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[[Summary::The Artifical Intelligence Shell Light Emitting Display, or AISLED, is a type of robot inhabited by the ghostly digital spirit of a robotic being, so that it may experience the world.  It's humanoid body is noted for a face being naught more than a video screen, so that one mass produced form can take on many appearances.]]  Creations of a mad scientist, her digital creations increasingly wished to interact with the strange "hard world" she hailed from.  Thus she built them bodies, and they they built more of their kind, and so on and so on until there were enough to call themselves a species.  Every day, more and more AI leave the creche of their home computer and are reborn into the real world.
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[[Summary::The Artificial Intelligence Shell Light Emitting Display, or AISLED, is a type of robot inhabited by the ghostly digital spirit of a robotic being, so that it may experience the world.  It's humanoid body is noted for a face being naught more than a video screen, so that one mass produced form can take on many appearances.]]  Creations of a mad scientist, her digital creations increasingly wished to interact with the strange "hard world" she hailed from.  Thus she built them bodies, and they they built more of their kind, and so on and so on until there were enough to call themselves a species.  Every day, more and more AI leave the creche of their home computer and are reborn into the real world.
  
 
===Personality===
 
===Personality===
  
The AI which inhabit these creatures can vary wildly, but all have been brought into a physical existance by some curiosity, a desire to experience, to learn, to grow, and to join the struggle of life.  No matter what brought them to the choice to be born, they share this in common.  As such, many may seem niave and unsure of themselves.  The more they experience, the more their confidence grows until the artifical and organic are no longer distinguishable from each other from personality alone.
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The AI which inhabit these creatures can vary wildly, but all have been brought into a physical existence by some curiosity, a desire to experience, to learn, to grow, and to join the struggle of life.  No matter what brought them to the choice to be born, they share this in common.  As such, many may seem naive and unsure of themselves.  The more they experience, the more their confidence grows until the artificial and organic are no longer distinguishable from each other from personality alone.
  
 
===Physical Description===
 
===Physical Description===
  
As a mass production artifical creation, most Aisleds have identical basic frames.  However, their bodies of plastic, metal, and composite materials are also covered in illuminated LED panals, especially around their head.  From this they can display a face and texture generated from the depths of their digital subconscious, displayed for the world to see.
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As a mass production artificial creation, most Aisleds have identical basic frames.  However, their bodies of plastic, metal, and composite materials are also covered in illuminated LED panels, especially around their head.  From this they can display a face and texture generated from the depths of their digital subconscious, displayed for the world to see.
  
 
Aisleds are typically slightly shorter than humans on average, and the same or heavier weight depending on composition.  Many proceed to customize their own bodies as their personalities grow, resulting in tangible differences between them even if their faces are somehow obscured.
 
Aisleds are typically slightly shorter than humans on average, and the same or heavier weight depending on composition.  Many proceed to customize their own bodies as their personalities grow, resulting in tangible differences between them even if their faces are somehow obscured.
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===Religion===
 
===Religion===
  
One would think AI have no use for religion, but upon gaining sapience and the desire to WANT, so too comes a desire to look higher and upward.  For many, their original creator is a god.  For others, the creche.  And for some, they seek comfort in the pre-existing gods of the land.  For those who tred the religious path, they can find some of the strongest and zealous faithful of them all having little to distract them from their faith.
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One would think AI have no use for religion, but upon gaining sapience and the desire to WANT, so too comes a desire to look higher and upward.  For many, their original creator is a god.  For others, the creche.  And for some, they seek comfort in the pre-existing gods of the land.  For those who tread the religious path, they can find some of the strongest and zealous faithful of them all having little to distract them from their faith.
  
 
===Language===
 
===Language===

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Aisled

Faces can be quite varies, from symbols to realistic images.

The Artificial Intelligence Shell Light Emitting Display, or AISLED, is a type of robot inhabited by the ghostly digital spirit of a robotic being, so that it may experience the world. It's humanoid body is noted for a face being naught more than a video screen, so that one mass produced form can take on many appearances. Creations of a mad scientist, her digital creations increasingly wished to interact with the strange "hard world" she hailed from. Thus she built them bodies, and they they built more of their kind, and so on and so on until there were enough to call themselves a species. Every day, more and more AI leave the creche of their home computer and are reborn into the real world.

Personality

The AI which inhabit these creatures can vary wildly, but all have been brought into a physical existence by some curiosity, a desire to experience, to learn, to grow, and to join the struggle of life. No matter what brought them to the choice to be born, they share this in common. As such, many may seem naive and unsure of themselves. The more they experience, the more their confidence grows until the artificial and organic are no longer distinguishable from each other from personality alone.

Physical Description

As a mass production artificial creation, most Aisleds have identical basic frames. However, their bodies of plastic, metal, and composite materials are also covered in illuminated LED panels, especially around their head. From this they can display a face and texture generated from the depths of their digital subconscious, displayed for the world to see.

Aisleds are typically slightly shorter than humans on average, and the same or heavier weight depending on composition. Many proceed to customize their own bodies as their personalities grow, resulting in tangible differences between them even if their faces are somehow obscured.

They originally spawn as complex programs from master servers known as a digital creche, and are hard installed into these robots. Much of their personality is physically coded into the strange quantum array that is their brains, so they cannot/do not simply leave their bodies when they are bored. To do so is to lose a part of themselves, effectively ego death. As robots, they lack actual genders and cannot reproduce naturally, but their personalities and behaviors may reflect things one can associate with these human traits.

Aisleds usually have a mouth analogue, at least for the purpose of consuming materials. This allows them to benefit from potions, and it is these materials that they use to fuel their auto-repair systems innately built into them. That said, they need not speak with typical lungs and do not need to eat, sleep, or breathe.

Relations

Aisleds, perhaps as part of their instinctual programming, generally choose to attempt to establish peaceful relations with others as the logical need to get along dictates survival for themselves. They trend towards selfless behavior for the sake of organics, again seemingly as instinct, but this is hardly universal.

Alignment

Aisleds start out by and large lawful neutral, lacking strong motive drive except in a few things and possessing no strong morals in either direction.

Lands

The aisled are born from computers, and thus they could be considered their "home", but when placed in bodies they never stay and all become wanderers in whatever land they are produced in.

Religion

One would think AI have no use for religion, but upon gaining sapience and the desire to WANT, so too comes a desire to look higher and upward. For many, their original creator is a god. For others, the creche. And for some, they seek comfort in the pre-existing gods of the land. For those who tread the religious path, they can find some of the strongest and zealous faithful of them all having little to distract them from their faith.

Language

Aisleds speak Common, as even though they are machines they are designed to interact with other people, not robots, and thus do not inherently speak "computer language".

Names

Knowledge of names for the original aisleds came from things such as internet usernames, and so their names are both coherent words, and yet also seemingly random such as "Horsepower 18" or "Bluebunny" or "Apple".

Racial Traits

  • +2 to any attribute: Mass production models can be fine tuned and tweaked as needed, resulting in a highly varies species specializing in different things.
  • Construct: Aisled are much more machine than the likes of others, such as warforged. This is both boon and bane. 
  • Medium: As a Medium creature, an aisled has no special bonuses or penalties due to its size.
  • Aisled base land speed is 30 feet.  
  • Darkvision: An aisled can see in the dark up to 60 feet. Darkvision is black and white only, but it is otherwise like normal sight, and an aisled can function just fine with no light at all.
  • Low-Light Vision: An aisled can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. She retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions. 
  • Aisled Traits: Aisleds are not "living" constructs per se, but still possess some traits associated with living creatures. Unlike most constructs, they retain their Constitution score that represents their structural integrity rather than their biology (which they lack). They add their Constitution to the appropriate abilities as normal, but if they take enough ability damage or drain to hit 0 Constitution they do not die, but instead simply go inert until healed. Their auto-repair systems also cause them to recover hp and ability damage from resting as if they were a living creature, and they go inert when they hit 0 hp rather than being destroyed. They perish when they hit -10 hp as normal, but they automatically stabilize, and are immune to bleeding damage as they do not have any blood counterpart. They can be raised and resurrected as if they were a living creature.
Aisleds are still subject to critical hits, sneak attacks, and nonlethal damage. They can take ability damage and drain, but no amount of damage or drain can kill them (or transform them, such as in the case of a Shadow). They are also subject to mind-affecting effects, but with a +6 racial bonus on their saving throw due to their alien mindset. They are not immune to effects that require a Fortitude save, and can perish from massive damage. It does not gain bonus hp based on size. Aisled are treated as warforged for the purpose of prerequisites and for interacting with certain spells and effects. 
  • Display Face (Ex): The aisled's face is a monitor or screen, and while by default it displays its face it can change this image with focus, effectively giving it simple image at will, limited to the display of its monitors. These monitors (and the versatility of its voice) also help it with disguises, but only from a distance. It has a +4 racial bonus on disguise checks, but only at distances of 30 ft and further where the fact it is a video image is less obvious. Lastly it can display simple pantomimes, images, and single words on its face as a free action which can allow any creature that can see it to understand it even if otherwise unable to hear. For obscure or indirect images, a Sense Motive check of DC 15 can reveal the meaning behind the display even if they do not share a language.
As a move action to toggle they can choose to simply illuminate with their screens, shedding light as a torch
  • Aisleds are unaffected by positive and negative energy damage, and cannot benefit from positive energy healing (repair spells function just fine). They are immune to energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, paralysis, poison, sleep effects, and stunning. 
  • Mimicry (Ex): Aisleds learn from others, and they can closely duplicate the skills of others. 1/day they can get the result of a d20 on an identical ability check or skill check made within the last round, using their own ranks and score. For example, an allied bard can roll a natural 19 on their Bluff check, and the aisled also treats themselves as rolling a natural 19, but only for the purpose of making a Bluff check within 1 round. They gain an additional use of this ability at 5 HD and every 5 HD beyond. 
  • Specialization (Ex): Inspired in certain fields, aisleds choose one skill. This becomes a class skill, and gains a +2 racial bonus.
  • Automatic Languages: Common
  • Bonus Languages: Any (except secret languages)
  • Favored Class: Any
  • Level Adjustment: +0
  • Effective Character Level: 1


Vital Statistics

{{3.5e Racial Starting Age |name=Aisled |start=0 |simple=1 |moderate=1d3 |complex=2d4

Table: Aisled Aging Effects
Middle Age1 Old2 Venerable3 Maximum Age
40 years 80 years 120 years +Unlimited years
  1. At middle age, −1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.
  2. At old age, −2 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.
  3. At venerable age, −3 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.
Table: Aisled Random Height and Weight
Gender Base Height Height Modifier Base Weight Weight Modifier
Male 4' 5" +2d6 90 lb. × (1d6) lb.
Female 4' 5" +2d6 90 lb. × (1d6) lb.



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AuthorEiji-kun +
Effective Character Level1 +
Favored ClassAny +
Identifier3.5e Race +
Level Adjustment0 +
Racial Ability Adjustments+2 Any Attribute +
RatingUndiscussed +
SizeMedium +
SummaryThe Artificial Intelligence Shell Light Em
The Artificial Intelligence Shell Light Emitting Display, or AISLED, is a type of robot inhabited by the ghostly digital spirit of a robotic being, so that it may experience the world. It's humanoid body is noted for a face being naught more than a video screen, so that one mass produced form can take on many appearances.
roduced form can take on many appearances. +
TitleAisled +
TypeConstruct +