I absolutely loathe the 4th (and thus 5th) edition tieflings and I do not think i will ever get over it. They took what I thought was the most interesting race and made it into shitty, cartoony Hellboy knockoffs.

As an effect of this, I guess, these days I only like anti-tieflings. Characters who look exactly like humans and have nothing cool or interesting quirks about them at all, except maybe that they smell of rotten eggs when they fart (and they're of course appropriately embarrassed by it!).

@Piff - I think that was a very good sum up of the changes. One thing I'd add to it though is how since 4th ed they've wanted tieflings (and other planetouched) to be true-breeding races rather than supernatural variations (deviations?) to humans and other races. I tend to put it like previously a tiefling being born to human parents was the standard, and even two tieflings having children together would be more likely to result in a normal human than a tiefling; whereas since 4th ed tieflings always have tiefling children and their whole extended family are all tieflings too.


Optimistically Apocalyptic