Don Quixote of Incarnum

[Andor]

I was listening to the Man of La Mancha today and during the bit with the golden helmet I was struck with the thought that there was a DnD character lurking in there.

I.E. Someone who is a fullbore looney but whose belief in the might of his 'items' empowers them supernaturally. (For those wondering what I'm talking about Don Quixote at one point finds the Golden Helmet of Mambrino and immediately reclaims it from obscurity so he can add it's glory to his own and vice versa. The fact that the 'Golden Helmet of Mambrino' was in fact a shaving bowl was immaterial to him.)

Mechanically you work it as an incarnum wielder of some flavor who also has a material focus for each of his soulmelds. Flavorwise he is a spectacular fruitbasket whose faith in the "Golden Helmet of Mambrino" is so strong is gives him a supernatural benefit when he does his shaving bowl.

Just felt I should share...

 

[demiurge1138]

Wait a minute! That's something flavorful and cool for incarnum users who aren't totemists! Amazing! Sarcasm aside, that is a really good idea. If e'er I were to use incarnum, I'd probably do something like this.

Demiurge out.

 

[babomb]

I approve. I don't plan to use incarnum, but were a player to come to me with such an idea, I would allow it on the spot.

Now, you just need something to polymorph giants into windmills...

 

[Rystil Arden]

I approve. I don't plan to use incarnum, but were a player to come to me with such an idea, I would allow it on the spot.

Now, you just need something to polymorph giants into windmills...

Just come up with an Incarnum Animated Object template for the windmills that change their type to Giant

 

[vulcan_idic]

Sounds like a job for polymorph any object...

 

[Rystil Arden]

Sounds like a job for polymorph any object...

Or you could always have him think he sees giants when they are really windmills. If memory holds a seat in this confused world, there's an artefact from earlier editions that was made by some Arabian girl who didn't like her husband that grants True Seeing but the Curse is that the "true" sensations shown by the artefact become corrupted by the wearer's beliefs and desires until she is trapped in a fantasy world of her own making, believing utterly that the real world is the fake.

 

[Silver Moon]

Back in the 1990's I played a "Living City" character who was based on Don Quixote. He was a dwarven retired military man who was going senile named Colonel Balkar Ironrod. His "Poncho" was a dwarf named Weyland, who actually wasn't present so he would dub any dwarf (or other short person if there were no dwarf PC's) as "Weyland" and command him throughout the module.

 

[Joshua Randall]

En un lugar de La Mancha, cuyo nombre no quiero arcordarme...

It's been 15+ years since I read Don Quixote in my Spanish class, and I still remember the first line.