TaintedLight
2010-07-11, 10:50 PM
I'm a big fan of variant systems like ToB, pact magic, incarnum, mysteries and the like, so it was really just a matter of time until I was inspired enough to write this up. The goal wasn't to produce a really powerful class, but rather to blend the two systems in a way that just feels natural. Please let me know what you think!
Soul Sharer
The power of souls is one of the forces that drives the Great Wheel of the multiverse. Powerful entities who were once spirits of great outsiders, mortals, and beasts unknown surface from time to time as the mysterious beings called vestiges, and the power of raw souls, sometimes called incarnum, suffuses existence with the essence of all creatures; living, dead, undead, or otherwise. The Soul Sharer has knowledge of both vestiges and incarnum and learns to offer up a portion of his own soul's energy to vestiges when he makes pacts above and beyond what binders traditionally dare to promise these mysterious entities.
Entry Requirements:
Skills: Knowledge (the planes) or Knowledge (religion) 8 ranks, Knowledge (arcana) 8 ranks
Feats: Any Incarnum feat, Expel Vestige
Special: Pact Augmentation class feature
Meldshaping: Meldshaping level 3rd
Hit Die: d6
{TABLE="head"]Level|Base Attack Bonus|Fort Save|Ref Save|Will Save|Special|Meldshaping
1|+0|+0|+0|+2|Cerulean Fortitude, Amplify Spirit, Soul Binding +1|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
2|+1|+0|+0|+3|Soul Binding +2, Chakra bind (feet, hands)|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
3|+1|+1|+1|+3|Soul Binding +3|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
4|+2|+1|+1|+4|Soul Binding +4, Soulshield|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
5|+2|+1|+1|+4|Soul Binding +5|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
6|+3|+2|+2|+5|Soul Binding +6, Chakra bind (arms)|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
7|+3|+2|+2|+5|Soul Binding +7, Spirit Link|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
8|+4|+2|+2|+6|Soul Binding +8, Chakra bind (brow, shoulders)|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
9|+4|+3|+3|+6|Soul Binding +9|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
10|+5|+3|+3|+7|Soul Binding +10, Soul Mastery|+1 level of existing meldshaping class[/TABLE]
Class Skills (4+Int modifier per level): Bluff, Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Decipher Script, Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (planes), Knowledge (religion), Profession, Spellcraft
Meldshaping: At each Soul Sharer level, you increase your meldshaper level, the number of soulmelds you can shape, the number of chakra binds you can create, and your essentia pool as if you had gained a level in a meldshaping class to which you belonged prior to gaining the Soul Sharer level. You do not, however, gain any other abilities of that class, such as new tiers of chakra binds. If you had more than one meldshaping class before becoming a Soul Sharer, you must decide to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining your essentia pool, meldshaper level, and the number of soulmelds and chakra binds available.
Bonus Feat: At 1st level, a Soul Sharer gains Cerulean Fortitude as a bonus feat even if he doesn't meet the prerequisites. If the character already possesses Cerulean Fortitude, he may select another Incarnum feat or a feat from the list of Binder bonus feats (ToM 11).
Amplify Spirit: Soul Sharers are daring individuals who promise a larger portion of their soul's energy to vestiges when they make pacts. This augmented offer is in fact an investment of the Soul Sharer's essentia, and it encourages the enigmatic beings to share a greater amount of their own spiritual power in return. A Soul Sharer who is bound to at least one vestige gains 2 bonus essentia for the duration of the pact.
Soul Binding Bonus: At each Soul Sharer level, your soul binding ability improves as if you had also gained a level in the binder class. Your Soul Sharer levels and binder levels stack for the purpose of determining your bonus on binding checks, the effectivenes of your vestige-granted abilities, your ability to bind higher-level vestiges, and the number of vestiges you can bind. You do not, however, gain any other benefit a binder would have gained.
Chakra Binds: Beginning at 2nd level, you can bind your soulmelds or magic items to your feet and hands chakras, in addition to any other chakras you have available. When you attain 6th level, your arms chakra becomes available for chakra binds, and at 8th level your brow and shoulders chakras become available for chakra binds.
Soulshield: At 4th level, a Soul Sharer's intimate knowledge of souls both foreign and familiar lends him a great degree of strength. By wrapping the energy of incarnum around himself as he creates a pact, the Soul Sharer can convince a vestige to provide him with tremendous strength of mind and body. This ability is identical to the Mettle ability of the Hexblade class (CWar 7).
Spirit Link: As the Soul Sharer continues to grow in power, he learns new methods of coaxing power from vestiges with his own soul. When a Soul Sharer of 7th level or higher forms a pact, he may invest 2 or more points of essentia in the pact. If he does, he may select one additional Pact Augmentation from the list of Pact Augmentations (ToM 11). In addition, the Soul Sharer may add the following two abilities to that list:
A. Choose a supernatural ability of the vestige with whom you are making a pact that can only be activated every 5 rounds. For every 2 points of essentia you invest, you may activate that ability one round sooner than normal.
B. For every 2 points of essentia you invest, you gain a +1 enhancement bonus to your binder level for all effects and abilities related to the vestige with whom you are making the pact.
A Soul Sharer may only invest as much essentia in a pact as his character level would allow (MoI 19). Furthermore, he may only invest essentia in each pact once, allowing him to gain no more pact augmentations in this way than the number of pacts he is capable of forming.
Soul Mastery: At 10th level, a Soul Sharer learns how to blur the line between his own soul and those of foreign beings. Once per 24 hours, a Soul Sharer of the appropriate level may choose to gain the ability to bind one additional vestige beyond what he could normally form pacts with. If he does, he loses the ability to bind one soulmeld to a chakra for the same duration. Alternatively, the Soul Sharer may choose to gain the ability to bind an additional soulmeld to a chakra. If he does, he loses the ability to form one pact for the same duration.
Soul Sharer
The power of souls is one of the forces that drives the Great Wheel of the multiverse. Powerful entities who were once spirits of great outsiders, mortals, and beasts unknown surface from time to time as the mysterious beings called vestiges, and the power of raw souls, sometimes called incarnum, suffuses existence with the essence of all creatures; living, dead, undead, or otherwise. The Soul Sharer has knowledge of both vestiges and incarnum and learns to offer up a portion of his own soul's energy to vestiges when he makes pacts above and beyond what binders traditionally dare to promise these mysterious entities.
Entry Requirements:
Skills: Knowledge (the planes) or Knowledge (religion) 8 ranks, Knowledge (arcana) 8 ranks
Feats: Any Incarnum feat, Expel Vestige
Special: Pact Augmentation class feature
Meldshaping: Meldshaping level 3rd
Hit Die: d6
{TABLE="head"]Level|Base Attack Bonus|Fort Save|Ref Save|Will Save|Special|Meldshaping
1|+0|+0|+0|+2|Cerulean Fortitude, Amplify Spirit, Soul Binding +1|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
2|+1|+0|+0|+3|Soul Binding +2, Chakra bind (feet, hands)|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
3|+1|+1|+1|+3|Soul Binding +3|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
4|+2|+1|+1|+4|Soul Binding +4, Soulshield|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
5|+2|+1|+1|+4|Soul Binding +5|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
6|+3|+2|+2|+5|Soul Binding +6, Chakra bind (arms)|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
7|+3|+2|+2|+5|Soul Binding +7, Spirit Link|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
8|+4|+2|+2|+6|Soul Binding +8, Chakra bind (brow, shoulders)|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
9|+4|+3|+3|+6|Soul Binding +9|+1 level of existing meldshaping class
10|+5|+3|+3|+7|Soul Binding +10, Soul Mastery|+1 level of existing meldshaping class[/TABLE]
Class Skills (4+Int modifier per level): Bluff, Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Decipher Script, Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (planes), Knowledge (religion), Profession, Spellcraft
Meldshaping: At each Soul Sharer level, you increase your meldshaper level, the number of soulmelds you can shape, the number of chakra binds you can create, and your essentia pool as if you had gained a level in a meldshaping class to which you belonged prior to gaining the Soul Sharer level. You do not, however, gain any other abilities of that class, such as new tiers of chakra binds. If you had more than one meldshaping class before becoming a Soul Sharer, you must decide to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining your essentia pool, meldshaper level, and the number of soulmelds and chakra binds available.
Bonus Feat: At 1st level, a Soul Sharer gains Cerulean Fortitude as a bonus feat even if he doesn't meet the prerequisites. If the character already possesses Cerulean Fortitude, he may select another Incarnum feat or a feat from the list of Binder bonus feats (ToM 11).
Amplify Spirit: Soul Sharers are daring individuals who promise a larger portion of their soul's energy to vestiges when they make pacts. This augmented offer is in fact an investment of the Soul Sharer's essentia, and it encourages the enigmatic beings to share a greater amount of their own spiritual power in return. A Soul Sharer who is bound to at least one vestige gains 2 bonus essentia for the duration of the pact.
Soul Binding Bonus: At each Soul Sharer level, your soul binding ability improves as if you had also gained a level in the binder class. Your Soul Sharer levels and binder levels stack for the purpose of determining your bonus on binding checks, the effectivenes of your vestige-granted abilities, your ability to bind higher-level vestiges, and the number of vestiges you can bind. You do not, however, gain any other benefit a binder would have gained.
Chakra Binds: Beginning at 2nd level, you can bind your soulmelds or magic items to your feet and hands chakras, in addition to any other chakras you have available. When you attain 6th level, your arms chakra becomes available for chakra binds, and at 8th level your brow and shoulders chakras become available for chakra binds.
Soulshield: At 4th level, a Soul Sharer's intimate knowledge of souls both foreign and familiar lends him a great degree of strength. By wrapping the energy of incarnum around himself as he creates a pact, the Soul Sharer can convince a vestige to provide him with tremendous strength of mind and body. This ability is identical to the Mettle ability of the Hexblade class (CWar 7).
Spirit Link: As the Soul Sharer continues to grow in power, he learns new methods of coaxing power from vestiges with his own soul. When a Soul Sharer of 7th level or higher forms a pact, he may invest 2 or more points of essentia in the pact. If he does, he may select one additional Pact Augmentation from the list of Pact Augmentations (ToM 11). In addition, the Soul Sharer may add the following two abilities to that list:
A. Choose a supernatural ability of the vestige with whom you are making a pact that can only be activated every 5 rounds. For every 2 points of essentia you invest, you may activate that ability one round sooner than normal.
B. For every 2 points of essentia you invest, you gain a +1 enhancement bonus to your binder level for all effects and abilities related to the vestige with whom you are making the pact.
A Soul Sharer may only invest as much essentia in a pact as his character level would allow (MoI 19). Furthermore, he may only invest essentia in each pact once, allowing him to gain no more pact augmentations in this way than the number of pacts he is capable of forming.
Soul Mastery: At 10th level, a Soul Sharer learns how to blur the line between his own soul and those of foreign beings. Once per 24 hours, a Soul Sharer of the appropriate level may choose to gain the ability to bind one additional vestige beyond what he could normally form pacts with. If he does, he loses the ability to bind one soulmeld to a chakra for the same duration. Alternatively, the Soul Sharer may choose to gain the ability to bind an additional soulmeld to a chakra. If he does, he loses the ability to form one pact for the same duration.