Editing 4SRD:Race

The Aethereal monks are descended from an ancient race once held In thrall by psionic overlords from the depths of the earth. After the bloody uprising that won these people their freedom, ideological differences split them into two races: the Aethereal monks and the Aethereal pirates. The Aethereal monks rejected the cruel warmongering of the Aethereal pirates and withdrew to the Elemental Chaos and to remote locations in the world to follow a path of self-reflection, harnessing the power of the mind and the soul. Centuries later, the Aethereal monks remain in such locations, leading disciplined lives and observing their surroundings to determine their place in the universe.<br><br>

Small: Small characters use the same weapons that Medium creatures do. However, a Small character (such as a deep gnome) cannot use a two-handed weapon. When a Small character uses a versatile weapon, he or she must wield it two-handed and does not deal any extra damage for doing so.<br>

Deep gnomish base land speed is 25 feet.<br>

==DOPPELGANGER==

Doppelgangers are shapechangers, a people able to assume the features of other humanoids. Doppelgangers' talents breed mistrust and fear, leading many changelings to hide their true nature from even their closest companions. Many Doppelgangers seek only to avoid unwanted attention and to find a place in the world.<br><br>

+2 Charisma; +2 Dexterity or Intelligence.<br>

Medium-sized. Doppelganger base land speed is 30 feet.<br>

Normal Vision.<br>

Languages: Common.<br>  

Skill Bonuses: +2 Bluff,+2 Insight<br>  

'''Shapechanger::''' You are a shapechanger; you can alter your appearance. As such, you are subject to effects and conditions that affect shapechangers.<br>  

'''Mental Defense:''' You have a +1 racial bonus to Will.<br>

'''Spell-Like Abilities''': 1. You have the [[4SRD:doppelganger disguise|''doppelganger disguise'']] Doppelganger racial ability.<br>  

You alter your form to look like another person.<br>  

Once per encounter, you can make a Bluff check opposed by one target's passive Insight. If your check succeeds, you gain combat

advantage against the target until the end of your next turn.<br><br>

 

Dragonkin resemble humanoid dragons. They are covered in scaly hide, but they do not have tails. They are tall and strongly built, often standing close to 6½ feet in height and weighing 300 pounds or more. Their hands and feet are strong, talonlike claws with three fingers and a thumb on each hand. A dragonborn’s head features a blunt snout, a strong brow, and distinctive frills at the cheek and ear. A dragonborn’s eyes are a shade of red or gold. Behind the brow, a crest of hornlike scales of various lengths resembles thick, ropy hair.<br><br>

Languages: Common and Draconic.<br>  

Skill Bonuses: +2 History, +2 Intimidate.<br>

'''Dragon's Inheritance:''' Your healing surge value is equal to one-quarter of your maximum hit points + your Constitution modifier.<br>

'''Dragon's Wrath:''' While you are bloodied, you gain a +1 racial bonus to attack rolls.<br>

'''Spell-Like Abilities''': When you select dragonkin as your character’s race, choose one of the following racial abilities:

As you open your mouth with a roar, the deadly power of your draconic kin blasts forth to engulf your foes.<br>

Once per encounter, you can breathe out deadly energy which attacks every creature in a cone of 15 feet from yourself.<br>  

Attack with Strength, Constitution, or Dexterity +2 vs. the Reflex defense of every target. (At 11th level the bonus increases to +4, at 21st level, the bonus increases to +6.) If you hit, you deal 1d6 + Constitution modifier damage. (At 11th level the damage increases to 2d6 + Constitution modifier damage; at 21st level, the bonus increases to 3d6 + Constitution modifier damage.)<br>

Special: When you create your character, choose Strength, Constitution, or Dexterity as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. You also choose the power’s damage type: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. These two choices remain throughout your character’s life and do not change the power’s other effects.<br> <br>

 

You are naturally intimidating at the best of times, and when passions strike, you are positively terrifying. Your presence causes your enemies to quake and tremble.<br>

Once per encounter, you can attack each enemy in a 25 foot radius from yourself. Attack with Strength +2 or Charisma +2 vs. Will

(At 11th level the bonus increases to +4, at 21st level, the bonus increases to +6.) If you hit a target, it takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls and grants combat advantage until the end of your next turn.<br>

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+2 Constitution; +2 Strength or +2 Wisdom<br>

Medium-sized. Dwarven base land speed is 25 feet.<br>

Low-Light Vision: a dwarf can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. He retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.<br>

Languages: Common and Dwarven.<br>  

Skill Bonuses: +2 Dungeoneering, +2 Endurance.<br>  

'''Poison-proof:''' You have a +5 racial bonus to saving throws against poison.<br>

'''Dwarven Weapon Proficiency:''' You gain proficiency with the throwing hammer and the warhammer.<br>

'''Unburdened Speed:''' You move at your normal speed even when it would be reduced by armor or a heavy load. Other effects that limit speed (such as difficult terrain or magic) affect you normally.<br>

'''Immovable:''' When an effect forces you to move through a pull, a push, or a slide you can move 1 square less than the effect specifies. This means an effect that normally pulls, pushes, or slides a target 1 square does not force you to move unless you want to. In addition, when an attack would knock you prone, you can make a saving throw to avoid falling prone.<br>  

'''Spell-Like Abilities''': You have the [[4SRD:dwarven hardiness|''dwarven hardiness'']] Dwarven racial ability.<br>  

Once per encounter, you use your second wind as a swift action.

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Ghosts are souls of the dead returned to a semblance of life by the god of death or some other supernatural agency. These ghosts do not appear as undead horrors or even anything like their former selves. When a god or other powerful being reincarnates these souls, they exist as his special creations, and they have the bodies of his choosing and creation. In this way, such souls are always marked as representatives of the god’s power. They emerge from the shadow of death fully formed and fully grown, set to handle whatever tasks they have been returned to deal with.<br><br>

+2 Dexterity; +2 Constitution or Charisma.<br>

Medium-sized. Ghostly base land speed is 30 feet.<br>

Low-Light Vision: a ghost can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. He retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.<br>

Skill Bonuses: +2 Endurance, +2 Intimidate.<br>  

'''Former Life:''' Select a race other than revenant. You are also considered a member of that race for the purpose of meeting prerequisites, such as feat or paragon path prerequisites.<br>

'''Undead:''' You are considered an undead creature for the purpose of effects that relate to the undead keyword. You are also considered a living creature.<br>

'''Unnatural Vitality:''' When you drop to 0 hit points or fewer and are subjected to the dying condition, you can choose to be dazed, instead of falling unconscious. You make death saving throws as normal, and if you fail one, you fall unconscious instead of being dazed.<br>

'''Spell-Like Abilities''': You have the [[4SRD:grim reaper|''grim reaper'']] Ghostly racial ability.<br>  

You use one death as the seed to sow more destruction.<br>  

(Free Action, range 25 feet)<br>  

Once per encounter, when a creature within 25 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points, then one creature of your choice that you hit with an attack before the end of your next turn takes extra Necrotic damage equal to 1d8 + your Constitution modifier or Charisma modifier.

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Giantkin tower over even dragonborn, standing between 7 and 8 feet tall. Their skin is gray or brown, mottled with darker patches that they believe hint at some aspect of each Giantkin’s fate or destiny. Their skin is speckled with lithoderms, coin-sized growths of bone that appear like pebbles studding their arms, shoulders, torso, and head. A bony ridge juts over their gleaming blue or green eyes. Male Giantkin are bald, and females have dark hair they typically grow long and wear in braids.

Giantkin have life spans comparable to those of humans.

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+2 Strength; +2 Constitution or Wisdom.<br>

Medium-sized. Giantkin base land speed is 30 feet.<br>

Normal Vision.<br>

Languages: Common and choice of either Dwarven or Giantish.<br>  

Skill Bonuses: +2 Athletics, +2 Nature.<br>  

'''Mountain's Stubbornness:''' You have a +1 racial bonus to Will.<br>  

'''Powerful Athlete:''' When you make an Athletics check to jump or climb, roll twice and use either result.<br>

'''Spell-Like Abilities''': You have the [[4SRD:skin of stone|''skin of stone'']] Giantkin racial ability.<br>  

Your foes’ attacks bounce off your stony hide.<br>  

Once per encounter, you can gain a resistance of 5 to all damage until the end of your next turn. (At 11th level you can resist 10 to all damage; at 21st level you can resist 15 to all damage.)<br>

Gnolls tower over humans, with the average gnoll standing over 7 feet tall. Despite their physical strength, gnolls are lean; gnolls are rarely musclebound, and they move with remarkable speed. Their eyes are bright green or yellow, and gleam whenever they catch the light. Gnolls are covered with a thick coat of fur, which generally ranges from light to dark brown; depending on the clan, this might be a uniform color, or broken up by stripes or spots. A number of gnoll bloodlines have members (both male and female) who possess crestlike manes of hair that run from the head and down the spine; these rise up when gnolls are frightened or angry.<br>

Although these are general traits, the traces of demonic blood in gnolls can produce unusual features. An obvious example of this are the talons of the gnoll claw fighter, but this can manifest in lesser ways. A gnoll might have gleaming red eyes, or black fur with fiery orange spots; a wide range of variation is possible.<br>

Gnolls mature with remarkable speed for intelligent humanoids; some cite this as proof of their demonic heritage and suggest that it is unnatural for a creature to be ready for battle so soon after birth. They have short life spans—in fact, they rarely live longer than thirty years, but they typically remain remarkably strong and vigorous right up to the end of their days. When their strength leaves them, it is a sudden and catastrophic decline.<br><br>

+2 Constitution, +2 Dexterity.<br>

Medium-sized. Gnollish base land speed is 35 feet.<br>

Low-Light Vision: a Gnoll can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. He retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.<br>

Languages: Common and Abysmal.<br>  

Skill Bonuses: +2 Intimidate, +2 Perception.<br>  

'''Blood Fury:''' While you're bloodied, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls. This increases to a +4 bonus at 21st level.<br>  

'''Pack Attack:''' You deal an extra 2 damage on melee attacks against an enemy that has two or more of your allies adjacent to it.<br>

'''Spell-Like Abilities''': You have the [[4SRD:charge of ferocity|''charge of ferocity'']] Gnollish racial ability.<br>  

You lunge toward the enemy and, with a tirade of curses, unleash the wrath of your bloodthirsty god upon your hapless foe..<br>  

(Standard Action, Personal)<br>  

Once per encounter, you can charge and deal an extra 2 damage on a sucessful attack. (Increase the extra damage to 4 at 11th level and to 6 at 21st level.) If you are bloodied, double the extra damage and gain an equal number of temporary hit points.<br>

Small: Small characters use the same weapons that Medium creatures do. However, a Small character (such as a gnome) cannot use a two-handed weapon. When a Small character uses a versatile weapon, he or she must wield it two-handed and does not deal any extra damage for doing so.<br>

'''Fey Origin:''' Your ancestors were native to Faerie, so you are considered a fey creature for the purpose

'''Master Trickster:''' Once per encounter, you can use the wizard cantrip ghost sound as a minor action.<br>

'''Reactive Stealth:''' If you have any cover or concealment when you make an initiative check, you can make a Stealth check.<br>

'''Trickster’s Cunning:''' You have a +5 racial bonus to saving throws against illusions.<br>

'''Spell-like Abilities:''' You have the [[4SRD:Vanish|''Vanish'']] gnome racial power. Once per encounter, you turn invisible in response to harm. This is an illusion. (Immediate Reaction, Personal)<br>