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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Evenglare" data-source="post: 7677088" data-attributes="member: 63245">It's incredibly frustrating reading Mearls views on the Aasimar especially since he claims that they are his favorite race. I don't know how or why they think that the community sees Aasimar as boring and lame. I can only assume a few things that would lead him to that conclusion but if so then how big of a hypocrite can the guys over at WOTC be? First I assume they think that Aasimar are being that are purely good and wholesome so no one wants to be a goody twoshoes or something. If you are treating Aasimar that one dimensionally then why do they keep insisting that Tieflings are anything but evil? You can't cherry pick this stuff since the races are really mirrors of one another. If a tiefling can act with mortal human-esque intentions even though they have blood related to an unholy past why can't Aasimar do the same thing. It feels to me they treat the Tiefling along the lines of "Oh man this race has had so much to overcome fitting into society, they are so deep and interesting, oh Aasimars are just good guys who aren't compelling". I mean.. just.. wtf. How can you treat the two races so differently? Ever watched Supernatural with those ****ing angels? I mean they were ridiculously harsh with justice, smiting stuff left and right. Infact in just about every angelic source angels are bad ass beings who are on par with doling out justice in the most brutal of forms. I have no idea where the whole "divine-good-angel" stuff morphed into the stereotype of a goody goody who doesn't do any thing wrong and doesn't like to make waves. Seriously, where the hell did that stereo type come from? Playing devil's advocate here, let's say WOTC is right. Let's say that Aasimar are just good guys who just follow the law and don't do anything wrong so they are boring to play. If this is true of that race then the corresponding class of the classic Paladin is surely the same, thing. So why include the Paladin at all? Why not just include death knights if being "good" is such a bore? I mean, which is it, are paladins awesome because they are complete arbiters of good? If so how hard is it to make that assumption about the Aasimar? Or is it that playing good characters are boring, like the Aasimar, so why do we have classically good paladins available for play? Cherry picking much? Let's say Aasimar do have that divine blood. Is it REALLY that hard to think of an interesting way to represent them? What instantly comes to mind is that , like Tieflings over coming their "evil" stereotype, how about we have Aasimar's falling under the pressure to be a shining beacon of a mortal? How do they cope with the stress society puts on the race to always - not matter what- do the noble thing? It's really just the flip side of the Tiefling having to overcome or handle the stigma associated with their ilk. I have pretty strong feelings on the way that Aasimar have been handled throughout 4th and 5th edition. They are making this WAY more complicated than it should be.</blockquote>

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