Excited about Magic of Incarnum?

[Pseudonym]

Can't say as I am all that interested. The excerpts I read seemed rather bland. I'll wait until a few of the EN World reviewers I respect have had a chance to give the whole book the once-over before I make any decisions, but it doesn't look promising to me.

 

[amazingshafeman]

Well, like every other book I haven't bought in quite awhile, I'll spend a little time at B&N reading through it to see if there's anything I can use. If so, I'll head over to the FLGS and pick it up after thinking about it for a few days. If not, I'll let one of my gamers pick it up and let em try to convince me to use something in it. heh.

 

[Warbringer]

I was until I read the excerpt with the ten chakra's... blah............

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

I was until I read the excerpt with the ten chakra's... blah............

Why?

They correspond, roughly, to the magic item slots already available. Heck, the "in-house" term for item slots is "chakra."

 

[Psion]

I'm actually warming up to it. I'm not precisely excited by it, but I'll probably pick it up.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

I'm glad that WotC is exploring new boudries, but this "Incarnum" thing is coming too much out of left field. I wouldn't know what to do with it / how to make it fit in.

I'll pass on Magic of Incarnum.

AR

 

[Simplicity]

I gotta say, the chakra thing turned me off to the system too.
It's just seems extremely at odds with D&D generic medieval feel.
Suddenly my paladin's going to be worried about what chakra to apply his
items to? No, I think not.

They could have called it *anything* else. They could have called it
focus-points. Or perhaps ley-loci. But call it chakra, and no money
for you, WotC.

 

[Psion]

Now that I read this Chakra thing, I understand why in the OTHER "meh" thread someone was making comparison to the second world Warden system.

Which rocks.

 

[Andor]

I gotta say, the chakra thing turned me off to the system too.
It's just seems extremely at odds with D&D generic medieval feel.
Suddenly my paladin's going to be worried about what chakra to apply his
items to? No, I think not.

They could have called it *anything* else. They could have called it
focus-points. Or perhaps ley-loci. But call it chakra, and no money
for you, WotC.

The generic medieval DnD feel of things like Ki strike, Eco-conscious shape-shifters, and spiked-chains? There is NO coherancy to DnD cosmology and frankly there is almost nothing medieval in the default DnD world. If they want to chuck something else into the mix, I will worry about cosomology and terminology only as they apply to fitting it into my own campaign. When they come out with a new system my questions are A) Is it mechanially sound, and B) Will it enhance my game? And besides I find it far more annoying to see new terms applied to existing concepts than I do to see a real world term used even if it doesn't come from france or germany.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

It looks interesting, but there are too many things I want to be able to afford them right now. I'll add it to my birthday list and hope for the best.