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[FitzTheRuke]

It's 5.5, I don't know why anyone resists it.

Because that's a fundamentally stupid name. I'd rather call it 19th Edition, which is, I think, what it actually is. (Edit: I'm not actually advocating for "19th Edition".)

 

[Paul Farquhar]

And we can guess the profile of majority of parents.

I don't know what your parents were like, but my parents, who lived through WW2, taught me to be tolerant of everyone apart from fascists.

 

[Zardnaar]

Then your beef is with players, not the publishers. It was the players who popularised tieflings immediately they appeared as a Planescape-specific option. The publisher was slow to respond, and it took the best part of a decade and the company changing hands before they were accepted as a core option. WotC have long being trying to push Aasimars, but the players aint buying, even when they made them very overpowered. People who play D&D like edgy characters, not square dudley-dorights. The only way to popularise aasimar is to make the dark and edgy.

This.

A fallen angel anti hero protagonist might do it.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I can understand lots of players love to choose "evil" species for their PCs because it is like wearing a monster costume in Halloween or wearing the supervillain cosplay in a comic-con but I have seen too many pictures with tielflings instead aasimars. I guess the key is to introduce the right characters to promote the "secondary" PC species, for example a gnome with the charisma of Tyrion Lannister or an aasimar like the female main character from your favorite reincarnation manghwa. Instead to be showed like clones of Disney princesses aasimars could be like the genius child who suffers the syndrome of tall puppies, or a background like the Stark noble house from "Game of Thrones". If you create the perfect romantasy story where one of the main couples is an aasimar, and this could earn a lot of popularity.

Lucillion, a secondary character from the manghwa "I am raised by the villains" (I recommend it) could be inspiration or an example of aasimar character. He may seem naive or dumb when you meet him the first time but he has got a golden heart and he is a totally loyal friend and valious ally for the main character.

Other character as source of inspiration to roleplay an aassimar would be the police Masamichi Vega from Dandadan. The first time you meet him it seems a very serious man, almost unfriendly but when you know his story and his past, and his efforts for a better future he becomes one of your favorite cops. You take off your hat to him as a sign of respect. Bamora, the alien with a kaiju cosplay armour from Dandadan, it is other example of how to roleplay an aasimar.

In the past gnomes weren't so popular because there were "typecasted" to be or rogues or illusionists and I guess the changes about racial traits were with the intention this happened again with gnomes and other PC species. Kinta Sakata(Dandadan) could be other example of how a gnome could be a ridiculous and fun comic supporting character but also enoughly interesting to the the heroe within his own adventure

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This.

A fallen angel anti hero protagonist might do it.

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous managed to make a likable aasimar companion character by making him affably evil and gay.

 

[MichaelSomething]

The cartoon movie "Aztec Batman" is one of the last examples of entertaiment industry used for propaganda or to promote ideological prejudices. When I say speculative fiction should be "ideologically neutral" I mean we don't want to be used for propaganda like this. [Disclaimer: possible controversy about History]What do you know about the flower wars? Did you know the reason because Tlaxcaltecs and other native people allied with Spaniards against the Mexica empire? or after the civil Inca war Altahualpa used his brother Huascar's skull like a cup to drink? Has anybody told you about the genocide in California, or in Tasmania, the path of tears in the Mississipi or Amritsar massacre (India 1919), or the lost lifes by hunger in India caused by Wiston Churhill, or the crimes in Philipinas by the general Jacob H. Smith? This is not "you are worse" but "don't dare to open your mouth to say I should feel guilty and ashamed when your own past isn't cleaner". If you only talk about sins by ones but nothing about others then it is two tier. If you want to talk about History take care because maybe the other knows more than you.

I guess being produced in Mexico by a Mexican animation company is bound to make it pro Mexican.
It's more faithful to Aztec culture then Ninja Batman was to Japanese culture!

 

[Zardnaar]

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous managed to make a likable aasimar companion character by making him affably evil and gay.

Asterion then.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Has anybody told you about the genocide in California, or in Tasmania, the path of tears in the Mississipi or Amritsar massacre (India 1919), or the lost lifes by hunger in India caused by Wiston Churhill, or the crimes in Philipinas by the general Jacob H. Smith?

Yes, I learned about all of these. It's important to learn about the evils committed by our ancestors, so we don't repeat them*. As a child raised in Liverpool I spent a lot of time in the museum, where there was a lot about the city's role in the slave trade and how the city benefited (and continues to benefit) from the trade in human suffering.


*which also gives people their motivation for trying to cover them up. We have to make sure we don't let them. Churchill was a total ruthless bstd, and not just in India.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Asterion then.

Daeran is quite similar to Astarion, and got there first.

 

[Corinnguard]

As we charge forward in a disorganized mass, someone accidentally-on-purpose knocks the wheelbarrow over when it's next to a puddle....

The stack of papers is thrown up into the air where they fold themselves into a paper Cloud of Daggers. You should have filled out the paperwork.

It's 5.5, I don't know why anyone resists it.

Is considering a 5e-adjacent RPG to be 5.5e, a form of resistance?

How have Aasimar been isolated and forgotten? They got bumped up to being a core species in the PHB

They still don't seem to be very popular among players, but you can't call them forgotten. When you open up the PHB they are literally the first one listed (because alphabetical, but still they're right there cannot possibly miss them)

I consider the Aasimar from PF1 to be more interesting than the ones in the current PHB. While they were definitely OP, the PF1 version had at least 6 variant heritages. Idyllkin (Agathion-Blooded), Angelkin (Angel-Blooded), Lawbringers (Archon-Blooded), Musetouched (Azata-Blooded), Plumekith (Garuda-Blooded), and Emberkin (Peri-Blooded).