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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 2601218" data-attributes="member: 3424">I'm not sure if you're including any of my posts under the category of "blind support", but I assure you that my support is not blind. If it was an unbalanced, clunky, overcomplicated system, I would not be enthused about it. As it is, I can see how it could serve as a less complex alternative to someone who wants to run a magic-user. And there is some value to newness and trend-bucking. It's the same reason that (I assume) you don't want to eat exactly the same thing for breakfast, lunch and dinner, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.The three approaches detailed in the book are:(1) It's something new - the PCs are among the first to discover it, or some event happens that makes it possible to wield incarnum. How different is this from the introduction of a new spell or type of spellcaster?(2) It's a well-kept secret - knowledge of this strange power is limited to secret societies and cabals. How different is this from introducing feats, prestige classes and other techniques that are only available from a source that the PCs are among the rare few people that stumble upon?(3) It's from a distant land or another plane - the PCs must interact with travelers or invaders from afar in order to learn how to wield this power. How different is this from introducing psionics via a githyanki invasion, or incorporating samurai, shugenja, wu jen and ninja into a mostly european-themed campaign?As others have said, if you don't like the implications of soulstuff, it can just be another form of magic. Substitite "magic" everywhere you see the word "incarnum". Drop the "soul" from "soulmeld" and just call them "melds". Instead of "incarnates" and "soulborn", use "meldmages" and "meldwarriors". Instead of essentia, call it "mana" or just keep the term, since there's nothing "soul"-ly about it. Changing the mechanics is one thing, but there is nothing about the mechanics that requires incarnum to be powered by souls. Changing the flavor is as simple as substituing some words for some others.</blockquote>

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