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Pathfinder Player Companion: Blood of Angels (PFRPG)

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Touched by benevolent beings of the good Outer Planes somewhere in their ancestry, aasimars are viewed with either awe or fear by all who know of their celestial heritage. Hailed as scions of angels at best or otherworldly bringers of heavenly destruction at worst, there is no doubt that aasimars hold a very special place in the world of mortals, and all know to be wary of their actions in the presence of an aasimar.

Blood of Angels presents a player-friendly overview of the aasimars of the Pathfinder campaign setting, as well as new rules and information to help players create unique and interesting celestial characters for any type of game.

    Inside this book, you’ll find:
  • Expansive entries on aasimars’ origins and upbringings, their psychologies, how others perceive them, and the beliefs such angelic beings hold in the face of their celestial mark.
  • A table of 100 variant aasimar abilities to further customize your blessed character.
  • A detailed look at the six most common types of aasimars based on their celestial heritage, including alternate ability score modifiers, skills, and spell-like abilities for each.
  • New curses, inquisitions, and subdomains for heavenly oracles, inquisitors, and clerics.
  • New masterpieces for aasimar bards and the martyred bloodline for sorcerers whose celestial ancestors made great sacrifices.
  • A host of new traits to help make your aasimar character truly unique, as well as dozens of bodily features that distinguish your celestial character.

Written by Amber E. Scott

Each bimonthly 32-page Pathfinder Player Companion contains several player-focused articles exploring the volume’s theme as well as short articles with innovative new rules for social, magic, religious, and combat-focused characters, as well as traits to better anchor the player to the campaign.

ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-438-2

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Highly Recommend and I want MORE

5/5 —

Between this, the Champions of Purity, and Faiths of Purity, I am highly impressed. These three really stand out in the Player's Companion line. It's very refreshing to have Player Material focused on the Good Alignments, though, not really being exclusively a book about Good, much of the content here is more orientated towards Good than Evil.

Personally, I'm not a fan of Tieflings, so I'm a bit bias towards Blood of Fiends in general, but this one, in my opinion, blows it and all of the other "Blood of" books out of the water, (up to and including Blood of Shadow currently). It's a fun read, with some solid crunch too. The alternative Heritages are a bit on the strong side, for lower level play only, but still interesting and cool.

This, along with the two above mentioned books are the standard for Player's Companions that Pathfinder should aim for. And in particular, albeit far too late not, this is also the minimum standard that all the "Blood of" serious SHOULD have aimed for.

Pretty much everything an Aasimar player needs

5/5 —

Aasimars in the setting? Check.
Society, culture? Check.
Class roles? Check.
Heritages? Check.
Variant abilities? Check.
Random Aasimar Appearance Generation Table? Check.
Feats, traits, spells? Check.

An extremely well written companion. It mirrors the Tiefling one, and that's GREAT. Wohoo. Here's to hoping that more "Blood of ..." books use this approach!

"Races Of" Heads to Higher Ground

5/5 —

A wonderfully indepth look into the lives of aasimars, "Blood of Angels" gives players a wide variety of characterful choices for those of celestial blood. Not just angels, a variety of goodly beings from the outer planes seem to have taken interest in mortals of all races. Info on non-human aasimars and lots of different varient sub-types give players tons of choices for both mechanics and fluff.

Amber Scott does a fantastically good job of detailing the lives of aasimars, reminding readers that not all aasimars lead a life of purity, and giving insight into the feelings of aasimars and those of the races they associate with, casting them as a race apart and definately distinct. Regions all over Golarion are detailed with motives and likely progenitor type and there is a large section for Tian Xia. Each base class thus far published also has a write-up.

For those who want mechanics, fear not. The 6 different subraces each have varient abilities and traits and there are 100 additional varient abilities to choose from. However, this is largely a fluff book!

In conclusion, a great addition to any player's library. Though largely geared toward PCs, DMs may find the sections on aasimars trying to fit in a useful aid in helping PCs roleplay or use the volume to create a new NPC. A fantastic way to kick off the new monthly offering!

A must-have for aasimar-players.

5/5 —

The second book in the "Blood of" series. Blood of Angels does for Aasimars what Blood of Fiends did for Tieflings, and it does it with just as much detail and excellence.

Like Fiends, Blood of Angels starts out with a sizable portion of fluff regarding all the details you could ever need to know about aasimar lifespans: Conception, birth, childhood, adolescence, physiology, society, combat, work, religion, geography, old age, friendship, love, class roles, and death are all covered in intricate detail here. In fact, the fluff section is two pages longer that that of Fiends, and like its predecessor, ends with a chart of 100 variant abilities for its respective race. Role-players and story-buffs will love this section, but others will likely flip past the first 18 pages.

Next comes the aasimar heritages for the specific types of ancestors aasimars can have. There are six (compared to the 10 in Fiends for Tieflngs), each with different ability modifiers, skill modifiers, spell-like abilities, and traits. The six are: Agathion-blooded, Angel-blooded, Archon-blooded, Azata-blooded, Garuda-blooded, and Peri-blooded.

Follow that up with aasimar-specific combat feats, two new oracle curses, three new inquisitions for (you-guessed it) inquisitors, three subdomains, three bard masterpieces, a new sorcerer bloodline, and a selection of aasimar race traits and random features, and you have at your disposal quite a few options for aasimar characters (and a few that will work for non-aasimars as well).

When all is said and done, Blood of Angels is as worthy a book for aasimars as Blood of Fiends was for tieflings.

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Dark Archive

That is one badass looking aasimar! Love the halo.

'Paladin in hell' redux.

Awesome.
Vic Wertz wrote:
I've updated the product image and description to match the finished product.

Looks freaking sweet Vic,

thanks for the update
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Who is the artist the drew this masterpiece?
Shadow Lodge
Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

This is some SWEET art! Want, want, want.
Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer
Toadkiller Dog wrote:
Who is the artist the drew this masterpiece?

Michal Ivan.

Great art!
Shadow Lodge
Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Wallpaper please :)

Great art, love the halo, white/silver hair rules.
Scarab Sages
Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, PF Special Edition Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Starfinder Superscriber

On Ne Passe Pas!
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Love it, it reminds me of a Paladin in Hell.
Dark Archive

The cover art in all its glory can be found HERE.
Shadow Lodge
Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Thanks for the link Ravenmantle
Silver Crusade

Now this is how you do a cover for a player race's companion book. :)
Silver Crusade
Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

We've come a long way since Dwarves of Golarion :P

New Sorcorer bloodline. Oracle mystery/curses, subdomains, etc.

A 100 variant abilities, cool, I hope you get to choose instead of roll for these.

I always like to get new traits.
Dark Archive

Even if the table does contain a d% column, it's really a simple matter of choosing which one suits your character concept if you're not in the mood for some random result.
Set wrote:
That is one badass looking aasimar! Love the halo.

I hope the halo is how his Daylight spell-like ability manifests. It would be annoying to have that hanging over your head (literally!) all the time.

I like to think that badass is cleaning up the Worldwound one demon at a time. Well, more than one demon at a time if it can be arranged.

The Halo could be an alternate ability for the Aasimar wich would be cool.

Are there ability score modifiers, skills, and spell-like abilities for a Solar descended Aasimar? What about feats that only Aasimar can take?
Dark Archive

If they've done Blood of Angels in the same format as Blood of Fiends, I doubt they'll get that specific. I believe James Jacobs said that in Blood of Fiends, the focus was on types of fiends (daemon, demon, devil, kyton(?)) rather than specific fiends. I imagine it'll be something similar in Blood of Angels where it's agathion, angel, archon, and azata descent.

This is just my theory, though. And it's entirely possible I misunderstood what James Jacobs said.

They only have the the Angel, Azata, Garuda, Agathion, Archon, and Peri types for the Aasimar.

It wouldn't make any sense for them not to have racial feats for Aasimar in this book.
Dragon78 wrote:

They only have the the Angel, Azata, Garuda, Agathion, Archon, and Peri types for the Aasimar.

It wouldn't make any sense for them not to have racial feats for Aasimar in this book.

I gotta say, out of all of them I'm most interested in what Agathonian aasimar are going to look like. I wonder if they'll be anthrmorphic animals like actual Agathonians or if they'll just be like cat girls or just have very bestial-looking traits or something ...

*ponders*

Looks like this is going to be a great book~!
Golden-Esque wrote:
Dragon78 wrote:

They only have the the Angel, Azata, Garuda, Agathion, Archon, and Peri types for the Aasimar.

It wouldn't make any sense for them not to have racial feats for Aasimar in this book.

I gotta say, out of all of them I'm most interested in what Agathonian aasimar are going to look like. I wonder if they'll be anthrmorphic animals like actual Agathonians or if they'll just be like cat girls or just have very bestial-looking traits or something ...

*ponders*

I'm wondering about this myself. Hmm, vulpinal agathion + a horny human... maybe this is where the kitsune of Golarion came from?

Garuda? Now that sounds interesting. I would love to play a holy bird man.

So. Much. WANT!
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Holy crap, that cover art is amazing!

Yes, the cover art is amazing.

I wonder if we will get a feat tree that can give an Aasimar feathered wings.

Preordered this and Blood of Fiends, they just sound like good additions to my growing collection of PFRPG material.
James Jacobs wrote:
Dragon78 wrote:
So will they have art for each aasimar variant(angel, azata, etc.)?
Both Blood of Fiends AND Blood of Angels will have portraits of ALL the variants, as well as a few full-body illustrations of variants mixed in with the typical aasimars and tieflings.

I want reaper minis! There is a serious shortage of aasimar and tiefling minis!

I always liked Aasimar better but Tieflings always got more love until now....well until june.
Dark Archive

One of my favorite characters of all time was Litorian (catfolk) paladin called Num-Rah. I would love to recreate him as Leonal-descended asimar.
Grand Lodge

I am so excited about this book. If the included art is half as awesome as the cover, we will have a super winner on our hands.
I'm really hopeful about cleric and oracle racial archetypes.
Ooh! and magical haloes! And glowy eyes! And butt-kicking for Goodness!
*clutches PFS racial boon tightly*

So it's confirmed that we're getting an Aasimar specific Oracle Mystery as well as racial feats? I'm only asking as I don't see either of those mentioned in the description.

I want this so, so, so badly for my Life Oracle...

The updated art is probably the first time I've seen an aasimar look badass.

Most depictions of the race focus on the "serene, peaceful" aspect of angels with an extra helping of whimsy, and IMO draws too heavily from Tony DiTerlizzi's Planescape art. Which was perfect for Planescape, but not for any other D&D/Pathfinder setting.
Silver Crusade

A whole 16 days... I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

-_-

*foams at the mouth*

So, after that, not long at all until it gets put in herolab. this is good.

I just wanted to let everyone know that this book is being pushed back to a July release. It is currently on hold in customs and won't be delivered in time to make this month's subscription run.

NNNNNNoooooo

I mean, Oh fiddle sticks.

So close yet so far away.

/cry
Jeff Alvarez wrote:
I just wanted to let everyone know that this book is being pushed back to a July release. It is currently on hold in customs and won't be delivered in time to make this month's subscription run.

are you serious???

No, this is actually a late April Fools joke...

Spoiler:
Unfortunately, yes, he's serious.
Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

That's disappointing, but my wallet is definitely grateful to space out a book or two from June to July.
Silver Crusade
Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber
d@ncingNumfar wrote:
That's disappointing, but my wallet is definitely grateful to space out a book or two from June to July.

+1, this month's subs shipment was looking a bit too scary for an overseas customer...

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Now, the schedule page says that blood of Angel ships in July but is in stock,is it a bug or what?
Jeff Alvarez wrote:
It is currently on hold in customs and won't be delivered in time to make this month's subscription run.

Aasimar being held up in customs? Sounds like racial profiling to me! :p

It wouldn't have bothered me if it was an AP or something else but this along with Adanced races book are really high on my interest list. Well at least it's only a month away.
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Cthulhudrew wrote:
Jeff Alvarez wrote:
It is currently on hold in customs and won't be delivered in time to make this month's subscription run.
Aasimar being held up in customs? Sounds like racial profiling to me! :p

Someone heard they were outsiders, and now they have to prove that they're native. ;)

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