Watching this gave me an idea, a fallen aasimar swashbuckler. One who was supposed to destroy a great evil, but just wanted to sail the sea and be a pirate.

My first d&d character, for a Descent into Avernus game, was a Fallen Aasimar warlock of the Raven Queen who worked as an assassin of her patron, at direct odds with her celestial sponsor. She was the tortured goth mommy of my dreams.

I play aasimar as the stereotypical Christian Angel due to me loving my faith but he’s either super chill if not a little over protective or he’s constantly struggling with the(often self inflicted) pressure of being divine yet still very human. My well meaning friends always try to go with the “you’re perfect as you are” trope but in the end my aasimars always end up somewhere between having the personalities of Steve Rodgers or Thor

I roleplay my aasimar's radiant soul as a transformation sequence (1 action) which combined with oath of glory's 'peerless athlete' transformation (1 bonus action) and a multiclass in hexblade makes for a more powerful, magic-weapon transformation reminiscent of She-Ra or Thundercats!! Now I just need a transformation catchphrase that makes sense for my character...maybe it's in the name of their Deva or warlock patron? Bonus points if I get scrying-I mean, sight beyond sight. 🤔

I played a reborn warlock with an undead patron. I was bascially undead, and my character was best friends with an aasimar. Anyways, a lot bad stuff happened and my character was restored to life and even became and aasimar themselves. All it took was just a mild bit of cannibalism. I said mild! Jeeze...

I love a player who will like to try to play an Aasimar, but I alaways make sure to explain to him/her, that is character is in a cosmic plan, he is not like the normal mortal, free to choose. Aasimar & Thiefling like sorcerers or warlock, witches all have Patrons, so you are under a Boss. So yes I love players who will constrains themselves with that type of character and will have a bigger Campaign hight impacts on the Games... 🤔🤔🍗🍗

I have a concept in which my aasimar is the avatar... Master of The Elements... so I flavor the celestial revelation as the Avatar state

People are unfortunately not thinking enough about the fact that you are NOT AN ANGEL when you are an Aasimar. And when it comes to tieflings, they are no dangerous then a human unless you attack them- Aasimar can strike first and kill with a butter knife. Some more idea 💡 In Lord of the Rings, Gandolf is the equivalent of an angel but in moral form. If he has a kid, that would be the equivalent of an Aasimar. And they are likely to cast spells and smack people with weapons just like he did - aka a Wizard. They may get a mission to stop a baddie but that is no different then a normal D&D mission. Others my fear you but some may demand that you do miracles - but you are not an angel and could be say a monk that grew up just trying to get the Scared scrolls to a place to the East of here. A journey if you would. (😂). Maybe, the only reason you are Aasimar at all is because your parent wanted a kid and after years of service as a monk you mom after a service of 50 had you (a kid at that age is 💯 a miracle). But that does not mean anyone in the church is okay with that so you have to go underground: (Fighter) getting good with weapons to fight off those that would end you to keep the secret. (Rogue) Maybe you keep trusting the wrong person and so you have had to get good at escaping cells and sneaking off because you don’t want to hurt anyone but you don’t want to fight either (Artificer) You leave the world behind and as a recluse you have had to make things and those things keep you safe or let you at the least help others that get caught in the crossfire When a person says Aasimar are boring they are not trying because they never would demand that a Tiefling be all about being a demon or every thing that happens in their story be tied to the hells. The same rules and stories (with changes) can be done with Aasimar. ((The reason that they are not as popular is in reality mechanical. The fix required they may come up with in 5.5 but the once a day thing is really not good compared to the feeling when you say are a wood elf you always are 5’ faster, not sleeping and getting a great skill. And two resistances that may. Ever come up just doesn’t do it. Just my 2 cents on the back end))

Aasimar are unliked but Teifling gets a pass!?

Aasimar are boring because angels are primarily allegorical literary device. Gabriel visits Mary as an emissary of heaven and he doesn't hang about because the world would absolutely lose its shit over a god among men. You mentioned the exact problem with playing Aasimar in TTRP session, even if there are multiple gods people would be stopping in their tracks to prostrate themselves and shouting, "LISAN AL' GAIB!" A player picking that race presents a difficult situation where the rest of the table either has to ignore the Aasimar's godlihood or play into the same divine among men plot, focusing an inordinate amount of attention on this player's character choice. If you want to play Aasimar, I think you could set the campaign in the planes, but then you'd just be ignoring the godhood... Seems like it's a lot easier for a DM to say, "Bleh, just play a warlock. You're not that special."