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I honestly didn't notice that was happening when I watched the first upload; then again, my dump stat is wisdom so I don't notice much.
I just love the fact that the players handbook says Tieflings are only supposed to have normal human skin colours, or red and literally everyone including the artist for the players handbook was just like "nah"
Literally none of the art in the PHB is accurate to the descriptions. Except the humans I guess.
besides it's more fun to have crazy colours
One of the many reasons I think 5e was kinda like a group project, someone handled mechanics, someone else graphics, and a third person for descriptions
That all contradict each other
That's fine blue and green tieflings are badass
My red and blue tiefling agrees
Party: "So, why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself? How's your family? Stuff like that."
Tiefling: "Well, my mom's a former cultist, turned gardener, and my father's a prick."
Party: "I take it you and your dad don’t get along well then?"
Tiefling: "Oh no, not at all! I just called him a prick because he's a Barbed Devil."
Lol
that mom must have one hell of a constitution score
I thought they were gonna call the dad a cactus
Why did I immedeatly thought of barbeque?
@@sandraveinthal now that I think about it, Barbed Devils would be great Shish-Kebab makers.
Tieflings get a boost to charisma because they have a strong presence. Charisma in DnD is NOT just how much people like you. It’s your overall force of presence
Charisma points also go to Intimidation, which fits if you look like a little Satan 🥰🥰🥰
That's anime bullshit, what's next destroying chests and getting people on their knees because you presence?
Oh, yeah there are spells that do that and can be cast with charisma so, yeah DnD anime bullshit
@@Sharkakaka 😂😂😂 are you okay? Did your pillow waifu reject you today?
@@5Demona5 LOL, it's just a joke bro.
@@5Demona5 reminds me of the story of The Orc Rouge with no dexterity and a lot of Charisma. Instead of sneaking likes he’s supposed to he walks up to people and quietly says “YOU DON’T SEE ME!” and everyone pisses themselves and says “Ok! Ok! I don’t see you!” So basically a Barbarian who wanted to be sneaky.
a friend once told me that tieflings are sriracha elves
despite how wrong it is, the fact they aren't _totally wrong_ bothers me.
I always felt a part of what people call demons should be infact a member of the faye species..and while considered evil and destructive by human standards they do server a purpose..thier just fairys that grew up in the hood and had to be nasty mofos themselves..
Honestly, with how people treat them in-game if you run into one of those players, they're more like sexy orcs. Seriously they gained a lot of my sympathy as a race after I read horror stories of other players trying to kill Tiefling PCs on sight, refusing to travel with them unless they hand over all their weapons or demanding they be tied up to a tree while rest of the party sleeps. Yikes.
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Yeah, they're the new drow, Overblown in the social consciousness of the community and are played without any consideration to the nature and background info of the race.
I am going to make that suggestion to my DM. He might get a kick outta that lmao
Six minutes of Runesmith's barely disguised fetish.
He was disguising it?
Were we supposed to do that?
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i mean, who wouldnt be into that
@@gogolometro235 Tiefling chicks are sexy.
+
"Are you going to look me in the eyes and honestly say this doesn't turn you on?"
Why you gotta call me out like that man
Yes, i am. Did you think your standard for beauty was universal?
I mean
It'd be kinda weird if it didn't.
I’m guessing it’s a “ability to project your will on the universe” kind of charisma instead of a “smooth talk” kind.
Yeah, charisma isnt how likable you are.
Have you SEEN a Sibrilex? The highest charisma in the game tied with Solars and let me tell you Sibrilex are not going to be attracting anyone anytime soon.
I mean, in theory if you spend a decent amount of your time trying to convince people that you are in fact, not evil, you'd probably get pretty good at it eventually...
Well there's the part of the Tiefling description that says "After dealing with this mistrust throughout youth, a tiefling often develops the ability to overcome prejudice through charm or intimidation." Which, you know, are both kind of charisma based traits, intimidation being an actual check that requires charisma.
tbf the fact that they’re panty soakers means that both meanings kind of apply here
That IS what Charisma means in D&D. Think about it. Why does it force a Charisma Save on a Demon when you attempt to banish it? Or when it attempts to plane-shift you?
I’ve only ever made one tiefling, they were a druid of the desert circle, she was green and I made her spiky
Cactus baby :]
She sounds cute omggg 🌵🌵
She sounds pretty, though she wouldn't get along with my Tiefling, cause she's a Wizard Necromancer
That's super duper.
I made a Zariel Tiefling oath of the watchers paladin cus I said screw being a devil, I serve helm.
"The reality, though, is that a tiefling’s bloodline doesn’t affect his or her personality to any great degree...Some choose to live up to the wicked stereotype, but others are virtuous."
-PHB
I feel like he purposefully ignored this little snippet.
So, that means that it would be possible to have a gentle, loving and empathetic demon(tiefling) gf?
@@Sharkakaka Yes
@@Sharkakaka my first dnd character is kinda like that
Zariel Tiefling, life cleric
she can be summed up relativly easy
buff as heck, clumsy, arrow related ptsd and group momma bear
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WotC: Tiflings are human coloured and their eyes are one colour
The entire d&d fandom: No. Also Firbolg's are part cow now
I can't imagine anything more horrifying than a flesh colored tiefling tbh
@@glowcloudwheatproducts495 Wow... true. Thanks for the imagery. :P
@@glowcloudwheatproducts495 we had one
And he died :( he was a handsome boy
We recognize the council has made a decision but we are going to ignore it because it's a stupid decision
WotC: They're halflings, not hobbits.
Fandom: This is Yolo Swaggins and he lives in the Shire with his boyfriend Sam.
I love how Logan completely skips the part where the book says that tieflings are NOT obligatorily evil
Also the fact that in SCAG it says other colors are available 😂
Nor did he say the handbook said they were? Just the fact everyone is racist against them for a dumb reason. :P
@@crabruler1590 I mean, he does say the book says they're pretty much destined to become thieves and killers or whatever.
@@RockR277 From what I understood, he said that their origin was fucking stupid. As well with the 100% racism that's stupid.
@@crabruler1590 Well, yeah. Of course racism is stupid. However, they look like fiends in a world where fiendish invaders can and do commit heinous atrocities when they find some time to get away from their blood war. Plus they're meant to be uncommon, so most NPCs (especially in far flung rural areas) could probably be assumed to have never actually interacted with one, and thus haven't been able to work past their irrational fears. Even if its naive, its not necessarily unreasonable. 'Course, you could always build a world where they're widely known and treated like any other race, I think the PHB stuff is specifically relevent for official WotC adventures.
As for the origin, while its unfortunately not in the PHB, Xanathar's has a table for tiefling heritage that includes hot, steamy devil on human action if that's what you're looking for.
I feel like a lot of people ignore most of the flavor text for tieflings in the handbook and go wild with their designs. The most you need is that their bloodlines come from fiends and that they can have a lot of variation. Just open a monster manual or volo's guide and look through the fiends. Find one you think is cool? Make a tiefling based on it. A tiefling character I'm fond of, Panic Grimtongue from The Unexpectsbles campaign, is based on a barbed devil and has little spikes on his chin as a sort of beard, as well as the ability to cover himself in spines to damage an enemy he has on his grip.
to be fair most people ignore most of playable races descriptions and just go wild.
@@IdiotinGlans Which is now a legit thing due to Tashas.
Honestly my favourite character ever is Azazel Firebrand (somebody i played and my second or third character ever) was a tiefling who's ancestor was a Pit Fiend. His flavouring wasnt really much until I gave him warlock levels of him worshipping his ancestor and BAM eyeball on his hand that his warlock spells come through.
DM let me look through the eye so I stared through keyholes sometimes xD
I had a concept of a teifling sorcerer that was very insectlike due to being related to ice devils.
I was really confused about that when making my own.
Us: What happened to the old vid?
Logan: There was no old vid
*There is no war in Ba Sing Se*
My dude got super-intense about Professor Owl snatching up lollypops.
The guy's name is Mister Owl. I don't see any PhD behind that name. He's basically cosplaying a scholar. What an absolute charlatan.
"Tief" means "deep" in German, probably used in reference to the "depths" of the Nine Hells or the Abyss. At least, that's my head-canon.
Tiefling is one of these few original races that isn’t from mythology, but has a name with intelligible meaning. It’s weird they didn’t even Google the name before making this. The German word for devil is also “Teufel,” so that should’ve been a hint on the origins.
@@TheFlyingPilgrim They're not original. They're literally just Abrahamic Cambions with a new name plastered over them for trademark purposes.
@@raguelelnaqum I’m aware, but the name is original. And so is the lore, even if it’s clearly derived from that. Aasimar are basically nephilim, but the name is legally distinct, unintelligible gobbledygook. I’ve heard it might’ve come from Avestan, never saw any citation on that. But Tiefling as a name is original, and Tieflings are what you said, legally distinct. So they’re ‘original’ in that sense, being legally tied to the IP and world.
The word Aasimar might be derived from "Asura," a spirit from Indian mysticism.
May he, gold-handed Asura, kind leader, come hither to us with his help and favour.
Driving off Raksasas and Yatudhanas, [he] the god is present, praised in hymns at evening.
-Rig Veda
@@raguelelnaqum i heard it wasn't for trademark reasons, but rather to avoid the satanic panic
Tieflings - the most over incredibly common, found everywhere, vary rare species in D&D 5e.
Back in my day, (3.5) you had to look in the monster manual to find tieflings. And if you wanted to play one, you had to accept a level adjustment, and be a level behind the rest of the party.
@@erikschaal4124 i thought it was 2 levels? Or was that Aasimar?
@@kaidenfelder looked at the 3.5 monster manual. They both have a +1 level adjustment.
@@erikschaal4124 Oh I must be thinking on the other planetouched I guess or something else entirely
This confused me, explain it again?
One thing i do want to add about Tieflings is from the parentage part of the backstory creator in Xanathar's. There as table for Tiefling Parents that has options that range from both parents were human until dormant infernal heritage awoken, one was a human and the other was a teifling, one was a teifling and the other was a devil, and one was a human, and the other partner was a devil. So yes, what you talked about in the beginning about wishing for demonic parentage for Teiflings is actually a thing.
There are also feral tieflings, which are influenced by the energy of the lower planes.
This whole thing with infernal parentage makes sense to me, but what doesn't is how its assumed tieflings are a devil/human mix, and not devil/[any other effin race].
What I'm saying is, fck it, imma homebrew a gnome tiefling, that'll be awesome
@@AstralMarmot Moreover it says in the Halfling section that a subrace is descendant of dwarves, so it makes even less sense that humans are the only ones who can mix with other races.
I would just run it as any race can potentially make a child with any other race, but like a donkey and a zebra, they can, but it's rare and the offspring is often sterile so another whole new race cannot be born of their union.
@@AstralMarmot yeah. Like, the lore stuff being in other books dosen't bother me. But, i feel like Wizards keeps trying to balance thr game via Subclasses and Feats, instead of just making a revised handbook.
@@AstralMarmot what do you mean?
Tiefling popularity started with Planescape. Out in the planes, Tieflings were more plentiful, and in general, weren't as hated as they are on the primes. Not sure what you're talking about wth Eve and the apple, unless you mean the ritual that Asmodeus performed to become a god. That explains the current look of tieflings, but not their origin. Their origin was always because someone's grandparents got their cheeks clapped by a fiend (half fiends are cambions).
They also only appear the way they do in 5e because of the stuff that happened with Asmodeus. Ignore that, and your Tiefling can look however you want. Again, Planescape had the best options for this. In the Planewalker's Handbook, they had tables for Tiefling appearance and powers. Since the fiends are so varied, it only makes sense that the tieflings would be equally as varied.
aren't Cambions exclusively the offspring of a mortal with a Succubus or Incubus?
@@Hromovlad1 a half succubus was previously called an alu-fiend, with cambion being half any fiend (though 2e had them specificly as half tanar'ri/demon)
@@Hromovlad1 Cambions are a general catch all term for them, being the mixture of normally Succubi/Incubi and human. I've seen the term used in distinctively for Half Fiends and Half Demon regardless of origin, but you are correct in the old acception of the term. Graz'zt for example is a lot more powerful than an incubus, yet Iuz is still a cambion...a Godlike one but still a cambion.
3.5 tieflings, and Pathfinder tieflings especially, are SO cool and flavorful tbh. 5e (actually 4e) just kneecapped so much of the creativity with them, by doing some weirdness where Asmodeus basically became their patron, which is why all of them are devil-based now. (Hence the charisma boon, since devils have a force of presence.)
Before it was just basically anyone with evil outsider blood somewhere in their history (not necessarily fiends, though they were the most common), and it could manifest at random, sorta like draconic sourcery. My favorite character in Pathfinder so far was a rakshasa tiefling. She was supposed to be born a true rakshasa (as they reproduce via a human and a rakshasa), but something on her human parent's side caused her to not fully adopt all the traits and made her a bit 'defective' as a rakshasa, in their eyes. (Which was funny when she and the party kicked her siblings' asses later.)
Pathfinder 2 also allows tiefling to be applied to literally any other ancestry, so you can have a tiefling orc or a tiefling halfling.
The idea of it being a boon granted by a patron is also super fitting.
Pathfinder has the best depiction of tieflings yet because they are diverse which mirrors the immense plurality of outsiders that exists and they also take great strides in accurately depicting how alien they are which makes sense given that they are literally beings borne from a union with a creature from a different plane. You wouldn't want to encounter a qlippoth in fear of becoming a mother to a motherless.
Honestly, Planescape had the best stuff for Tieflings with their random rolls table for their inherited traits and abilities. It's something I like to point to my players for ideas (even just picking and choosing what they want) just so it's not the same old humdrum horns and tail.
@@kwazooplayingguardsman5615 On top of the subtypes, they also had the alternate racial feature options, like fiendish hide or fiendish sprinter or prehensile tail or pass for human, all of which modified your tiefling somehow and tooled them differently.
Like my rakshasa tiefling had pass for human despite looking like Thundercats as it was flavored as a low-level innate disguise / shapeshift kinda thing. She just had to change the color of her skin and tuck in her tail, essentially.
I recommend the supplementary material for Eberron made by Kieth Baker. I forget which one, but one of them has some great flavour for tieflings.
I had heard that Tieflings are like the Bretons from Elder Scrolls. Where Tieflings would have infernal blood, but their lineage was further up the family tree. Not like a Cambion, which is a half fiend and half human. Bretons have a little elven blood, but aren't considered half elves.
Fun fact: charisma is supposed to represent confidence, or Force of Willpower, so you can be horrible at talking with people and relationships, but still have a sky high charisma stat in DnD
So Saitama had such high charisma that he got strength, dexterity and constitution up the wazoo because the universe got tired of him. Got it.
Also Rock Lee's charisma of 25 isn't just because of his eyebrows.
I always interpreted Charisma as your ability to maintain control over your ego and exert it onto others. Which works when you get into soul snatching and sorcery mechanics as well as diplomacy related checks.
@@1337w334b00 perfect distillation of my long-winded explanation.
It was stupid to give them a charisma penalty back then, "hey this is Asmodeus grandkid, he gets warlock penalties because he doesn't come Nessus to visit that much, on the other hand that warlock aasimar gets extra souffle because Asmodeus loves angels and good boys" f*ck that.
There's also the part of the Tiefling description that says "After dealing with this mistrust throughout youth, a tiefling often develops the ability to overcome prejudice through charm or intimidation." Which, you know, are both kind of charisma based traits, intimidation being an actual check that requires charisma.
From this day forward, I will only call him "My Fist Full of Bees."
The funniest thing you can call Mephistopheles, BAR NONE, is still just "Asmodeus." He gets soooo pissy about it.
@@fuzzyzombielove I like "Memphis Tennessee"
*Texas voice* What in the name of My Fist Full of Bees is goin' on here?!
Tieflings: *necessarily related to inherently Evil alien entities that devour souls for a living.*
*innately cast magic like thaumaturgy that solely exist to spook people or spells like invisibility and charm person that specifically fuck with people.*
*explicitly stated in Descent Into Avernus that people who make deals with Devils and then reneg on those deals can be cursed to look like Tieflings and always show up as Evil Outsiders on "detect good & evil" spells*
Runesmith: why are people ascareyd of them??
Even with the horny (pun intended) aspect
100% on brand for humans to violently dislike Tieflings regardless of personal interactions with them, especially if we're talking Forgotten Realms where Demon Lords have physically invaded the plane multiple times, Orcs are a constant threat, and that one time a couple weeks ago when an entire city was pulled in Hell.
Tieflings aren't just devil furries
They are a living reminder that actual, tangible Evil exists in the world, and I dare you to find any religious person who would not automatically and blindly shun that kind of thing.
FINALLY SOMEBODY GETS IT!
Kinda what I’m banking on with my recent character passion project.
4 words
Tiefling divine soul sorcerer.
Born of inherit contradictions.
That's easy, just find a Satanist.
oath of redemption paladin.
That call out of our sexual deviancy though.
I'm not a sexual deviant......but I am one of those things
Me, an asexual: I have power here
Usually go with the Planescape origin myself: decendant from a fiend (demon, devil, yugoloth, whatever) and might make you lean a certain direction, but does not pre-determine anything. Might keep it being able to randomly pop up 15 generations later from seemingly normal people or something.
People also forget that they don't have to be part human (same with asimar and genasi). You tiefling can be a super buff orc tiefling, or a squat gnome tiefling. Only falvor stuff, but more customization.
I mentioned to one of the other players in my group that planetouched races don’t always have to be human-based and could basically look like anything, so he made his Aasimar monk look like a humanoid-shaped swarm of insects that basically just inhabits his clothes (including mask, googles, hood, and gloves; just complete coverage) and it was house-ruled that anyone who sees his uncovered face randomly rolls to figure out how closely they perceive his actual appearance. For example, one party member saw a handsome Drow man, another party member and I saw a scary skull face covered in bugs, and another member saw Sans Undertale.
@@malogranatum4914 Lore wise, I'm not sure I would call that an asmar, but it also sounds awesome, so I'm glad they liked whatever it is.
They might want to take magic initiate and get the infestation cantrip, but it's actually just them releasing the bees!
Mine's always been,
Pick One:
An ancestor made a deal with a fiend/celestial/elemental and you're the payment/goods,
An ancestor became lovers with a fiend/celestial/elemental/planes-touched and you were the (intentional or otherwise) result,
You were belted with positive/negative/elemental energies and mutated.
You were engineered in an alchemist's laboratory.
You made a deal with a friend/celestial/elemental and your current state was the (intentional or otherwise) result.
@@malogranatum4914 That houserule mechanic has the potential to make a reoccurring boss or gang paranoid about trusting their connections and offing one of them on the chance of them being an assassin.
I LOVE customising planetouched races to be something other than half human. same with half elves.
I love how tieflings are "ooh, evil evil devil-men" in the book, but every player I've ever crossed that made one was like "OK SO THIS IS MY CINNAMON ROLL, THEY ARE THE SWEETEST AND KINDEST, PLEASE NO BULLY OR THEY WILL CRY"
"It's all because of ancient bullshit that doesn't matter but what's worse is how they're treated because of it"
Well yeah, that's what racism is.
Tieflings are just born a bit different due to some stuff their ancestors did in the distant past and are treated unfairly.
Seems like an effective counterpoint to Aasimar who are arbitrarily chosen right before they're born to look divine and pretty so they get more respect automatically
Hey man, this is the modern 5e d&d community, you can’t have a sane, logical argument or explanation for anything 🤷♂️ even WotC are starting to buckle under this kind of nonsense
I've seen some people say that fantasy racism doesn't work because orcs and whatnot look physically different from humans, but the thing is, humans look physically different from other humans despite all being people, and we have human racism. Of course there would be orc racism. My point is, if you think humans being compared to orcs is offensive, you have some issues regarding how you view orcs.
I misread this as "Basically Feelings" and you know what, tru
I was so confused for a second, like "Wasn't I just here?" 😂
deja vu
@@gg1k
I’ve been to this video before!
@@DrMDHyde higher on the street
"Don't lie to me dick-nose" may be my new favorite phrase.
"Maybe they just wanted to be hot" well it worked
I swear, he absolutely had that pun in mind when designing the Seeker.
horns look amazing and tails are perfect for optimal cuddling.
I mean, YES, but the velvet voice of Annapantsu helped :-)
"Tiefling isn't a real word, so pronunciation doesn't matter"
tief ist German for deep, this origin sure isn't though.
It’s also reflected in “Teufel,” which mean devil in German.
@@TheFlyingPilgrim it's honestly not. Tieflings are devil inspired, sure thing, but "tief" & "teufel" have nothing in common but their letter composition, which doesn't foot on a common origin nor is it some nod to the german language outside the pretty obvious one where deep just gets replaced by a translation for a more exotic sound.
I always like to see such inclusions, since I don't expect them. Same as for AoT chars Eren Yeager (speak Jäger; engl: hunter) or Mikasa Ackermann (common german surname; means farmer; literally field-man)
@@hanshansomahammau I had a German professor claim there was a linguistic connection in that, when the word got mentioned in class. She was a native speaker, not just a heritage one. I’ll take your word for that part, but Wolfgang Bauer, the guy who came up with the name, pulled it from German. That doesn’t mean that Tieflings are supposed to be German, just that was how the name was pulled.
@@hanshansomahammau "Teufe" is an older word for "Tiefe", which was used by miners. Even though the words "Teufel" and "Teufe/Tiefe" don´t directly have the same heritage (Teufel - tiufal - German / Diabolos - greek etc.), it´s kind of obvious, that there has been some kind of connection when the word emerged. After all the devil was thought to dwell in the depths, literally and metaphorically speaking. Since this is a fantasy race made up through a creative process i can definitely see the creator going through a thought process like this.
@@TheFlyingPilgrim buddy, I wouldn't be that convinced of what I've said if I weren't German myself.
I haven't said that tiefling isn't pulled from German, it obviously is and I love it for that, nor that all tieflings must have ties to anything German really aside their name, yet the name it's just based on the translation of deep, it has no connection to the word teufel/devil.
You should do a Basically Kalashtar or Changelings. Maybe Shifters, too.
“Mammon - the American government.”
I literally fell when I heard this 😂
Go give a quick read to the original tieflings from the Planescape rulebook sometime, and you'll just become angry as to how rad they used to be compared to now. Roll on a massive two page spread chart of body changes. Look like a satyr, have scaled skin, smell like sulfur all the time, there's literally hundreds of rad things you could end up being that screams "my great great grandpappy boned a devil" so much more than "I'm a blueberry, be scared of me"
The variant teifling has these traits. It’s in the SCAG but never mentioned.
@@Reubenaut That's sad that it isn't default, just another casualty of 4th ed it seems.
"Smell like sulfur" like my grandpa when he eats too many beans...
@@Reubenaut What does SCAG stand for?
@@sl33pyr3d5 sword coast adventures guide
Tiefling bard origin: your dad won a fiddling contest against the devil. The devil had to honor the contract and not do anything to your dad, so he cursed any children he’d later have.
And that's why Johnny shouldn't have taken that golden fiddle.
(I did this character in a curse of strahd variant where it was in pre civil war southern Louisiana. I played an infernal pact warlock traded a feat for expertise with my fiddle, and there was Johnny.
He traveled with a missionary from the lds church (cleric), an escaped slave (barbarian), a veteran from the tail end of the war of independence (fighter).
Truely a fun group and game.
@@stanard_bearer Sounds like a cool game concept!
"Mammon; The american government"
Can confirm, greedlords pretty much RUN the Lobbying system.
in 5e, there's this understated understanding that tieflings are only created from pacts or unions with infernal denizens as evident with all of the tiefling subraces all hailing their origins to the circles of hell and thus they have the quintessenial "prismatic skin color + tail + horn" look. In the past however, the idea of tielfings being created from any fiendish influence was common and you could be an abyssal tiefling of Lamashtu and be one incredibly ugly son of a gun with deformities out of the wazoo.
SCAG did give us a tabel with extra traits we can give to our Tiefling characters, from hoofs to scales to you smelling like brimstone to even wings.
"The race of creative freedom"
Humans: "are we a joke to you?"
My first ever character was a tiefling druid, I just found some irony in taking what would seem to be a creature of fire and just giving her a firey temper while she takes care of the forest rather than burning it down
Ha I had a similar Idea for my first character. But than I chicked out, because I thougth druids are to difficult for playind the very first time. And I made my Tiefling a Barbarian. Because it gives a fun explanation for "viking-helmets-don't-realy-had-horns-but-it-looks-cool-so-let's-find-an-excuse-to-have-horns-on-viking-helmets"
My favorite Tiefling is a cleric named Light, a chosen child of Zariel, who devotes himself to destroying the evil and unholy with divine fire. He wants to he a "light in the dark", to be an example to other tieflings that they don't have to be the monsters people believe they are.
i once made a tiefling planeswalker named satanael arshliel who has the combined badassery of every badass combined and can axe kick some poor bastard into the 9 hells if there a dick. no literaly he does that if hes pissed at enemys
In my campaigns tieflings are not treated nicely within most towns same with half-orcs, drow, and monstrous races. so I'm sure to warn my players in advance otherwise they get really mad when denied entry into an important town. after the adventurer builds up a reputation I start dropping the NPC hate after this person has heard of the character, or a town knows no harm will be done. Generally, it's a fairly fragile trust so players need to be careful not to be caught doing crimes or else the trust may be undone. there are also plot points I can mix in based on this like needing something confirming your good-will (such as a letter from a notable ally) to see important people among other factors.
I like playing contrasts as its depicted better with monstrous races. A tiefling who was given sanctuary by a pelorian temple and grew to become a devoted cleric of the dawnfather is a fun take on a member of an otherwise deeply mistrusted race. Like she's well aware of her nature and why people consider her dangerous and doesn't just pass it off as ignorance or hatred. Rather than to seethe in hatred she instead empathizes with those who are afraid of her, understanding their fear and hoping to change their views through good news and good work.
@@newtonia-uo4889 that's a cool character
If they get mad you should just remind them it's a game and they should pick a different race if they don't want to roleplay.
Fantasy racism is good for roll play, and can at least make some characters/NPCs one that one dimensional.
@@DAEDRICDUKE1 or just talk to them first because maybe they don't want to handle touchy subjects in a game they play for escapeism.
It's kinda dependent on the group.
Whether it's through a pact or breeding, it's still not the descendant's fault either way. They can't help it, and it still makes sense for npc's not to trust them, when every time a devil is involved in something, trouble always occurs, so they assume Tieflings are in league with them. Even so, tieflings are still not hated as much as Orcs or Drow. A bartender will be cautious around a tiefling, looking around to make sure they don't start a fight or steal something, maybe even carry an amulet for protection, but when an orc or drow shows up, they will say "Get the fuck out of here, you abomination!" Orcs and drow are kind of universally hated because they seem to hate everything else, with the rare exception that an orc or drow baby was raised around people that aren't douche-bags. Half Orcs are a little more accepted than Tieflings, but people are still cautious around them. I just have my party go to places where people are more accepting of Tieflings, because they too know prejudice and/or have seen good Tieflings and know there are good and bad ones out there. I would agree that they could have dexterity because of their tails, but really, they kind of need high charisma. Otherwise they will be even more despised.
Tief is pronounced "teef" in german, and means "deep" so it makes sense in my mind since devils are from hell, the metaphorical "down"
So I started playing D&D 2.5 years ago for the first time with 5e. I feel like I took a different perspective when reading about Tieflings in the book and it actually made me want to play them more, making them my favorite race in terms of lore. I am very much aware of their origin prior to 5e and while I think that was interesting, I kind of like the new one more (and I can relate to it as a gay Latino male).
Firstly, I know it was likely an exaggeration, but the book does not say they all become thieves and slumlords. It says that the negative treatment and negative expectations other races have towards them get so bad to the point that they might as well fit those negative stereotypes and benefit from it if they will be treated that way regardless. On the other hand, it states that many Tieflings go in the opposite direction and overcompensate by trying to be super good and nice so that others may like them. This is a very similar plight that many minorities that have negative stereotypes about them in real life face. To me, it is fascinating that there is that dichotomy and plays into them often falling on the chaotic spectrum, whether that be good, neutral, or evil.
Secondly, just like in the case of racial or sexual minorities not choosing to be born looking or being who they are, the new origin does the same with Tieflings. They did not choose to have the looks of fiends/devils, yet people treat them terribly anyway. It makes for an interesting backstory when you grow up like that (or in the case of myself, again, I can strongly relate to it) and affects how your character is. Combined with my previous paragraph, are they a hero simply because they are a people pleaser that wants to elevate their race beyond being "devil spawn"? Do they pretend to be good but end up stealing from everyone they meet just to get revenge on how they were treated? Or do they ignore all of that end try to be above it, accepting who they are and not caring if others like them?
I guess what I am saying is that to me, despite being one of the most fantastical races in the game, they are one of the most realistic in execution and background. Also, the charisma comes from the devils having strong allure. Plus, many, but not all, people who go through discrimination their entire lives have a strong sense of self, kind of like the Tiefling in the last sentence of the last paragraph which can be charismatic.
It is always cool to see other people's thoughts on it, of course, so thank you for the video.
It would make sense that for a fantasy setting like D&D, people would have the diversity that results in Tieflings.
I like the idea that Tieflings are a curse that a Devil can place upon a bloodline, for various reasons. This also goes with the idea that Tieflings "always breed true," meaning they can reproduce with any other humanoid race, and the offspring is always a Tiefling. It's not genetics; it's a magic transformation that gets passed down from generation to generation. My Tiefling's backstory is that her grandfather was a Warlock of Levistus, and part of his pact would be that the next child born of his lineage would be a Tiefling.
We're all very aware that Tieflings are hot as fuck. However, this can play into the racism against them, as fetishization is another form of oppression. In the fictional setting, people who wanna bone Tieflings are like people who are into race play in real life. It's creepy and racist and no Tiefling will appreciate you for it.
What if you're just a monsterfucker who wants to bone anyone who looks nonhuman? Werewolves, orcs, dragonborn, anything goes.
When Dwarves breed, their offspring is ALWAYS a Dwarven offspring. When Tiefling's breed, it's ALWAYS a Tiefling offspring.
What happens if a Dwarf and a Tiefling have a child? O.o
Please, nobody comment 'dwarven tiefling,' that's just a copout.
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It's always twins, both.
This could make for an interesting setting where a Dwarven Society and Teifling Society have made a pact to join and rapidly increase their numbers in a bid to invade and take over some land or do battle with a powerful foe.
A good example of this could be Twi'lek species in Star Wars, on how half the species is enslaved not because they fear or hate them, but because they want them as a propiety/product/exotic piece of, something. After all, they have contact with devils, they may be straight up a fetish thing to some people, they have some powerful skills and in general, you may want to use them in your favor, and this happens even more if they are rare, which they are.
I'm glad that my "Tieflings in my world won't be hated, but still be treated like crap because of their usefulness and exotic existence" idea doesn't sound so out of place outside my head.
"Mammon. He's the American government. He gives you the power to carry stuff you steal from other people." That was hilarious! XD
Tiefling: My ancestors fucked up and now we all paid the price.
Kenku: First time?
You know it’s gonna be fun when your friend plays a chaotic evil tiefling named satan.
I prefer Demiurge.
Family name: Morningstar
First name: Lucifer
For those talking about the features of older tieflings, the sword coast adventures guide has all those features from the brimstone to the sharp teeth are available as the variant tiefling but you can just add them back for normal ones.
2:35 - you didn't have to call me out like that :(
This is why tieflings in my homebrew world are a unique race that basically have none of the PHB descriptions or lore
Many don't like them and that's precisely why Tieflings have high charisma. They need to it to charm people and help get them around so that they won't get treated as badly. I do think it slows things down when an npc has to comment them, so I have it to where Tieflings are in smaller areas or places that are more accepting of Tieflings. I don't mind so much if it is a pact kind of thing as opposed to humans having sex with devils. Tieflings had some devil blood, but weren't half breeds, like Cambions. I guess they changed it because they felt there were too many half breed races made due to sex, like with half elves, half orcs, genasi, ect. Doesn't really matter much in the end anyway, because in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, which is what you were using, it uses the bloodline of the other devils. So instead of it being passed down through sex, the pacts basically infused the essence of those devils into their bloodline. Whether it's through breeding or an ancient pact, it's still not the descendant's fault. Plus of course people will be wary of them because they know devils themselves cannot be trusted, so people are going to discriminate against them. You can have a good drow or undead character, but good luck trying to go to a tavern or something, because people will assume your drow worships evil gods or if you're undead, a necromancer must have brought you back to cause trouble.
If you think about it, I think it makes sense for the whole pact thing and cursing their children makes sense. Don't devils want to increase their influence? What better way than to do it with pacts? If it was the result of an ancient sin, and someone didn't read the fine print of a contact saying "Oh by the way, all your children are now cursed, too." That would be something a devil would do, because they want to increase their influence and spread their bloodline. And also, because they know that devils aren't to be trusted, they are aware that people would reject them, which is why many tieflings turn to crime. Just another way to spread their evil around, so I guess that's why they changed it.
I had a tiefling draconic sorcerer. I said to my DM "Hey I have so much fire resistance, can I just have immunity to fire?" he said "yes".
Later im swimming in a literal volcano because fuck yes.
If one of your parents are a fiend, you aren't a tiefling, you're a cambion, like how if one of your parents is a dragon, you aren't a dragonborn, or just a sorcerer, you're a half-dragon.
Half dragons have been changed in 5e but yes draconic sorcerer
Man, tieflings just remind me of high school when it was the most in vogue to be a misunderstood misanthrope with secret powers that made you better than everyone else.
Makes you wonder how many "Sasuke but Tiefling" characters are out there.
"...And this famous blue one for some reason" the character jester from critical role first appeared in 2018. The player's handbook was released in 2014. A lot has changed since 2014 in d and d.
Yeah but, like, not the color of Tieflings in particular
So, i just found out that apparently laura bailey played that character in a one shot in 2016, which was briefly mentioned in episode 49 of critical role, season 1.
I had wondered why Tieflings only have devil blood and not demon blood or anything, but I feel it makes more sense than just general "fiend" blood. Devils are known to be charismatic and Tieflings have high charisma. Demons aren't really known for being charismatic.
Honestly I've always headcanoned tieflings to be basically Cambions, and they're produced when _any_ mortal shacks up with _any_ fiend, meaning they can have all kinds of weird traits based on their combination of parents, like a rakshasa tiefling who has tiger features or a marilith tiefling with the lower half of a snake
How to fix Tieflings:
Tiefling is born*
Parent walks to closest river, cliff, etc.*
Yeet*
People don't like Tieflings because they have demonic or infernal blood (or worse). Depending on type, they likely kill their mother during childbirth, are regularly drawn to evil due to the corruption in their blood, and they look like monsters. Hot monsters, but monsters none the less. The book's intro even mentions the draw of evil and how badly the Tiefling has to fight it to be a good person. Sometimes it is a self fulfilling prophecy. They are treated terribly, frequently abandoned at birth because of the shame of giving birth to a literal demon spawn (seriously, at best, the suspicion of infidelity will never truly go away, at worst the village will kill the parents and the child for treating with demons), and rarely have access to good jobs. In short, the hatred of them is realistic, even if they are not all bad guys. Considering the hatred people in our world get into over skin color alone, if we had literal demon children being born...
reuploads the video, yet still keeps the part where he says they're based on demons, then begins talking about kinky devil shit. Even though he's made videos about the difference.
"My Fist Full Of Bees" made me crack up. I love it.
I love how Baldur's Gate 3 did it.
They're deserters from Avernus trying to flee Zariel's war.
And then there's me.
"Tiefling look neat, me neat, so me tiefling."
Tieflings, the sexy, toxic girlfriend we all secretly want. Edit: Oh, he about covers it actually, good job!
A thing one of my players did for our campaign was make their tiefling a ‘shadow tiefling’. Because I miss read the rules and thought Tiefling’s were any infernal not just Devils... so I let their parent be a Shadow Demon. It’s been pretty fun because they still have base tiefling powers but skinned for shadow magic and that’s been really fun in our campaign and led to the incredible bit where they can become one with shadows (basically going invisible in darkness) and it’s been really interesting story and game wise because whole combats will happen with none of the party being able to find em. What I’m saying is, tieflings can be anything, and that anything is fun.
My favorite Player Character to date (mine) has been a Rakshasa-Blood Tiefling. Home-brewed with the DM that her parents were a Rakshasi mother and a human man, as she's born of Rakshasa she's had to fight her 'inherent evil nature' and became a MUCH better character overall than just "my tiefling looks like this because it's cool."
That said, Tieflings are one of my favorite races in all of D&D, official lore and descriptions be damned.
One of my favourite Homebrew races that I created was called a 'Drowling' and was a cross between a drow and an infernal, so they were basically tieflings with white hair and black skin.
Descent into Avernus, my drow character had a tiefling wife. So, yep, same idea
I run tieflings like I do my alignments, the lore paints a natural leaning, but they aren’t slaves to it. Tieflings have an innate draw towards things usually seen as sinful due to heritage or curse, but they aren’t defined by it. Most societies have stereotypes of them, but only extreme religious ones push them away like the lore claims.
I mean in a world where cosmic entities that represent diametrically opposed forces of morality exist, "extreme religious" is a misnomer, they're called pragmatic people.
@@johnisaacfelipe6357 There’s a difference between someone who goes to church every once in a while and someone willing to deus vult. Its not like the gods of D&D are all actively on the material plane, not everyone is devoted and many who are can think for themselves. I say extreme religious as in followers that are in a puritan style who think all devilbloods have the exact same morals as that which affected them.
@@WalkinStereotype
Okay, just so you have a chance of getting it:
Deus Vult is LITERALLY a thing in D&D.
As in. Your God just LITERALLY TOLD YOU TO DO SOMETHING.
Also, Religious Orders would actually be MORE likely to be accepting of Tieflings. The Tiefling got good Charisma, makes for good Deus Vult.
ALSO, the ones who go "Deus Vult" in D&D ARE THE DEVILS!
THE DEVILS FIGHT DEMONS! The entire existence of Hell is fighting darkness with FIRE AND FURY. (Or so the PR says, reality is more... complicated)
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People never understand what Gods being real actually means in D&D. There ARE NO PURITANS in the sense of hour world because a PURITAN OF SUNE WOULD BE CALLED A HARLOT OR WITCH BY THEM! (sune being one of the mest popular divine beings in the Forgotten Realms for example)
Just look at Zariel. Zariel used to be an Angel. She was sent to OBSERVE the Devils doing Jihad. But she had to all fire and brimstone on them. Turns out they are immune and so now she is one of them. Again, Devils and Angels actually share the side of Law.
There is not a SINGLE fanatical "Good" Deity that would acctually try to go "Deus Vult" on the Devils because they keep the Demons at bay. Also, the Devils would probably curbstomp the Angels.
Unless you don´t use standard alignment and like most noob players and DMs don´t propperly distinguish between Devils and Demons.
In which case, you do you but you are missing out.
Really didn't have to call me out with that tiefling statement
I love how Rune completely ignored the original version of Tieflings from Planescape.
Oh geez its everyone's favorite bisexual party animals!
HELL YEAH HELL YEAH
Oh so what's why I like tieflings so much
aka: moi
That describes Satyrs much more then Teiflings. But for some reason everyone who plays a Teifling, gives them the morality, sexuality, and promiscuousness of a Dildo 🤷♂️
@@huwcresswell6996 mood
Tieflings having a standard appearance was an invention of fourth edition, originally there was a huge table of unique physical features you could roll on, like what a few of the sorcerer subclasses have.
-Slams noble, hardworking, and industrious dwarves.
-Praises literal spawns of devils as being "free" and "creative."
Yeah, seems legit.
Here’s the thing about the Blue Tiefling aka Jester from Critical Role. She’s blue because she’s half Water Genasi. Her mother is a Ruby Red Tiefling (which fits with the PHB Color description) and she gets her skin-tone from dear old dad. She even comes with frost resistance instead of fire!
My level 1 College of Lore Tiefling almost died a couple of hours ago in his first session (got critted by a thug for 19 damage). But he is level 2 now so it is a perfect time for this exact video :D
So every edgy teens favorite race, great. Oh yeah, fallen Aasimar are a thing too.
Edgy? Yes.
But it combines so well with the Conquest Paladin. Or for more work you can be a Dragonborn and take the Dragon Fear feat.
Coincidentally I have both and I’m not an edgy teen 😂
No need to call me out like that
Hey, I'm an edgy adult!
@@kimamato5196 Well then you're good to go!
basically teiflings: translation: basically tieflings how i want them to be
I love Tieflings in the sense that they just feel so right with every class from my RP standpoint. I have a Tiefling Artificer who is just an inventor who really likes learning about new stuff, and it fits regardless. Also a lot of WotC-made characters are Tieflings of various classes, I like that
True. I love my Tiefling-Babarian, and I had a Tiefling-Druid too. Can't wait to create a Tiefling-Cleric or Tiefling-Paladin. They realy fit well to so many classes.
4:16 Do you know what a feral tiefling is?
He didn't mention the winged tiefling, either. And now that Tasha's is out, every race can customize their ASIs anyway. Basically every race has a floating +2 and +1, with a couple exceptions like mountain dwarves (who get two +2s) or half-elves (+2/+1/+1).
@@Greywander87 or Tritons with +1/+1/+1
Only 72 hours from now, or this morning?
My dm has this mechanic with tiefling where they all essentially have a constant disguise self illusion up, and the only things that break it are a shamans gaze and moonlight (or willingly dropping it), hes running an fantastical old west campaign so it was his excuse why my tiefling cardslinger/bard didnt get cut down instantly and I've started using the mechanic in my games as well
In my games, I just go with the tieflings *original* origin, coming from the AD&D Planescape setting. Which is to say, a mix of mortal and extra-planar blood. ANY extra-planar blood. So even a celestial/human cross breed was considered a tiefling. Aside from certain physical traits, behavioral tendencies, and the rare spell-like ability (provided your DM liked you, of course) they were essentially normal player races. The whole concept was really just meant to add further color to an already amazingly bizarre setting.
When I run tieflings, or really any plane touched character, I make their designs abstract and strange. Sometimes, this comes out as animalistic qualities. Tieflings usually resemble certain fiends but often times just end up hauntingly beautiful, like a handsome man who happens to be thin as a pole and 8 feet tall with long arms.
Aasimar are the reverse. They may still be creepy, but their appearance is typically more regal and lighter, like having rings with eyes on them behind your head. To me, plane touched are the paradox that occurs when two different worlds - each with their own laws of nature and physics - clash and make a being that tries its best to fulfill both.
Oh cool rerendered
I mean to be fair the residents of most D&D worlds, the Archdevils of Hell also look mostly human besides three or so features. Same with freaking Medusa, and Graz’zt, and Midflayers, a few extra features can be the difference between a CR 0 commoner and a CR 21 extraplanar tyrant.
I really like the idea of being a bone devil tiefling variant so I can be spiky and have a big scorpion tail.
"My fist full of bees" Got me good there
My tiefling is simple: his mom summoned an incubus, tortured it, studied it, and eventually created her son. He’s an albino but has black wings, tail (redden tip), and black horns. His dad eventually broke free and killed his mom. His hometown is freaked out by him cause they were already unhappy with his mom’s research and that they know he is the direct child of an incubus. But he is hot af.
When I first heard of Tieflings and how they're wrongly stereotyped and ostracized for the actions of their ancestors (and how the 5E Tiefling picture is purple) my first thought was "Oh, so they're the D&D Quariens? Awesome!" And I've loved them ever since! :D
Fun fact: the person talking to the tiefling in the description is actually a cambion trying to make a contract with them
If I'm not mistaken, isn't a tiefling (their old origin) similar to a cambion in terms of demonic blood? Cambions are also in DND, too. I had heard that a cambion is a straight half human/half demon or devil but a Tiefling is just a being with some demonic blood and their demon ancestors are further up the family tree. Sort of like Bretons from Elder Scrolls, who have some elven blood, but are not half elves. Would make sense why the cambions look more monstrous and the Tieflings look more human because they don't have as much demonic blood.
In my own games, Tieflings are their own race entirely with their own cultures and settlements. One of the players decided to play a Tiefling and gave her a Russian accent, which I have used to flavour my world and say that since Infernal is her base language, that Devils just have Russian Accents. It has led to a lot of fun at the table and I like Tieflings a lot more now.
I've played around with having them as their own race too. In the setting, everything takes place ~700-1500 years after the War of the Four Powers, and all humans, elves, Dwarves, and Orcs are extinct, as well as a few others with some still endangered or barely recovered, and most of the Old Planes closed off to the materialium. The idea was to use a lot of lesser known and less focused upon races, and give them more to them.
I think the main reason that people dont lile them is that they know thaumaturgy by default.. From birth... Imagine for a moment a screaming baby that wont stop, now imagine the baby screaming at a volume that can deafen you while also banging all the windows and doors in the house. Thats more valid a reason than "Sp00ky horns" ever will be
"You're part of the D&D community, and that means you're a horny deviant." No it doesn't. Case and point, I'm an Ace. I may be deviant, but I am as foreign to horniness as a goblin is to fine dining. When I'm thirsty, I'm just craving water.
that was both an unexpected comparison and an extremely good one, I genuinely did not expect to see goblin and fine-dining in a sentence together.
"PSYCHO IN MY MIND LUNATIC HYSTERIA, WOKE UP IN THE MORNING AND I GOT DYPTHERIA" - Tieflings, probably
I kept trying to read this as Krieg
Could've sworn I've seen this before...
I would love to see a “Basically Sentient Items” video could be fun to talk about existing ones homebrews ones as well as going over the rules to making one
Few, I'm not the only one that calls them tie fighters