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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 7684339" data-attributes="member: 5143"><p>Genasi aren't really any different than Tieflings. They are both races that likely were planetouched at some time in the past. Either due to interbreeding or magic rites. However, the conceit in D&D has pretty much been that humans are the most adaptable race. They easy bond with magic and change. Both but of those races are very much races on their own no longer related to humans. It doesn't make much sense to have the ability to add elemental soul to other races than it does to add dwarven resilience as an option to add to every other race.</p><p></p><p></p><p>From my memory, I know they don't saw it precisely but I thought there was a sentence to the effect of "There are some races who have been touched by the planes like the Genasi who were attuned to certain elements and his mother due to a trick of her birth seemed to have some semblance of this ability."</p><p></p><p>I don't remember the exact wording by I remember interpreting it to mean that she wasn't a member of a special race, that she was likely a very small percent either Genasi or Water Elemental. But since the entire thing was coming from "young Regis" who was having difficulty understanding the world around him that he didn't really understand it himself.</p><p></p><p>Either way, it was fairly clear that he was meant to have a special ability not written in the rules that was unique only to him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 7684339, member: 5143"] Genasi aren't really any different than Tieflings. They are both races that likely were planetouched at some time in the past. Either due to interbreeding or magic rites. However, the conceit in D&D has pretty much been that humans are the most adaptable race. They easy bond with magic and change. Both but of those races are very much races on their own no longer related to humans. It doesn't make much sense to have the ability to add elemental soul to other races than it does to add dwarven resilience as an option to add to every other race. From my memory, I know they don't saw it precisely but I thought there was a sentence to the effect of "There are some races who have been touched by the planes like the Genasi who were attuned to certain elements and his mother due to a trick of her birth seemed to have some semblance of this ability." I don't remember the exact wording by I remember interpreting it to mean that she wasn't a member of a special race, that she was likely a very small percent either Genasi or Water Elemental. But since the entire thing was coming from "young Regis" who was having difficulty understanding the world around him that he didn't really understand it himself. Either way, it was fairly clear that he was meant to have a special ability not written in the rules that was unique only to him. [/QUOTE]
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