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Actually sort of sad that Pathfinder (and D&D? I don't know) took aasimars off the Summon Monster list I think around the same time as beefing up the options for aasimar player characters.
And my reasons for being sad are very specific and personal...
And my reasons for being sad are very specific and personal...
Which are that I played in a campaign in which the GM had left them on the summon list but also only let us choose from the base player options. But I reeeeally wanted to play an aasimar character. So we struck a deal.
I got to play my aasimar character, but once a session the GM secretly rolled for whether or not my character got summoned. If she did, the GM could choose when during the session it happened. When it did, the rest of the group could choose to come along and attempt to help.
If that happened, we played it out, which basically meant popping into another (fake) group's campaign and dealing with their confusion as to why, as a result of a simple Summon Monster spell, a whole adventuring party with its own agenda had appeared.
If the group didn't want to come along, the GM did some rolls and informed me of the results. So essentially my character disappeared for some length of time and reappeared, generally a bit bruised and cut up and VERY annoyed.
She also was deeply offended that the name of the spell was "Summon MONSTER."
Anyway, it led to a lot of hilarity and some good battles and I'm kinda sad that it's gone.
Anyway, it led to a lot of hilarity and some good battles and I'm kinda sad that it's gone.
Anyway, I greatly enjoyed roleplaying her put-upon-ness about being randomly summoned, her annoyance that everyone assumed that because she was part-angel she was infinitely willing to help, and her seething at the name of the spell.
