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Knowing that there have been several threads on this subject before...do we yet know if (a) there will be elemental planetouched in the Golarion/PFRPG, and if so (b) what their names/attributes will be?
Is this something that will be covered in Wolfgang's work?
Currently those answers are:
a) Probably eventually, yes.
b) No names/attributes yet.
planetouched, love 'em, lets get them in
I've had to catch myself several times from using "genasi" when I wrote up the inner planes. That said, expect mention of elemental planetouched, though probably not specific names for each elemental subtype.
Does everything done before has to be repeated for Golarion?
I imagine if there is a demand among the fans for something they see as an element of the game that they miss, then, yes, it would make sense that there would be a Golarion version of it.
Does everything done before has to be repeated for Golarion?
no just the good stuff, like planetouched
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Didn't SKR write a book about these? Oh, wait, just an article on his Web site about variant elemental planetouched.
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Genasi, as introduced in Planescape and migrated to Faerun, are not OGL, but the UA rules for elemental racial variants are.
Genasi, as introduced in Planescape and migrated to Faerun, are not OGL, but the UA rules for elemental racial variants are.
Those are OK. But I would love to see a paizo-fied version of the planetouched
Does everything done before has to be repeated for Golarion?
Yes! Absolutely.
Talking of which: When will we read about an earthling who somehow got transported to Golarion, finding himself in an anachronistic nightmare and trying to cope with it.
Oh, and either make it so English (of all languages) is the same as common, or grant him the use of the language (and some general facts about this strange new world) via a mysterious power.
Call him Holger!
Who can tell me what book I'm reading right now?
Hmmm... I liked SKR's "Elemarns" very much. I wouldn't mind at all if they found their way into Golarion (maybe in that briefly mentioned Pathfinder Chronicles "Savage Species" or "Humanoid Handbook") and even find Aasimar and Tieflings in said book (or the Bestiary maybe.)
Of course I'd like to see them get retooled into a racial option without the +1 level adjustment. Maybe offering something like racial feats for the planetouched (whether aasimar, elemarns, or tieflings) that would help level the playing field so-to-speak. (The racial feats giving them options to gain one or more of those powers at certain levels. I think that'd be a nice option.)
Well, as always, that's my two coppers.
Merry Christmas one and all.
~Dean; the Minstrel Wyrm
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Does everything done before has to be repeated for Golarion?Yes! Absolutely.
Talking of which: When will we read about an earthling who somehow got transported to Golarion, finding himself in an anachronistic nightmare and trying to cope with it.
Oh, and either make it so English (of all languages) is the same as common, or grant him the use of the language (and some general facts about this strange new world) via a mysterious power.
Call him Holger!
Who can tell me what book I'm reading right now?
Well, Andre Norton's Witchworld, Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels, H. Beam Piper's Lord Calvan of Otherwhen, Harry Turtledove's novels... Need I go on?
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Hmmm... I liked SKR's "Elemarns" very much. I wouldn't mind at all if they found their way into Golarion (maybe in that briefly mentioned Pathfinder Chronicles "Savage Species" or "Humanoid Handbook") and even find Aasimar and Tieflings in said book (or the Bestiary maybe.)
Of course I'd like to see them get retooled into a racial option without the +1 level adjustment. Maybe offering something like racial feats for the planetouched (whether aasimar, elemarns, or tieflings) that would help level the playing field so-to-speak. (The racial feats giving them options to gain one or more of those powers at certain levels. I think that'd be a nice option.)Well, as always, that's my two coppers.
Merry Christmas one and all.
~Dean; the Minstrel Wyrm
I think that Planetouched should be a template dependable of parent races, so that Tiefling of abyssal and dwarven parents can be different than Tiefling of elven and hellish parents. There's a great article in Dragon Magazine 235 about that kind of thing.
Well, Andre Norton's Witchworld, Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels, H. Beam Piper's Lord Calvan of Otherwhen, Harry Turtledove's novels... Need I go on?
Yes, you do, because you haven't hit the (right) Holger yet.
I just hope Golarion does a series of novels about a fish-out-of-water drow ranger
I just hope Golarion does a series of novels about a fish-out-of-water drow ranger
Only if he's the master of the bow.
I just hope Golarion does a series of novels about a fish-out-of-water drow ranger
Oh yeah, that would be so awesom: A guy with two weapons, dodging arrows from the elves every day, commiting vile atrocities in the name of his demon lord and trying to fulfill a quest to gain some sort of power to shake his homeland's foundations (and put himself on top of the heap in the process).
Maybe a dozen stories, one for each household archdemon? The 12 Challanges of Rizz'Drit the rampaging renegade?
Yes, you do, because you haven't hit the (right) Holger yet.Well, Andre Norton's Witchworld, Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels, H. Beam Piper's Lord Calvan of Otherwhen, Harry Turtledove's novels... Need I go on?
Ha! _Three Hearts and Three Lions_ by Poul Anderson? Holger, who became Ogier (Holger) the Dane? The title was from the device (coat of arms) on his shield. Do I win a no-prize? ;->
As for templates, they work great. A half-fiend template on a half-orc, for example, is going to be different than one based on a dwarf (i.e., half-fiend/dwarf; daddy was a fiend, mommy was the dwarf, or the other way around) because the template abilities stack with the base abilities: a 3.0 half-fiend (what I used for my NPC example; 3.5 half-outsiders are waaaay too overpowered) gets +4 STR, +4 DEX, +2 CON, +4 INT, +0 WIS, +2 CHA. I did my NPC guy as having a fiend dad and a Pathfinder half-orc mom (+2 STR, +2 WIS, -2 INT), so the total combination would be: +6 STR, +4 DEX, +2 CON, +2 INT, +2 WIS, +2 CHA.
He's not a bad character...literally; for my house rules, half-celestials are any non-evil alignment, and half-fiends are any non-good (he's Chaotic Neutral). I based this off the actual write up in the racial blurb: "All too rarely, though, one learns from and takes on the characteristics of its non-fiendish parent, turning from its evil heritage." This implies that it is possible. My guy was rescued from an orc tribe on the Belkzen border when he was a year old and raised by a Neutral Good human priest of Sarenrae among Varisians, so that's the society he grew up in. He can't be truly Good unless he gets hit by alignment-changing magic, but he does his best...and will voluntarily NOT use his "inborn" spell-like abilities other than Darkness.