Geniekin have the following Racial Trait available to them from Inner Sea Races and I am curious if that would affect their starting age at all? Or would use the standard starting age for Geniekin?
I ask for character background purposes. To be really be able to flesh out my PCs background, I need to know how old they are when starting their adventuring career with the Pathfinder Society.
Source Inner Sea Races pg. 215
A few ifrits, oreads, sulis, sylphs, and undines have appearances much closer to those of their human ancestors; in fact, they may not even realize their true race. Such geniekin appear to be human, save perhaps minor features like unusual eye color, and they count as humanoid (human) as well as outsider (native) for all purposes (such as humanoid-affecting spells such as charm person or enlarge person). These geniekin do not automatically gain their associated elemental language (but may select it as a bonus language if their Intelligence is high enough). This ability alters the geniekin’s type, subtype, and languages.
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Geniekin have the following Racial Trait available to them from Inner Sea Races and I am curious if that would affect their starting age at all? Or would use the standard starting age for Geniekin?
I ask for character background purposes. To be really be able to flesh out my PCs background, I need to know how old they are when starting their adventuring career with the Pathfinder Society.
Source Inner Sea Races pg. 215
A few ifrits, oreads, sulis, sylphs, and undines have appearances much closer to those of their human ancestors; in fact, they may not even realize their true race. Such geniekin appear to be human, save perhaps minor features like unusual eye color, and they count as humanoid (human) as well as outsider (native) for all purposes (such as humanoid-affecting spells such as charm person or enlarge person). These geniekin do not automatically gain their associated elemental language (but may select it as a bonus language if their Intelligence is high enough). This ability alters the geniekin’s type, subtype, and languages.
I had thought the developers intended to correct the ARG entry to be more in line with all of their outsider-descended NPC characters with a fairly normal human adolescence and then a much longer adult lifespan. Did that never happened?
I do recall that being the case with Aasimar and Tiefling, but I'm not sure about the Geniekin. Also, if you look through Inner Sea Races, the Aasimar Life Cycle reflects that change; however, Geniekin still indicate they have a longer maturation rate.
So I guess there are really two questions here! Should standard Geniekin use the slower maturation rate or the more rapid? And if they use the slower rates, does the above Racial Trait affect that at all?
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I do recall that being the case with Aasimar and Tiefling, but I'm not sure about the Geniekin. Also, if you look through Inner Sea Races, the Aasimar Life Cycle reflects that change; however, Geniekin still indicate they have a longer maturation rate.
So I guess there are really two questions here! Should standard Geniekin use the slower maturation rate or the more rapid? And if they use the slower rates, does the above Racial Trait affect that at all?
Ah! Okay, I suppose I'd lumped them all together in my head.
Interestingly, Suli have starting ages similar to humans while the other elemental races don't. That seems odd considering they're all supposedly descended mostly from genies.
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That errata was so annoying. My Aasimar and Tiefling died of old age, while my Ifrit, Oread, Sylph and Undine attended the funerals (and made lunch plans for 60 years in the future).
That change made zero sense to me.
It made sense on the low end because pretty much all of the background material described most aasimar and tieflings coming into their powers during (average human) puberty, then living extraordinary long lives. So the errata fixed it at the low end, but then completely threw off the high end.
I'm thinking that for now I'll just assume the standard starting age for my Ifrit, which doesn't make much sense given the fluff text. How could someone not know they are more than human when it took them 60 years to become an adult?
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I'm thinking that for now I'll just assume the standard starting age for my Ifrit, which doesn't make much sense given the fluff text. How could someone not know they are more than human when it took them 60 years to become an adult?
"Wait, what do you mean it's not normal to go through puberty for 40 years?"
Exaaaaaactly!