Blog (A5E) Tieflings & Aasimar: Check Out Level Up's Planetouched!

Over on our Facebook group we took a poll to see which heritage from Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition you’d like us to preview. The planetouched won by miles, so here it is!

Tieflings & Aasimar: Meet The Planetouched! — Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

Over on our Facebook group we took a poll to see which heritage you’d like us to preview. The planetouched won by miles, so here it is!

www.levelup5e.com

 

[Garthanos]

I have no idea what that means? Or what your previous post meant?

So you honestly never heard of Deva

 

[Garthanos]

IRL a member of a class of divine beings in the Vedic period, which in Indian religion are benevolent and in Zoroastrianism are evil.

 

[Garthanos]

Deva

Deva is a player character race in Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition as one of the races in the second Player's Handbook. They are known as "Aasimar" in other editions of Dungeons & Dragons. In appearance, devas are very similar to humans, but with an unearthly beauty and uncanny stillness about...

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[Morrus]

So you honestly never heard of Deva

No, I've heard of Deva. But explaining the joke is far too much effort, so I'll bow out of this exchange. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask!

 

[Garthanos]

No, I've heard of Deva. But explaining the joke is far too much effort, so I'll bow out of this exchange.

Pardon I took your humor as mockery of some sort that I had no idea about what you meant

The 4e Deva was very useful for emulating a reincarnating hero with its memory of a thousand life times. There were feats to make it work better but guidance has a 1 minute concentration check like you dip into another self ...

The Deva aura was perhaps too subtle even in 4e (needed to be 2 points) but it was flavorfully awesome I thought

I liked the Yin and Yang of its resistances and allowed selecting different opposite resistances ie you might have a cold/fire resistance for instance.