Gnomes & halflings seem the most rare, but there seems to be a little bit of everything in Sacramento.
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Generally speakingv, I have seen a lot of Assimars than anything else lately, ever since they became (without a boon) legal. The ones I don't see often is Dwarf and half elf. I like the Tengu myself, but I also have an Ifrit, Tengu, Tiefling, Kitsune and my new Sylph character.
So the next race boon in Society I wanna get is the Catfolk.
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Most Popular? Humans by a huge margin. Sometimes I see elves, 1/2 elves, 1/2 orcs, dwarves, aasimars, and tieflings. But really, all of the non-human core races are rare.
Least Popular?
Core Races: Halfling and gnomes are very rare. But all the non-human races are fairly rare.
Uncommon Races: I don't see tengu, even though they are available. Honestly I don't even see a lot of the boon races, except for Kitsune.
My stable of PFS characters (counting only those who have seen actual play) includes 4 humans, 3 halflings, an aasimar, a tiefling, and a dwarf.
I made the aasimar after receiving a boon at DragonCon a few years ago. I made the tiefling to be part of an all aasimar and tiefling party that my friends and I devised.
Aasimars and tieflings were all the rage with my group for a while, but some of the shiny is starting to wear off now.
I won the vanaran boon during the silent auction at GenCon this year, so that is a character that I am eager to make.
I think the gnome is the core race that I probably see the least of (but really gnomes, dwarves, and elves are all pretty rare in our games; halflings would probably be similarly rare if I did not love them so much).
Goblins and Fetchlings are pretty rare.
Says the man who sold one of my human characters into slavery.
That said-- and I'll probably be killed for letting this secret slip-- at a PaizoCon, maybe three years ago, Kyle Baird actually took pity on one of my halfling characters during Masster of the Fallen Fortress and let her live when she should have probably died in a horrible fall.
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Goblins and Fetchlings are pretty rare.Says the man who sold one of my human characters into slavery.
That said-- and I'll probably be killed for letting this secret slip-- at a PaizoCon, maybe three years ago, Kyle Baird actually took pity on one of my halfling characters during Masster of the Fallen Fortress and let her live when she should have probably died in a horrible fall.
Pics or it didn't happen
Pics or it didn't happenGoblins and Fetchlings are pretty rare.Says the man who sold one of my human characters into slavery.
That said-- and I'll probably be killed for letting this secret slip-- at a PaizoCon, maybe three years ago, Kyle Baird actually took pity on one of my halfling characters during Masster of the Fallen Fortress and let her live when she should have probably died in a horrible fall.
Nice.
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Pics or it didn't happenGoblins and Fetchlings are pretty rare.Says the man who sold one of my human characters into slavery.
That said-- and I'll probably be killed for letting this secret slip-- at a PaizoCon, maybe three years ago, Kyle Baird actually took pity on one of my halfling characters during Masster of the Fallen Fortress and let her live when she should have probably died in a horrible fall.
Even if there were such an item I'm betting on photoshop.
Venture-Agent, Colorado—Colorado Springs
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Out of those races anyone may pic, dwarves and elves have been the most rare, followed by gnomes. The most common by far are humans, followed by aasimars and tieflings. Oddly enough, I've seen about a half dozen tengu and less than a half dozen elves, dwarves and gnomes combined.
I would love to see fewer aasimars and tieflings.
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I've only seen one halfling in Ct, one half elf (me), two gnomes, some tengu, one elf, one Half-Orc (from another state) and lots and lots of humans.
haha we have a little more variety than that. I know of an additional 3 tieflings, 5 dwarves, 3-4 more gnomes, another halfling, 2 more tengu, 4 tieflings, 3 more half orcs,and a smattering of elves and half elves that don't really announce themselves well at the table than lucky7 mentioned in CT. I have only seen one Aasimar though. I think we have more Kitsune (5-6) than we do half orc, halfling, or tengu. Humans still outnumber the other races combined almost 3 to 1 though
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Humans are everywhere. With about 30 tables GM'd and I don't even know how many played, I could probably count on one hand the number of tables I've been at that didn't include a human (usually more than one).
Dwarves are semi-popular as fighters and clerics locally.
Tieflings are reasonably popular as well.
I'll see the occasional (less than tieflings or dwarves) elf, gnome, aasimar, or half-orc.
Halflings and half-elves have been pretty rare in my experience.
And I've seen more kitsune than tengu.
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Have boons for Wayang, Kitsune, Nagaji, Oread, Ifrit, Dhampir, Fetchling, more I can't remember..You should probably just catch a cross-country flight and chuck a boon out the window every 15-20 minutes or so. ;)
Now I'm picturing Kyle driving around like Jesse in Breaking Bad, tossing boons out of his car in the middle of the night.
I see almost only Humans, Aasimirs, and Tieflings. I also have seen one each of the following:
Gnome
Dwarf
Tengu
Kitsune (mine)
I've tried creating a Tengu of my own, but that -2 Con just scares me.
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Every character in my local groups has at least one tiefling or aasimar. I think most of them also have a human.
The rest run the gamut. The core being more common than the boon-only obviously. I have not seen a Tengu except at PaizoCon.
Personally, I have a dwarf, human, and a gmblob (most likely .5 elf. Trying to figure out how to make the paladin into a tengu though... :)
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Paladin Tengu? The bite attack is eligible for smite, and take some big exotic weapon and rock out. +2 to 2 stats that don't really help you really does hurt; though if you want you can weapon finessee and Amulet of Agility your Claw/Claw/Bite attack to take advantage of high dex; or just make an archer paladin with Claw/Claw/Bite as a "backup" attack style.
They really should not have allowed the alternate-type Aasimir / Tieflings; it has (not quite, but almost) made it so Tieflings and Aasimirs get 2 stats where they get +2, Aasimirs get no drawback to that, and the two of them have the best racial traits / alternate features that I have seen. So yes, it is very hard to NOT justify being the spawn of an Angel or a Devil.
I think there are very few reasons to not be an Aasimar, so I would certainly expect many of those.
Being able to get +2 to the two attributes you need is...extremely good.
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I think there are very few reasons to not be an Aasimar, so I would certainly expect many of those.
Being able to get +2 to the two attributes you need is...extremely good.
People always talk about "+2 to the two attributes you need". I guess I must be doing something wrong, because the two attributes I need only sometimes overlap with the sets provided by aasimar. We can't all be bards, you know. ;)
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People always talk about "+2 to the two attributes you need". I guess I must be doing something wrong, because the two attributes I need only sometimes overlap with the sets provided by aasimar. We can't all be bards, you know. ;)I think there are very few reasons to not be an Aasimar, so I would certainly expect many of those.
Being able to get +2 to the two attributes you need is...extremely good.
+2 con +2 cha. Awesome for bards and Sorcerers. The only reason not to be an aasimar sorcerer is that the human 1 hit point for a free spell known is THE thing to take. Also not bad for paladins.
+2 Str, +2 Cha HEloOOOOO paladin.
+2 Con, +2 Wis Cleric or druid heaven. The celestial servant feat is bacon topping on a bacon pizza with extra bacon.
+2 Dex, +2 Cha Archer bard/ray sorcerer niche market. Halflings do it better. Face rogue.
+2 dex +2 wis Clerictank, cleric archer, archer inquisitor,
+2 Int, +2 Cha ... yeah i'm lost on this one.
Darkvision is amazing given how much darkness comes up in pfs, as is Daylight. The two together are like peanut butter and jelly.. i can negate your darkness and be guaranteed to see in whatever;s left.