Originally Posted by
Alexwellace
When talking about the more 'transformative' races such as Aasimar, Genasi and the new Ebberon Shifters, how much would you as a DM care about the 'base race'?
For example in my latest campaign the backstory of my character is quite important to who I am, being a Triton born near a portal to the Plane of Water. All the Planar magic causes some of the children born in this community to end up as Genasi. These Genasi are seen as 'touched' by the Coral Goddess, gathered together and brought up in her temple (Mechanically a Druid Cult). However when I reach level 4 I'm talking to my DM about taking the Triton racial feat of Triton Deep Magic, despite being a Genasi, because I was brought up in a Triton community am not 'physically' decended from the Mariads most Water Genasi are. Working it out together with the DM we're pretty happy with allowing it (I took the Acolyte background so Deep Magic is supported there as well) since it doesn't seem to break the game.
How would you feel about letting an Aasimar 'tap into' their heritage of their base race? Maybe an Aasimar (base race Elf) Blade Singer wanted to discuss taking Elven Accuracy? Or a Wood Elf Shifter (toooootally not a Worgan, I promise...) wanted to discuss the Wood Elf Magic feat? What side would you lean?