Dragon 338: Returning to Athas, part1

[lukelightning]

I'm pretty sure there will be no Genasi on athas... and watersoul is an incredibly poor choice, since you won't even be able to use any of your racial abilities....

However, the cult idea is a good one - I've always seen Athas as a place rife with cults. Most of them doomsday in nature.

If you do play a water genasi, expect to be drunk. No, not inebriated... drunk.

 

[keterys]

I think the whole line of abyssal genasi might be a good fit for Athas - inverted elements, and all.

 

[The Little Raven]

I'm pretty sure there will be no Genasi on athas... and watersoul is an incredibly poor choice, since you won't even be able to use any of your racial abilities....

The genasi are a good fit for Dark Sun with the elemental themes. Watersoul could just be called Siltsoul, and aside from the lack of water to need to breathe in, all their other racial powers work just fine.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Watersoul could just be called Siltsoul, and aside from the lack of water to need to breathe in, all their other racial powers work just fine.

I was just thinking, yesterday, how absolutely cool it would be if Athas included a Venice-like city or city-state, but built floating atop a "bay" of silt rather than water.

Heck, I may propose that to the Insider, once the Dark Sun setting's out.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Genasi most definitely do fit in, in one of the Dark Sun of the Monstrous Compendiums, there was a creature called the Rukovas. The Rukovas were humanoid tribes that lived in the different Elemental Planes. And they were reprinted again in one of the Planescape MCs too along with the Psurlons.

Anyways I've been pondering what the Rukova could be in editions beyond 2e, and in 3e they were quite possibly just Half-elemental humans. In 4e the Rukova certainly look like Genasi to me. So more likely than not that's what all the Genasi in Athas are going to be.

What's confirmed so far for races:
Dragonborn = Dray
Githyanki = Gith

What's quite possible for races:
Genasi = Rukova
Deva = Villichi

 

[Wik]

What's confirmed so far for races:
Dragonborn = Dray
Githyanki = Gith

What's quite possible for races:
Genasi = Rukova
Deva = Villichi

Devas as Villichi? I was thinking Kalashtar.

And you forgot to mention that Tieflings are in, too. (Not sure how I feel about it - we'll see the info before I start griping. )

 

[DracoSuave]

Devas as Villichi? I was thinking Kalashtar.

And you forgot to mention that Tieflings are in, too. (Not sure how I feel about it - we'll see the info before I start griping. )

Pffft, Dark Sun has all sorts of wierd going on in it. A guy with horns and a generally twisted appearance don't bat an eye from me, I just want to get my water and get out of here before the templars arrive.

 

[Obryn]

And you forgot to mention that Tieflings are in, too. (Not sure how I feel about it - we'll see the info before I start griping. )

Well, like I've said, if you start from the assumption that this is a post-apocalyptic 4e setting instead of a post-apocalyptic 2e setting, it would be more remarkable if they weren't there.

-O

 

[DracoSuave]

Well, like I've said, if you start from the assumption that this is a post-apocalyptic 4e setting instead of a post-apocalyptic 2e setting, it would be more remarkable if they weren't there.

-O

Tieflings were in second edition too, ya know.

 

[Obryn]

Tieflings were in second edition too, ya know.

Sorta vaguely, in a mostly-planescape kinda way, yes.

-O