Can you select additional abilities when selecting racial traits (more details inside)


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Scarab Sages

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First off no GM is going to allow this so lets get that right off the table. I just want to know if this would be rules legal. Blood of Angels has variant Aasimar abilities where it say's this. . .

Some Aasimar's are blessed or cursed with unusual abilites. GM's may customize their Aasimar NPC's using the following chart, or allow their players to do so by rolling a d%. Players iwth a particular concept in mind may [b]conslut their GM if they want to select a specific variant ability.[b] The abilities presented here replace an Aasimar's spell-like ability . . .

The d% roll is 1 to 100 with basically a different choice on each result from very useful things like being able to be brought back to life if people pray over your body in a consecrated ground to ones that are maybe useful depending on the campaign like being immune to undead's create spawn and well that's not really relevant. What is relevant is the D100 result of "roll on this table twice, ignoring any further rolls of 100". I'm fairly sure there's a similar table to infernals and may be for other races.

So what I'm wondering if you had a specific concept and a GM willing to allow selection would it be rules legal to select two options as if you had rolled 100?

Liberty's Edge

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I read "conslut their GM if they want to select a specific variant ability" as allowing a single ability, not multiple.

Scarab Sages

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Well that's an embarassing letter mix up.

Fair reading.

Liberty's Edge

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Senko wrote:
Well that's an embarassing letter mix up.

Wow, hadn't even noticed it while copy-pasting. LOL

You were writing on a smartphone? I hate their tendency to change what you write while you are mid-word. As I am Italian and the phone corrects the text in Italian, when I write in English the end result is terrible.


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Since the ability to choose it up to the GM, by definition it would be up to him what was allowed. But by strict reading of the chart if he did allow you to choose that you would need to roll each ability instead of choosing it.

The 100 is a specific ability so there is no reason that ability could not be chosen.


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Diego Rossi wrote:
Senko wrote:
Well that's an embarassing letter mix up.

Wow, hadn't even noticed it while copy-pasting. LOL

You were writing on a smartphone? I hate their tendency to change what you write while you are mid-word. As I am Italian and the phone corrects the text in Italian, when I write in English the end result is terrible.

Makes sense as a typo from the Blood of Fiends book, but uh... I guess Arshea exists too.

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