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|author_name=Undead_Knave
|date_created=November 20, 2018
|status=Burning from both ends
|balance=High
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{{3.5e Feat
|name=Essentia Overreach
|types=Incarnum, Tactical
|summary=Burn your soul from both ends for temporary power.
|fluff=The soul that burns twice as hard burns twice as fast.
|benefit=You gain several tactical uses of incarnum, as shown below.
}}
* '''Essentia Overclock''': You can invest more than your maximum total Essentia at a time (although still limited by your Essentia capacity, but see Essentia Overburden below), but if you do you start burning until you have less than your maximum Essentia invested.  The amount of extra Essentia you can invest is 1 plus another 1 per each 5 HD.  If you drop below 0 hp or your max Essentia drops in any way, all of your Essentia gets uninvested and you stop burning.

* '''Essentia Overload''': You can shape and/or bind more Soulmelds at a time (although still only to Chakras you normally could), but you take all the penalties and none of the bonuses of aging.  You count as one age category higher for shaping a soulmeld and two age categories higher for binding a soulmeld.  Penalties stack, and you cannot take penalties further than Venerable (a maximum of three age categories, assuming a young adult character).  Immortal creatures, creatures who age strangely, creatures which get stronger with age (such as True Dragons), characters with Timeless Body, and so on can still use this ability.  They count as young adult for the purposes of this feat, unless they would naturally be older, and they still take the penalties.

* '''Essentia Overburden''': You can invest 1 Essentia above your normal Essentia capacity, but if you do you take 2 burn to the ability score that determines you maximum number of soulmelds (typically Constitution).  This benefit lasts for 24 hours.

'''Example:''' Junko, a young adult Incarnate 9 with 24 Constitution, has a base of 9 Essentia and can shape 5 soulmelds with 2 bound Chakras.  When she shapes her Soulmelds, she decides to shape and bind an extra soulmeld, giving her 6 shaped and 3 bound melds, and treating her as venerable for the purposes of penalties.  Later, during a fight with the mercenary Shaz Hopeless, she decides she needs some extra oomph, so she Overclocks for two extra points of Essentia, one of which she uses to Overburden her Wind Cloak for extra DR/magic, but she starts burning and takes 2 points of Constitution burn.  Thanks to her high Constitution she barely avoids unshaping a soulmeld.<br/>
'''Normal:''' You can't invest extra Essentia, shape or bind extra soulmelds, or invest more Essentia than your normal limit.<br/>
'''Special:''' All of the penalties from this feat bypass immunities.<br/>

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Article Balance	High +
Author	Undead_Knave +
Identifier	3.5e Feat +
Prerequisite	None +
Rating	Undiscussed +
Summary	Burn your soul from both ends for temporary power. +
Title	Essentia Overreach +
Type	Incarnum + and Tactical +