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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 4297386" data-attributes="member: 54629">Yeah, I'd like to do some flavor text as well. Time is a luxury for me, though (I have a toddler and a very pregnant wife ...). My basic thought was that the aasimar are a true-breeding race "created" (somehow) by the angels or with angelic DNA, as it were. The reason they were created was as a counter to the tieflings. Perhaps they were bred as a race of angelic assassins, their sole purpose to hunt out tieflings and kill them, thus hampering Asmodeus' grand plan of taking over the world (and the cosmos) through deception and corruption and so on. Then, over time, some aasimar have gotten sidetracked and have forgotten their original purpose and now they're just like any other race -- and bear no particular racial hatred towards tieflings, yada yada.Thanks. That's the kind of thing I wanted to hear. (Not that it is mechanically sound but whether or not it is).Cool. This was mainly to go along with the new flavor for the angels, and since none of them are goody two shoes, then the aasimar don't need to be either. The new angels definitely come across as intimidating. They can probably intimidate people just by looking at them. They've got that frightening, not quite human appearance to them and they probably radiate a sort of aura of fear (as in the old-fashioned "awe-inspiring" kind of fear, not the "I'm super evil and I'm gonna kill you so you'd better cower in fear" kind that you might get from a demon or devil ...).Yeah. I'm aware of that now. I think maybe +Con/+Wis might be better. The new angels strike me as being fairly hardy creatures, so Con can work there ... and of course there's the whole "wisdom of the angels" thing. I'd stick with Cha but I think there are already too many PC races with bonuses to Cha as it is (I'm thinking of changing the dragonborn to STR/WIS instead of Str/Cha. I don't really get why they have a bonus to CHA.). I know that's a rather silly reason not to want them to have Cha. Aargh. It's hard.Actually, someone else has posted a variant that allows each race to pick from several stats rather than just getting static bonuses. I really like that, as it loosens the straight jacket. If I decide to go with that, I could probably make the aasimar have Str/Con/Wis/Cha as the options.</blockquote>

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