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In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, aasimar are a fictional race of humanoid creatures who are descended from devas, angels and other creatures of pure Good alignment.

[edit] Publication history

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, sometimes referred to as version 2, introduced the aasimar race in the Planescape Campaign Setting series of books, published April 1994.

In 2000 Wizards of the Coast released the third edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The aasimar race was introduced to version 3 in the third core book Monster Manual (p151), first published October 2000. The Monster Manual describes the aasimar race as a pleasant and attractive people. It also states that most aasimars are "decidedly good-aligned" and their favored class is Paladin.

The Dungeons & Dragons franchise expanded the aasimar race in the Forgotten Realms series of books. Two books reference the aasmar race, Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and Races of Faerûn. The Forgotten Realms Campaign Settings, published June 2001, has a synopsis of the information provided in the Monster Manual and includes some additional information to allow players to select aasimar as a sub-race. The Races of Faerûn, published March 2003, explores the aasimar race in greater detail any of the previous books(p.112 & 113). Races of Faerûn describes the fictional history, society, education, religion and more of the aasimar race.

The aasimar race is again described in Races of Destiny supplement, published December 2004 (p.94). The Races of Destiny does expand on the fictional lives of aasimars, but game play does not change from the Forgotten Realms series. This book does provide players that did not use the Forgotten Realms series the information need to select aasimar as a sub-race. Except for the 3.5 version of the Monster Manual, the Races of Destiny was the final major publication to mention the aasimar race in the 3x version of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

In 2008 the Wizards of the Coast released the 4th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The aasimar race in not mentioned in any of the core books or the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, published August 2008.

[edit] Description

Although their celestial ancestor may be many generations removed, their presence still lingers. Aasimar are predisposed to Good alignments, but they are by no means always good.

[edit] Ecology

[edit] Environment

Aasimar, as planetouched creatures, are considered native outsiders.

[edit] Typical physical characteristics

Aasimar are humans with some sign of their godly ancestors, such as golden eyes, silver hair, feathers, and are typically free of human flaw and the like, as per the (Dungeons and Dragons sourcebook) Races of Faerûn. The Planescape setting may have different features available.

[edit] Alignment

Aasimar are predisposed to good alignments, but other alignments, including evil, exist. The infernal counterparts of aasimars are called tieflings. Evil Aasimar are considered betrayers to their own ancestors and are hunted by their own race.

[edit] Aasimar in the Forgotten Realms

In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting aasimar are most common in the eastern lands of Unther and Mulhorand, where they are the descendants of the good deities who walked among the mortals there.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Aasimar in Planescape

In the Planescape campaign setting, aasimar are a race available to player characters, though they are often viewed with contempt or fear by creatures not of good alignment.

[edit] Aasimar in Urban Arcana

Aasimar are a common race in Urban Arcana, which is based on the premise that races from Dungeons and Dragons have been pulled through The Plane of Shadow to Earth. Due to conceptual reality and their relatively humanoid appearance, Aasimar appear as beautiful humans to the uninitiated "Mundanes", or regular humans.

[edit] References

• "Races of Destiny" Wizards of the Coast 2004
• Baker, Rich, Tim Beach, Wolfgang Baur, Michele Carter, and Colin McComb. Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II (TSR, 1995).
• Cook, Monte. The Planewalker's Handbook (TSR, 1996).
• Perkins, Christopher. Warriors of Heaven (TSR, 1999).
• Reynolds, Sean K., Forbeck, Matt, Jacobs, James, Boyd, Erik L. Races of Faerun (Wizards of the Coast 2003)
• Williams, Skip, Jonathan Tweet, and Monte Cook. Monster Manual (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).

[edit] External links

• Aasimar – d20 System Reference Document entry