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[hero4hire]

Now I just have to finish my least favorite part of character creation: Equipment selection!

Hey Zoycitenega, what is Jada Pinkett's ( ) gender? I didn't see it on the sheet but just assumed it was female because of the name. Is that correct? Also what's an Azurin?

I think the character is female. In the background it was referred to as "she".

An azurin is a human who is gifted from birth with incarnum. Azurins are essentially humans stat-wise, but they trade in some human features for an essentia pool of 1.

 

[Dire Lemming]

For some reason there is no blank staring in confusion smilie.

 

[hero4hire]

For some reason there is no blank staring in confusion smilie.

Essentia pool is a point based magic system used in the Book Magic of Incarnum.

Incarnum is basically "soulstuff" that you can use for different stuff. Channeling them into your body's chakras (points on the body to focus power) for various effects.

As a totemist Jada Pinkett channels the power of Magic Beasts into different parts of her body to do stuff until she runs out of essentia points.

Never actually played it or had any of my friends play it. So I am curious to see how it works in game.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Uhuh.... So can I use it to perform the shadow imitation technique?

 

[hero4hire]

For some reason there is no blank staring in confusion smilie.

 

[Dire Lemming]

That was a reference to Naruto, a popular japanese animation show about a young ninja boy who is very noisy and wears orange clothing that was first broadcast in the US in September 2005, the same month Magic of Incarnum was released. It features similar ideas about "Chakra" and "Chakra Points" to your description of the book. Given that the writer of the book was probably a nerd, it isn't inconcieveable that they had watched the show before it was translated or even read the comic book it was based on, and were perhaps inspired by it somewhat.

 

[hero4hire]

That was a reference to Naruto, a popular japanese animation show about a young ninja boy who is very noisy and wears orange clothing that was first broadcast in the US in September 2005, the same month Magic of Incarnum was released. It features similar ideas about "Chakra" and "Chakra Points" to your description of the book. Given that the writer of the book was probably a nerd, it isn't inconcieveable that they had watched the show before it was translated or even read the comic book it was based on, and were perhaps inspired by it somewhat.

A Ninja using Chakras eh?

Talk about mixing your Eastern Philosphies.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Right, in orange clothing, yelling about how he's going to be the next leader of his ninja village. It's very touching.

Here's some footage if you're interested. It doesn't really portray things well, but I couldn't find much else, probably since this is the most popular action scene in the entire show. If you're wondering why there are so many Narutos in some scenes it's because his signature technique is the Shadow Clone technique, which makes replicas of himself using the afore mentioned Chakra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUHwglrsV_U&mode=related&search=

Oh yeah, he's also got a giant nine tailed demon fox sealed in his body. Which is apparently the main reason he's survived this long.

 

[hero4hire]

Yeah I am very picky about the anime I like.

I prefer the more realistic looking art.

Hate DBZ, like Hellsing.

Hate Sailor Moon, like Princess Monoke.

 

[DCrane1]

You sure the book isn't called 'Mind of a Munchkin by Richard (the powergamer)'?

Very sure, anytime Richard needs to make a new character, he brings 10-15 books to the session and about that many PDF's because our DM requires all feats, classes, equipment, etc. to be in books.