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Spirit Inspired Soulmelds
« on: September 08, 2014, 07:02:07 PM »
Spiritual Acolyte
Your soulmelds have been touched by the power of your ancestors allowing you to better interact with incorporeal spirits.
Prerequisites: Ability to shape soulmelds, neutral alignment, non-incorporeal.
Benefit: You can shape soulmelds with the necrocarnum descriptor regardless of alignment. Alternatively, you may shape necrocarnum soulmelds with the good descriptor, gaining sacred bonuses and dealing with positive energy.
   You can call and bind an ancestral spirit to one of the necrocarnum soulmelds that you have shaped each day. Calling your ancestral spirit is part of shaping soulmelds each day. The ancestral spirit you called allows you to interact with spirits as if under the effects of a See Invisibilty spell but take a -2 penalty to charisma checks and charisma based skills when interacting with corporeal creatures. When your ancestral spirit is bound all held weapons, worn armors and shields gain the Ghost Touch property.
Special: This feat may be used in place of Necrocarnum Acolyte to qualify for a feat, prestige class, or other special ability.
Special: This feat may not be selected by creatures with the incorporeal subtype. Creatures with the incorporeal subtype gain the ability to shape soulmelds with the necrocarnum subtype.


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Re: Spirit Inspired Soulmelds
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2014, 07:06:05 PM »
Elemental Acolyte
Your soulmelds have been touched by the power of the elementals allowing you to better interact with nature spirits.
Prerequisites: Ability to shape soulmelds, neutral alignment, no elemental subtypes.
Benefit: You can shape soulmelds with the air, earth, fire, and water descriptors.
   You can call and bind an elemental spirit to one of your air, earth, fire, or water soulmelds that you have shaped each day. Calling your elemental spirit is part of shaping soulmelds each day. Choose air, earth, fire, or water for your called elemental and gain its  subtype and mastery while it has been called. When your elemental spirit is bound you gain its movement types at your base land speed and it may activate one of your soulmelds of its complementary descriptor for free each round.
Special: This feat may not be selected by creatures with an elemental subtype. Those with elemental subtypes gain the ability to shape soulmelds with their corresponding elemental subtypes.

Elemental Soulmelds

Crown

Feet
Earthen Berm

Hands
Elemental Weaponry
: Weapon deals elemental damage.

Arms

Brow

Shoulders
Shield of Air: Animates your shield with wind force.

Throat

Waist

Heart
Aqueous Body
: Swim speed

Soul

Aqueous Body
Descriptors: Water.
Classes: None.
Chakra: Heart.
Saving Throw: None.
   Incarnum grants you an immortal appearance.

When Aqueous Body is shaped, you gain a +8 racial bonus to swim and a swim speed equal to your base land speed. Essentia: Every point of essentia invested in a Aqueous Body gives a +2 racial bonus to hide and move silently while underwater.

Chakra Bind (Heart): When the Aqueous Body is bound to the brow chakra, you may hide in plain sight while underwater.

Elemental Weaponry
Descriptors: Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.
Classes: Soulborn.
Chakra: Hands.
Saving Throw: None.
   Incarnum grants you an immortal appearance.

When Elemental Weaponry is shaped, one of your held melee weapon’s damage becomes acid, cold, electricity, or fire depending on the element chosen when shaped and attacks as a touch attack. Essentia: Every point of essentia invested in a Elemental Weaponry allows it to deal an extra d6 of damage.

Chakra Bind (Hands): When the Elemental Weaponry is bound to the hands chakra, it deals a bonus d10 per essentia invested on a critical hit.

Shield of Air
Descriptors: Air.
Classes: Soulborn.
Chakra: Shoulder.
Saving Throw: None.
   Incarnum grants you an immortal appearance.

When Shield of Air is shaped, your shield becomes a force effect that blocks magic missiles and is immune to being sundered. Essentia: Every point of essentia invested in a Shield of Air gives your shield an equal enhancement bonus.

Chakra Bind (Shoulder): When the Shield of Air is bound to the shoulder chakra, it gains the animated property and as part of investing it with essentia you may send it out to protect an ally. It protects an ally within essentia squares of you for essentia rounds before returning to you.

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Re: Spirit Inspired Soulmelds
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2014, 07:09:22 PM »
Seasonal Acolyte
Your soulmelds have been touched by the power of the seasons allowing you to better interact with faerie courts.
Prerequisites: Ability to shape soulmelds, neutral alignment, non-fey.
Benefit: You can shape soulmelds with the summer and winter descriptors.
   You can call and bind a seasonal spirit to one of your summer or winter soulmelds that you have shaped each day. Calling your elemental spirit is part of shaping soulmelds each day. While your seasonal spirit is called bluff and perform are class skills with a +4 bonus on checks. When your seasonal spirit is bound it may use bardic music once per round as a bard of your meldshaper level.
Special: This feat may not be selected by creatures of the fey type. Fey may instead swear allegiance to one of the courts, gaining the ability to shape soulmelds of either the summer or winter descriptors.

Faerie Soulmelds

Crown
Unearthly Charm
: Charm person

Feet
Feet on the Crossroads
: Tree stride

Hands
Vines of Purity
: Detect aberration

Arms
Faerie Bow
: Magical longbow

Brow
Arresting Beauty
: +2 luck bonus to diplomacy or intimidate

Shoulders
Vines of Purity
: Detect aberration

Throat
Faerie Revel
: Fascinate

Waist
Sylvan Grace
: +1 deflection bonus

Heart
None

Soul
Feet on the Crossroads
: Tree stride

Arresting Beauty
Descriptors: Summer or Winter.
Classes: None.
Chakra: Brow.
Saving Throw: Fort.
   Incarnum grants you an immortal appearance.

When Arresting Beauty is shaped, you gain a +2 luck bonus to diplomacy if it is a summer descriptor or a +2 luck bonus to intimidate if it is a winter descriptor. Essentia: Every point of essentia invested in a Arresting Beauty increases the luck bonus by 2.

Chakra Bind (Brow): When the Vines of Purity is bound to the brow chakra, as a standard action you can stun a creature within 30’ at a look. On a failed save the creature is stunned for essentia rounds.

Faerie Revel
Descriptors: Summer or Winter.
Classes: Soulborn.
Chakra: Throat.
Saving Throw: Will.
   An instrument of incarnum haunts your performance.

When the Faerie Revel is shaped, you may fascinate as the bardic music at will. Essentia: You gain a +2 luck bonus to perform for each essentia invested in the Faerie Revel.

Chakra Bind (Throat): When the Faerie Revel is bound to the throat chakra, as a standard action you can irresistible dance as the spell at will.

Faerie Bow
Descriptors: Summer or Winter.
Classes: Soulborn.
Chakra: Arms.
Saving Throw: Will.
   A bow made of incarnum appears in your hands.

When a Faerie Bow is shaped, you gain a longbow of your size and pull strength that overcomes DR as if it were magical. Essentia: The Faerie Bow gains an enhancement bonus equal to its invested essentia.

Chakra Bind (Arms): When the Faerie Bow is bound to the arms chakra as a Summer soulmeld it fires arrows of forgetfulness. One arrow per round forces a save or the opponent loses all memory. When the Faerie Bow is bound to the arms chakra as a Winter soulmeld it fires arrows of sleep. One arrow per round forces a save or the opponent is affected as per the sleep spell.

Special: A Faerie Bow shaped by a Soulborn is a greatbow instead. Additionally, when bound by a Soulborn the arrows of a Faerie Bow are treated as force effects.

Feet on the Crossroads
Descriptors: Summer or Winter.
Classes: None.
Chakra: Feet or Soul.
Saving Throw: Will.
   Thorny or flowering anklets guide your incarnum path.

When your Feet on the Crossroads is shaped, as a full round action you can tree stride as the spell. Essentia: You travel a thousand times essentia invested in feet regardless of the tree.

Chakra Bind (Feet): When the Feet on the Crossroads is bound to the feet chakra, as a standard action you can shadow walk as the spell taking a number of touched creatures with you as essentia invested.

Chakra Bind (Soul): When the Feet on the Crossroads is bound to the soul chakra, essentia times per shaping you can use spirit binding on a creature whose Hit Die is equal or less than your meldshaper level. You may substitute a tree for the magic circle but it otherwise functions as the spell.

Special: If your campaign features Faerie Crossroads, you may detect and use them freely when this soulmeld is shaped. When it is bound to the feet in such a campaign you gain the ability to create a crossroad that lasts as long as it is bound.

Sylvan Grace
Descriptors: Summer or Winter.
Classes: None.
Chakra: Throat.
Saving Throw: Will.
   You court incarnum power that befuddles all who look upon you.

When Sylvan Grace is shaped, you gain a +1 luck bonus to armor class. Essentia: Every point of essentia invested in a Sylvan Grace[/I] increases the luck bonus by 1.

Chakra Bind (Throat): When Sylvan Grace is bound to the throat chakra, all creatures within 30’ who gaze upon you are permanently blinded on a failed save.

Unearthly Charm
Descriptors: Summer or Winter.
Classes: None.
Chakra: Crown.
Saving Throw: Will.
   Jewelry shaped from incarnum twinkle when activated.

When Unearthly Charm is shaped, you gain the ability to charm person as the spell. If Unearthly Charm is unshaped all charms immediately end. Essentia: You gain a +2 luck bonus to wild empathy for each essentia invested in Unearthly Charm[/I].

Chakra Bind (Crown): When Unearthly Charm is bound to the crown chakra, an opponent under your charm person must make a second save after essentia rounds or transform into a Verdant Reaver (MM5) of HD equal to their own. The opponent remains under the charm person spell even though its type has changed. If the charm is broken or suppressed the opponent remains in Verdant Reaver form for essentia rounds but acts as if confused. Thereafter the opponent returns to normal.

Vines of Purity
Descriptors: Summer or Winter.
Classes: None.
Chakra: Hands or Shoulders.
Saving Throw: None.
   Lilac colored vines trail down your upper body that flower or thorn in apparent allegiance.

When the Vines of Purity is shaped, you gain the ability to detect magic aberrations, outsiders from the far realms, and effects created by either within a 10’ radius. Essentia: Every point of essentia invested in the Vine of Purity increases the radius by 10’ and imposes a -1 penalty on attack rolls, damage rolls, and saves to all aberrations and outsiders from the far realms in that radius.

Chakra Bind (Hands): When the Vines of Purity is bound to the hands chakra, it duplicates the effects of a sonic whip spell.

Chakra Bind (Shoulders): When the Vines of Purity is bound to the shoulders chakra, you also detect fey within the Vine of Purity’s radius and all fey within the radius gain a luck bonus equal to the penalty for the same rolls.
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Re: Spirit Inspired Soulmelds
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2014, 07:17:35 PM »
Notes: These are all based on the premise of breaking spirits into three access feats that are a little more interesting than necrocarnum acolyte.

Spiritual acolyte needs no soulmelds, nor do I have any thoughts in that direction.

Elementals I originally thought to adopt effects from Eberron's bound elementals. But the writeups were boring me.

Faeries I originally thought to give it a Summer/Winter Court feel. And that was a huge mistake. I'd like to fix that sometime if I get reinspired.

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Re: Spirit Inspired Soulmelds
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2014, 10:32:10 PM »
If you want to crib a few elemental ones, there are some here.
"There is happiness for those who accept their fate, there is glory for those that defy it."

"Now that everyone's so happy, this is probably a good time to tell you I ate your parents."