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I’m not familiar with pathfinder and don’t have any of its books.

I think this depends on a few factors. An origin story like the one I came up for with the Aasimar does allow for them to have their own cultures in this setting. In settings where they’re more rare, they could still form a common identity, possibly by nobles seeking to marry Aasimar so their...

I used to pronounce it as “Aay-sih-mahr,” but started pronouncing it as “Awesome-ar” about a year ago. Also, for some reason when I posted this thread a huge chunk of a few paragraphs was removed from the middle section (after backstory, before appearance). I went back and fixed it, so the part...

I like Planetouched races/lineages in D&D. I’m a fan of Tieflings (though they’re probably not even on my list of top 10 favorite D&D races), I think they inspire a lot of interesting stories and characters in D&D settings. Baldur’s Gate 3 did an amazing job showing how good plots with Tieflings...

Good to know. I apologize for the mistake and thank you for remedying my misunderstanding. I only recently learned about its existence. And, just for clarification, I think it would be stupid and awful to discriminate against them even if they did worship Satan or their religion’s equivalent...

Of all directions that thread could go, I certainly didn’t expect it to go that way.

No. But it’s a pretty large area and you can cast it on the singing harpy so you’re guaranteed to start the fight without being charmed.

Silence also works. And you can cast it as a ritual before combat starts (which triggers combat).

For me, if I were creating a nomadic steppe culture, I probably would use the Turks or Mongols as the base inspiration, but then would mix things up a bit. Steppe cultures generally have pretty similar lifestyles, there’s only so many professions your people can support when you’re constantly...

Some Anglo-Saxon refugees fled to modern day Ukraine.

After the Norman conquest, a lot of Anglo-Saxons that fled England ended up serving as members of the Varangian Guard. However, that was 600 years after the Roman Empire left Britain. (Some of the Anglo-Saxon Varangians even ended up fighting against the Normans as they conquered the Byzantine...

Yeah, I wasn’t suggesting that researching the Eastern Roman Empire would be relevant to building a Brythonic-Roman setting, just that I definitely wouldn’t consider that era to be the late Roma Empire. Late Western Roman Empire maybe, but Western Rome still survived for a bit after leaving...

Same. I tend to enjoy blending various cultures and religions together more than just ripping off a single culture, which makes it even harder to worldbuild. And just a nitpick, I wouldn’t classify the time period of the Romans leaving Britannia as part of the “late Roman Empire.” The Roman...

I’ve heard of Camazotz before. Mesoamerican mythology (what little of it we know about it) was pretty scary/cool. I haven’t used it as the primary inspiration for any of my worlds’ pantheons, but eventually I want to.

They’re the ones that call Satan the “Peacock Angel,” right? A religion like that probably does exist in the setting, but the one I was making definitely does think that Satan/Asmodeus/Ahriman and the Demiurge are evil.

This probably comes from Gnosticism, a Jewish and Christian movement in antiquity that took inspiration from Zoroastrianism and possibly Buddhism. In various Gnostic faiths the creation myth involves the good, formless beings of light and thought (Aeons/Uthra/Angels) and the evil, physical...

This has absolutely nothing to do with any thread, but I started developing a new religion for a campaign I’m playing in (each player gets to add pieces to the worldbuilding when making their character). In the process of researching names for angels, I stumbled upon Mandaeism, the last...

I’ve had player characters die/survive because a difference in one damage. I’ve had monsters survive/die because a single hit missed them (one of them was a Vampire that managed to get away with an unconscious party member, another time the party defeated a fleeing mind flayer just before it’s...

That’s all you have to say? A character can be decent starting with a 15 in their main stat (assuming point buy or standard array), but they’re definitely not as effective as someone with a 16/17. They have to wait 4 more levels to max out their primary stat. They miss 5% more, (which adds up a...

Tactician.