Sand Elves:

    Sand elves are the rougish cousins of elves. Sand elves are genreally nomadic, but dwell primarily on the planes of neutral chaos: Gladsheim, Limbo, and Pandemonium. They are thought to have originally come through a rift that connects a desert area on the prime to the depths of the soup of chaos that is Limbo. To this day, the the largest or the rare permanent cities inhabited by the sand elves, called "The City of Iron," is a walled citadel in a treacherous area of limbo called the "shifting desert." The shifting desert seems to be a reflection of the prime desert that the nearby planar rift connects to on the prime, but in reality, the desert is every bit as unpredicatable and dangerous as the primordial soup of chaos that covers most of limbo.
    Sand elves are very introspective. As a result of the extreme environment that they call home, sand elves have a very rough-and-ready attitude. They believe in the strength of the few--or the individual. The only authority in sand elf society is a vague system of respect. To earn a sand elf's respect takes skill, wit and ability. A sand elf accords respect to those with strong self-images and ability to match. They have difficulty respecting those with lower intelligence than themselves. Non sand elves find it exceptionally difficult to earn respect in this way from a sand elf, but it can be done.
    The individualist sand elf ideals make their attitudes consitant with those of the Fated, Signers, Free League, and Anarchists. Despite their chaotic outlook, few of their numbers are melancholic enough to join the Bleakers.
    Some sand elves appear similar to their elf cousins. others have been changed by the very planes of chaos that they call home, including such variations as swarthy skin and deep black hair. Eye color among sand elves seems to be truly random.

Game Attributes: If you use the statistics of planar elves as written in Dragon #235, assume those to be planar settlers of a more mundane sort, similar to the way planar humans came to the planes.
    Sand and elves have some different ability modifiers and S&P abilities:
 

Attributes:
    Sand elves' exposure to the element has bred out the low constitution typical of the elvish races. But it has bred a dour outlook and less intuitive, more cynical way of viewing the universe. Accordingly, sand elves get the typical +1 dexterity, but suffer a -1 to either wisdom or charisma (player's choice.)

Special Abilities:
   Sand elves have the standard allotment of character points per S&P and Dragon #235 to buy racial abilities. However, there are some alterations in the available special abilities:

• Sand elves can buy any ability listed for elves in either the Skills & Powers tome and Dragon #235. Sand elves' and platinum elves' sword bonus extends to any one-handed sword.
• Sand elves have access to the following additonal S&P special abilities:

Sand Elves:
    Standard Abilities: Natural Psionic (10), Limbo Power (5), Wild Resistance (5), Sword Bonus (5), Infravision (10), Stealth (10).
    Chaos Shaper (5): The elf receives the chaos shaping proficiency. The character can automatically shape land on limbo can can shape twice the indicated amount of land.
    Limbo Power (5): The elf can move at a rate of 96 on limbo and suffers no ill effects of the primal matter on limbo.
    Mind Guard (5): The elf recieves +1 on saves vs. mind affecting spells and psionic attacks.
    Natural Psionic (5/10): The elf has natural psionic ability. For 5 points, the elf may be a psionicist regardless of alignment (i.e., can be chaotic with no penalties.) For ten points, the elf  recieves this benefit (if a psionicist), plus automatically rolls a wild talent.
    Presence (5): The elf can use command once per day.
    Wild Resistance (5): The character possesses 30% magic resistance to wild magic spells, the effects of wild magic, and priest spells of the chaos sphere.
    Willpower Bonus (10): The elf recieves as wisdom / willpower sub-ability of +1. Elves may not take this ability if they opted to take the sand elf -1 wisdom penalty.

    Magic Resistance (15): The elf recieves a magic resistance of 5% plus 5% per point of intelligence or wisdom over 14. This ability may not be combined with wild resistance or the standard elven resistance to sleep or charm.
    Lower Resistance (10): An elf who possesses magic resistance (above) may voluntarily lower their own resistance by 1/2 to use a lower resistance on an opponent, once per day. The elf must have a valid target with magic resistance to use this ability; the elf's magic resistance returns to normal when the lower resistance ends.
 

Classes:
    Sand elves can be psionicists with the same level limits as priests (i.e., 12th level). Sand elves can subsitute psionicist for priest in any standard elven class combination.
    If you do not use psionicists in your campaign, I recommend allowing sand elves to be mentalists (a mage specialty described in the Spells & Magic book) in lieu of any other wizard class.

Kits:     There are a few kits the are especially appropriate for sand elves; others are not. Most notably, many kits in the Complete Book of Elves that are not listed here aren't really to appropriate for their divergant attitudes. The remaining kits are merely recommendations. Note that some of these kits weren't designed with the Skills & Powers in mind. If you as a DM feel a kit is especially powerful in comparison to S&P kits, you may want to apply a character point surcharge for that kit (many DMs have a problem with bladesingers, for example.)

• PWH: Planewalker Rouge, Planewalker Warrior, Abyssal Warrior
• CBE: Archer, Wilderness Runner (changed to Desert), Bladesinger, War Wizard, Huntsman (also changed to desert environment), Infiltrator.
• CFH: Beserker, Gladiator
• CPH: Fighting-Monk (I recommend using the Spells & Magic to make a specialty priest like the Monk class vice using the kit in the CPH.)