In addition to the genasi that Nemui's putting up in the Creature Codex, I'm thrilled to see that someone's gone and updated the old Planescape-L genasi to 3E:
This may be old hat to those of you here, but it was news to me 
Non-standard genasi
Sun, 2005-06-19 16:02
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Non-standard genasi
Sun, 2005-06-19 17:46
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Non-standard genasi
A Dragon magazine had a bunch of new planeborn, including a lot of genasi. I'll see if I can find the issue number.
I know it had dust genasi, ice, magma, ooze, and smoke. It also had cansin (chaotic planeborn) and axani (lawful planeborn). I actually prefer these because they seem to be more analogous to tieflings and aasimar (as opposed to chaonds, who are big and froggy).
Sun, 2005-06-19 17:57
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Non-standard genasi
By the way, I really like the new genasi.
I have to ask, though: the positai and negatai, as well as the genasi on that linked site, all lack energy resistances. They have save bonuses, but not flat-out Fire resistance 5, for example. If I remember correctly, the four "standard" genasi all have resistance 10 to one energy type. What makes these new ones balanced with the standard ones?
Sun, 2005-06-19 19:03
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Non-standard genasi
I have to ask, though: the positai and negatai, as well as the genasi on that linked site, all lack energy resistances. They have save bonuses, but not flat-out Fire resistance 5, for example. If I remember correctly, the four "standard" genasi all have resistance 10 to one energy type. What makes these new ones balanced with the standard ones?
I'm not sure what you're asking here; at the Tavern most of the genasi have some kind of base immunity (e.g. Radiance genasi have immunity to fire). Are you looking for something to supplement that?
If so, I'd suggest something like the following: para-genasi should receive resistance 5 to both their "parent" elements (so a Magma genasi should get Earth resistance 5 and Fire resistance 5). For quasi-genasi and energenasi (??) it's a little trickier because there aren't exactly "resistances" to positive/negative energy. Maybe give the negative quasi-genasi resistance 5 to their primary element and an immunity to negative levels, while give positive quasi-genasi resistance 5 to their primary element and general Energy resistance 5?
That's off the top of my head; someone with a better grasp of the energy-related system mechanics could probably do better.
Tue, 2005-06-21 07:11
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Non-standard genasi
By the way, I really like the new genasi.
I have to ask, though: the positai and negatai, as well as the genasi on that linked site, all lack energy resistances.
Well, the negatai and positai are not from the elemental planes, so they shouldn't have elemental resistances. They do, however, have the positive and negative subtypes, which render them immune to the effects of their respective planes - the negatai is immune to negative energy effects (including energy drain, etc.), while the positai heals faster and does not explode when overcharged with positive energy (as most creatures do)
Mon, 2005-06-27 06:56
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Non-standard genasi
Ahem... Speaking of non-standard genasi, the FoS http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/Main_Page.html have made Pyre, Mist, Blood, and Grave genasi. Netbook 7.
Oh wow... I forgot all about that site. I should use one of the more unusual genasi types in my game. Maybe a smoke genasi- the Air genasi NPC needs a cohort...