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LordArchaon 03-01-07, 05:22 PM	I'm becoming fond of the Magic of Incarnum system and since I use the warforged (especially Psiforged) in my campaign I thought, why not making an Incarnum-based type of Warforged? Here it is: Azureforged Body Your face has particularly glowing azure eyes and many of your body parts have small sapphires that glow of the same strange energy inside. If you take this feat, any person with a few ranks in Knowledge (Arcana) or Knowledge (The Planes) will understand your connection to Incarnum and some will refer to you as an Azureforged. Prerequisites: Warforged, 1st level only. Benefit: Your essentia pool is permanently increased by 1. If you don't have an essentia pool this trait grants you one single point of essentia. You can invest essentia in your body as a swift action as you could do with a soulmeld. For every point of essentia your plating becomes more resistant as it becomes covered with layers of pure Incarnum, that shape it in the fashion of an intricated and idealized piece of armor. For every point of essentia invested you acquire a +1 armor bonus to your AC. Note that your torso can wear a specifically self-made Incarnum Focus (in the shape of a big embedded sapphire, the value of which must be of at least 5000 gp in addition to the normal cost of the Incarnum Focus) to increase the maximum number of essentia points you can invest in your body armor. Note that you can always bind soulmelds to your soul chakra even if your plating counts as an armor.
Thanatose 03-04-07, 01:45 PM	well a couple questions, first does this count as a "body feat" for warforged for example can they take Adamantine body at first lvl and this at third? or does it replace other body body feats. and does the bonus stack with that of the normal body feat for warforged.
Nived 03-04-07, 03:33 PM	If it is a body feat why was it created? It seems that most warforged, even the strange custom ones that give us things like Psiforged were forged on purpose. You might want to create a little fluff for it. Was it a experimental design purposefully tried by House Cannith to harness Incarnum? I could see that PGtE says Incarnum users are rare but a House Scion could have come in contact with some and had the brilliant idea of making warforged who could 'create' their own magical equipment... only to be abandoned. Was it a fluke? Every so often an Azure Warfored would walk out of a forge? Was it a secret of the Giants? A schema was found in Xen'drik relating to warforged creation using a 'secret weapon'. Following this incomplete schema House C ended up creating Azure Forged... but abandoned the project due to cost overruns.
Sturm Jaeger 03-04-07, 03:35 PM	well a couple questions, first does this count as a "body feat" for warforged for example can they take Adamantine body at first lvl and this at third? or does it replace other body body feats. and does the bonus stack with that of the normal body feat for warforged. It clearly says 1st level only, like all "body feats." You can only ever have one body feat for any sort of warforged, because warforged only have one standard feat at 1st level (and bonus feats from classes like Fighter can't be used for body feats).
LordArchaon 03-04-07, 07:59 PM	If it is a body feat why was it created? It seems that most warforged, even the strange custom ones that give us things like Psiforged were forged on purpose. You might want to create a little fluff for it. Was it a experimental design purposefully tried by House Cannith to harness Incarnum? I could see that PGtE says Incarnum users are rare but a House Scion could have come in contact with some and had the brilliant idea of making warforged who could 'create' their own magical equipment... only to be abandoned. Was it a fluke? Every so often an Azure Warfored would walk out of a forge? Was it a secret of the Giants? A schema was found in Xen'drik relating to warforged creation using a 'secret weapon'. Following this incomplete schema House C ended up creating Azure Forged... but abandoned the project due to cost overruns. Well, great questions! I thought the post had passed out of sight in the boards... I saw some posts recently talking about introducing Incarnum in Eberron by the means of the Giants, but I know there aren't official sources that state that. Personally, I see these Azure Forged a bit like an ancient type, but well, I must admit I don't run Eberron campaigns, never did, so I guess fluff is left up to anyone who would like to think about it! I simply liked the Idea of a warforged whose plating was covered/enhanced/made of pure Incarnum. I'm also thinking about a way to introduce an entirely new breed of living constructs based on the Midnight Construct + Soulfused Construct concept. There may be areas like Manifest Zones (is that the correct name?) in Eberron in which Incarnum flows particularly strong and where (as in the Midnight Grove "Incarnum Location" described in Magic of Incarnum, page 205) Midnight Constructs generate spontaneously. Add the Soulfused Construct template and you've got an entirely new "race" with the following ability modifiers: Str +10, Dex +6, Con +0, Int -8, Wis +0, Cha +4. Rather stupid with that Int score, but it's a cool concept. They could be created (and maybe "normalized" with some bonus to Int and less Str and Cha) in some kind of "Incarnum Forge", that could also be a facility for Azure Warforged creation. Maybe a secret sept of House Cannith could be in charge of experimenting with "Incarnum-forging".
Nived 03-04-07, 08:30 PM	I've been thinking about this since I made my post and I know how I'd run if if I ever had a player who wanted to use this option. Unlikely since my group hasn't expressed any interest in the system... but none the less I can muse... Probably allow the option and have his origins left mysterious, make it seem like a big conspiracy. The Azureforged himself doesn't remember much of its origin, remembers coming out of the forge undergoing training like most forged but his training was different, all the Cannith staff there whispered and seemed like some big secret... eventually he and the otehr Azureforged were split up retrained to be nothing more than stock fighters (whether that training kept or not is another story) that were strangely decorative for whatever reason and sold off. With no explainations. Any inquires reveal no information... it all seems like something hush hush. Even introduce a conspiracy nut NPC that believes that the whole secret behind Warforge 'life' is really Necrocarnum or some crazy bit like that and teaching 'Forged how to use it would reveal the 'terrible' truth. Only to have the truth come out eventually after the arty is convinced of the conspiracy theory that the truth is mundane. Come ambitious Cannith scions for permission and funding to try to make Warforged Incarnates thinking they would be an overall cheaper and more effective model than regular forged.... but the project went way over budget and was scrapped. The Azureforged that were produced were just sold off. Details of the project got lost in Cannith beuracracy and the Mourning and there is really nothing sinister behind it... just the bottom line. I'd love to pull a bombshell like that on some players... but unlikely none have expressed an interest in Incarnum.
Valmothg 05-01-07, 04:31 AM	I saw some posts recently talking about introducing Incarnum in Eberron by the means of the Giants, but I know there aren't official sources that state that. Okay, maybe I'm just being overly picky here, but Player's Guide to Eberron, page 101. Just bumping cause I recently got MoIncarnum.