Planetouched = Outsider

[stinkymcgirk]

Could planetouched characters be reassigned as outsiders, please? Right now there's no favored enemy: planetouched for starters, and I feel like there's a lot more depth of roleplay if you have to request that spells like banishment not be cast upon you if you're a planetouched race.

[hnefi]

Planetouched are supposed to be native outsiders, which means Banishment is not supposed to work on them. Banishment only works on extraplanars (creatures without the native subtype).

[Signor Leo]

Apr 3, 2009 19:42:00 GMT -5 stinkymcgirk said:

Could planetouched characters be reassigned as outsiders, please? Right now there's no favored enemy: planetouched for starters, and I feel like there's a lot more depth of roleplay if you have to request that spells like banishment not be cast upon you if you're a planetouched race.

On the contray:

From the FRCS page 18:

"First, spells or effects that affect only humanoids, such as Charm Person or a Dominate Person spell do not affect planetouched characters.

Second, spells and effects that target extraplanar creatures may affect planetouched characters. For example, the mace of smiting and the sword of the planes are more effective against outsiders, and are correspondingly more dangerous to a planetouched character. A spell that drives outsiders back to their home planes does not affect planetouched characters, but banishment-a spell that removes an outsider from the caster's plane without specifying a return to the outsider's native plane-would work just fine.

Finally, Faerun's planetouched have lived on Toril long enough for Toril to become, in effect, their native plane. This means that planetouched characters can be raised or ressurected normally. Whereas most outsiders cannot be brought back from the dead without the use of a miracle or wish spell."

Now as to Banishment and Outsiders, there's two Subtypes: Extraplanar and Native. So as long as the genasi is on its homeplane (in this case the Material), its Native, and if they went on another plane, they would be Extraplanar.

Now NWN2's version of Banishment just blankets all outsiders toegther and doesn't adhere to Native and Extraplanar, to which the spell is only suppose to effect those of the Extraplanar subtype.

[hnefi]

Uh, yeah. That's pretty much exactly what I said, though more verbose.

[Signor Leo]

Apr 4, 2009 3:10:52 GMT -5 hnefi said:

Uh, yeah. That's pretty much exactly what I said, though more verbose.

Hehe didnt get a chance to read it earlier while I was typing it up

[stinkymcgirk]

Fair enough. What about the lack of a planetouched category for favored enemies, though?