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Genasi
« on: April 19, 2014, 12:27:24 PM »
Genasi


Hit Dice: d8

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1st+1+0+0+0Genasi Body, Elemental Heritage, Elemental Temper

Skills: 4+Int modifier per level (x4 at 1st level. Class Skills: Appraise, Balance, Craft, Concentration, Diplomacy, Gather Information, Hide, Intimidate, Knowledge(any), Listen, Move Silently, Profession(any), Sense Motive,  Spot

Proficiencies: A genasi is proficient with simple weapons and light armor only.

Class Features:
Genasi Body: The Genasi loses all other racial bonus and gains Outsider traits(basically darkvision 60 feet). He's a medium sized Outsider  with base speed 30 feet.

Elemental Heritage:
At first level the Genasi picks Air, Eart, Fire or Water. That will determine the rest of his abilities. The Genasi also gains a bonus equal to 1+1/5 HD to saves against spells and effects from the chosen element. If a Genasi becomes a cleric, he must worship a God that can grant the respective elemental domain and choose said domain as one of his cleric options.
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Elemental Magic: The Genasi gains some mystic ability depending on his Elemental Heritage.
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Elemental Temper: Genasi take great pride in their distinctive features and abilities
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Ability Score Increase: A Genasi gains the following stat mods depending on his element:
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« Last Edit: April 19, 2014, 12:29:00 PM by oslecamo »

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Re: Genasi
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2014, 11:06:49 PM »
Does the Warrior Genasi feat allow you to apply a damage bonus on things like a crossbow or longbow that do not normally have a damage bonus applied to them?  If not, would you be able to make "composite Intellect" bows for example if you were a Fire Genasi?

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Re: Genasi
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2014, 06:18:17 AM »
If you didn't get to add an ability score before, you don't get to apply an ability score with the feat. But a fire genasi with a regular composite bow and this could use his Int instead of Str for the damage rolls.

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Re: Genasi
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2016, 12:08:20 PM »
Since you pointed this out to me in the other thread (and I'm not sure how I missed it), I'd like to point out that your ability score increases don't follow your own rules.  They're not even and you kept the penalties.

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Re: Genasi
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2016, 04:44:54 PM »
Net gain is still only +2. And although the intro was somewhat out of date, the monster building guidelines did and do say ability score penalties can be used now and then. And the book genasi do have ability score penalties. Water and Fire had both a single up and down while Air and Earth had two ups and two downs (Wis and Cha). As detailed in the comments I removed a down from each.

Your approach of standardizing everybody to +2 is also valid.