Races and Archetypes (PWH)

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Nowhere else does a body encounter as many varied and strange folk as he does traveling the planes. Bariaur, tieflings, genasi, fiends, baku, Sensates, Bleakers, clueless berks, high-up bloods—it's an endless list. This chapter deals with creating and playing characters in the PLANESCAPE setting. New character races are included, as well as suggestions and advice to enhance game play. A PLANESCAPE player must first decide whether to play a prime-material or planar character. Members of any prime race (includ-ing demihumans such as elves, dwarves, and gnomes) may be PCs, generated as presented in the Player's Handbook. This chapter focuses on planar characters; the eight available races are all described below.