Kalashtar are confirmed for the Eberron Player's Guide!

[doctorhook]

Kalashtar are in! - Wizards Community

Kalashtar are now functionally confirmed as a player race appearing in the 4E Eberron Player's Guide.

To be totally honest, I feel very smug about this, especially after all the times I argued against the ridiculous notion that Kalashtars would simply be reflavoured Devas. Go team Eberron!

How does everybody else feel about this?

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I am glad, since while I probably won't play Eberron itself. Eberron has tons of crunch/ideas I am going to steal, so having another race in it is always excellent.

Especially one with Psi-abilities. That Telepathy 5 as a language deal sounds like tons of fun.

 

[Dragonhelm]

Glad to see them back. I thought they would have been annexed in with some other human-like psionic race. I wonder how their psionic abilities will be treated.

 

[Asmor]

....wait, what? Is this really newsworthy?

If so, I feel quite confident in declaring these astounding newsflashes as well: Airships, Dragonmarks and The Draconic Prophesy will all be in 4e Eberron as well.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Keen. They were always one of the better Eberron ideas. Warforged get all the sexy news, and they're solid (though they had some mechanical issues in 3e), but "a little bit psychic" sounds like something fun to add on top of other classes.

 

[TarionzCousin]

What does "Telepathy 5 as a language" mean? Is it a fifth-level power?

 

[Fallen Seraph]

What does "Telepathy 5" mean? Is it a fifth-level power?

You can only speak telepathically to someone within 25 feet of you. The 5 means 5 squares.

 

[stonegod]

I'd still like official word on changelings/dopplegangers as a full write up. I'm 80% confident, but that 20% keeps me up a night.

Not really, MOO2 does, but still...

 

[doctorhook]

....wait, what? Is this really newsworthy?

If so, I feel quite confident in declaring these astounding newsflashes as well: Airships, Dragonmarks and The Draconic Prophesy will all be in 4e Eberron as well.

You'd think so, but then you would have had to have missed all the debates where some folks were arguing that Kalashtar wouldn't be a distinct race in 4E, and that (for some unfathomable reason) Kalashtars are redundant with Devas. It was silly, and now it's over, because we have confirmation that Kalashtar players won't have to use Deva stat to make their characters.

Thanks for the sarcasm though.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Not being an Eberronite (and my 3E book is buried somewhere) what are kalashtars? There shtick and look...
They obviously aren't in the srd.org.