There are a ton of tiefling subraces in p&p, hope they add some of them.
You have .. all the tipical subraces (3 are in the game already)
Winged tiefling variant (lose the per day spells and get wings)
Feral variant (change the +2 to cha for +2 to dex)
Abbysal tiefling (the spell list changes every day at random i think, and they get +1 con instead of the +1 int of asmodeus tiefling) (this is de demonic one)
And with the new tashas options .. .you can just change the bonus stats how you like, but i dont know if they will implement that.
I didn't know an Abyssal tiefling is already incorporated into the game. If so, yay! It should definitely be fully on par with Asmodeus tiefling.
It should also have some nice backstory we could adhere to, such as "they were a warrior in Blood Wars" or "they were summoned from the Abyss and then broke the spell that had bound them".
during the spell plague (you'll note an aweful lot of stupid bits of FR lore start with "during the spell plague") Asmodus became a god by consuming Azuth;s divine spark. his followers then did a ritual that claimed all teiflings in Faerun, no matter the herritage as "his infernal bloodline" absolutely stupid, the best I can figure is WOTC did this so they could eistablish a baseline of what teiflings looked like, but yeah... ABSOLUTELY stupid. FR is still recovering from the absolute rape that 4th edition did to the lore
I agree, it bloody IS stupid. And I could also add that the appearance of tieflings in BG3 leans more to cambion who have more fiendish blood. It's way too exaggerated. If they really insist on that look, they should have just named them cambion, instead of tiefling who possess way more human features. When I saw them for the first time, I thought "Ooh, I get to play as cambion!", and then I saw their racial title... There're just too many divergences from the lore.
