Asimar

[Solus Tal]

so hold up a moment i can make a tiefling but i can't make an Asimar as a character but they clearly exist in the game world WTAF?!
5e has stats for them!!
they ain't game breaking! wtaf are the creators doing?!

[Crom]

Originally posted by Solus Tal:

so hold up a moment i can make a tiefling but i can't make an Asimar as a character but they clearly exist in the game world WTAF?!
5e has stats for them!!
they ain't game breaking! wtaf are the creators doing?!

Its because W-word.

[Solus Tal]

Originally posted by Malthar:

i mean you can kinda play an aasimar The Dark Urge is a Bhaalspawn, the child of the god Bhaal

leave it to Bhaals to go bang a dragon to make an avatar of bhaal that would be more powerful than the rest of his siblings LMAO back in my day they were half dragons and had better stats *old man voice* lol

[Solus Tal]

Originally posted by RhodosGuard:

Originally posted by Solus Tal:

just saying if your willing to let one in and the other has been around since 2nd edition it's not our faults you changed the rules on what the races could do. if tiefling are a play able race and we are continuing the timeline of Bhall walked the realm of Faerune and bred a bunch of bastard children why arn't the asimar a playable race?

Because the DM said so, and if you dont like the DMs decision you are free to leave.
Aasimar Features are too strong in RAW, and if you change them you get people whining about how useless they made them.

Like, again. Look at Dragonborn and their poor excuse for a race feature.
YOu can play a Mephistopheles Tiefling and get 2nd level burning hands, and more stuff, so you're automatically superior to a red Dragonborn.

blah blah blah 5e changed everything blah blah blah

[Lamp]

Back in my day Aasimars and Tieflings were both exotic and mildly more powerful than other base races, level adjustment +1.

[BoogieMan]

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

Aasimar would be great, more races is difficult to do though, since races get lots of unique dialogue. We only get PHB + githyanki (because plot relevance) right now, and thats understandable.

If we get an expansion with more non PHB stuff, Aasimar is at the top of my wishlist.

Maybe, if they really took the time to make a decent amount of race specific dialogue options. I know as Dragonborn there aren't very many, and the only Dragonborn specific voiced dialogue I recall is one line by Lae'zel in the very early game, to insult me, natually.

The few NPC responses that do exist are responses that could just as easily be applies to any number of other things.

[Greenegg]

correct me if I'm wrong, but aasimar aren't an actual race of people, they're more like "born once in a 100 years chosen one" no?

imo that doesn't make for a great player race outside of power fantasy.

don't get me wrong, if aasimar was playable that's all I'd be playing, I love me some aasimar paladin, I just don't think they fit in the narrative BG3 is trying to tell.

[Minnzy]

Originally posted by Greenegg:

correct me if I'm wrong, but aasimar aren't an actual race of people, they're more like "born once in a 100 years chosen one" no?

imo that doesn't make for a great player race outside of power fantasy.

don't get me wrong, if aasimar was playable that's all I'd be playing, I love me some aasimar paladin, I just don't think they fit in the narrative BG3 is trying to tell.

They're born the exact same way tieflings are. Somewhere in their ancestry someone banged a celestial being. They are rarer though as demons and devils are simply more likely to seduce mortals.

[Malthar]

Originally posted by Greenegg:

correct me if I'm wrong, but aasimar aren't an actual race of people, they're more like "born once in a 100 years chosen one" no?

imo that doesn't make for a great player race outside of power fantasy.

don't get me wrong, if aasimar was playable that's all I'd be playing, I love me some aasimar paladin, I just don't think they fit in the narrative BG3 is trying to tell.

aasimar are to celestials as tieflings are to fiends

[Bilbo's Bath & Shire Gel]

Originally posted by Solus Tal:

example. forgotten Realms campaign setting 3.0 it gave you the option to play:
Dwarves: Gold, Grey, shield.
Gnomes Rock, Deep
Elves: Drow, Sun, Wild
Half elf, half-drow
half orc, halflings: ghostwise, light foot, strongheart
Planetouched: Aasimar, Genasi (earth, fire, water), Tiefling. they'r all in 5e's play's setting too soo /shrug. like they already gave humans the shaft with the half veriant rule

You already have your explanation and are just straight up ignoring it.

Larian stated MANY times that they're only adding in races from the 5th edition PHB.
Aasimar are not in there.
End of story, no discussion left to be had.

[Runic Raven / ᚼᚱᛅᚠᚾ]

I too was very dissapointed that Tieflings are there but no Aasimar. I planned on playing Aasimar Paladin but that hope got crushed quite early. Thing is, they have a Aasimar NPC in the game but she plays a semi important role so i guess that is the reason players got kicked in the stomach.

[Minnzy]

Originally posted by Runic Raven / ᚼᚱᛅᚠᚾ:

I too was very dissapointed that Tieflings are there but no Aasimar. I planned on playing Aasimar Paladin but that hope got crushed quite early. Thing is, they have a Aasimar NPC in the game but she plays a semi important role so i guess that is the reason players got kicked in the stomach.

That character confuses me. They are called an Assimar but if memory serves they state they're the DIRECT offspring of a celestial being. Aasimar a meant to be born many generations past such couplings. In previous editions they'd have the Half celestial template, not Aasimar or am I missing something?

[Bilbo's Bath & Shire Gel]

Originally posted by Minnzy:

Originally posted by Runic Raven / ᚼᚱᛅᚠᚾ:

I too was very dissapointed that Tieflings are there but no Aasimar. I planned on playing Aasimar Paladin but that hope got crushed quite early. Thing is, they have a Aasimar NPC in the game but she plays a semi important role so i guess that is the reason players got kicked in the stomach.

That character confuses me. They are called an Assimar but if memory serves they state they're the DIRECT offspring of a celestial being. Aasimar a meant to be born many generations past such couplings. In previous editions they'd have the Half celestial template, not Aasimar or am I missing something?

Aasimar can be any form of divinely gifted.
Hell, they don't even have to have celestial in their lineage.
Dunno about how previous editions handled it, but 5e approaches Aasimar as just vaguely 'holy-ish'.
Pick up a holy goblet, get blessed by it, boom you might be an Aasimar now.

[Runic Raven / ᚼᚱᛅᚠᚾ]

Originally posted by Minnzy:

Originally posted by Runic Raven / ᚼᚱᛅᚠᚾ:

I too was very dissapointed that Tieflings are there but no Aasimar. I planned on playing Aasimar Paladin but that hope got crushed quite early. Thing is, they have a Aasimar NPC in the game but she plays a semi important role so i guess that is the reason players got kicked in the stomach.

That character confuses me. They are called an Assimar but if memory serves they state they're the DIRECT offspring of a celestial being. Aasimar a meant to be born many generations past such couplings. In previous editions they'd have the Half celestial template, not Aasimar or am I missing something?

No you are right if i remember correctly. I do not know why Larian changed that up. But the Lady is called Aasimar by other NPC's and is marked as Aasimar. So there IS a Aasimar Race in the Game, Players are just not allowed to play it for whatever reason.

[Bilbo's Bath & Shire Gel]

Originally posted by Runic Raven / ᚼᚱᛅᚠᚾ:

Originally posted by Minnzy:

That character confuses me. They are called an Assimar but if memory serves they state they're the DIRECT offspring of a celestial being. Aasimar a meant to be born many generations past such couplings. In previous editions they'd have the Half celestial template, not Aasimar or am I missing something?

No you are right if i remember correctly. I do not know why Larian changed that up. But the Lady is called Aasimar by other NPC's and is marked as Aasimar. So there IS a Aasimar Race in the Game, Players are just not allowed to play it for whatever reason.

Players aren't allowed to play as Goblin, Hobgoblin, or Kobold either.
Again, it's not because they aren't in the game.
It's because they aren't playable races from the PHB.