Incarnate (Dungeons & Dragons)
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An Incarnate is a character class from the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, and is found in the Magic of Incarnum supplement book.
The incarnates are characters that have learned to form soulmelds; magic items that meldshapers create from soulstuff, known as Incarnum, from the souls of creatures alive, dead or to yet be born.
The incarnate, while meldshapers, are different from the totemist and soulborn. They have different soulmelds, such as Crystal Helm and Truthseeker Goggles. These soulmelds generally boost 2-3 skills and provide enhancements based on the location that the soulmeld is worn as well as the amount of essentia invested in them.
Incarnates must be either Lawful Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Neutral Good or Neutral Evil.
Only the Rilkan and Skarn have the incarnate as a favorite class.
[edit] Class Features
Incarnates gain a variety of class features centered around their meldshaping ability. They gain the ability to shape additional soulmelds and to bind soulmelds to different chakras, or body regions. This binding grants them additional abilities based on the particular soulmeld and chakra combination.
Additionally, they gain the ability to rapidly reshape soulmelds. In effect, switching one soulmeld for another in the middle of the day. They gain a variety of other, ancillary, class features like Detect Opposition, Aura and an Incarnum Radiance feature. These class features are largely dependent on the alignment of the Incarnate.
