Absorbing Magic Items?

[Vampireshado]

There is a good chance that I'm just going crazy, but I could have sworn that at some point I read that there was a way to permanently absorb magic items into a character, and thus give the character that items abilities as their own. Maybe it was home brew? It's just killing me that I can't find anything like that anywhere. Perhaps I just dreamed it up and wish it was real. Anyone ever heard of anything like this?

[Arz]

Spellfire acts like a rod of absorbtion. Dragonlance had a few feats that also absorbed charges for spellcasting. All those are transitory along with artificer which can modify items.

I did this for spellthieves. Also temp.

Can't really think of anything permanent. Oh, and graft weapon power can absorb.

[Maat Mons]

Extra body slot (Dragon 359, p117) directly implants an item into your body.  The down side is, it permanently reduces your con score by 2, and you need a specially-crafted version of the item that costs 1.5 times as much as normal. 

The eldritch haunt template (Towers of High Sorcery, p149) can create a creature with the properties of a magic item, but it's not available to player characters. 

Adamantine skin (Faiths of Eberron, p157) or combat mod (Dragon 359, p116) are both ways of adding built-in armor to a character.  Both allow the armor to be magically enhanced later.  You can get a wide variety of magical effects on armor. 

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Warforged + Fusion psi power + Intelligent Item

[Vampireshado]

The body modifications are pretty neat. They aren't what I was envisioning though, as that still leaves them as items which can still be suppressed/dispelled. And the effects don't actually become yours. But they are a step closer than I was before.

Warforged + fussion sounds closer to what I'm trying to accomplish, but it's still somewhat limiting. Is there a good way to fuse with something permanently and in such a way as that it can't be dispelled?

[Maat Mons]

A major artifact called the black elf stone (Dragon 286, p57) can devour a magic item and permanently give its benefits to the user.  This may be what you were thinking of. 

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

Wow Maat, stop winning all the threads.

[Vampireshado]

Yes! That's exactly what I had read. I even skimmed that magazine earlier and missed it. Thank you a thousand times.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

+1 Maat !!

Warforged + fussion sounds closer to what I'm trying to accomplish, but it's still somewhat limiting. Is there a good way to fuse with something permanently

PAO (always more cheese to find there)
or mulitple PAOs

and in such a way as that it can't be dispelled?

Nope.


Metamind 2 makes a psicrystal be a cognizance crystal.
But it's metamind so ignore.
 

[Vampireshado]

As a follow up question, are there any guaranteed/efficient RAW ways of obtaining the black elf stone? And if so is there a way to use the stone's power to absorb itself?

[Endarire]

Maybe you were thinking Wild Shape/polymorph/etc. rules about items melding into your body/form.

[Nunkuruji]

Draconomicon/Embed Spell Focus for Dragons. I want to say there's another feat floating around out there for them to embed other items.

One of the older dragons in the realms, Hoondarah (sp?), nommed a ring of regeneration, fwiw.

[nijineko]

symbiotes and grafts are other ways to get fun abilities.

also, the necklace from savage species allows you to applies weapon special abilities directly to your natural weapons.