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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 2052576" data-attributes="member: 5990">I said in one post "(aasimar is reasonable, but I'd probably tweak it a bit - demi-gods seldom had anything resembling spell-like abilities, but their stats were heroic)"Then I said: "I was thinking - demigods are probably more on the order of half-celestials in terms of power. Planetouched are more like the descendants of demigods." I guess you didn't notice that I said "on the order of... in terms of power" rather than something like "I think Herakles had wings and could cast Daylight as a spell-like ability. He was so kewl." You also must have missed the post after that in which none of the demigods I sketched out have "wings" and most of them only have one or two fairly inconspicuous spell-like abilities. Sure, I gave some of them a few Sps (we have to fill in some information obviously, since extant mythology doesn't detail any demigods born of certain Olympians), and I gave all full demigods Planar Ally, since Greek mythology regularly represents demigods, even young sprouts like Phaeton, as seeking and receiving special aid or favors from their parents.I will try to be more clear next time.I'm thinking of demigods like Herakles (Zeus), Amphion (Zeus - also the prototype for the lyre of building), Orpheus (Apollo - prototype for much of the Bard class), Aeneas (Aphrodite), Aesculapius (Apollo), Perseus (Zeus), Castor and Pollux (Zeus), Phaeton (Apollo), Theseus (Poseidon), several of whom eventually ascended to full godhood. If you know Greek mythology well, you know that most exceptional figures, like Helen, were supposed by some authors to be demigods, so clearly demigods were conceived to be people of remarkable ability. It's also quite obvious that the descendants of demigods tended to be exceptional but to a lesser degree (Odysseus, Cadmus), which fits pretty well with the general power level of the half-celestial/aasimar model in the SRD.</blockquote>

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