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<blockquote data-quote="RobNJ" data-source="post: 222982" data-attributes="member: 3617">Fair enough.&nbsp; Keep in mind that I have the Planetouched in mind for comparison purposes.&nbsp; So on the bonuses, I'll discuss the parallels to the Planetouched Aasimar a one-to-one basis below.True.&nbsp; However, Aasimar get +2 Wisdom, +2 Charisma.&nbsp; Argueably, Strength is a more &quot;vital&quot; stat than Wisdom.&nbsp; However, Aasimar also get the benefit of being changed to Type: Outsider.&nbsp; That means they're immune to charm, sleep, and other magic that affects only humanoids.&nbsp; That's a very powerful benefit that the Wyrm-touched don't have at their disposal.&nbsp; I feel that more than offsets the relative power of Strength over Wisdom.Actually, they don't have blanket elemental resistence.&nbsp; They only have a 5 point resistence, and then only to dragon breath.&nbsp; Whereas the aasimar gets 5 points of resistence to any expression of 3 different kinds of energy.&nbsp; I'd argue they are equal, or that the Wyrm-touched is even weaker.&nbsp; This is offset, however, by the Wyrm-touched being immune to dragonfear.Both of which the aasimar have.Aasimar get light one time/day.&nbsp; It's another 0-level spell, but it's more magically &quot;complex&quot; and interesting, though no more overbalancing IMO.Yeah, it's pretty excedingly unlikely that one is likely to run into dragon-only magical items, whereas facing people with dragon bane weapons or who have dragon as a favored enemy is MUUUCH more likely, IMO.Even given the side-by-side comparison to an already-published ECL +1 race, the aasimar?&nbsp; I'm not asking to be argumentative, but wondering whether or not I'm off-base.Your opinion is welcome and valued.&nbsp; And, where better to come up with twisted freaks of nature as a D&amp;D race than the land of toxic waste? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobNJ, post: 222982, member: 3617"] Fair enough. Keep in mind that I have the Planetouched in mind for comparison purposes. So on the bonuses, I'll discuss the parallels to the Planetouched Aasimar a one-to-one basis below. True. However, Aasimar get +2 Wisdom, +2 Charisma. Argueably, Strength is a more "vital" stat than Wisdom. However, Aasimar also get the benefit of being changed to Type: Outsider. That means they're immune to charm, sleep, and other magic that affects only humanoids. That's a very powerful benefit that the Wyrm-touched don't have at their disposal. I feel that more than offsets the relative power of Strength over Wisdom. Actually, they don't have blanket elemental resistence. They only have a 5 point resistence, and then only to dragon breath. Whereas the aasimar gets 5 points of resistence to any expression of 3 different kinds of energy. I'd argue they are equal, or that the Wyrm-touched is even weaker. This is offset, however, by the Wyrm-touched being immune to dragonfear. Both of which the aasimar have. Aasimar get light one time/day. It's another 0-level spell, but it's more magically "complex" and interesting, though no more overbalancing IMO. Yeah, it's pretty excedingly unlikely that one is likely to run into dragon-only magical items, whereas facing people with dragon bane weapons or who have dragon as a favored enemy is MUUUCH more likely, IMO. Even given the side-by-side comparison to an already-published ECL +1 race, the aasimar? I'm not asking to be argumentative, but wondering whether or not I'm off-base. Your opinion is welcome and valued. And, where better to come up with twisted freaks of nature as a D&D race than the land of toxic waste? :) [/QUOTE]

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