Custom divine abilities, portfolios, etc.
Upper_Krust
Hero
Hi there Nezkrul! 
I've seen all your questions and I'll try to respond to all of them tomorrow (working tonight).
I've seen all your questions and I'll try to respond to all of them tomorrow (working tonight).
Nezkrul
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how about this for Incarnum Portfolio:
Disciple- Spell-like abilities- use any spells from incarnum domain.
Aversion to Magic- any soulmeld that you shape takes up the slot on your body associated with it so that you cannot also benefit from a magic item on that body slot.
Chakra Dependency- you take a competence penalty (equal to divine rank) on all rolls if you do not have a soulmeld bound to a chakra
Prophet- Incarnum Mastery- increase your essentia capacity by your divine rank for all incarnum abilities/feats/class features, and you gain bonus essentia points equal to your divine rank
Hero-Deity- Scion of Incarnum- Whenever you have a soulmeld bound to all of your chakras open to you, you gain a competence bonus equal to divine rank on attacks, saves, and armor class.
Quasi-deity- Incarnate Servants- any creature you summon gains the benefits of a soulmeld, that you know, shaped by you, at maximum essentia capacity based on the summoned creature's HD/level
Demi-deity- Embodiment of Incarnum- whenever you gain power points for slaying enemies, you gain an extra share (or twice as much if you alone slay the enemy)
Lesser deity- Superior Divine [effect]- assault your enemies with divine based attacks
Intermediate deity- Uncanny Divine Mastery- pick and choose which potential targets are affected by your Superior Divine [effect]
Greater deity- Cerulean Soul- As long as you have a soulmeld bound to a chakra, you gain regeneration equal to half your hit dice/levels.
Elder One- Incarnum Messiah- creatures with the [incarnum] subtype with a divine rank lower than yours cannot harm you (no save)
Cosmic Imperfection (Entropy)- One artifact in the universe can defeat your cosmic string ability
Old One- Pariah of Entropy- necromantic spells/effects cease to function in your divine realm
Single Portfolio gives your manifestation a visible aura whose color is based on your mood, red for anger, blue for sad, green for arousal, etc.. you cannot hide the aura, and if you change shape you retain it.
-still working on the double portfolio
Disciple- Spell-like abilities- use any spells from incarnum domain.
Aversion to Magic- any soulmeld that you shape takes up the slot on your body associated with it so that you cannot also benefit from a magic item on that body slot.
Chakra Dependency- you take a competence penalty (equal to divine rank) on all rolls if you do not have a soulmeld bound to a chakra
Prophet- Incarnum Mastery- increase your essentia capacity by your divine rank for all incarnum abilities/feats/class features, and you gain bonus essentia points equal to your divine rank
Hero-Deity- Scion of Incarnum- Whenever you have a soulmeld bound to all of your chakras open to you, you gain a competence bonus equal to divine rank on attacks, saves, and armor class.
Quasi-deity- Incarnate Servants- any creature you summon gains the benefits of a soulmeld, that you know, shaped by you, at maximum essentia capacity based on the summoned creature's HD/level
Demi-deity- Embodiment of Incarnum- whenever you gain power points for slaying enemies, you gain an extra share (or twice as much if you alone slay the enemy)
Lesser deity- Superior Divine [effect]- assault your enemies with divine based attacks
Intermediate deity- Uncanny Divine Mastery- pick and choose which potential targets are affected by your Superior Divine [effect]
Greater deity- Cerulean Soul- As long as you have a soulmeld bound to a chakra, you gain regeneration equal to half your hit dice/levels.
Elder One- Incarnum Messiah- creatures with the [incarnum] subtype with a divine rank lower than yours cannot harm you (no save)
Cosmic Imperfection (Entropy)- One artifact in the universe can defeat your cosmic string ability
Old One- Pariah of Entropy- necromantic spells/effects cease to function in your divine realm
Single Portfolio gives your manifestation a visible aura whose color is based on your mood, red for anger, blue for sad, green for arousal, etc.. you cannot hide the aura, and if you change shape you retain it.
-still working on the double portfolio
I've never liked Incarnum.
It's basically just a watered down and mutilated variation of magic item creation blended with the soulknife class to make it seem all spiritual, with the words chakra and essentia thrown around a lot.
It's probably the most poorly thought out book that WOTC ever created. When I bought it, I got it so others could use it. It never once saw use in any of the campaigns I was in. Waste of money IMO.
Why would anyone waste class levels on weak little built in magic items, when they can just take real classes and purchase magic items that don't suck or build their own?
Sure...at low levels it might be ok, but once you get past level 5, it becomes increasingly more sensible to take ordinary class levels. :\
Not saying this to be a jerk. I just really never found much of a way to feasibly employ Incarnum. It seemed too tacked on of a system.
It's basically just a watered down and mutilated variation of magic item creation blended with the soulknife class to make it seem all spiritual, with the words chakra and essentia thrown around a lot.
It's probably the most poorly thought out book that WOTC ever created. When I bought it, I got it so others could use it. It never once saw use in any of the campaigns I was in. Waste of money IMO.
Why would anyone waste class levels on weak little built in magic items, when they can just take real classes and purchase magic items that don't suck or build their own?
Sure...at low levels it might be ok, but once you get past level 5, it becomes increasingly more sensible to take ordinary class levels. :\
Not saying this to be a jerk. I just really never found much of a way to feasibly employ Incarnum. It seemed too tacked on of a system.
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Upper_Krust
Hero
Howdy Nezkrul!
apologies for taking so long to get back to you on this - it was a bit daunting.
I probably bent a few rules to squeeze in the Half-Dragon template but the Woodling does look better on paper (because of the Plant Traits I think). I guess its up to individual DMs.
Fire away.
You need to be able to cast the spell (as a spell or spell-like ability)
You attack with the bow - if you hit, the spell goes off. That said, for something like fireball, you may not need to hit the target to catch them in the blast of course.
Its SU (IIRC?) so you would get Spell resistance against the magical effect.
Same as for the spell.
Same as your level.
Same as your bow range.
Yes.
Glad you like it.
In theory they would have their own gravitational field but could 'switch' it on or off (more specifically by reversing polarity to push, pull or neutral.
For those characters yes.
I'd say yes, but remember the limit is x2 the original Rage bonus.
I don't have the PHB2.
I don't own the Tome of Battle.
It could still smell, but I don't know if it would be in its right frame of mind to act upon it. Personally I would allow it.
A vampire has strength and thus could have its strength withered. By the same token, any Undead with intelligence could be subject to fear.
Both.
I'd add subtypes once the deity EITHER takes up residence in the outer planes OR is first killed (and thus its spirit returns to the outer planes).
Yes.
Sounds like he will be carrying the party loot then.
apologies for taking so long to get back to you on this - it was a bit daunting.
Nezkrul said:
I probably bent a few rules to squeeze in the Half-Dragon template but the Woodling does look better on paper (because of the Plant Traits I think). I guess its up to individual DMs.
Fire away.
You need to be able to cast the spell (as a spell or spell-like ability)
You attack with the bow - if you hit, the spell goes off. That said, for something like fireball, you may not need to hit the target to catch them in the blast of course.
Its SU (IIRC?) so you would get Spell resistance against the magical effect.
Same as for the spell.
Same as your level.
Same as your bow range.
Yes.
This ability is really intriguing to me
Glad you like it.
In theory they would have their own gravitational field but could 'switch' it on or off (more specifically by reversing polarity to push, pull or neutral.
For those characters yes.
I'd say yes, but remember the limit is x2 the original Rage bonus.
I don't have the PHB2.
I don't own the Tome of Battle.
It could still smell, but I don't know if it would be in its right frame of mind to act upon it. Personally I would allow it.
A vampire has strength and thus could have its strength withered. By the same token, any Undead with intelligence could be subject to fear.
Both.
I'd add subtypes once the deity EITHER takes up residence in the outer planes OR is first killed (and thus its spirit returns to the outer planes).
Yes.
just as a funny little excerpt but that berserker deity I'm working on has 484 strength not raging/frenzying; his LIGHT LOAD is:
107,081,813,398,185,393,778,774,245.376 tons (thats in units of 2000lbs.)
I suppose that massive weight would only apply if earth's gravity were in effect on it, but according to science the earth weighs 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 lbs (thats only two septillion two hundred sextillion pounds).
Sounds like he will be carrying the party loot then.
just as a funny little excerpt but that berserker deity I'm working on has 484 strength not raging/frenzying; his LIGHT LOAD is:
107,081,813,398,185,393,778,774,245.376 tons (thats in units of 2000lbs.)
I suppose that massive weight would only apply if earth's gravity were in effect on it, but according to science the earth weighs 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 lbs (thats only two septillion two hundred sextillion pounds).
You're a number name off, actually. It starts with octillion.
A puny god. Barely capable of carrying a few dozen good sized stars.
I actually have a followup question to Eighth Sense; how do you handle the creature existing one minute into the future? Would a Fireball that is delayed 1 minute affect his present form (i.e. would you deal damage in the current round because it affects him a minute later)? Would the players require certain spells that allow them to precog his future location to accurately target the creature?
Nezkrul
First Post
Seventh, Eighth, and beyond, senses must be handled with care since it requires the DM to record everyone's actions taken every round, and every round for minutes at a time, so you can go back and change your actions
difficult to adjudicate and apply to the game, so I usually don't allow anything beyond seventh sense to have a tangible effect on the game... essentially I make eighth sense act as permanent foresight but the bonus is +10 instead of +2, with twice as many rounds of replay allowed than for seventh sense.
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