allies.Flash Step — Soulborn FeatureYou seem to flicker from one place to another, your form illuminated by flashes of blue light.At-Will • IncarnumFree Action — PersonalTrigger: An adjacent enemy marked by you shiftsEffect: You shift 1 square.Special: You can use this power only once per turn. You can release 1 chakra to shift an additional square.Soul Mark — Soulborn FeatureYou shape an icon of blue light which floats above an enemy's head, linking its soul to yours. Different soulborn use different icons, but the commonest is a spinning burst of rays just in front of the forehead.At-Will • IncarnumFree Action — Close burst 5Target: One creature in burstEffect: You mark the target. The target remains marked until the end of the encounter or you use Soul Mark on a different target. A creature can be subject to only one mark at a time. A new mark supersedes a mark that was already in place. While a target is marked, it takes a –2 penalty to attack rolls for any attack that doesn't include you as a target, and you open a chakra.Powers:At-Will:Sky Sword — Soulborn Attack 1Your weapon carries you along in a gust of azure wind, to position you to strike.At-Will • Incarnum, WeaponStandard Action — Close burst 2Target: 1 enemy in burstSpecial: You can shift 1 square before the attack.Attack: Con vs. ACHit: 1W + Con modifier damage. (2W at 21st)Startling Fan — Soulborn Attack 1Your weapon multiplies into many sparkling duplicates of itself, confusing your foe.At-Will • Incarnum, WeaponStandard Action — Melee weaponTarget: 1 enemyAttack: Con vs. ACHit: 1W + Con modifier damage. (2W at 21st)Effect: An ally adjacent to the target shifts 1 square.Cold Star — Soulborn Attack 1A mote of cold light forms at the tip of your blade.At-Will • Incarnum, WeaponStandard Action — Melee weaponTarget: 1 enemyAttack: Con vs. ACHit: 1W + Con modifier damage, and the target receives your Soul Mark. (2W at 21st)Crown Soul: Until the end of your next turn, if the target moves away from you, you open a chakra.Enfolding Crescent — Soulborn Attack 1You describe a glowing line in the air and trap your enemy within.At-Will • Incarnum, WeaponStandard Action — Melee weaponTarget: 1 enemyAttack: Con vs. ACHit: 1W + Con modifier damage, and the target is grabbed. (2W at 21st)Throat Soul: You can release a chakra to maintain the grab, instead of using a minor action.Executioner's Mask — Soulborn Attack 1A white mask of light covers your face as you position to make your attack.At-Will • Incarnum, WeaponStandard Action — Melee weaponTarget: 1 enemyAttack: Con vs. ACHit: 1W + Con modifier damage, and the target has -2 AC until the end of your next turn. (2W at 21st)Heart Soul: Until the end of your next turn, if the target is marked and makes an attack that does not include you, you gain 2 temporary HP.</blockquote>

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