Planetouched - Publication History

Publication History

The concept of races descended from extraplanar creatures debuted in second edition with the Planescape setting. The tiefling was introduced in the Planescape Campaign Setting boxed set (1994) as a player character race, and received statistics in the first Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994). The aasimar first appeared in Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II (1995). The Planewalker's Handbook (1996) introduced genasi (including the air genasi, the earth genasi, the fire genasi, and the water genasi), and presented options for the aasimar and the tiefling as player character races. The aasimar appeared again as a player character race in Warriors of Heaven (1999).

The aasimar and the tiefling appear in the third edition Monster Manual (2000) under the planetouched entry, and in the 3.5 revised Monster Manual (2003). The axani, the cansin, and the para-genasi (the dust para-genasi, the ice para-genasi, the magma para-genasi, the ooze para-genasi, the smoke para-genasi, and the steam para-genasi) appeared in Dragon #297 (July 2002). The chaond and the zenythri appeared in the Monster Manual II (2002). The maeluth, the mechanatrix, the shyft, and the wispling appeared in the Fiend Folio (2003). The tiefling paragon was introduced in Unearthed Arcana (2004). The aasimar and the tiefling appear as player character races in the Planar Handbook (2004), and Races of Destiny (2004).

The planetouched were used throughout the Forgotten Realms setting in third edition. The air genasi, the earth genasi, the fire genasi, and the water genasi, and the fey'ri and the tanna'ruk tieflings, appeared in Monsters of Faerûn (2001), under the "planetouched" entry. The aasimar, the four genasi types, and the tiefling are presented as a player character races for the Forgotten Realms setting in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (2001). The four genasi types appear again as player character races in Dragon #293 (March 2002), and with the aasimar, the fey'ri, the tanarukk, and the tiefling in Races of Faerûn (2003). The gloaming appeared as a player character race in Underdark (2003), and the lesser planetouched appeared as a player character race in the Player's Guide to Faerûn (2004). The azerblood, the celadrin, the d'hin'ni, and the worghest appeared as player character races in Dragon #350 (December 2006).

The tiefling appeared in the fourth edition as a player character race in the Player's Handbook (2008). The genasi appeared in the Monster Manual 2 (2009).