Why do my genasis never get any love? I feel like these guys are made to be tumblr tier OC bullshit that would at least get me something cool in 5e.
>>97620627The problem is that genasi don't exist in enough numbers anywhere to form any kind of coherent society. At least not on the Prime Material Plane.Presumably they're much more common in the Inner Planes. Bearing that in mind. you can have these entries from my elemental monster manuals.Air...
>>97620627Genasi are not a core species so it less likely that someone would have the opportunity to play one.Tieflings are a core race and they can also have a colorful appearance filling that niche.
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>>97620717its why I just home brewed bio Genasis, Where after a 5 or so generations of breeding We have a somewhat stable population of earth genasi. >>97620722its seems like that alone would make more "i need to be special" people would pick them. also fuck tieflings
>>97620627Make your own lore. You don't need corposlop lore. You don't use corposlop settings... right?
>>97620732Not if the DM doesn't allow them or no one has the info needed to run them.And agree, fuck Tieflings
>>97620739I don't, I fucking can't stand dnd wizard lore slop, My DM is pretty good at making his own world feel unique and his own, but most of the party seems to rely on established lore in the books for most races, and me trying to be a good sport i play along, my earth genasi seems to not have anything really that interesting and also feels like some rules are bullshit, but maybe im just being petty.
>>97620823Then your GM isn't trying hard enough. A good GM will put out a primer with setting information before the game so the players can make characters that fit the setting.If I'm running a game with species options, you're getting between 1-2 paragraphs of information on them in the primer along with a list of what is allowed and/or banned.
>>97620627Why didn't you purchase Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn directly from WotC and promote its Calimshan content online?
>>97620627the inner planes are anti-lore, they're substance over fluff, there's nothing narratively special about rocks or fire that would make rock person or fire person have a special narrative themethe outer planes are all about lore, they're fluff over substance, so aasimar and tieflings and similar are inherently saddled with narrative themes
>>97620627My water genasi character was pulled up in a fishing net nine months after his father fell overboard and into the wet embrace of a mermaid :3
>>97620627What they need is cooler art.
>>97620627Visually, they fall too readily into the "just funny-colored humans" box; mechanically, they tend to just have a few minor magical effects that you'd already have access to if you were building a character themed around their element.Tieflings, by contrast, have horns, tails, and (sometimes) hooves. While they're not actually much more interesting mechanically, the theme of "devil person" is broad enough that their effects aren't ones you were necessarily already getting.Moreover, we already have a model for "person is perceived as evil due to how they look, but appearances do not define us" as a basic character archetype. There isn't as strong or immediate an assumption to be made of someone who looks like they're from water world, nor is there as obvious a reason for a player to feel the need to subvert it.Without any strong appeal from appearance, mechanics, or character archetype, genasi really only exist to be played by people who have an autistic hyperfixation on the four elements. And, frankly, even then, they're kind of shitty representatives for them.
as soon as people started tying emotions to genasi elements, I was done with them forever
>>97623066Given that people have been doing that since the four humors you're a bit late.
>>97623066So, the sixth century BC?
>>97620627the problem with Genasi is that Goliaths are an elemental race 10 times more interesting, even in nuD&D art because now they actually are one for each type of giant, and giants are just really big bearded elementals>>97623044>>97623066yes
>>97623726forgot the image
>>97620627>Why do my genasis never get any love?Because they're trash and planar races as PCs make no fucking sense and you may not choose them, tieflings nor aasimar.
>>97620627You make it up yourself because similar to half elves they are perpetual outsiders with few to none described ethnically homogenous settlements. They have tiefling syndrome. Which only matters if you play Forgotten Realms and care about the shitty barely there lore for that setting.A genasi character is best played as an outsider to pretty much every major society even the one they were raised in, and how good or cringe that is dependant on the player.
>>97623756gross, why do they look like leftie americans
>>97620717>At least not on the Prime Material Plane.They were running the show in Calimshan for the longest time.
>>97624782Wizards of the Coast (the company that makes D&D) is run by leftie Americans who hire other leftie Americans to draw leftie American illustrations. You kinda just have to ignore them, or play a different game or edition.
>>97624782They are construction workers.
>>97624782>why do they look like what I want them to look like?
>>97620627Yeah, if nothing else they should have roll tables full of potential traits like Tieflings and Aasimar do, but I can't find anything like that anywhere. I think /tg/ was doing some discussion along those lines a while ago, but I don't remember it ever getting completed, does someone have such a roll table or any ideas for it? The element of the Genasi in question could be one point on the list, what others might work, maybe they can have the features of an animal associated with their element?
>>97620627Elemental people are passe
>>97626395I remember that. It was a bumpfag thread, so it never went anywhere.
>>97624782they look like technicolor scandinavias what the fuck are you talking about
>>97624782>>97623756Is always that style of "I want to see myself in there", and then think they look "bad ass"
I feel like Earth Genasi are the most boring art wise.
>>97626732>Earth Genasi are the most boring art wise.My current character is a Earth genasi, and I decided to have fun with them, Instead of stone/rock esthetic, I made her skin appear like Porcelain or pearl like quality, like a china doll, have the hair be like super fine spun copper wire, and her blood more like mineral oil. Shes an Industrialist/ scientist who kinda hates nature, and loves the spicey elements (radium, uranium, thorium etc) I feel like people shoudl be going crazy with the kinda stuff you could do with them, but its always the same generic rock golem, looking people and it pisses me off that no artist gets what im getting when I ask for art commisions
>>97626661Shame. How can we get people here interested in such a roll table? Or more interested in Genasi in general, to be honest?
I don't know if it works, but I'm toying with the idea of mixing Genasi with Tieflings so Tiefling is more of an umbrella term for not just demons, but other Planetouched particularly of both lower planes and elemental elements rather than just my grandad fucked a succubus once.
>>97627568If you still haven't figured that you can't astroturf a community into giving a shit about your autistic fixations then you might be terminally retarded.
>>97627568Could you elaborate on that, literary lord?
>>97626732One of my favorite characters was a genasi sorcerer who used a great sword and was a gypsy con artist with a made up skill called Nan Lore where he rolled to see if his Nan had taught him about this and if he passed the check he had to try to convince the party + all the allied NPCs of something absolutely ridiculous.
>>97628650You know you can just ask chatgpt to generate tables of features to your autistic heart's content, right?
>>97624782they're doing actual work and not just whining about workers, that's why
>>976206271. Nobody cares about elementals2. They weren't established in any numbers, so never had a personality written for them when there were people who could3. The people who currently could write a personality for them are hacks, and there's nothing to shamelessly copy for them besides fucking classical element aligned humors, and broad stereotypes of the associated elements. I doubt a single person writing has even thought about why Genasi have to exist in the first place. So the onus is on you, to write the content you want to see. Because if you don't, the genasi will remain the most literal fucking who race of all time.
>>97620627>Jen-ah-sigh?or>Jen-ah-see?I've heard both.
>>97638600nah, he could write a novel and it would have no impact
>>97639264Gen-asi with a hard "g", like great or golden. Genasi.
>>97639264this is tie fling tier
>>97639264ɡɛnʌ:si
>>97632103Fuck off Sam.
>>97626395>>97627568You could try doing it yourself instead of spending years begging for someone else to do it. But sure, here's one. How about a result for fire genasi having hair made of fire? Do you have that one yet? Or do you want to do the bare minimum for a collaborative project and actually post the list of what's already been suggested?
>>97640055Hmm, now why did that of all things touch a nerve?
>>97625865No they literally look like leftie americans. >If I pretend it isn't real then maybe everyone will think they are crazyThis strategy has about fifty years of employ and at no point has it been effective.
>>97620627Races that can be described as "Guys who are around" tend to not get very much attention, especially if they're also not a Core RaceAlso there are other races that do what they do but better>Goliaths have elemental powers and can grow large >Dragonborns have a Breath Weapon and can fly>Both Tieflings and Assimars but especially Tieflings do the Planetouched gimmick far better than Genasi
>>97645917Goliaths suddenly becoming discount giants in 5E 2024 is weird.
>>97646614It does make them far less interesting. Since instead of being some specific mountain-dwelling culture, they're now a rainbow of different giant types, and the whole thing is just watered down.It's ironically the same sort of problem Genasi themselves have, where they're just different flavors of element, but that just comes across in the form of having one spell or ability and they're just bland and flavorless otherwise.
So in defense of Genasi!Genasi generally don't have any culture, because each of them is basically a human with some genie ancestry (up to half genie as near as I can tell, but it could be distant depending). Which means that the closest they get to being exotic is if you have some Arab culture that is the only human culture that interacts with genies, and your game is set in some type of place that isn't close to the Arab culture.But this is just inheriting a different human culture, of course.So you could address this by having places where the genasi live as themselves- perhaps these places are in the elemental planes, or in places in the elemental planes near the material, so that things are relatively more normal and suitable to normal lives. Then you can have whatever culture you want for whatever reason you want. But that sounds like a lot of work. In fact, adding cultures to worlds in general is a lot of work, and it would be wild for a race to not have at least one culture that is mostly just itself.Which leads up to my use for genasi; they are just the result of trysts with genies and humans, or descended from them. Meaning I get to have these extra four mostly-humans, without any culture of their own, as options for players who want to be human but want some small amount of extra mechanic. The other NPCs treat them as human, and the places that don't would probably treat anyone who isn't from their exact neck of the woods as some kinda alien, whatever their race. I think the genasi are a gift to tables like mine, where I'd like to have some options for races that, by default, plug in however I like, and this doesn't clash with anything in the general description. I like genasi BECAUSE of this.
>>97620627My personal Genasi lore is that they HAVE to be made by a union between a genie and a mortal. Even if two genasi of the same type reproduce, it will be a normal mortal race of their combined mortal halves (generally human, I suppose).Along with that just some odd elemental effects on their body and/or surroundings.
>>97620627What do you think of just merging Genasi with Tieflings and/or Aasimar? Also, anyone have any more Genasi art worth sharing, like picture related, please?
>>97646614Goliath's were becoming a popular race among players and since Goliath's have distant relations with Giants WotC decided to lean into that going forward with 5e24It was probably also do to Players perception of Goliath's as well, being the "Not-Giant" race and allWotC seems to be doing that for the races in 5e24, with Tieflings not just being Devil related but also Demon and Yugoloth and Dragonborns being given wings. The way they implement these new idea's are kind of shit but it's clear they do occasionally look at what fans think of certain races and then build from there
>>97646973>it would be wild for a race to not have at least one culture that is mostly just itselfCultures are generally more a question of region than of race. Humans and elves living in the same general area would have cultures more similar to each other than they would to cultures of the same species on the other side of the world.And, if we build fantasy off of mythological influences, we arrive at the same conclusion. Primary sources present djinn as fundamentally Arabic in culture, European folklore generally depicts fey and other creatures as following the cultural conventions of their region of origin, we have examples of rakshasas that are virtuous Hindus and Buddhists, and so on. Those aren't inherent qualities of the entities in question, but the result of their existence within those cultural contexts.
>>97620627Elemental planes aren't very interesting, forcing a genie type for each elemental plane isn't very interesting, and genasi aren't very interesting.City of Brass & Efreets are cool, but that's it.
>>97655101>Efreets are coolMarids are cooler.
Honestly I don't mind genasi, I just think they're kinda basic. It ultimately just results in a person with elemental hair 99% of the time. What I find interesting is the HOW or WHY your genasi came into existence. Beyond just "your mom/dad slept with a wish-granting elemental". I've only done this on Eberron though.One of the newer books brings up an PC idea of playing a genasi as an escapee from Arcanix. Sort of like "you are the first of your kind" deal. I took that at expanded it. There are a number of mage-breeding programs in Aundair, most are focused on making magical animals. But a precious few have been breeding people infused with elemental power, creating Genasi. Arcanix has successfully creating a breeding population of Genasi, a big deal.
>>97620627Make your own lore. That's the whole point.
>>97658674I mean I do, Im just more interested in why nobody has gone crazy with them, from what I created alone there a potential gold mind of content.
>>97620732Genasi doesnt scream "I have father issues and blame him for my failures" unlike Tieflings hence why Genasi isn't picked at all by the "special" people.I can confidently say this as most the people in my dnd group who have come and gone and played tiefling usually have some sort of family related issues.
>>97659184>Im just more interested in why nobody has gone crazy with themThey're just not that interesting of a concept to attract anyone with that kind of interest and ability to take them and run wild with the loreAn example would be Dragonborns. WotC fucked them up in 5e but the idea of playing a Dragon person that isn't a meek shitter like Kobolds is cool so people took the Dragonborn and homebrew'd them heavily. If the Genasi had some sauce like that you'd see more homebrewing and even added homebrew races like what Players did with Dragonborns and their Gem/Dragon Turtle variants
"Genasi" is too broad for the whole to develop any kind of real meat to it. If you want your elemental races to attract interest, they need to be fleshed out as four different races with their own quirks, traits, and story hooks. As long as they're stuck as variants of a package deal, they'll stay obscure.
>>97624834No, they were just somewhat more common there. But even then, the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (3e) has them rare enough that Calimshan's population statistics don't even list them - they make up less than 1% of the population.
>>97622953This, most genasi art is dog shit, OP's pic is one of the few good ones ever made and that was 3e days.I myself have found extremely few really good pieces
>>97669276Please post more of it then!
>>97674656Fuck off, LL
>>97669276>>97674656>>97665794Do you ever get tired of replying to yourself?
>>97674930He hasn't for the past 6+ years
>>97620627Which edition/book has the best take on Genasi and why?
>>97682479Can you elaborate further, assuming you play games.
>>97682492I am guessing he means that 3e, 4e, and 5e DND have different takes on genasi, unclear if he means aesthetic differences, stat differences, lore differences, or all of the above though
>>97682617>all of the aboveThis one, yes.
>>97682617>>97682656Yet "he" has no thoughts of his own on the matter, despite his feigned interest. Curious, most curious.
>>97682492>>97682617>>97682669>>97682656Increasingly esoteric argument.
>>97682924It's pretty straightforward, provided you aren't retarded.
So Im wanting to recommission my artwork for my Earth Genasi, artist I used only spoke Portuguese and I guess what I wanted did translate well. I wanted her to be different from most, instead of rough stone, she was more Polished rose colored marble with rubys as freckles and hair more like Fine Copper wires or fiber optics. any other suggestions to make her look less human, but still keeping her elegant and not to freak shit race
>>97620722element people are pretty basic as fantasy goes, especially fire ones
>>97685353>doesn't know what core species meansNogames yapping from a reddit tourist
>>97685491Maybe he's lamoshading your chronic "I need to go back to my containment thread"ism.
>>97685532>lamoshading
>>97685532Wipe the cheeseburger grease out of your eyes and reread my post you fat, smelly, nogames retard. I didn't say shit about going back to any general, I'm pointing out that your faggoty ass can't recognize common DnD terminology despite making a thread about a uniquely DnD race. Clearly you have no interest in DnD or traditional games so I wouldn't even curse the generals with wishing your presence upon them. You belong back on reddit with the rest of your nogames LE WORLDBUILDING kind. Or better yet, run through a woodchipper.
>>97685625That sweet taste of irony. Absolutely convinced that I'm the blind one, while completely missing my point.I'll give you this though, generally genasi is a term almost exclusively related to dumb&dumber. So take your pity trophy and pin that to your wall.Oh, and I'm not OP, by the way. Literary Lord is a faggot of such proportion to eclipse even your mother.
>>97687522>That sweet tasteYou would think so, fatty.>while completely missing my point.Your fat, retarded point was based on being a fat, clueless retard.>So take your pity trophyI accept your fat concession.
>>97687688>5ehead has a fat fixationMaybe the art speds were right, that the normalizing of obese characters has long term ramifications. Either way, back to your containment thread, poser.
>>97688872>5eheadNot even a fan of dindy in the first place. Can't even get the basics right can you, tubbo?>back to your containment threadIronic, given the post I first responded to that you're defending. Or has your cholesterol clogged brain already forgotten?
That pointyhat youtuber had what I thought was a pretty cool idea about arcane genasi.
>>97689125Aight fair enough you win the shitting contest, I concede.
>>97682924Just ignore them.
>>97650448That's literally what they already are. All Tieflings, Aasimar, and Genasi are just Humans + Outsiders.The problem is that elementals are second rate compared to angels and demons.
>>97694595If people decided to get weird and creative with their Elementals then that could transfer over to the GenasiTieflings are as weird as they are because the Fiends are so weird. A Tiefling can be "human" but they look like an Abyss native, if the Genasi had that to work with and didn't just look like people with weird hair then they'd be more popular, it just starts with the Elementals first
>>97694560How should we ignore them? And is there anything else we should ignore, while we're on this subject?
>>97620627What are some ways to showcase a Genasi's element in their hair in-between the extremes of "Fire Genasi have red hair" and "Fire Genasi have hair made of flame, or at least hair that does a good job of seeming like it is flame"?
>>97701191Fire Genasi's hair is warm to the tough and while a wide variety of colors like humans, it does glow slightly.Maybe you can see embers at the ends.The hair is unnaturally wavy.Maybe the hair looks like it doesn't react to gravity the same, almost like it's in the shape of a rising flame.
>>97653122Unironically I think there should be Teiflings who've got ancestry from the inhabitants of Carceri (Demodands) or Gehenna (Barghests)It'd be a bit like only having Aasimar descended from Archons(Celestia), Guardinals (Elysium) and Celestial Eladrin (Arborea). Byopia and the Beastlands need some love too. And then you've got the Axani and the Cansin which it's own mess.
>>97695926I could see there being Quasielementals again if the Quasiplanes were the Feywild or Shadowfell Equivalents to the Elemental Planes. >Prime: Fire, Earth, Water, Air>Feywild: Radiance, Minerals, Steam, Lightning>Shadowfell: Ash, Dust, Salt, Vacuum. That or bring back the Chaos and Order Elementals from Mystara as Princes of Elemental Order (Anemo, Kryst, Helion and Hydrax) and Princes of Elemental Chaos (Eolian, Erdeen, Pyrophor and Undine).
>>97701191What are some good ways to bump threads, between the extremes of "posting a picture pulled off google eith no text whatsoever" and "asking a nothing question I'll never actually respond to"?
>>97701371>>97653122Just return to 2nd ed where Tieflings are part human and part anything from the lower planes.
>>97701506So:>Upper Planetouched: Aasimar>Lower Planetouched: Tieflings>Orderly Planetouched: Axani>Chaotic Planetouched: CansinWith there also being Potential for Aasimar-Axani, Aasimar-Cansin, Tiefling-Cansin and Tiefling-Axani Hybrids.
>>97701573Axani and Cansin really don't seem like good parallels of aasimar and tieflings when reading about them.Aasimar and Tiefling reads like they have mixed ancestry from their respective planes, while Axani are just trying to create a humanoid based on planar Lawful alignment. Their basis is autistic design, defined by an apparent gap without understanding why the first two exist and how you got there, it's backwards.A planetouched with Mercane ancestry makes sense, but not how they're described as a race.
>>97701500Who cares, as long as the tranny jannies prop you up you're golden.
For some reason I can't stop thinking of a Fire Genasi that uses their natural heat to cook, lol.
>>97620743>fuck Tieflingswell, if you insist
>>97707612What's with the appeal for them being so high compared to Genasi, lol?
>>97711629Thoughs?
>>97711849Tieflings are just fetish fuel for some people. They can imagine demon/human sex a lot easier than say dao/human sex. It's dumb but whatever floats your boat is ig
>>97712077You deserve him
>>97712492I deserve him? Who the fuck would that be?
>>97712653Him.
>>97712662No thanks. He has a chromosome I am not attracted too
>>97712653Welcome to 4chan newfriend
>>97716083Lol I was 32 when 4chan started "newfriend". Bigm
>>97716522So it's senility, then
>>97716522>BigmYou are not him.
>>97626395this is the only design in this whole thread that doesn't look fucking lame
>>97718817Yeah, you caught me! Nice job, champ
>>97726043Oh but I am. Moot made it rain shit encrusted dicks down the face of /b for a whole day. Google that, bitch. You won't find anything but ik he did because I was thereThose aren't mudkipz
>>97728159Yeah. Cuz no one would ever lie about their age for retarded social gibbs on an indian street-shitting forum.>>97728165Easy there, if you make it too obvious they just nuke you and then we're back at square one
>>97729022Bigm
>>97726181What do you like so much about it then?
>>97730385>>97730433>>97731164>>97731170>>97732638kill yourself bumpfag
>>976824794e are the most interesting mechanically since they are actually a single race with a variety of elemental affinities, the ability to acquire additional elements, personality variations based on currently active element, and the ability to combine two elements into a single form at the peak of ancestral mastery.
>>977328854e was really slept on considering how tight the ruleset was. And they tried to get rid of caster supremacy, never a bad thing. Martial classes actually were potent and needed.
>>97732638What are some ways that you've considered killing yourself?
>>97620627What Genasi PCs have you seen or played?
>>97733865>t. Nogames
>>97620627How do they compare to Aasimar? And would they improve if merged?
>>97735649>t. Nogames
>>97735649Would an aasimar help you kill yourself? It would be performing a great mercy.
>>97735694>t. Ineffable faggot
>>97734763is that why you've never seen or played as a genasi?
>>97737662Methinks the nogames doth protest too much
>>97737824>n-no u!t. Nogames
>>97737842I've known 3 people who have played a gensai. I've known 1 to actually play a shifter from eberron in Greyhawk. You're ignorant. Stop posting.
>>97737971Yet you have no thoughts or opinions of your own on the matter. Interesting.
>>97624782Broader market appeal. WotC has determined they are more likely to rake in more money by putting out art like that. I know it's easy to think the world runs on ideals when you're stupid, but you're living in the Kali Yuga, bro.
>>97732922Eh, I liked 4e well enough, but it's still not something I'd wanna use for anything but a tight fast-paced tactical skirmish game. Plenty of other systems handle having competent martials without sanding down the mechanical differences between classes.
>>97738578>Broader market appeal.lol
>>97738556I do but me sharing them with you is predicated on if I give a shit about that which I absolutely 109% do not
>>97739250That's valid I think
>>97741145Concession accepted
>>97743328That's what week minded people say when they have been out boxed at every corner. Like a cur or a rat. I'm sure you have rabies
>>97741145Yet you expect us to do the same for your sick, twisted Epsteinian pleasure. You're a hypocrite AND a liar.
I've actually played a genasi and have way more thoughts on the race than a shitty low-effort dindy splat-filler like them deserves, but I refuse to share any of it in a Bumpfag thread. Maybe in a few months after that freak finally lets this thread die and in a few more months if I see another genasi thread that hasn't been parasitized by that predditor yet I'll share it, but that's all dependent on if Bumpfag can habe the self-control to not be a faggot-ass bumpfag.
>>97743642Astral levels of projection
>>97744555I don't care if you share or not and never expressed that I did. You got me mixed up with another anon
>>97744670You should try crying about it on 4chan
I have many thoughts about genasi and how they relate to the hobby as a whole and also philosophy, sociology, and life in general, but I refuse to share any of them because I want to be like these cool guys here >>97744564 >>97741145
>>97744928You're better off not sharing them here when someone is just gonna lift them for their shitty yt channel to make 30¢ off you. No cap frfr straight bussin
>>97743642>week minded peopleBut what of the day minded and hour minded peepol, saaaar???
>>97745097All slaves to month minded people who think a head.
>>97744689Doesn't seem to be working out for you
>>97744928If you actually have these ideas I would love to hear them please.
>>97746439It definitely isn't for you
You do realise that here is nothing stopping you from home brewing something for your campaign?Christ, what is wrong with players these days? Is drinking from plastic bottles or iPhone radiation polymerising their brain cells?They really think that if it's not in the book, they're not allowed to do it?
>>97738578>WotC has determined they are more likely to rake in more money by putting out art like that.More like WotC got told that that style art would draw in a bigger audience than they would lose by extremely biased consultants with little actual evidence to support their assurances.
>>97701640You're a fucking idiot.>a humanoid based on planar [...] alignmentThat is exactly what a planetouched *is*. It's you that have it fucking backwards, thinking that aasimar and tieflings have actual literal ancestry from their planes. Planetouched are people born after being touched by the planes in various ways, whether the elemental planes or the outer ones. You're an ignorant fucking mongoloid and should reconsider suicide.
>>97735649>says aasimar>posts a full-on fucking celestial or, at worst, half-celestial>asks about merging planetouched with a completely different type of planetouchedYou're such a fucking retard holy shit.
>>97747406You're the only reason I'm not sharing them, Bumpfag. Congratulations, you killed this thread and doomed it to being nothing but endless shitposting and necrobumping.
>97749028>nouGrim. I expected a higher quality of shitflinging.
>>97749505I'm not interesting in your incessant pressing and moaning about problems that only exist in your brain. Better? Please leave a disparaging comment! Thank you for your time and efforts
>>97749203And guess what? WotC is much more successful than it ever was before the changes. D&D went from niche to mainstream, and it's going to stay that way. Three cheers for the pursuit of profit.
>>97750672What does everyone else iit think? Is lazy better than objectively false?
>>97751045>before the changesThat art is from the 5.5 book, which means that D&D spent a decade being mainstream before they printed that. Your timeline makes no sense.
>>97752757Nothing about tg ever makes sense. You just get used to it eventually
>>97738578>>97751045Are these AI hallucinations or something?
>>97749231Kill yourself retard
Op here, my apologies for making this thread, I didn't realize the level of retarded shitposting it would bring. I just wanted to talk about stupid made up genie people
>>97759761>>97759761Genies, gods, elves, orcs, magic systems, elementals, egypt... So many cool topics just fucking ruined here by one cunt with an attention fetish.
>>97759761You're ok. You can't plan for other ppl's retardedness. I've enjoyed this thread so far.
>>97767625That's really bad ass. Doesn't strike me as a gensai, maybe a half fire elemental but still, very cool
>>97776937this is literally a typical genassi description
>>97782164Oh? I'm just used to them being a little less flamboyant. Ig everything has to be over the top these days of 5e
>>97783367>Fire genasi have mostly human features except for one or two exceptional traits related to their elemental ancestor. Some examples of these features are: charcoal gray skin deep red skin red or orange hair that waves like flames eyes that glow when the genasi is angry unusually warm skin large red teeth a body odor that smells like smokeThis is from forgotten realms 3e So the character in picture has red eyes (when angry supposedly) flaming red hair and a little gray skin. Maybe a little more pronounced than what is described but not by a lot.When we included genasi before we liked to include more than a couple of characteristics so that they are a little more visually pronounced as well and most people played them this way.This is in tandem though with the way 3e visualised these planetouched races. Aasimar and tieflings also only featured a couple of characteristics betraying their heritage I dont know about genasi in 5e since i will never play that edition but i m sure they kicked it up a notch as they did with the tieflings
>>97783803Ah, thanks for the elucidation. I didn't recall ever seeing them this plugged in to their elemental side but I wasn't saying it couldn't happen. She just seems like an outlier, is all. I don't have a problem with that. Hell, every adventurer is an outlier as far as I'm concerned
>>97620627>>97701191I've got to be honest. I don't think genasi/planetouched should have hair that is just made up purely of their element. I think it's a step too far away from a, "realistic baseline," of someone just waking about on the street.Maybe, maybe if it looks really awesome like this >>97767625but only if they're of a, "higher level," like they're focusing on powering up their element heritage. Maybe it only happens when they're in some hyper mode.
>>97784275>Maybe it only happens when they're in some hyper mode.Sounds cool! Maybe it's like a shell or illusion formed around their 'real' hair and how intact it is shows how long the form will last?>>97783803>This is from forgotten realms 3eNot him, but thanks! What book, or do you have descriptions for the other elements as well?
>>97788612It's from an article in dragon 293this is the link to the article online>https://www.realmshelps.net/charbuild/races/planetouched/genasi.shtml
>>97623756>At best supervising >Holding pillar up properly on shoulder>Tied a rope to it and thinks he's helping>Holding pillar up properly on shoulder>Holding pillar incorrectly on head>Pretending to help
>>97620627"My dad fucked a fire elemental" just doesn't have the same teenage angst and edgelord appeal as being descended from a devil or demon, and you can't even get the people with daddy issues rebelling against their parents that Aasimar sometimes attract as angelspawn since the elemental planes are neutral aligned so "UGH FUCK YOU DAD I'M GONNA GO DO DRUGS AND FUCK AROUND AS A DIRTY ADVENTURER!" will be met by a shrug and a "good luck honey" by your fucking earth elemental father who's just happy you're not sticking your dick in uranium like he was at your age. There's not drama or edge to playing somebody with elemental ancestry and honestly I kind of like that the status quo for genasi is that they're not very popular and that it's treated with the same mild interest as somebody saying "oh yeah my grandma is from Wales so I can actually speak Welsh", compared to the frequent main character syndrome that often follows tieflings and aasimar
>>97788839Ever heard of Antimony in Gunnerkrigg Court?
>>97792302I'm not a pedophile so no.
>>97783367>>97784134>>97788612>bumpfag once again outing xirself as a nogames lel
>>97792538Oh. My 7 year long campaign doesn't count? What about my 9 year long Dragonlance campaign? What about the one I started in 1986 that's still ongoing, making it forty years old? Fuck off, faggotPicrel is the kind of genasi I was talking about, you feckless bitch
>>97793288I don't believe you. I don't believe you're more than 40 years old.
>>97793384I'm 55. 32 when 4chan started.
>>97793400Ignore the schizo. What happened in your campaigns with Genasi, BTW?
>>97799313I have played them but only one of my friends ever played one and he went out on a high note at 17th level I do believe. Fire genasi, was nearly killed at least seven times but the group I play with are all skilled tacticians. They save at least 90% of their party members that get downed. We've played all kinds games of all types so they're pretty skilled. If someone goes down, we all know it because we keep track of each other religiously.
