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If you own the Blood of Angels book there are 8 different "heritages" you may choose from that give you different ability modifiers, spell-like abilities, and skill bonuses. You must still be of Human ancestry, though. Like others have said, no small-sized Aasimars.
You could, of course, be a human descended Aasimar who was raised by a non-human race. I assume you could look vaguely like said race, but that might fall afoul of the "no reskinning" rule. Size changes are right out.
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Yes, the reason for this is that unlike humans the long lived races human DNA is not only compatible with extra planar creatures but it can actually be combined.
Dwarven or Elven DNA is to powerful or to weak (depending on your point of view) to meld. Thus, both Aasimar and Tieflings can only be of human-demonic or human-angelic origins.
P.S. Obviously when I say demonic, I include both the denziens of the Abyss and Hell. And angelic by the same token, includes several of the good aligned planars and not simply angels.
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Yes, the reason for this is that unlike humans the long lived races human DNA is not only compatible with extra planar creatures but it can actually be combined.
Dwarven or Elven DNA is to powerful or to weak (depending on your point of view) to meld. Thus, both Aasimar and Tieflings can only be of human-demonic or human-angelic origins.
P.S. Obviously when I say demonic, I include both the denziens of the Abyss and Hell. And angelic by the same token, includes several of the good aligned planars and not simply angels.
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This isn't true at all. Aasimar and tieflings can be born from any mortal race in Golarion, including elves, dwarves, orcs, nagaji, etc. You just have to play as human-born in PFS.
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Ok so you have to be human descended aasimar but can have different heritage to get different ability modifiers, etc? So then you look human but have different ability mods based on which heritage you chose?
Aasimars CAN get different modifiers, but they are not related to their mortal racial ancestry (human, elf, halfling, etc...). The book Blood of Angels has a section on angelic Heritages, which details a few ancestry options but for the divine side of the Aasimar which DOES have different stat modifiers included. (for example, Azata-blooded, Angel-blooded, Agathion-blooded, etc...) You can't just pick stats though, each heritage has a specific set of modifiers.
This isn't true at all. Aasimar and tieflings can be born from any mortal race in Golarion, including elves, dwarves, orcs, nagaji, etc. You just have to play as human-born in PFS.
It's a PFS specific thing, I'm guessing purely to avoid size issues mechanically. But otherwise neither tiefling or aasimar are human specific.
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Ok so you have to be human descended aasimar but can have different heritage to get different ability modifiers, etc? So then you look human but have different ability mods based on which heritage you chose?
Some Aasimars have green hair, some have red skin, some look bestial, and some just look divine. If you pick up the book you'll see for yourself.
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It actually has been stated before on these boards somewhere, but the only "tieflings" and "aasimar" allowed in PFS are what you would call half-human. No small race tieflings/aasimars.
I realize this is ment for Aasimar/Tieflings with respect to size. Does it also extent to other half-human issues. Such as: Do they quailify for human feats, Rangers Favorite Enemy (human), or anything else of the kind?
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It actually has been stated before on these boards somewhere, but the only "tieflings" and "aasimar" allowed in PFS are what you would call half-human. No small race tieflings/aasimars.I realize this is ment for Aasimar/Tieflings with respect to size. Does it also extent to other half-human issues. Such as: Do they quailify for human feats, Rangers Favorite Enemy (human), or anything else of the kind?
No, Aasimars are type Outsiders(native), not Humanoid(human).
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It actually has been stated before on these boards somewhere, but the only "tieflings" and "aasimar" allowed in PFS are what you would call half-human. No small race tieflings/aasimars.I realize this is ment for Aasimar/Tieflings with respect to size. Does it also extent to other half-human issues. Such as: Do they quailify for human feats, Rangers Favorite Enemy (human), or anything else of the kind?
The PFS FAQ needs to be updated. At the time it was issued, the question was whether or not you could have a small-sized Aasimar, since Blood of Angels introduced the option for Aasimars that were of non-human descent. Declaring that Aasimars and Tieflings should be considered as "half-human" answered the question at the time.
However, since the Half-elf/Half-orc Rules FAQ was issued, people started misunderstanding the context for the PFS FAQ. Now being "half-human" has more meaning, and opens up feat and trait options that it didn't before.
The intention in PFS is that Tieflings and Aasimars are Native Outsiders of human descent, not "half-human", akin to a half-elf or a half-orc.
But we will continue to get questions like this until the FAQ is updated accordingly.