GammaAge/_notes/Ent.txt

Sentient plants, or greenfolk, are a wondrous new life form. Mobile and sometimes ferocious, they have the ability to think and reason and can carry unusual mutations. They can be fearsome opponents and valued allies. Generally, looking like their plant ancestor they can uproot themselves to move and all Gamma Age player character greenfolk have the ability to manipulate their surroundings and can communicate verbally and sometimes even telepathically.  Greenfolk that are decended from trees are called ents, but the reason for this is lost to antiquity.  They are the largest & strongest of all of the types greenfolk.  

Ent Ability Adjustments: +2 STR, +2 CON 

Special Abilities:

- Large: As Large creatures, ents receive -1 penalties to their Attack and Armor Class, and -4 to their Hide skill. 
- Ent base land speed is 20 feet.
- Greenfolk: Greenfolk have all of the usual Plant creature immunities, immunity to sleep, paralyze, poison, stunning and critical hits, but they do not receive immunity to mind-affecting effects.  All greenfolk receive +2 racial bonus to their Hide & Move Silently skills, a –2 penalty to Bluff & Diplomacy vs non-plants, a -2 penalty to Decipher Script and a -4 penalty to Tumble & Balance.
- Skill Affinity (Intimidate): A Ent's towering size gives it an advantage in intimidation..
- Bark Hide: Like normal trees, ents have a bark-like hide that grants them a +2 Natural Armor Bonus.
- Mutations: Greenfolk characters begin with 1 minor positive mutation, 1 major positive mutation and 1 minor negative mutation.  Choose the positive mutations, and then roll for the negative one.
- Genetic Instability: Mutants of all sorts suffer from genetic instability.  All mutant characters suffer a –2 penalty on all saves against developing new mutations (such as when exposed to environmental mutagens.  This penalty increases by –1 for every two character levels (for example, a 2nd-level mutant suffers a –3 to her save against mutation).