+INT Races [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Blarghy

02-03-08, 03:24 AM
Does anyone know of any +0 LA races that have a bonus to Intelligence? I've found the Fire Elves in Unearthed Arcana, but can't seem to find any others. Anyone know of any else?
runestar

02-03-08, 03:49 AM
sun elf in FRCS (+2int, -2con)
deep imaskari in underdark (+2int, -2dex)
lesser planetouched tiefling (PGTF, as tiefling, but LA+0)
steventirey1985

02-03-08, 08:12 AM
gray elves in the monster manual
RobbyPants

02-03-08, 08:58 PM
AZNSupermarket has a master list of the races you can browse here (http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?p=10002276).
AZNsupermarket

02-03-08, 10:21 PM
Here are all your choices from WOTC published material for +0 LA races that get a bonus to intelligence:

Gray Elf: -2 Str +2 Dex -2 Con +2 Int, medium, 30 ft., wizard, humanoid (elf), monster manual pg.104

Sun Elf: +2 Int -2 Con, medium, 30 ft., wizard, humanoid (elf), forgotten realms pg.15

Silvanesti: +2 Dex +2 Int -2 Con -2 Cha, medium, 30 ft., humanoid (elf), dragonlance campaign setting pg.20

Fire Elf: +2 Dex +2 Int -2 Con -2 Cha, medium, 30 ft., wizard, humanoid (elf), unearthed arcana pg.17

Deep Imaskari: +2 Int -2 Dex, medium, 30 ft., spell clutch (su), wizard, humanoid (human), underdark pg.9

Tinker Gnome: +2 Dex +2 Int -2 Str -2 Wis, small, 20 ft., special, dragonlance campaign setting pg.27

Lesser Air Genasi: +2 Dex +2 Int -2 Wis -2 Cha, medium, 30 ft., levitate (sp), fighter, humanoid (planetouched), player’s guide to faerun pg.191

Lesser Fire Genasi: +2 Int -2 Cha, medium, 30 ft., control flames (sp), fighter, humanoid (planetouched), player’s guide to faerun pg.191

Lesser Tiefling: +2 Int +2 Dex -2 Cha, medium, 30 ft., darkness (sp), rogue, humanoid (planetouched), player’s guide to faerun pg.191

Vanara: -2 Str +2 Int +2 Wis, medium, 30 ft. climb 20 ft., spirit shaman, humanoid (vanara), oriental adventures pg.15 – Note: in a 3.5 oriental adventures update found in Dragon magazine, vanara were updated to no longer have any ability score adjustments.

Venerable Dragonwrought Kobold: -4 Str +2 Dex -2 Con +3 Int +3 Wis +3 Cha, small, 30 ft., sorcerer, dragon (kobold, reptilian, dragonblood), monter manual pg.161 and races of the dragon pg. 39

You can also add the Dragonborn of Bahamut pseudo-template without level adjustment to any of the races with a bonus to int (beside the venerable dragonwrought kobold) and gain +2 con -2 dex, which stacks with your original ability adjustments. That may be helpful for a lot of these (especially for races like fire elves and gray elves).

Dragonborn: +2 Con -2 Dex, same as base creature, same as base creature, fighter and the base creatures, humanoid (dragonblood, same as base creature), races of the dragon pg.5

Other than that, you can just increase your age level and suffer the physical ability score penalties.
Orchomenos

02-04-08, 10:42 AM
Venerable Dragonwrought Kobold: -4 Str +2 Dex -2 Con +3 Int +3 Wis +3 Cha, small, 30 ft., sorcerer, dragon (kobold, reptilian, dragonblood), monter manual pg.161 and races of the dragon pg. 39
Beside, you can make anything Venerable and have the +3 to Int. But a Venerable level 1 character sounds odd... What the heck did he do the rest of his life???
AZNsupermarket

02-04-08, 10:59 AM
Beside, you can make anything Venerable and have the +3 to Int. But a Venerable level 1 character sounds odd... What the heck did he do the rest of his life???

Well, you technically could make any race venerable, except dragonwrought kobolds don't take any of the penalties for being venerable, only the bonuses.

As to your question about a venerable creature still being first level, I don't think anyone even mentioned that the race had to be first level, but you're right, it would be weird if the character was venerable and still first level. On the other hand, anyone with enough creativity can come up with a backstory to explain anything. Some potential backstories for this character could include: a curse which caused him to go into a magical coma for a very long time, a prophecy telling him that he must go into hiding and meditate for many many years until the time was right, etc etc. Whether a DM actually buys these cheesy backstories is another question all together
pigknight

02-06-08, 12:13 AM
Well a venerable character would kill 1 kobold then BAM dead.

Bob the Fighter: Come over here you whipper-snapper! *Slash!* AAAAH!
Rob the Cleric (pun intended): What happened? Revify won't work!
Dave the Wizard: He died of old age, what the %^&*!
AZNsupermarket

02-06-08, 10:36 PM
Well a venerable character would kill 1 kobold then BAM dead.

Bob the Fighter: Come over here you whipper-snapper! *Slash!* AAAAH!
Rob the Cleric (pun intended): What happened? Revify won't work!
Dave the Wizard: He died of old age, what the %^&*!

Ummm... After becoming venerable, metallic dragonborn live their charisma score times ten number of years. Considering that most kobolds are sorcerers, this could be a very very long time.
ciaran

02-06-08, 11:58 PM
The Dragonwrought kobold who lived with his dragonwrought parents until... they were all venerable? When the parents died he had to start doing something with his life i.e. begin aquiring class levels.
pigknight

02-07-08, 11:03 PM
Just like the stereotype DM.
Orchomenos

02-08-08, 08:15 AM
The Dragonwrought kobold who lived with his dragonwrought parents until... they were all venerable? When the parents died he had to start doing something with his life i.e. begin aquiring class levels.

He's been playing Bear & Basements all these years. Or perhaps Humans & Homes? :P
chibishuffle

02-09-08, 10:36 AM
no no he's been playing kobolds ate my baby :)