Earth Genasi's

Alaudrien · Post by **Alaudrien** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:48 am

Ah yes I was wondering and looking for input. How do we play an earth genasi being translucent or whichever it is.

Kregor · Post by **Kregor** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:14 pm

Again... huh?

Perhaps some characteristic of some planar in the Planar Handbook, there is no mention of Earth Genasi being Translucent in the Faerun supplements.

[quote=Page 116 of Races of Faerun:]
Earth Genasi are obviously not human, but have mostly human features except for one or two distiguishing traits related to their elemental ancestor. Some examples of these features are:
earthlike skin
eyes like black pits
eyes like gems
gravelly voice
very large hands and feet
iron gray hair
sweats mud instead of water
metallic sheen to skin or hair
[/quote]

I would think it best to refer to Faerun-specific sources for the traits and characteristics of most PC creatures. Many creatures can be very different from campaign world to campaign world, much like elves, which are completely different in Faerun than in many other campaign worlds, even other WtoC sponsored campaigns.

Mele · Post by **Mele** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:19 pm

They're transluscent in game. :)

Dalvyn · Post by **Dalvyn** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:03 pm

Aaaaaaah. I get it now.

Earth genasis can walk through rocks and stones.

There is no way to do that in game though.

So, the best approximation is to make them able to walk through doors, i.e., constantly affected with passdoor. And, when you are affected with passdoor, you get the (Translucent) flag.

I'm open to debating whether this affect should remain or not.

Alaudrien · Post by **Alaudrien** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:35 pm

haha yea Mele and Dalvyn got my question! So we just act like there not translucent! big help!

Lysha · Post by **Lysha** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:59 pm

I would say ignore it...or when one is outside, they can blend into the ground...which is what I would think would be best.

Below is a link that Zach showed me that might could help.
http://www.portalkeep.net/races/earth_genasi.htm

It says that they are sometimes mistaken as boulders. Maybe that could tie with the translucent-ness?

Japcil · Post by **Japcil** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:55 pm

Dalvyn wrote:Aaaaaaah. I get it now.

Earth genasis can walk through rocks and stones.

There is no way to do that in game though.

So, the best approximation is to make them able to walk through doors, i.e., constantly affected with passdoor. And, when you are affected with passdoor, you get the (Translucent) flag.

I'm open to debating whether this affect should remain or not.

Perhaps they should receive something along the lines of the stone walk spell?