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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NaturalZero" data-source="post: 7322973" data-attributes="member: 55705">I actually feel like the exact opposite it true. Incarnum works better in a low-magic system because there's less competition for space with magic items. In 3.5, the soulmelds had to compete directly with the magic christmas tree that every class wanted/used and so it often felt underpowered compared to a different character with a fully spec'ed out set of gear (on top of class abilities!).  In 5e, you have plenty of room for the hand soulmeld, the belt soulmeld, and the helmet soulmeld because your only magic item of note is the +1 sword you carry. Actually, you could easily do a 5e version of Incarnum without interacting with magic items at all by having all the slots correspond to the real-life positions of the chakras instead of the wonky 3.5 appropriation, with "hand" and "boot" chakras. Wearing a magic amulet + heart chakra soulmeld? No prob!I want to see a Totemist in 5e and can easily envision how awesome it could be.  There might be a default "magical beast" core with a the additional types being the subclasses (Dragon souls, Vine Souls, Aberrant Souls, et all). You would a have a suite of default melds to equip your character with and a small pool of points to shift around, enhancing different abilities therein. It would be completely different from any of the existing casters we have out but woulld strongly represent the DnD brand by including abilities lifted from iconic monsters like the purple worm, displacer beast, beholder, chromatic dragons, etc.</blockquote>

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