As far as I know, the only exception to the “Tieflings don’t like being Barbarians” is if you take the winged option from the SCAG, that is, since you forfeit you spells to get wings.
Incorrect, but it takes creativity with what you get. Generally you need to consider taking Feral (Charisma to Dex) and from there you generally go for spells that you can make use of. Dispater and Glasya both work fantastically as it's all utility, likewise with Mammon, the Charm Mock trio from the SCAG gives utility for a Barbarian and something aside from flinging Javelins to do at range, and if you're like me and thus a bit thick, Hellfire/Burning Hands to make Oni fire breath. Oh, and Levistus because Armor of Agythys works even as you rage.
... yeah... but flying and getting hit by most monsters is kind of antithetical. Winged means you're either ranged or taking opportunity attacks every single time you swoop down to melee an enemy. And if you don't take damage as a Barbarian, then you lose rage (which is basically the entire point of a Barbarian). Without rage, Barbarians are just restricted fighters. So, as a winged barbarian, you basically HAVE to either: A) swoop in, thereby taking opportunity attacks AND regular attacks every turn and turning you into a demonic pin cushion B) You just don't fly during combat... which is kinda lame. Half the fun of having wings in the cool stuff you can do in combat to provide advantage or disadvantage on enemies (aka being able to fly away from them). You can still use wings during social and exploration portions of the game, but not using an entire portion of your anatomy during combat (which can be entire game sessions) kinda sucks. C) You basically only fly during combat as a movement method. Which... you could also just walk in most cases. It's super rare that you will need, or have, enough flying speed to strafe around 1 enemy and still make it to another. And, as a Barbarian, you don't WANT to avoid people. You want to draw the attention to you in most cases. So, again... you might as well just walk. Tieflings can be good Barbarians if you take one of the bloodlines that has mage hand, thaumaturgy, minor illusion, or charm/hold person, and throw your best scores into STR, CON, and CHA. You use those spells outside of combat (which isn't a huge lose because in most scenarios, you aren't using them inside combat anyway), then when someone catches you using your "party tricks", you get really offended, rage, and kill someone for referring to your magic as a parlor trick.
@@thestoryofusall4805 you maintain rage as long as you Attack/Take damage. So no, you don't need to swoop for AoO. Just dart about their head before chomping said head off.
8:52 Jeremy Crawford confirmed that unarmed strikes, while not being weapons, count as weapon attacks, meaning that you can absolutely smite with an unarmed strike. And if your dm still doesn't care, you can always go Kensei.
Unfortunately this is not the case. Divine Smite specifically states that this damage is "in addition to the weapon’s damage" the key word being "weapon's". Whilst it does not specify immediately that it is a melee weapon attack with a weapon, it does follow up by stating it has to be a weapon with this additional phrase. The ability is so TERRIBLY worded and 5e has this issue in a lot of places which is why these rules debates still happen, but yes you do need a weapon even though at first glance it would seem you don't. (But I think its bullshit anyway so at my tables it works because f*ck you Crawford it's cool) Even more upsetting, even if you ignore this really poorly worded hot mess of an ability you still cant use Improved Divine Smite as a punch boi because that one very clearly states it requires a weapon. TLDR: RAW you cannot use Divine Smite to punch, kick or tail whip your foes but RAW is bullshit and the guys that wrote 5e are cowards.
@@orioninfernal7269 they have an errata on dndbeyond saying that technically it doesn't work, but since it makes no mechanical difference to balance just thematic difference if your dm doesn't want to do that they can just ignore it with little to no change.
Another personal favorite use of the Zariel Tiefling is for Pact of the Blade Warlocks. You don’t get a lot of spell slots so having some Smites you can use as backups sounds pretty good. Of course you could say that about any Tiefling and any Warlock but my point still stands. You can also use it for Gish’s that wanna Gish more.
7:56 Actually, devils don't need to lay with mortals to create Tieflings - the whole affair can be as dry as making a deal or trade with Zariel and down the line having kids with a different person and those kids turning out to be Zariel Tieflings.
7:16 Or a Roleplay-heavy rogue. You have high INT, so your investigation, nature, arcana, and history mods will be super high. Plus, it validates in game the sneaky 4D Chess Leverage/Sherlock Holmes playstyle a lot of rogues have. On top of all of that, you're a Teifling making you a great potential criminal, since you're ostracized in a lot of settings. You basically only need your magic to scare off whoever caught you long enough for you to escape. Hence the non-optimal spells with a focus on theatrics.
I'm using the zariel tiefling for my hexblade (using Tasha's rules to swap the strength for dex). It is handy having smites spare without using spell slots
Uhh, eldritch smite only uses warlock spell slots and racial innate spellcasting doesn’t actually give you a slot that can be used for smiting - just a free casting of the specific spell at a specific level. Edit: ohh... smite spells... that makes sense.
@@alexandrudorries3307 I never said eldritch smites. I don't actually have that invocation as I'm focusing on permanent passive buffs for them rather than additional active abilities. The racial smites mean I can have potential big hits without using up spell slots
As someone playing a zariel tiefling paladin once you get to higher levels you won’t be using your smite spells all that often.Your concentration will be used on things like haste ,spirit shroud and protection from evil and good.the only time I used my innate spells recently was when we fought creatures that turned invisible so I used branding smite on them. This isn’t the zariel tieflings fault but one with the spells. so I feel the zariel tiefling best fit is with a class that doesn’t always use their bonus action like a fighter
I had a Mammon Tiefling Necromancer. Utilized his Floating Disc to hold bones & weapons. Raised a skelly, armed it, sent it into certain doom, repeat ad nauseam.
Levistus tieflings make really good bards. Ray of Frost does significantly more damage than any bard cantrip, and requires an attack roll unlike any bard cantrip so it can both benefit from sources of advantage and crit. 2nd level Armor of Agathys gives you 10 temporary hp, which can help with the defense problem caster bards have and both makes melee bards tanker and give them some extra damage. Darkness is a good multi-purpose spell useful to basically anyone.
See, I was using Hellfire for a Tiefling Barbarian... because I wanted to go for an Oni themed one. I used to use it either on a starting round on a group of enemies before raging, or if for some reason I was forced to drop rage as a Backup tool. But I might actually look into Glasya or Dispater in the future, because Oni do like to disguise themselves and out of combat spells probably work far better for the Barbarian... but then Levistus could also work. Also on the Barbarian side, you can go Storm Herald for the Elemental power angle, Wild Magic for emphasising the Oni Mage angle, or Ancestral Guardian for spoopy spirit angles - twisted Yokai spirits floating about, clawing at the enemy.
"tieflings dont make good barbarians" *looks at Levistus tieflings giving a barbarian Armor of Agathys which effectively soaks up 20 points of damage and deals damage to anyone who hits the barbarian and can be cast as an action while you rage as a bonus action, and while not raging you have a ranged cantrip that slows enemies.*
As a pretty minor thing, you can use the smite spells with the Zariel subrace with unarmed strikes. Despite not using weapons, they are still melee weapon attacks as all attack rolls are either weapon or spell attacks even if they're using neither a spell nor a weapon. It's also good to note that branding smite only requires a weapon attack and doesn't specify melee so it can also be used to give yourself a little extra punch at range.
I picked a Levistus tiefling with a "wild northerner" druid vibe. Maybe his ancestry made a pact to survive a harsh blizzard and gave em cold resistance. I love tieflings
Baalzeebul tieflings are necromancers. The Ray of Sickness isn't great, but it is the only 1st and 2nd level necro spell that actually does damage. That means it's the only low-level spell that triggers bonus healing from the necromancers Grim Harvest ability. Since a Necromancer is going to want this spell anyway - getting it as an innate spell casting feature is means you can use your level up picks on more useful spells, while still always having at least one casting of this ready.
Side note, Baalzeebul tieflings were released before the Infestation cantrip. I would swap out thaumaturgy for infestation for their innate spellcasting. Infestation is far more thematic for Baalzeebul, even though it's just more poison damage. Let the player choose which they want.
I’ve personally made two tiefling characters, both weirdly coming from a circus, a storm barbarian with desert to give that hellish heat aura as the strongman guy in a circus, and a drunken monk with a psudeo molly personality as a type of acrobat.
Cool stuff as always. I might suggest cestus as a viable weapon for the unarmed character. Basically spiked or metal knuckles on a glove. A finesse weapon that would allow your hand to hand guys some joy. They could be magical they could be imbued with spells. Or even brass knuckles which would also fill the gap.
I've been playing a Tiefling cleric of Mammon (Order domain) for a number of months now, trying to tempt my fellow party members into joining the Gucci Gang with me. It's been a lot of fun. I generally don't care for mechanical synergy between the race and the class, more for the synergy of themes, and silver-tongued devils can be pretty preachy, you know? The devils' whole shtick is to persuade the people them to give in to some form of indulgence, which is perfect for a cleric.
On the Barbarian note, I did a Zariel Tiefling Storm Herald Barbarian of the Sea and took Infernal Constitution to get 7 resistances total while I am raging, it's great against casters because the most common high damage spells use fire, or lightning, and maybe cold, and then Poison which is a very common non-magical damage type. So you get Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing then Fire, Cold, Lightning and Poison, which is incredibly helpful in combat.
I'm currently playing a noble Zariel Teifling whose human great grandfather was based on Timur and Ghengis Khan, the type of people who would willing fight for Zariel.
I personally played the default Tiefling as a barbarian and loved it. It was a game of lost mines, and i used both hellish rebuke when i rolled low on initiative so i could still do something impactful. I used darkness if we ever needed to run away from a fight. and since i was limited on my rages it was important to have these spells i could use when i need to save a rage or two. if i ended up going to like 10-12 lvl i could see where it really wouldn't work
I once asked my DM if I could have tiefling that isn't based on devils but on demons instead. I was intending for my ancestor to make a deal with a marilith. I also asked if I could sell my infernal legacy, not for pair wings but pair of extra arms (marilith has 6 arms) and he agreed. I ended up making true neutral/chaotic neutral thief rouge.
Big fan of the devilish bois. And to be basic i love pairing them with the warlock class and maxing cha and int. The all the sight themed invocations pair really well with an archaist character. Take the observant feat and by the end of the campaign you can most of the perks from “true sight” at will. You arent a tank so be careful but in a high magic and investigation friendly campaign its a fun build.
My Tiefling has forward-swept bulllike horns and while I haven’t tried that, I have thought about it, though it would be pretty out of character for him unless he was barbarian rage kind of angry. This is the guy that specifically uses a mace because (the enemy’s) bones would be easier to heal afterwards.
Literally the only reason out of game that my Tiefling is the vanilla asmodeus flavor is because I didn’t know there were other kinds before we started. So I came up with him having a self-sustaining circle of True Polymorph carved into his back that is the reason he is an asmodeus tiefling (because with his parentage, that makes no sense otherwise) and it’s not his true form but he’s been that way since he was a toddler so he absolutely does not want to change back. Also he’s a Light Cleric so he’s got lots of Fire Funsies going on. And I like the whole light/darkness duality thing.
I like levistus tieflings for bards. Bards don’t get a solid ranged damage cantrip beyond vicious mockery, so this adds to their already vast options. Throw it on a swords/valor bard and armor of Agathys becomes even more useful
i was so glad my dm let me take the wongs cause we both knew what double-edged sword they are. Why is everyone crying how op wings are? Do people realise falling can easily get you killled? For example, i failed my saving throw against a scare row and fell down (i think i was paralyzed or stunned dunno) and sure i fell into a muddy ground, still took some damage, but 1. i was covered in mud so flying was impossible until i get myself clean and I'm in difficult terrain and also far away from the party and in company of a hidden spider who was chilling there minding his own business.
Hey Davvy, I got a question about the varient tiefling subraces, Iwanted to make this winged tiefling Warlock gish, but I also wanted to get the +1 to dex from the Glaysia bloodline, I can live without the spells but how would you rule this?
Tiefling barbarian, with the wings, that way you can be a force of absolute terror with the feral stats or with an ability score increase of one of the other subraces
My fiance made a Mephisto tiefling Illusionist for a campaign of mine. Themed her after the archetypal black-cat witch and everything using some of the aesthetic alterations allowed by the SCAG. It was a really cool concept and I got really sad that the game fell through shortly after starting. Spawned a whole sidequest plot that I fleshed out after looking through MToF and noticed that I could use the Archdevils to be a dark mirror to the deities that were in my homebrew game.
My Zariel tiefling was a stand in Belmont for our gothic horror session. My explanation for his heritage was that his great grandfather made a deal with Zariel to influence our genes for some sweet bloodline powers in exchange that, after death, we would join her army in the endless fight against the demons.
Just so everyone knows, it is possible to Smite with the Armorer's Guardian mode Thunder Gauntlets, since they count as simple melee weapons. Not to mention the blade cantrips. So you can legally Smite Punch.
You can still play a heavy armor proficient class and use the wings. Just…wear medium or light armor. If youre that worried about AC, level Dex and take a shield :/ Plate armor is too ‘spensive anyway
Every time I've heard someone say that monk is underpowered I get this sinking feeling they've never ran a game for one/played one. Sure four elements is underwhelming, but stun is plain busted in any context. Sure maybe enemy is immune to stun, guess who gets to make more attacks in that case, or they can play crowd control with the minions, keeping them from acting and using their super speed to bounce between them.
do you think you could do a video talking about multiclassing? i'm thinking of trying that for some of my future characters and would like to have some advice
I would say winged tiffling warlock is the best race class combo. Truning your self into a sell throwing fighter jet from the word go is a blast and the warlocks range can keep you self early game so ling as you have the high ground.
Right now I am playing a divine soul Tiefling Sorcerer and I love having the charisma stat boost, it also helps I rolled a total of 18 for my stats so I had max charisma right out the gate haha.
I disagree about Barbarians, you could use your smite spell before raging to get some early damage off and potentially debilitate a foe you're about to be stuck in melee with. Then you flavor as a Zealot of Zariel for funsies.
As for a new player, I have to say I only undertsood like 40 percent of what you said. Because I don't now the spells or the "meta" of a race/class. Besides that, I was looking for a quick summery and I recived it
Tiefling barbarian can be a lot of fun, actually. I'm playing one, Bloodline of zariel and no racial spells, but wings. A tiefling without spells as a barbarian can work. ( I'm gonna take one level in sorcerer anyway because having a few spells would be flavourful and kinda "refreshing" for the character)
@SURROUNDED BY GIANTS sure, wings are cool and very useful. My zariel tieflings sorcerer level is also just for flavour and fun, it wont make my character useless in battle and also the game I'm playing in is more about roleplay than battle. anyway, can you name something cooler than a flying barbarian?
You can just give a bear barbarian wings waaaaay before they were meant to get totem wings, so, go out there and be the Zeppelin you always were meant to be
As far as I know, the only exception to the “Tieflings don’t like being Barbarians” is if you take the winged option from the SCAG, that is, since you forfeit you spells to get wings.
Yep
Incorrect, but it takes creativity with what you get. Generally you need to consider taking Feral (Charisma to Dex) and from there you generally go for spells that you can make use of. Dispater and Glasya both work fantastically as it's all utility, likewise with Mammon, the Charm Mock trio from the SCAG gives utility for a Barbarian and something aside from flinging Javelins to do at range, and if you're like me and thus a bit thick, Hellfire/Burning Hands to make Oni fire breath. Oh, and Levistus because Armor of Agythys works even as you rage.
I was actually thinking about making a barbarian tiefling beast with wings and a scorpion tail.
... yeah... but flying and getting hit by most monsters is kind of antithetical. Winged means you're either ranged or taking opportunity attacks every single time you swoop down to melee an enemy. And if you don't take damage as a Barbarian, then you lose rage (which is basically the entire point of a Barbarian). Without rage, Barbarians are just restricted fighters. So, as a winged barbarian, you basically HAVE to either:
A) swoop in, thereby taking opportunity attacks AND regular attacks every turn and turning you into a demonic pin cushion
B) You just don't fly during combat... which is kinda lame. Half the fun of having wings in the cool stuff you can do in combat to provide advantage or disadvantage on enemies (aka being able to fly away from them). You can still use wings during social and exploration portions of the game, but not using an entire portion of your anatomy during combat (which can be entire game sessions) kinda sucks.
C) You basically only fly during combat as a movement method. Which... you could also just walk in most cases. It's super rare that you will need, or have, enough flying speed to strafe around 1 enemy and still make it to another. And, as a Barbarian, you don't WANT to avoid people. You want to draw the attention to you in most cases. So, again... you might as well just walk.
Tieflings can be good Barbarians if you take one of the bloodlines that has mage hand, thaumaturgy, minor illusion, or charm/hold person, and throw your best scores into STR, CON, and CHA. You use those spells outside of combat (which isn't a huge lose because in most scenarios, you aren't using them inside combat anyway), then when someone catches you using your "party tricks", you get really offended, rage, and kill someone for referring to your magic as a parlor trick.
@@thestoryofusall4805 you maintain rage as long as you Attack/Take damage. So no, you don't need to swoop for AoO. Just dart about their head before chomping said head off.
*slaps Tiefling character*
You can fit so much trauma in this baby
I know right? My Tiefling character has PTSD that gives him bibliophobia and that’s just the beginning!
*slaps Tiefling's ass*
"You can fit so much wife material into this bad girl."
Tiefling GF: O/////O *"DON'T DO THAT IN PUBLIC!!!"*
IM SO HAPPY THAT YOURE MAKING THESE AGAIN!!
8:52 Jeremy Crawford confirmed that unarmed strikes, while not being weapons, count as weapon attacks, meaning that you can absolutely smite with an unarmed strike. And if your dm still doesn't care, you can always go Kensei.
Essentially if it's not a spell attack it's a weapon attack
Indeed. It's perfectly okay to use Divine Smite on Unarmed Attacks according to the base rules.
Unfortunately this is not the case. Divine Smite specifically states that this damage is "in addition to the weapon’s damage" the key word being "weapon's". Whilst it does not specify immediately that it is a melee weapon attack with a weapon, it does follow up by stating it has to be a weapon with this additional phrase. The ability is so TERRIBLY worded and 5e has this issue in a lot of places which is why these rules debates still happen, but yes you do need a weapon even though at first glance it would seem you don't. (But I think its bullshit anyway so at my tables it works because f*ck you Crawford it's cool)
Even more upsetting, even if you ignore this really poorly worded hot mess of an ability you still cant use Improved Divine Smite as a punch boi because that one very clearly states it requires a weapon.
TLDR: RAW you cannot use Divine Smite to punch, kick or tail whip your foes but RAW is bullshit and the guys that wrote 5e are cowards.
When they released the dhampir race and made its vampiric bite a simple weapon with proficiency, that's when I stopped worrying about smite with punch
@@orioninfernal7269 they have an errata on dndbeyond saying that technically it doesn't work, but since it makes no mechanical difference to balance just thematic difference if your dm doesn't want to do that they can just ignore it with little to no change.
Another personal favorite use of the Zariel Tiefling is for Pact of the Blade Warlocks. You don’t get a lot of spell slots so having some Smites you can use as backups sounds pretty good. Of course you could say that about any Tiefling and any Warlock but my point still stands. You can also use it for Gish’s that wanna Gish more.
Heard about the smites and all I'm thinking of is hexblade/paladin for all the flavors of smite.
Oh yeah I have a Tiefling Fighter Warlock with Hexblade and became a basically Paladin
2:08 Gotta love when the cat steals the stop light
7:56 Actually, devils don't need to lay with mortals to create Tieflings - the whole affair can be as dry as making a deal or trade with Zariel and down the line having kids with a different person and those kids turning out to be Zariel Tieflings.
I absolutely love the Arcane lock on the Mammon tiefling, especially since the racial variant loses the material component
7:16 Or a Roleplay-heavy rogue. You have high INT, so your investigation, nature, arcana, and history mods will be super high. Plus, it validates in game the sneaky 4D Chess Leverage/Sherlock Holmes playstyle a lot of rogues have. On top of all of that, you're a Teifling making you a great potential criminal, since you're ostracized in a lot of settings. You basically only need your magic to scare off whoever caught you long enough for you to escape. Hence the non-optimal spells with a focus on theatrics.
I'm using the zariel tiefling for my hexblade (using Tasha's rules to swap the strength for dex). It is handy having smites spare without using spell slots
Uhh, eldritch smite only uses warlock spell slots and racial innate spellcasting doesn’t actually give you a slot that can be used for smiting - just a free casting of the specific spell at a specific level.
Edit: ohh... smite spells... that makes sense.
@@alexandrudorries3307 I never said eldritch smites. I don't actually have that invocation as I'm focusing on permanent passive buffs for them rather than additional active abilities. The racial smites mean I can have potential big hits without using up spell slots
I multiclassed hexblade and thief, and the spare smites really make up for my lackluster sneak attack too
As someone playing a zariel tiefling paladin once you get to higher levels you won’t be using your smite spells all that often.Your concentration will be used on things like haste ,spirit shroud and protection from evil and good.the only time I used my innate spells recently was when we fought creatures that turned invisible so I used branding smite on them. This isn’t the zariel tieflings fault but one with the spells. so I feel the zariel tiefling best fit is with a class that doesn’t always use their bonus action like a fighter
I had a Mammon Tiefling Necromancer. Utilized his Floating Disc to hold bones & weapons. Raised a skelly, armed it, sent it into certain doom, repeat ad nauseam.
8:46 could use a quarterstaff as it counts as a monk weapon and still lets u smite
2:08 Love the Blizzard cameo. He is a good boi!!!!!
Levistus tieflings make really good bards. Ray of Frost does significantly more damage than any bard cantrip, and requires an attack roll unlike any bard cantrip so it can both benefit from sources of advantage and crit. 2nd level Armor of Agathys gives you 10 temporary hp, which can help with the defense problem caster bards have and both makes melee bards tanker and give them some extra damage. Darkness is a good multi-purpose spell useful to basically anyone.
See, I was using Hellfire for a Tiefling Barbarian... because I wanted to go for an Oni themed one. I used to use it either on a starting round on a group of enemies before raging, or if for some reason I was forced to drop rage as a Backup tool. But I might actually look into Glasya or Dispater in the future, because Oni do like to disguise themselves and out of combat spells probably work far better for the Barbarian... but then Levistus could also work.
Also on the Barbarian side, you can go Storm Herald for the Elemental power angle, Wild Magic for emphasising the Oni Mage angle, or Ancestral Guardian for spoopy spirit angles - twisted Yokai spirits floating about, clawing at the enemy.
That's a cool idea I'd love to see a player do that
@@ericwhite1942 she was fun to briefly play in one campaign at least!
2:22 My Dexadin that I played ToD with all the way from levels 1-17: You know nothing, John Snow.
"tieflings dont make good barbarians"
*looks at Levistus tieflings giving a barbarian Armor of Agathys which effectively soaks up 20 points of damage and deals damage to anyone who hits the barbarian and can be cast as an action while you rage as a bonus action, and while not raging you have a ranged cantrip that slows enemies.*
Been using a Glasya Tiefling as an Arcane Trickster, been having a great time with the utility of it
I’m currently a Tiefling Paladin. I love hellish rebuke. Definitely have come in handy
You forgot to mention the scag option to swap +2 cha to +2 dex if you really want to go for that Arcane Trickster dream.
hell yeah, feral tiefling!
As a pretty minor thing, you can use the smite spells with the Zariel subrace with unarmed strikes. Despite not using weapons, they are still melee weapon attacks as all attack rolls are either weapon or spell attacks even if they're using neither a spell nor a weapon.
It's also good to note that branding smite only requires a weapon attack and doesn't specify melee so it can also be used to give yourself a little extra punch at range.
I picked a Levistus tiefling with a "wild northerner" druid vibe. Maybe his ancestry made a pact to survive a harsh blizzard and gave em cold resistance. I love tieflings
Thanks for the video.
Baalzeebul tieflings are necromancers. The Ray of Sickness isn't great, but it is the only 1st and 2nd level necro spell that actually does damage. That means it's the only low-level spell that triggers bonus healing from the necromancers Grim Harvest ability. Since a Necromancer is going to want this spell anyway - getting it as an innate spell casting feature is means you can use your level up picks on more useful spells, while still always having at least one casting of this ready.
Side note, Baalzeebul tieflings were released before the Infestation cantrip. I would swap out thaumaturgy for infestation for their innate spellcasting. Infestation is far more thematic for Baalzeebul, even though it's just more poison damage. Let the player choose which they want.
I’ve personally made two tiefling characters, both weirdly coming from a circus, a storm barbarian with desert to give that hellish heat aura as the strongman guy in a circus, and a drunken monk with a psudeo molly personality as a type of acrobat.
Love that mind hat picture @3:40! :D
Davvy, please think about making some videos with reflavoring examples from that mind of yours. I think they would be a big hit. Great video!
Cool stuff as always. I might suggest cestus as a viable weapon for the unarmed character. Basically spiked or metal knuckles on a glove. A finesse weapon that would allow your hand to hand guys some joy. They could be magical they could be imbued with spells. Or even brass knuckles which would also fill the gap.
5:21 spiffing Brit the truest rogue he is everywhere and you don’t even know it
Don’t forget to bring up feral tieflings! Helps out a lot for rogue and other dex classe
4:13....Did you write that scene for Baldur's Gate 3?
You’re back!!! ❤️
I've been playing a Tiefling cleric of Mammon (Order domain) for a number of months now, trying to tempt my fellow party members into joining the Gucci Gang with me. It's been a lot of fun.
I generally don't care for mechanical synergy between the race and the class, more for the synergy of themes, and silver-tongued devils can be pretty preachy, you know? The devils' whole shtick is to persuade the people them to give in to some form of indulgence, which is perfect for a cleric.
Yea man!! Thanks for the upload.
I have in my campain two tieflings with wings... cleric and paladin. Twins wearing the same armour and have the same wepons XD
I like the Zariel and Levistus lineages the best. Tieflings are just decent for anything really.
On the Barbarian note, I did a Zariel Tiefling Storm Herald Barbarian of the Sea and took Infernal Constitution to get 7 resistances total while I am raging, it's great against casters because the most common high damage spells use fire, or lightning, and maybe cold, and then Poison which is a very common non-magical damage type. So you get Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing then Fire, Cold, Lightning and Poison, which is incredibly helpful in combat.
I always had the idea of making a d&d character a tiefling who's the rogue kind of like nightcrawler
I'm currently playing a noble Zariel Teifling whose human great grandfather was based on Timur and Ghengis Khan, the type of people who would willing fight for Zariel.
I personally played the default Tiefling as a barbarian and loved it. It was a game of lost mines, and i used both hellish rebuke when i rolled low on initiative so i could still do something impactful. I used darkness if we ever needed to run away from a fight. and since i was limited on my rages it was important to have these spells i could use when i need to save a rage or two. if i ended up going to like 10-12 lvl i could see where it really wouldn't work
5:58 I know that book! The time of the dark, darwath trilogy by Barbara Hambly.
I missed that SCAG added wings so i told my brother he can play any tiefling variant now i have to deal with a flying char in my first campaign
I once asked my DM if I could have tiefling that isn't based on devils but on demons instead. I was intending for my ancestor to make a deal with a marilith. I also asked if I could sell my infernal legacy, not for pair wings but pair of extra arms (marilith has 6 arms) and he agreed. I ended up making true neutral/chaotic neutral thief rouge.
If you only looked at the internet, you'd think tieflings were class-locked to being bards or warlocks
Cool. I am going to enjoy this
8:48 if you play a monk grab a weapon they are more than capable of holding weapons
Fun thought is a tiefling storm sorcerer with the infernal constitution feat.
Resistance to: Fire, Cold, Poison, Lighting and Thunder by level 6.
Big fan of the devilish bois. And to be basic i love pairing them with the warlock class and maxing cha and int. The all the sight themed invocations pair really well with an archaist character. Take the observant feat and by the end of the campaign you can most of the perks from “true sight” at will.
You arent a tank so be careful but in a high magic and investigation friendly campaign its a fun build.
As a DM allowing a tiefling to use its horns as a weapon attack but they break off on a crit and grow back but not overnight.
My Tiefling has forward-swept bulllike horns and while I haven’t tried that, I have thought about it, though it would be pretty out of character for him unless he was barbarian rage kind of angry. This is the guy that specifically uses a mace because (the enemy’s) bones would be easier to heal afterwards.
@@JaelinBezel I like the idea of natural born in weapons and foci but I do not ever want them to be the best attainable.
I love that you use MTG art. 😁
You like the Tasha optional rule and did a video about tieflings. That's a sub in my book.
Literally the only reason out of game that my Tiefling is the vanilla asmodeus flavor is because I didn’t know there were other kinds before we started. So I came up with him having a self-sustaining circle of True Polymorph carved into his back that is the reason he is an asmodeus tiefling (because with his parentage, that makes no sense otherwise) and it’s not his true form but he’s been that way since he was a toddler so he absolutely does not want to change back.
Also he’s a Light Cleric so he’s got lots of Fire Funsies going on. And I like the whole light/darkness duality thing.
A Winged Teifling going the Warlock eldritch blast specialist is a very powerful and fun character outdoors.
Inside a locked room they do have issues.
I like levistus tieflings for bards. Bards don’t get a solid ranged damage cantrip beyond vicious mockery, so this adds to their already vast options. Throw it on a swords/valor bard and armor of Agathys becomes even more useful
i was so glad my dm let me take the wongs cause we both knew what double-edged sword they are. Why is everyone crying how op wings are? Do people realise falling can easily get you killled? For example, i failed my saving throw against a scare row and fell down (i think i was paralyzed or stunned dunno) and sure i fell into a muddy ground, still took some damage, but 1. i was covered in mud so flying was impossible until i get myself clean and I'm in difficult terrain and also far away from the party and in company of a hidden spider who was chilling there minding his own business.
I'm more of an Aasimmar guy myself, but these guides are always fun.
"hellish-ly rebuke my taxes"
Damn, I imagine you receiving a letter and a clerk somewhere spontaneously catching fire
Mephistopheles would also be nice for a hexblade with the Eldritch Mind invocation for advantage on the con saves
i thought the titlewas davvys classical guide to feelings and i was like 🥺yes i need that thank you
I love the Zariel Tiefling for Paladins
Thank god that Davvy continues to have correct pronunciations
My first ever character was a Tiefling druid over 4 years ago. The prospect of just a half-devil character led me to my obsession today 😂
This has been a cr-DAVIES guide to dnd!
Hey Davvy, I got a question about the varient tiefling subraces, Iwanted to make this winged tiefling Warlock gish, but I also wanted to get the +1 to dex from the Glaysia bloodline, I can live without the spells but how would you rule this?
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LoL one of my favorite characters to play was a Mephistopheles Tiefling Barby. It was amazing!
"Play a Tiefling Barbarian"? Got it.
I love my Grave cleric Mammon Tiefling. I love him and he tries to diverge from the stereotype, it doesn't allow pan out though
A tiefling barbarian? Never thought of that combo. Huh, a new level of thirst. Interesting.
“Meta-stop please” tiefling spore druid sounds neat
Tiefling barbarian, with the wings, that way you can be a force of absolute terror with the feral stats or with an ability score increase of one of the other subraces
My fiance made a Mephisto tiefling Illusionist for a campaign of mine. Themed her after the archetypal black-cat witch and everything using some of the aesthetic alterations allowed by the SCAG. It was a really cool concept and I got really sad that the game fell through shortly after starting. Spawned a whole sidequest plot that I fleshed out after looking through MToF and noticed that I could use the Archdevils to be a dark mirror to the deities that were in my homebrew game.
My Zariel tiefling was a stand in Belmont for our gothic horror session. My explanation for his heritage was that his great grandfather made a deal with Zariel to influence our genes for some sweet bloodline powers in exchange that, after death, we would join her army in the endless fight against the demons.
Just so everyone knows, it is possible to Smite with the Armorer's Guardian mode Thunder Gauntlets, since they count as simple melee weapons. Not to mention the blade cantrips. So you can legally Smite Punch.
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huh, I'm currently making a tiefling bard right now....wow
May you do the shifter races please.
You can still play a heavy armor proficient class and use the wings. Just…wear medium or light armor. If youre that worried about AC, level Dex and take a shield :/
Plate armor is too ‘spensive anyway
Every time I've heard someone say that monk is underpowered I get this sinking feeling they've never ran a game for one/played one. Sure four elements is underwhelming, but stun is plain busted in any context. Sure maybe enemy is immune to stun, guess who gets to make more attacks in that case, or they can play crowd control with the minions, keeping them from acting and using their super speed to bounce between them.
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Ah yes! My fave race!
I'm new here to both the channel and dungeons and dragons. Anything you guys can give as tips to a newbie?
do you think you could do a video talking about multiclassing? i'm thinking of trying that for some of my future characters and would like to have some advice
I would say winged tiffling warlock is the best race class combo. Truning your self into a sell throwing fighter jet from the word go is a blast and the warlocks range can keep you self early game so ling as you have the high ground.
Warlock: “It’s over hobgoblins! I have the high ground!”
I never thought 'Mephistopheles' was hard to say until I named a kitten after him. Teaching people to pronounce it was a nightmare.
Tiefling Barbarian with fuckin WWWWIIIIIINNNNGS
Right now I am playing a divine soul Tiefling Sorcerer and I love having the charisma stat boost, it also helps I rolled a total of 18 for my stats so I had max charisma right out the gate haha.
Did Davy do a vid on the goliath already? I forgot
I disagree about Barbarians, you could use your smite spell before raging to get some early damage off and potentially debilitate a foe you're about to be stuck in melee with. Then you flavor as a Zealot of Zariel for funsies.
… Levistus bloodline Frost Herald Barbarian. Resist Fire, Ice, and be a tank. Also armor of Agathys
i had a player that made a zariel tiefling zealot barbarian and vengeance paladin, real fun character
I actually recently started playing a dex paladin with the devil's tongue variant because I thought Vicious Mockery on a paladin would be fun.
As for a new player, I have to say I only undertsood like 40 percent of what you said. Because I don't now the spells or the "meta" of a race/class. Besides that, I was looking for a quick summery and I recived it
I am here to say Zariel Tieflings are the best! ( Favourite so obviously opinion. ) : 3
Tiefling barbarian can be a lot of fun, actually. I'm playing one, Bloodline of zariel and no racial spells, but wings. A tiefling without spells as a barbarian can work.
( I'm gonna take one level in sorcerer anyway because having a few spells would be flavourful and kinda "refreshing" for the character)
@SURROUNDED BY GIANTS sure, wings are cool and very useful. My zariel tieflings sorcerer level is also just for flavour and fun, it wont make my character useless in battle and also the game I'm playing in is more about roleplay than battle. anyway, can you name something cooler than a flying barbarian?
Can you be holy if your a telling like a paladin or monk oe cleric?
Can’t smite with your fist?
Attach a rope to a brick and that’s a weapon!
If you can can you make a guide to this thing called fire and ice only thing I know is there’s a cool social and fight system
You can just give a bear barbarian wings waaaaay before they were meant to get totem wings, so, go out there and be the Zeppelin you always were meant to be