D&D 5E (2024) Aasimar is a really strong species in 2024

[ECMO3]

So I am playing my first Aasimar and man I have been impressed with this Species. Resistance to Radiant and Necrotic, the Necrotic comes up quite often, add the significant damage boost I get for a combat from Celestial Revalation with options for even more damage, a 1 round Frighten control option or flight.

The healing is kind of ho hum.

 

[Alas]

The healing is kind of ho hum.

My aasimar character has primarily used their Healing Hands for diplomatic gestures. For an adventurer, yeah, [prof]d4 hit points is usually an emergency Band-Aid, but that many hit points can make a world of difference to an NPC civilian or pet.

 

[Zardnaar]

Well yeah its kinda obvious snd its based off the Mordenkainens one.

Humans, Elf, Goliath round out top 4 mechanically. Good at everything basically.

 

[Horwath]

The healing is kind of ho hum.

yeah, it's low and unrealiable.

want to rework it as paladins Lay on hands

you get healing pool of 3×prof bonus.
Usage Bonus action.
little more amount on average, but not wasted on overheal.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

With the proliferation of radiant damage in the game, I can see their resistance being strong. I hadn’t noticed the uptick in necrotic damage. What level are you playing?

 

[jayoungr]

With the proliferation of radiant damage in the game, I can see their resistance being strong. I hadn’t noticed the uptick in necrotic damage.

Surely that depends on the campaign? If my DM is homebrews an adventure called "The Necromancer's Pits of Deadly Death," then I would expect necrotic damage to come up way more often than radiant.

 

[Corinnguard]

What are everyone's thoughts on the Fernian Aasimar and Mabaran Aasimar from the 2024 version of Exploring Eberron?

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

Surely that depends on the campaign? If my DM is homebrews an adventure called "The Necromancer's Pits of Deadly Death," then I would expect necrotic damage to come up way more often than radiant.

Sure, of course. But there's so much Radiant now than there was before that you're still going to run into it a lot.

Assume your Necromancer's Pits of Deadly Death gets rid of all the holy archetypes like like angels and devas, cultists and priests and "The Questing Knight", which presumably have some kind of 'holy' aspect to them. And then assume players will never travel in an enchanted forest and run into pagasi, unicorns, pixies and most Fey who now mostly all do radiant damage, and assume they won't run into weird giant types like cyclops.

So assuming all that, you still have mundane creatures like Giant Eagles, and Knights and Giant Elk and Giant Owls and Bandit Deceivers and weird creatures like gibbering mouthers that all do radiant. And I'm sure that's not an exhaustive list. I just typed "radiant damage" in D&D beyond to see what would come up and that was just the first page.

Edit - and back to the OP's point: Aasimar are also resistant to Necrotic so they'd do just fine in your Pits of Deadly Death.

 

[Kobold Stew]

The healing is kind of ho hum.

It's not much, but any healing has the potential to have a disproportionate impact for the recipient of the healing. It can stop the need for death saves; and it gives you, without any other investment or specialization, the ability to get a colleague that's down back on their feet. It may not come in handy often, but it's definitely an ability you want in your back pocket when the cleric goes down.

And yes, I agree -- I think the Aasimar is possibly the most powerful PHB species.