Air Genasi

Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (FRCS)Forgotten Realms (3.0)
Size
Medium
Type
Outsider
Level Adjustment
+1

Air genasi have the following traits:

  • +2 Dexterity, +2 Intelligence, -2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma: Air genasi are quick of hand and sharp of wit, but easily distracted and arrogant.
  • Darkvision up to 60 feet.
  • Levitate (Sp): Air genasi can use levitate once per day as cast by a 5th-level sorcerer.
  • Clerical Focus: An air genasi cleric must choose a deity who grant access to the Air domain and select Air as one of her two domains.
  • +1 racial bonus on saving throws against all air spells and effects. This bonus increases by +1 for every five class levels the genasi attains.
  • Breathless: Air genasi do not breathe, so they are immune to drowning, suffocation, and attacks that require inhalation (such as some types of poisons).
  • Outsider: Air genasi are native outsiders.
  • Any languages are allowed as bonus languages, exccept secret languages, such as Druidic.

Native Outsider

Due to the strength of their divine or infernal bloodlines, each of the planetouched races possess the unusual characteristics of being an outsider native to Faerûn, not a humanoid. This has three principal effects:

  • First, spells or effects that affect only humanoids, such as a charm person or a dominate person spell, do not affect planetouched characters.
  • Second, spells and effects that target extraplanar creatures may affect planetouched characters. For example, the mace of smiting and the sword of the planes are more effective against outsiders, and are correspondingly more dangerous to a planetouched character. A spell that drives outsiders back to their home planes does not affect planetouched characters, but banishment – a spell that removes an outsider from the caster’s plane without specifying a return to the outsider’s native plane – would work just fine.
  • Finally, Faerûn’s planetouched have lived on Toril long enough for Toril to become, in effect, their native plane. This means that planetouched characters can be raised or resurrected normally, whereas most outsiders cannot be brought back from the dead without the use of a miracle or wish spell.