Soulborn Handbook

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Soulborn Handbook

Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview

Races

Feats and Skills

Soulmelds

Equipment

Alternate Rules

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The Soulborn And You: The Basics

The Soulborn is a Base Class in Magic of Incarnum that is quite similar to a Paladin with Incarnum abilities instead of spellcasting. That said, the Soulborn is pretty bad. It has a paladin chassis, only slightly less restrictive alignments, and very little defense. From here on out, I will stop bashing on this poor, poor, class, and actually help people play one. Hopefully.

Now, let's look at ability scores.

Strength: Hello, melee class anyone? Unlike many melee classes, the Soulborn is less dependent on strength at later levels, as many of your soulmelds can serve to augment your melee capabilities. If you are playing a combat maneuver-focused character, this is very important at low levels, but tapers off sharply in usefulness at later levels with a certain soulmeld that would do you much good to shape.

Dexterity: Eh, it's mostly useless for you, as, like the paladin, you benefit from heavy armor much more than you do from light armor. If you really want to, you can use a ranged weapon, but I would advise against it.

Constitution: You are a meldshaper, primary melee combatant, and fairly competent tank. This is your most important stat.

Intelligence: You are not a skill monkey. It is fairly safe to dump this.

Wisdom: Dump it unless you need it for a PrC of feat. Find some other way to get your will save up.

Charisma: This is a very good ability for you. Your smites are an important part of the class, so any added benifit to your smites are welcome.

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[Arz]

I have a mostly complete word doc that could be reformatted to this purpose. I had mostly given up due to the asinine comments I got on it from friends. I'll email it to you later today or tomorrow morn for your perusal. It has more along the lines of this  http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=12110.0

Hope your work was more complete than mine.

[Lycanthromancer]

"Play a druid or a psion instead of a soulborn. They get more out of incarnum."

[awaken DM golem]

Arz -- your list is completely reasonable.


The comparative power level of the Soulborn, is where some of the "silly" comes from.
An updated guide is always useful, to any who want to play that.
I mean, you can't go Soulborn 1 / Wiz 19 and break any new ground.

[Arz]

Thanx. Still, got enough crap there that I never bothered to pretty up the formatting to make it easier to use. Never have found any good tools to make board formatting easier on me. That was sorta my test for doing a dragonmark comparison which went into strange waters.

[Sinfire Titan]

Thanx. Still, got enough crap there that I never bothered to pretty up the formatting to make it easier to use. Never have found any good tools to make board formatting easier on me. That was sorta my test for doing a dragonmark comparison which went into strange waters.

Lycan was making a joke about the Soulborn being nearly inferior to just taking Shape Soulmeld a bunch of times as far as meldshaping goes.



Really, I feel the Soulborn should have been a Bo9S/Meldshaing dual advancement PrC (or like the Ensouled Masquerader I was working on a year ago). There really is no reason for WotC kicking this class that hard in the nuts.

[Lycanthromancer]

Lycan was making a joke about the Soulborn being nearly inferior to just taking Shape Soulmeld a bunch of times as far as meldshaping goes.

I really wasn't joking. At all. Psion really does do better than the soulborn, and druids do too.

[awaken DM golem]

No right.
It's two separate things

Soulborn Handbook = hey we need one of these.
Totemist or Incarnate 1 or 2 / Full Caster X / the specific dual class 10 = Better.

I wasn't being exact enough ...  
Or playing both sides badly.

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