Editing Maenad (section)

===Athasian Maenads===
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When [[Dragon Magazine]] #319 used the Expanded Psionics Handbook as the basis to do a semi-official 3.5 update of [[Dark Sun]], maenads were one of the ExPH races added to the setting, alongside [[elan]]s. Athasian maenads are an extraplanar race, brought to the world of Athas in the year of Priest's Contemplation when the Sorcerer-King Adropinus escaped from his banishment to the Black, bringing the maenads with him from some other world to facilitate his conquest of Balic. Subsequently ignored by him, they have begun to spread across the Tablelands, and many are beginning to turn on their former master, disillusioned by his cruelty and despising the wretched world that he has trapped them on. These maenads, like their ExPH counterparts, get on best with the [[human]]s, [[dwarf|dwarves]] and [[elf|elves]] of Athas, but they regard [[halfling]]s as silly, and take other races as they find them, although they have a hard time understanding [[aarakocra]] and [[thri-kreen]].

Athasian Maenad PCs are identical to standard ones, but gain +2 [[Strength]] and +4 [[Charisma]], giving them a [[Level Adjustment]] of +1 (Note: Everyone, humans included, in this conversion are ''at least'' LA+1).