>which is compleltey different
Well on the tabletop you can make your tieflings look lke whatever.
4e also had tons of tiefling subraces with different apeparences due to the Dragon magazine and later books.
but as we all know, video games, as a visual medium, shape perception. Baldurs Gate obviously shaped the perception what DnD ought to be for a lot of people, this forum is more than enaugh proof of that if you ask me.
So i think my arugment stands, 4e didnt invent "Cute horned devil" tieflings. It codified them, and its not the fault of 4e or Nentir vale that lazy writers adopted the look for Forgotten Realms because it got popular.
Also original tieflings were rare and pretty much planescape only thing
>thy chose to make the niform visual identity ridiculous, cartoonish, shallow
well look at elves and warves and any other basic player race.
thats what you get when you land in the PHB
