Concerning the Racial Heritage feat.


Rules Questions


Can a aasimar with the scion of humanity alternate racial trait take the racial heritage feat?

Can a human with the racial heritage feat take levels in an prestige class that requires you to be of a specific race?

Can a aasimar with the scion of humanity alternate racial trait take the racial heritage feat and then take levels in an prestige class that requires you to be of a specific race?

Liberty's Edge

Berselius wrote:

Can a aasimar with the scion of humanity alternate racial trait take the racial heritage feat?

Can a human with the racial heritage feat take levels in an prestige class that requires you to be of a specific race?

Can a aasimar with the scion of humanity alternate racial trait take the racial heritage feat and then take levels in an prestige class that requires you to be of a specific race?

1. He counts as human, so the answer should be yes.

2. Yes. FAQ

3. If answer 1 is affirmative, then answer 2 makes this a positive.


Yes, yes, and yes.


Um, one quick thing Fomsie, the Faq link you posted just says a Human with the Racial Heritage feat can take levels in a ARCHETYPE that requires you to be a specific race. The words PRESTIGE CLASS aren't used. Is there a way to get an official answer from Paizo on this? Do I e-mail these questions to them or post them somewhere else?

Grand Lodge

It has already been answered.

A race requirement is a race requirement.

So, it doesn't matter if it's an archetype, or prestige class, or feat, or spell, or whatever.

You count as said race.

You meet the prerequisites.

Sczarni

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Not every example needs to be spelled out in black and white and signed by a wrinkled man with a long grey beard. The handful of Designers at Paizo have busy enough schedules already.

Grand Lodge

I would be quite a feat to write down every single thing the Racial Heritage feat allowed you to qualify for.

Is it a spell or effect that effects said race?

You count as said race.

Is it a feat, archetype, or prestige class that requires you to be said race?

You count as said race.


Aasimar Stonelord Paladins. Interesting.

Sczarni

GM Kyle wrote:
Aasimar Stonelord Paladins. Interesting.

In home games, sure. In Blood of Angels it mentions that not all Aasimars descend from Human lineages. You can even have small-sized Halfling Aasimars.

You just can't do it in PFS.


Scion of Humanity and Racial Heritage aren't allowed?

Grand Lodge

blahpers wrote:
Scion of Humanity and Racial Heritage aren't allowed?

Those are allowed.

Some racial feats and archetypes are restricted to only the said race.

Makes the combo way less worth it in PFS.


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Not every example needs to be spelled out in black and white and signed by a wrinkled man with a long grey beard. The handful of Designers at Paizo have busy enough schedules already.

With all due respect, I see no issue with asking for official rules clarification to a product from a company whose product I'm having issues with. If you can't spare the time (or money) to hire people to answer your customers questions concerning your product then you have a poor business model.

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I would be quite a feat to write down every single thing the Racial Heritage feat allowed you to qualify for.

Did I ask for every single thing the Racial Heritage feat allowed you to qualify for? I merely asked for official clarification on Prestige classes as concerned to the feat. I'm not concerned with anything else. Please don't make it seem I'm asking for more than I am because I'm not.

Sczarni

blahpers wrote:
Scion of Humanity and Racial Heritage aren't allowed?

Both are 100% legal.


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Berselius wrote:
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Not every example needs to be spelled out in black and white and signed by a wrinkled man with a long grey beard. The handful of Designers at Paizo have busy enough schedules already.
With all due respect, I see no issue with asking for official rules clarification to a product from a company whose product I'm having issues with. If you can't spare the time (or money) to hire people to answer your customers questions concerning your product then you have a poor business model.

Paizo dumps all of their money into making a game fans can enjoy, and they somehow have a bad business model for for telling players to maybe use their brain to fill in the gaps in this game of imagination and wonder instead of wasting money hiring dedicated rules support--rules support with sufficient knowledge, understanding, and system mastery of every minute detail of the Pathfinder rules as to speak with the full authority now enjoyed only by the design team itself--to answer every stupid question players can come up with. Gimme a break.

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I would be quite a feat to write down every single thing the Racial Heritage feat allowed you to qualify for.
Did I ask for every single thing the Racial Heritage feat allowed you to qualify for? I merely asked for official clarification on Prestige classes as concerned to the feat. I'm not concerned with anything else. Please don't make it seem I'm asking for more than I am because I'm not.

And the next person would ask if it applied to X, and then Y, and then Z, when it's pretty plain how the concept works.

Every question the design team answers is time deducted from working on the next awesome module or adventure path or player companion. I'm perfectly fine leaving them to decide which questions are worth answering and which ones are most efficiently left to the GM to figure out.


I feel like the wording of Racial Heritage could be better laid out. Would a Tengu count as humanoid, explicitly?

Human/Aasimar Shigenjo running around like nobody's business.

Grand Lodge

It's Humanoid, as in the creature type Humanoid.

This is a well established term in Pathfinder, and Pathfinder rules.


aceDiamond wrote:
I feel like the wording of Racial Heritage could be better laid out. Would a Tengu count as humanoid, explicitly?

Absolutely, 100% yes. The race description calls it humanoid several times, most particularly in the Type section. Is there a rational argument that it wouldn't?

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