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From Additional Resources:
Pathfinder Player Companion: Blood of Angels
To create a Aasimar character, you must have a Chronicle sheet that opens the race as a legal option at character creation.
Bloodlines: martyred bloodline is legal for Pathfinder Society but the bonus feat Leadership remains unavailable; Heritages: all heritages on pages 21–23 are legal; Feats: all feats on pages 24–25 are legal except Supernal Feast; Magic: bard masterpieces are legal; Other: variant assimar abilities are not legal for Pathfinder Society; Oracle Curses on page 26 are legal; Inquisitons on pages 26–27 are legal; Subdomains: all subdomains on page 27 are legal; Traits: all traits on pages 30–31 are legal except ethical leader. Clergy member is useable once per scenario instead of once per week. Faith healer may be used for Day Job checks.
So, if it an actual trait, then it would work. I know that it costs the same amount of race points in the ARG to make a race either medium or small.
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right? its not really a boon. you get the +1 to AC, +1 to hit, smaller damage dice for weapons, lower carrying capacity, -1 to CMB/CMD, +4 to stealth.
blood of angels page 4, tail of the sidebar:
Non-human aasimars have the same statistics as human
aasimars with the exception of size. Thus a halfling aasimar
is Small but otherwise possesses the same statistics and
abilities as a human aasimar—the difference is purely
cosmetic. Non-human aasimars do not possess any of the
racial abilities of their base race. However, they are usually
raised in the same cultural context as other members of
their base race, and thus generally adopt the same fighting
style as their peers, use the same types of weapons and
armor, and study the same skills.
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So Originally I was going to say Sure... But then after looking at Additional Resources I rethought that.
So if Additional Resources said "Everything in this book except the following is legal" then I would say yes you can play a small Aasimars, but it does not say that. Instead it calls out specifically what is legal in the book.
Since it does not mention that passage *Which does change mechanical aspects of your character*, I have to say no you can't.
But in the End really only Mike and Mark can make that call.
I would suggest holding off on making the character until you get something more concrete then a bunch of player and GM opinions. If you don't you may run into GMs that won't let you play the character small.
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that'd be fun table variation. lol.
here's my character as medium, and here's my character as small.
yeah, i'm going to wait until i have an official say on the matter.
this likely won't be for my aasimar synthesist that i'm rebuilding, but for another character down the line once aasimars are open.
If I thought the additional resources not mentioning it would have ruled it out altogether, I wouldn't ask. But i can see overlooking a sidebar, since on the surface it doesn't seem to have any additional rules to make a ruling on. the additional resources section does call out what is legal, and also specifies what is illegal (ex. Supernal Feast). I figure by mentioning it on the forums, I might get them to say whether the omission is intentional (aka all PFS Aasimar must be medium), or the omission was unintentional (sure, you can have small aasimars, maybe even small tieflings).
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Below is a specific list of Paizo Publishing products and the equipment, traits, deities, spells, feats, and classes contained within that are legal for play in Pathfinder Society Organized Play. While most of the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook is legal for play (with some feat and spell exceptions), these additional resources give you new character options. If a product does not appear on this list, then it is not considered legal for play. This list will be updated frequently as new products are released.
Highlighting by me.
Since it is not explicitly pointed out, it is not legal for play.
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the product "blood of angels" , does appear on the list, and is legal for play. the small size is neither equipment, a trait, a diety, spell, feat or class.
the question is whether the sidebar was omitted intentionally or not.
I understand that until its clarified that it is legal for play, small aasimars are not permitted. But as its not a trait or other stat usually called out in books, i can see how it could have been overlooked.
But i really wanna play one, so i'm harping and hoping they'll say it was an oversight and permit it. Size is generally concrete as part of the race. but blood of angels brought it up as an irregularity for aasimars.
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It's not a trait, it's nothing called out as verboten on the additional resources page. It's also not explicitly allowed. As I said, it's just a sidebar in the blood of angels book.
Bd, I daren't mention it until I know whether I can do it.
If it isn't called out specifically as legal, then it isn't.
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"Non-human aasimars have the same statistics as human
aasimars with the exception of size. Thus a halfling aasimar
is Small but otherwise possesses the same statistics and
abilities as a human aasimar—the difference is purely
cosmetic."
I read this as you don't even get the mechanical changes from being small, you just call yourself that for fluff purposes, it is purely cosmetic. By this interpretation, I don't think anyone in PFS would give you much grief for saying your mother was a gnome and your father smelled of bird flu.
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Caderyn hit the nail on the head with some reasons why small aasimars are a dangerous thing.
To those asking why such-and-such isn't allowed from some material, it's usually either because it doesn't fit with the campaign setting (and I can't recall any small aasimar showing up in Golarian as of yet) or because it's overpowered (and I certainly think a 20 strength small-sized cavalier charging for +10 [2d6+14/x3] at first level is overpowered).
Lance 1d6+7 doubled because of the charge
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Mike ruled that only human descended Assamir are allowable for play,also--
Other: variant assimar abilities are not legal for Pathfinder Society;
That means anything not named is not allowed, including the relevant sidebar. That means medium size. Secondly, there is a potential mechanical advantage/change as others pointed out.
They don't allow it from Blood of Fiends so I don't see why this case is any different.
There is a sidebar in blood of angels covering the topic, not one in Blood of Fiends. This, along with more attention to fluff like 'how does an Assimar become evil' is why Blood of Angels is a somewhat better written book IMHO.
It also points to a good rule of thumb on what is allowed. Mechanical changes, no, unless specifically allowed. On the other hand, freely have fun with fluff. However, noting that idyllkin assimars have animal features, deciding your character is covered with fur, and calling him 'Chewie' is still in bad taste.
As an ex stalwart defender of the pig and founder of the Order of Kitsume 'coyotes' and dog headed Osirions should add weight to my opinion.
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As to the small creature on a medium mount for +1: That's in the combat bonuses chart. If you are mounted and fighting an unmounted opponent, you get +1 for height, even if you're tiny-sized.
You only get the height bonus if the target is smaller than the mount. So a halfling on a pony would get the bonus vs goblins but not orcs.
