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#1 Undrhil Mar 12, 2015 6:18:07	So, the Earth Genasi has a racial ability called "Meld with Stone" which allows them to cast 'pass without trace'.  I don't understand why they didn't simply allow them to cast 'meld with stone', instead.  Or, as a throwback to the 4e Earth Genasi, allow them to cast 'earth tremor'.   I'm mainly wondering if this might have been a mistake and they *meant* to have them cast 'meld with stone' like the name of the feature suggests.  Because pass without trace doesn't really 'meld with stone', to me....
#2 mellored Mar 12, 2015 7:13:44	hard to say.   certainly a possibility.
#3 Mechatarrasque Mar 12, 2015 7:27:45	That is my interpretation.
#4 Coredump00 Mar 12, 2015 7:59:12	I think it is much more likely that they just made a poor choice for the abiilty name.  Or perhaps in a playtest version it had meld with stone, and it got changed but not renamed.   I seriously doubt that PwoT is a mistake.
#5 QwertyAzerty Mar 12, 2015 12:18:13	Meld into stone is a spell level 3, it would be too powerful compare to the other race giving access to spell level 2 only at level 5. already pass without trace ( a spell level 2) at level 1 is very powerful.
#6 lawrencehoy Mar 12, 2015 16:38:59	The earth genasi trait is titled Merge with Stone not Meld into Stone, as the spell. Personally, I think the Pass without Trace spell is better; it can affect the entire party and is easily interpreted as sinking into, and moving through, the earth/stone (merging with it). Meld into Stone provides no movement and opens up the possibility of plenty of damage.