I was told there am FAQ that made Native Outsiders vulnerable to Humanoid targeted spells but I cant seem to find it . Can anyone point me to it?
I was told there am FAQ that made Native Outsiders vulnerable to Humanoid targeted spells but I cant seem to find it . Can anyone point me to it?
I doubt there is such a thing given that in Inner Sea Races there is a racial talent called Mostly Human which makes you count as a humanoid and a native outsider.
Okies, I was told it was a PFS ruling.
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It is a common misconception involving a FAQ about outsiders being singularily human-based instead of Elven, dwarven etc which itself was done just to ban small race based native outsiders featured in the "Blood of" books. Unfortunately, the FAQ was worded in a way that caused the misconception AND forgot to include the original question which was solely about playing small outsiders.
Where is it located?
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Are races such as tieflings and aasimars considered as half-human in Pathfinder Society Organized Play?
Yes.
As Muser mentioned, there is some context to this that has gotten lost over the years. Read as it is, people often interpret that Aasimars and Tieflings can freely take any Human racial options, such as feats. The reality is that they're simply considered to be of "human descent".
My guess is that whoever told you about this FAQ falls into the group that misinterprets its meaning.
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"I sent back messages to all my tribe of my adventures. The very waters themselves sing my story. I've excited my tribe so much that now they all want to join the society!"
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It'll be very interesting seeing what happens when I'm no longer the only undine at a table. We don't mean to throw a wet rag on all your NPC tactics. My goal isn't frustrating NPC casters so much as hanging out in all the watery pirate scenarios and helping my non-swimming friends see the beauties of the underwater world.
Blub, blub...
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If the NPC can make a Knowledge (planes) check, you'd be well within your rights to declare their written tactics invalidated. ^_^And it'd only be DC 10, since they don't have any racial hit dice.
And some are a little more obvious than others.
"Okay, there are three things that are human shaped, and one that has vestigial wings and a tail. I don't know what race that one is, but I am gonna use my hold person on someone else, just in case."
Yeah, that FAQ just means you're not allowed to make an aasimar whose mother was an elf and father was a half-celestial elf, or an oread whose parents were dwarves but whose great-grandfather married a shaitan.
Yeah, that FAQ just means you're not allowed to make an aasimar whose mother was an elf and father was a half-celestial elf, or an oread whose parents were dwarves but whose great-grandfather married a shaitan.
The Oread thing is kind of a bad example because as far as I am aware of its actually supported by the rules.
EDIT:Im not sure why its a thing as the APG the feats come from don't have any fluff outside of your descended from Dwarves.
And some are a little more obvious than others."Okay, there are three things that are human shaped, and one that has vestigial wings and a tail. I don't know what race that one is, but I am gonna use my hold person on someone else, just in case."
If only that logic consistently worked on all humanoid creatures that had wings and a tail because I kind of have a half orc that is getting there.
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Yeah, that FAQ just means you're not allowed to make an aasimar whose mother was an elf and father was a half-celestial elf, or an oread whose parents were dwarves but whose great-grandfather married a shaitan.The Oread thing is kind of a bad example because as far as I am aware of its actually supported by the rules.
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Im not sure why its a thing as the APG the feats come from don't have any fluff outside of your descended from Dwarves.
If only that logic consistently worked on all humanoid creatures that had wings and a tail because I kind of have a half orc that is getting there.
And some are a little more obvious than others."Okay, there are three things that are human shaped, and one that has vestigial wings and a tail. I don't know what race that one is, but I am gonna use my hold person on someone else, just in case."
I try to be consistent when I GM. If you have wings and a tail, and I don't have knowledge (what the <bleep> are you) I try to pick a different target.
Sometimes that means my caster dies in a bloody mess.
Hilariously it sometimes means my caster tries to cast hold person on the Assimar instead of the Half-Orc...
But thats the price of failing a knowledge check sometimes.
Really not sure why this was moved to the rules question section since It was specifically a PFS ruling question.
Yeah, that FAQ just means you're not allowed to make an aasimar whose mother was an elf and father was a half-celestial elf, or an oread whose parents were dwarves but whose great-grandfather married a shaitan.The Oread thing is kind of a bad example because as far as I am aware of its actually supported by the rules.
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Im not sure why its a thing as the APG the feats come from don't have any fluff outside of your descended from Dwarves.
ARG, I assume you mean. Yeah, I guess that was a bad example since the FAQ itself didn't say anything about the elemental races.
