aasimar in society play

[Thunder1212]

I have heard you can play one if you have a boon. Then the talk devolves into a yes you can, no you can't type debate.

will we ever have a society legal aasimar that we can play?

[Rysky]

I don’t know about any boons but you used to be able to make them freely for a couple of seasons and then that got cut off. Don’t know when/if they’ll be made available outside of boons again.

[Secane]

There IS race boons to play an Aasimar, they were given out in the early season and again when Aasimars got taken off always available races list.

As Rysky mentioned, there was a couple of seasons where they were legal for play.
Aasimars and tieflings that were created and had at least one XP applied before August 14, 2014, remain legal for play.

You can ask older players/GMs in your area if they have a an Aasimar boon lying around to spare you.

Alternately, you can earn your own boons and trade those with those that do have the Aasimar boon.

[Thunder1212]

That's what I am hearing as well. Might have to figure out how to get a boon now or wait till they open up again.

Thanks for the quick replies

[Kate Baker]

John Compton recently hinted pretty strongly that there will be an option for aasimar and tiefling characters coming up soon, so you may not have long to wait!

[BretI]

Follow this link if you want to see exactly what he said on the topic.

[Quentin Coldwater]

I played when Aasimars/Tieflings were still in rotation, and I'm kind of bummed out on them. If you didn't need to be a Human for skills/feats or went for a particular build, Aasimar was usually the best choice. No stat penalty, amazingly flexible with different varieties, Darkvision, skill bonuses, and a moderately relevant spell-like ability. There's literally no downside to it, other than not being able to Enlarge Person (but even that can be fixed). Yeah, obviously they have more RP than the Core races, so they should be more powerful, but they're just too powerful. The elemental races are 6 RP and ability-wise worse than the Core races, but they weren't less effective. Aasimars get the best of both worlds. I started during season 5, and almost all of my characters were Aasimars, because they were simply perfect.

That said, Aasimars are pretty cool. It's just a shame they're also kinda boring because of it.

[swoosh]

Not sure I really agree. They're a solid all around race, but not having a stat penalty isn't that big of a deal and they don't really have all that much more going for them. Resistances can be situationally really nice, but the SLAs are pretty forgettable.

Simply by their nature they're never a bad choice, but for nearly any concept I can come up with there's usually a better choice too.

In that regard they're sort of like humans, only less overbearing.

[Quentin Coldwater]

Fair enough, I guess I just burned myself out on them. :P