Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
I actually really liked the Ardlings, personally, and now seeing more of the PHB I think Arsling art would have been an improvement on Aasamir.
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Veltharis ap Rylix
Legend
I'm not especially disappointed with the aasimar we got, per se, but I would have liked a set of lineage options paralleling the new tiefling.
One of the main reasons I liked the first draft of the ardling, at least in concept, is because it created a distinction between "celestial" and "angelic/divine" planetouched, which played into one of the few 4e-isms I wish they'd kept - namely that angels as a creature category aren't overtly tied to alignment (with all angels being some variation of good unless they've fallen), but instead are simply servants of the gods independent of alignment (with the "fallen" designation reserved for those who have turned against or otherwise lost the favor their divine patron).
Obviously, ardling as a wide-range celestial planetouched gave way to ardling specifically as anthropomorphic animal-person by their second appearance in the playtest, and they didn't make the cut for the PHB regardless, so if the Heavenly/Idyllic/Exalted lineage options were going to be preserved, it would have fallen to the aasimar to do so.
Alas, they did not, and WotC stuck to a mild revision to the existing MotM aasimar - which is fine, specifically for characters that play into the divine/angelic planetouched angle, but leaves the broader celestial planetouched umbrella distinctly underserved.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
One of the 3pp Level Up books has a ton of new heritage gifts for Planetouched. Can't remember which one. The tiefling/aasimar stuff in the 5e Manual of the Planes on Drivethru is also great, and easy to convert to heritage gifts.I was hoping that they would be like the 2024 Tiefling in that we would get three different lineages of Aasimar. The MotM version is okay if all you wanted to role-play was an angel-descended Aasimar. Some of us, however, would like to be an Aasimar with ties to another kind of Celestial.
Corinnguard
Hero
My take on the Heavenly/Idyllic/Exalted lineage options:
Heavenly- Angel
Idyllic- Guardinal (In PF1, Aasimar who had the Agathion heritage were called Idyllkin)
Exalted- Archon
Corinnguard
Hero
MoAR: Complete had their own take on the Genasi for Level Up. However, I feel like you might be referring to another 3pp sourcebook.
Tales and Chronicles
Jewel of the North, formerly know as vincegetorix
I hoped they would a least take inspiration from the 4e Deva with the whole memories of a thousand lived thing, instead of another "fly and glow" kin...
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I'll try to figure it out. I have just about all of them, and that's rather a lot at this point.MoAR: Complete had their own take on the Genasi for Level Up. However, I feel like you might be referring to another 3pp sourcebook.
Veltharis ap Rylix
Legend
Assuming I'm remembering how they lined up in the playtest correctly:
Heavenly covered LG planes (Arcadia, Celestia, and Bytopia)
Idyllic covered NG planes (Bytopia, Elysium, and the Beastlands)
Exalted covered the CG planes (The Beastlands, Arborea, and Ysgard)
So archons, being LG and native to Celestia, would fall under the Heavenly umbrella, whereas celestial eladrin, presuming they still exist in Arborea, would be Exalted.
Unrelated, I would love to get support for Law and Chaos planetouched equivalents one of these days, like Pathfinder's Aphorites and Ganzi.
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Corinnguard
Hero
5e's Manual of the Planes on Drive Thru RPG has it where the Celestial Eladrin were renamed the Eodath. There are six kinds of Eodath mentioned in the PDF's Bestiary- Bralani, Coure, Firre, Noviere, Shiere and Tulani.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
That is really a great book.
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