Winning Races: Genasi of Athas

[twilsemail]

This article didn't answer the question all Athasians mus have: Can you drink a water genasi?

You could... but they're extinct. People already drank them at the beginning of this age.

 

[renau1g]

That's a falacy, Sorcerer Kings keep a private stock of them for special occasions...

Just think, if you defeat a Sorcerer King you can free them...or drink them yourself. After a big fight you work up quite a thirst.

 

[twilsemail]

Man...

Rasepe was there for the liberation of Tyr. I wish he'd thought of this then. He's going to be kicking himself after he sorts all of this out.

 

[Reyemile]

Is it just me, or does the Magma Eruptions feat do basically nothing? Stare at the Sun seems close to useless as well...

 

[Barastrondo]

Welp, one quick bit of alteration to the ash genasi, and now I have a model for a playable yuki-onna.

 

[mneme]

Aside from the windsoul PP feature (ooops. Easy enough to fix, though; just have it grant a fly speed instead! Gives a very nice bump up, but by no means OTT--and doesn't let you use a power that goes crazy if you combine "at will" and other buffs designed around it being an encounter power), the Magmasoul looks like its crying out for an abusive self-damaging build that gains +1d6 to melee damage every turn. If they rule that damage absorbed by resistance is still "taken" (not sure what the current rules on that are), it's even worse.

 

[Riastlin]

Man, as a DM I already hate Genesai Swordmages, they don't need even more options to be better.

That is to say, I agree with the above poster about genesai being a success story, there's lots of good stuff for them that isn't necessarily game-breaking but definitely very useful that helps to differentiate them from one another. Still, though, would be nice if the freakin' swordmage didn't resist practically every energy type, including some of the effect line stuff.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Even though Athas definitely isn't the place for them, I'm surprised they haven't made Frostsoul Genasi yet. It's probably one of the most obvious choices given all the elements they could.

As for this being a Dark Sun article, I think they could have just bothered to spare one sentence explaining that Genasi on Athas are also known as the Ruvkova. Or that there's a tribes of them called the Ruvkova.

They're a monster from Dark Sun back in 2e that could be easily covered, by the fact that they're just Genasi.