Love the variety! A slug body would make for really a great character. "Oh my relation to Nurgle? He's my second cousin twice removed on my mom's side."
Don't get me wrong: I'm definitely about having some femme fatales in a setting, but it would also be cool to have more evil women who had traits other than "beautiful and cruel". 🙄
There appear to be two extremes in DND official female villainy. Beautiful and seductive, or ugly and scheming. With the one exception of Zuggotomy (I think) There needs to be a female villain who is built like a brick privy and hits like one, and does not care about the PCs one jot until they rock up on her door to end her schemes and she has to show them why she is a threat. I think that would be interesting.
I think part of that, not the whole mind you. Is the way beauty tends to be used in folklore & mythology which D&D pulls heavily from. Beauty as a desirable trait sought after either villainous or heroically; and as glamor to hide truths and fool the unwise. Our tendency with the death of the author to project intent. IE: Its very easy to read the Hag as a Ugly = Evil trope from a modern eye. When the intent is more "Don't let desire overcome your sense of reason." which I think we can all get behind as Aesop style lesson. A more "modern" way to use the Hag as an archetype (and i use modern loosely knowing this has already been done decades ago) might be the question of "Is the body true reflection of the self or is the glamor as a work of artifact more expressive of the inner nature?" And that both these things can be true simultaneously. Just as a digital avatar can be use maliciously or as a form of self expression.
We have a lineage of Tieflings that are only born a specific day, which gives them midnight-blue skin, horns that grow from the back of their heads to frame the forehead like a crown, glittering freckles like tiny stars, and molten gold eyes. They’re known as Nyx Tieflings and only spawn on “the day that the sun doesn’t rise.”
So I don't believe I've seen your videos before, but I was blown away by the sheer amount of IDEAS you gave me???? I'm so excited to do different kinds of tieflings in my campaign as NPCs!!! Thank you so much
Now I want to make a tiefling with compound eyes and insectoid wings (maybe like a beetle, so the flying wings are covered by elytra so are less noticeable at first... hmmmm... thankyou for your inspiration - you truly are a Muse!
I have a similar feeling about the other half races... What says that my half-orc has to have a human and a orc parent... It is a orc-dragon.... It has no impact system wise... but it looks a fair bit scalier and have some dragon traits in it´s behavior.
It is a sad price we pay for balancing - races like Half-Orc, Half-Elf, Aasimar or Tiefling, as well as Reborn and Hexblood from Ravenloft, should be templates you could add to other races. But it would make them too strong and lead people to make things like Reborn Half-Orc Aasimar
You absolutely should do the Goristro! Tieflings are probably my favorite race in 5e mainly due to how diverse they can be. I’ve played 5 since I started playing in 2012
In my setting tieflings where once people who became tieflings through horrifying infernal experiments that tainted their bloodlines with fiendish power. Because of this tieflings could originate from any race and be relatively any size as long as they had base tiefling abilities.
In one campaign I played in we made it more that tieflings had influences from various devils rather than archdevils, there were bone devil tieflings with bones and protrusions on their skin. Spined devil tieflings that were a little porcupine like, my personal favorites was the ice devil inspired tieflings that had a bit of an exoskeleton and insect like either eyes or legs and super thick ridged tails.
Nice head lore update, i ask myself why would a deal would make you teafling? The head cannon for me is like a deal making in fairy tales where you trade your first born your bloodline for something. So your fate is basicly promised to the devil. So one day you will do something that will help that devil intentionly or not. You will free some one or kill some one that will help them, and so by some way you are a part of a grand plan not by choice, and you may not even understand or know that, and you cant do anything about it. And that also could give base for some kind of superstition about why you would outcast a teafling. But it wont change your fate
i made i tefling that was like really strictly christan or like there verson that was pass for humna and didnt know they were a tefling and had a panic atack when they found out
I wanna play a Tiefling who’s blood tied to Cerberus and just have hellhound features like a wolf tail with the tip of the fur on their tail glowing molten and wolf ears with hellfire protruding from them rather then inner ear fluff and more pronounced canines. Maybe trade out Tiefling innate spell casting for a few proficiencies to compliment that like proficiency in Survival and Perception for tracking and to reflect their blood ties to Cerberus. Those are my ideas and thoughts (wants to make a hellhound character)
I always forget that tieflings can go the other way, now I wanna make a tiefling that looks like Picollo from dbz xD. Really like the purple gradient in your hair!
I love your ideas this channel is definitely one of my favorites thank you so much for everything you do. Also because as of typing this it is the holidays. Happy holidays to you and to everyone in this wonderful community!
I love the drawings in this, and how you've expanded on tieflings. I've had similar thoughts about tieflings from other races, and was curious how that would be handled mechanically. Maybe tiefling overrides other traits, or maybe Tasha's book has the answer. As a bit of homebrew lore I use, my tieflings don't sprout horns until they are 13 years old. Also, unless a tiefling was born from another tiefling, their color doesn't kick in until 13 as well. They know they're different as children, but nobody is the wiser until then. It makes adolescence more of a pain than normal.
the way i run teiflings is there are two major groups, abyssal and infernal, with the exact traits coming from the particular devil or demon the heritage comes from. most come from archfiends, but some come from more generic bloodlines, such as bone devil bloodlines, coming from their pacts with these lesser fiends rather than direct procreation. The specific lineage leads to wiggle room for homebrew race options, like tiamat giving dragonborn racial traits in the place of normal infernal traits, and stuff of that nature. This also lets me, as the dm, flex my creativity and have a wider pool of inspiration.
Thanks, I will keep these ideas in mind as for which demon I would love to see you do the Vrock. PS: I might be treading on thin ice but I don’t think it’s wrong to have female fiends be beautiful and seductive, I only think it’s an issue if that’s the only way they are allowed to be depicted as such.
I agree with you whole heartedly. And I don’t personally think that’s thin ice. Fiendish creatures can be sexy, just helps with the temptation aspect and theme of some. Like Asmodeus. Asmodeus is pretty hot all puns intended and commands fierce respect and fear. What’s scarier, a bloodthirsty animalistic demon with the brain of a beast ready tear you to shreds, or a gorgeous and intellectual devil who’s perfectly capable of out smarting you and creating a plethora of machinations that all lead to a horrifying end. I find devils like that spookers, personally. A demon typically will just give a slow and painful death, a devil will more often than not if crossed just tear your life apart and make you wish a demon had just killed you, while making themselves look dapper in the process. Devils because of their society typically are more intellectual due to often having a reliance on dealing with mortals to win their souls, tricking them. Demons just wanna watch the world burn with the ironic exception of the demon prince of lust.
Before Van Ricthen's Guide came out with Reborn one of my characters I was making was a Rakshasa Tiefling who would have white hair with black tips, a Tigers tail and tiger ears in place of humans and would be a reflavour of a Dispater Tiefling
Tiefling have been involved in D&D long before 4th edition, 3rd edition had them as well, and well not as familiar even AD&D 2nd edition i'm just not sure if they where playable until 3rd edition. None the less i do enjoy you're idea of using different races both common and fiendish to influence how the Tieflings look. It's always fun hearing different aspects and idea's to Tieflings.
I had a Tiefling that caused nightmares in the people around them. They had iron teeth, Coal hair, and Dark Grey-indigo skin. No Horns. They are the child of a Night Hag blood line. A Demon blood line is also a fun one, though that could make a Cansin(Chaos Planetouched) or Teifling(Evil Planetouched). And if they have an elemental type/sub-type it could even make a Ganasi(Elemental Planetouched). I come from 3e we had a planetouched for every alignment, and element. A Marralith would be a fun linage, or a ferrolith. Iron skin could be a nice look. Or a Lillend....Though the last two are succubus subtypes, so some might find them cliché' but I like dream demons and snake demons so I don't mind.
Dang this is such a cool collection of ideas, idk if ill ever get to play d&d again but I would love to play some really interesting shadow demon tiefling or zuggutmoy inspired tiefling
first video and must I say, first your voice is smooth as butter and your hair is like a nifty aurora borealis, great first impressions so far! (will have thoughts on the actual video below) For the boring ones of Fierna and Glasya, maybe with Glasya you could have your Tiefling perhaps have small amounts of horns along their body (almost like studs) that look like gems and with Fierna she could be your "Succubus" type one because I mean, there is an archetype to fulfill, if she was more than the archetype then nobody would have a Succubus one (though I'd say maybe she should be a gross warping of normal beauty (like how some demonic creatures in fiction have multiple chests) then she can of course shapeshift to be hot for the whole... seduction thing) I like the idea of making tiefling characters have small traits of their ancestor but overall be physically defined by their desires, for example Beelzebub's bloodline could have flies around them but they may want to be a force of justice, so they would be large, have sturdy horns as a general thing, I'd suggest checking out Pointy Hat's video on the subject, it's very fascinating when combined with yours
Thank you so much Radio Whales! That's so kind of you to say! These are some awesome ideas and I'll definitely check out Pointy Hat! Are they a RUclipsr?
Actually, tieflings didn't originate in 4th edition. They first appeared in D&D 3.5, and could have a wide, wide variety of different features, from various shapes and sizes of horns (including none!), different skin tones, tail types and even hooves! They weren't listed as a normal playable race because they had a Level Adjustment (basically they would be a level behind anyone at any given point) and appeared initially in the Monster Manual. Their features could very as broadly as there are types of fiends. Their more unified appearance in 4e was actually a severe break from their "no two tieflings look alike" motto in 3.5. I believe the lore for them in Faerun in 4e was that Asmodeus enacted a ritual to bring all tieflings inline with his bloodline, to spread his influence.
In my original setting I took the playable race of Tieflings and turned it all on it's ear and created a whole culture for them inspirited by fire and taking cues from a variety of Eurasian peoples, to give them more vitality and agency rather than "devil baby woobies everyone likes to bully".
Yeah. I always make mine weird. I do love my Heavy Metal Circus Fighter/Bard from 5th ... but in the recent p2e looksee, I realized a Kitsune tiefling was totally a thing in p2e. So I made a NB fox magus as my backup for my goblin. (Also not sure why the gnome hate, but I would love to resurrect my old WarCraft Gnome Warlock as a Gnome Tiefling. I do miss the pandaria era of WOW)
Nah, they’ve been around since 2e as possible PC races, not 4e. Got better with 3e. That said, I like what PF1e did with Tieflings. Anyway, I like my mermaids to be fish from the waist up, so needless to say, I also like my other “exotic” races to be truly exotic. Also, Asmodeus is a chump.
First of all, thanks for saying the truth. Now let's talk. I think even a boring design can have it's charm, i mean, if you use'em correctly it should show that even a normal guy can do good things or outstand, but they need to have something unique to them to make them easily recognizable in a illustration, cuz otherwise someone can say it's x character or y instead of the one used. Also yeah, i fo differentiate devils and demons. It's almost like an hierarchy, so i think that demon thiefling would be weaker, but as a design only thing, it should be ok. Iwould love to see those creations.
It grinds my gears that tieflings don't look remotely human half the time. The point of tieflings and aasimar used to be that they could pass for human if you weren't closely inspecting their face (hiding things like a tail if they happened to have one). Now there's no way you'd ever think they were human. They're much closer to the exotic planetouched races like genasi. I like the vast variety of different traits. Everyone does. However dead give-aways like red skin or giant bull horns would logically be ostracized and potentially culled by distrustful populations who know that demons and devils are bad news, but not much more than that. More subtle traits like oddly-colored eyes or a scent of brimstone should be the most common traits you see in a tiefling, because those are the ones that are subtle enough to allow the child to survive.
I honestly prefer a more subdued style when it comes to extra-planar influence. Subtle ticks and traits, odd skin textures, budding horns, a pervasive sulfur-y odor, eyes that are of normal form, but unnerving to stare into, like looking into the eyes of a predator... I wouldn't say anything in this video is 'wrong', I enjoyed it a lot and will probably co-opt some of these traits into my own world. However a lot of the descriptors that I see given to modern tieflings feel overdone. It's almost like their creators are designing them for a webcomic protagonist or a piece of art that doesn't quite fit into a living, breathing world. Neon skin, bulky features, elaborate and heavy horns that would be a massive pain to have stuck to your head. I'm just wondering if anyone else feels the same way.
Love the variety! A slug body would make for really a great character.
"Oh my relation to Nurgle? He's my second cousin twice removed on my mom's side."
Don't get me wrong: I'm definitely about having some femme fatales in a setting, but it would also be cool to have more evil women who had traits other than "beautiful and cruel". 🙄
Hags ?
@@vukkulvar9769 I don't hate hags... I just want to hear their death shrieks as they burn to death.
There appear to be two extremes in DND official female villainy. Beautiful and seductive, or ugly and scheming. With the one exception of Zuggotomy (I think) There needs to be a female villain who is built like a brick privy and hits like one, and does not care about the PCs one jot until they rock up on her door to end her schemes and she has to show them why she is a threat. I think that would be interesting.
@@githyanki1899 Tiamat and the spiser queen. there is also the fungus demon lord
I think part of that, not the whole mind you. Is the way beauty tends to be used in folklore & mythology which D&D pulls heavily from.
Beauty as a desirable trait sought after either villainous or heroically; and as glamor to hide truths and fool the unwise.
Our tendency with the death of the author to project intent.
IE: Its very easy to read the Hag as a Ugly = Evil trope from a modern eye. When the intent is more "Don't let desire overcome your sense of reason." which I think we can all get behind as Aesop style lesson.
A more "modern" way to use the Hag as an archetype (and i use modern loosely knowing this has already been done decades ago) might be the question of "Is the body true reflection of the self or is the glamor as a work of artifact more expressive of the inner nature?" And that both these things can be true simultaneously. Just as a digital avatar can be use maliciously or as a form of self expression.
We have a lineage of Tieflings that are only born a specific day, which gives them midnight-blue skin, horns that grow from the back of their heads to frame the forehead like a crown, glittering freckles like tiny stars, and molten gold eyes. They’re known as Nyx Tieflings and only spawn on “the day that the sun doesn’t rise.”
So I don't believe I've seen your videos before, but I was blown away by the sheer amount of IDEAS you gave me???? I'm so excited to do different kinds of tieflings in my campaign as NPCs!!! Thank you so much
Now I want to make a tiefling with compound eyes and insectoid wings (maybe like a beetle, so the flying wings are covered by elytra so are less noticeable at first... hmmmm... thankyou for your inspiration - you truly are a Muse!
I have a similar feeling about the other half races... What says that my half-orc has to have a human and a orc parent... It is a orc-dragon.... It has no impact system wise... but it looks a fair bit scalier and have some dragon traits in it´s behavior.
It is a sad price we pay for balancing - races like Half-Orc, Half-Elf, Aasimar or Tiefling, as well as Reborn and Hexblood from Ravenloft, should be templates you could add to other races. But it would make them too strong and lead people to make things like Reborn Half-Orc Aasimar
@@IdiotinGlans it should still be done, just also give them weaknesses, tieflings take extra damage from silver and holy things for example
You absolutely should do the Goristro! Tieflings are probably my favorite race in 5e mainly due to how diverse they can be. I’ve played 5 since I started playing in 2012
In my setting tieflings where once people who became tieflings through horrifying infernal experiments that tainted their bloodlines with fiendish power. Because of this tieflings could originate from any race and be relatively any size as long as they had base tiefling abilities.
In one campaign I played in we made it more that tieflings had influences from various devils rather than archdevils, there were bone devil tieflings with bones and protrusions on their skin. Spined devil tieflings that were a little porcupine like, my personal favorites was the ice devil inspired tieflings that had a bit of an exoskeleton and insect like either eyes or legs and super thick ridged tails.
This all sounds AWESOME Skimmer! So cool!!!!
Nice head lore update, i ask myself why would a deal would make you teafling?
The head cannon for me is like a deal making in fairy tales where you trade your first born your bloodline for something.
So your fate is basicly promised to the devil.
So one day you will do something that will help that devil intentionly or not.
You will free some one or kill some one that will help them, and so by some way you are a part of a grand plan not by choice, and you may not even understand or know that, and you cant do anything about it.
And that also could give base for some kind of superstition about why you would outcast a teafling.
But it wont change your fate
i made i tefling that was like really strictly christan or like there verson that was pass for humna and didnt know they were a tefling and had a panic atack when they found out
I wanna play a Tiefling who’s blood tied to Cerberus and just have hellhound features like a wolf tail with the tip of the fur on their tail glowing molten and wolf ears with hellfire protruding from them rather then inner ear fluff and more pronounced canines. Maybe trade out Tiefling innate spell casting for a few proficiencies to compliment that like proficiency in Survival and Perception for tracking and to reflect their blood ties to Cerberus.
Those are my ideas and thoughts (wants to make a hellhound character)
I always forget that tieflings can go the other way, now I wanna make a tiefling that looks like Picollo from dbz xD. Really like the purple gradient in your hair!
Ohhhhh great idea Jean!!!! Also thank you so much! x
I love your ideas this channel is definitely one of my favorites thank you so much for everything you do.
Also because as of typing this it is the holidays. Happy holidays to you and to everyone in this wonderful community!
I have a tifling Celestial warlock who think there just a cleric with stark white stag horn and dear hoves
Ohhhh this is a really nice mix Orion! Great visuals too! x
I love the drawings in this, and how you've expanded on tieflings. I've had similar thoughts about tieflings from other races, and was curious how that would be handled mechanically. Maybe tiefling overrides other traits, or maybe Tasha's book has the answer.
As a bit of homebrew lore I use, my tieflings don't sprout horns until they are 13 years old. Also, unless a tiefling was born from another tiefling, their color doesn't kick in until 13 as well. They know they're different as children, but nobody is the wiser until then. It makes adolescence more of a pain than normal.
One variant that I think would be interesting would be a Raksasha tiefling. Imaging having claws and fur along with those amazing horns.
Ohhhh yes! I really want to draw this! Great call Avion! x
@@ArcaneForge thank you
Don't forget to reverse their hands.
@@edmcintosh9500 Oh my gods, yes!
I really like the style of your video's! Love to listen to your voice during work!
Ooh these are all so cool!! Great inspirations:))
the way i run teiflings is there are two major groups, abyssal and infernal, with the exact traits coming from the particular devil or demon the heritage comes from. most come from archfiends, but some come from more generic bloodlines, such as bone devil bloodlines, coming from their pacts with these lesser fiends rather than direct procreation.
The specific lineage leads to wiggle room for homebrew race options, like tiamat giving dragonborn racial traits in the place of normal infernal traits, and stuff of that nature. This also lets me, as the dm, flex my creativity and have a wider pool of inspiration.
Thanks, I will keep these ideas in mind as for which demon I would love to see you do the Vrock.
PS: I might be treading on thin ice but I don’t think it’s wrong to have female fiends be beautiful and seductive, I only think it’s an issue if that’s the only way they are allowed to be depicted as such.
I agree with you whole heartedly. And I don’t personally think that’s thin ice.
Fiendish creatures can be sexy, just helps with the temptation aspect and theme of some. Like Asmodeus. Asmodeus is pretty hot all puns intended and commands fierce respect and fear. What’s scarier, a bloodthirsty animalistic demon with the brain of a beast ready tear you to shreds, or a gorgeous and intellectual devil who’s perfectly capable of out smarting you and creating a plethora of machinations that all lead to a horrifying end. I find devils like that spookers, personally. A demon typically will just give a slow and painful death, a devil will more often than not if crossed just tear your life apart and make you wish a demon had just killed you, while making themselves look dapper in the process.
Devils because of their society typically are more intellectual due to often having a reliance on dealing with mortals to win their souls, tricking them. Demons just wanna watch the world burn with the ironic exception of the demon prince of lust.
These are all really cool, but I especially love the idea of icicle horns!
Before Van Ricthen's Guide came out with Reborn one of my characters I was making was a Rakshasa Tiefling who would have white hair with black tips, a Tigers tail and tiger ears in place of humans and would be a reflavour of a Dispater Tiefling
Tiefling have been involved in D&D long before 4th edition, 3rd edition had them as well, and well not as familiar even AD&D 2nd edition i'm just not sure if they where playable until 3rd edition.
None the less i do enjoy you're idea of using different races both common and fiendish to influence how the Tieflings look. It's always fun hearing different aspects and idea's to Tieflings.
I had a Tiefling that caused nightmares in the people around them. They had iron teeth, Coal hair, and Dark Grey-indigo skin. No Horns. They are the child of a Night Hag blood line. A Demon blood line is also a fun one, though that could make a Cansin(Chaos Planetouched) or Teifling(Evil Planetouched). And if they have an elemental type/sub-type it could even make a Ganasi(Elemental Planetouched). I come from 3e we had a planetouched for every alignment, and element. A Marralith would be a fun linage, or a ferrolith. Iron skin could be a nice look. Or a Lillend....Though the last two are succubus subtypes, so some might find them cliché' but I like dream demons and snake demons so I don't mind.
Dang this is such a cool collection of ideas, idk if ill ever get to play d&d again but I would love to play some really interesting shadow demon tiefling or zuggutmoy inspired tiefling
The shadow demon idea is so good. Wtf why cant i have good ideas like that?
first video and must I say, first your voice is smooth as butter and your hair is like a nifty aurora borealis, great first impressions so far! (will have thoughts on the actual video below)
For the boring ones of Fierna and Glasya, maybe with Glasya you could have your Tiefling perhaps have small amounts of horns along their body (almost like studs) that look like gems and with Fierna she could be your "Succubus" type one because I mean, there is an archetype to fulfill, if she was more than the archetype then nobody would have a Succubus one (though I'd say maybe she should be a gross warping of normal beauty (like how some demonic creatures in fiction have multiple chests) then she can of course shapeshift to be hot for the whole... seduction thing)
I like the idea of making tiefling characters have small traits of their ancestor but overall be physically defined by their desires, for example Beelzebub's bloodline could have flies around them but they may want to be a force of justice, so they would be large, have sturdy horns
as a general thing, I'd suggest checking out Pointy Hat's video on the subject, it's very fascinating when combined with yours
Thank you so much Radio Whales! That's so kind of you to say!
These are some awesome ideas and I'll definitely check out Pointy Hat! Are they a RUclipsr?
@@ArcaneForge yep! a bit of an up and coming one by the look of things!
Damn, now I want to do a tiefling with deer antler-like horns that creepily sheds by needing to find trees every once in a while.
Now I want to make a tiefling character inspired by one of the Obyriths.
Actually, tieflings didn't originate in 4th edition. They first appeared in D&D 3.5, and could have a wide, wide variety of different features, from various shapes and sizes of horns (including none!), different skin tones, tail types and even hooves! They weren't listed as a normal playable race because they had a Level Adjustment (basically they would be a level behind anyone at any given point) and appeared initially in the Monster Manual. Their features could very as broadly as there are types of fiends. Their more unified appearance in 4e was actually a severe break from their "no two tieflings look alike" motto in 3.5. I believe the lore for them in Faerun in 4e was that Asmodeus enacted a ritual to bring all tieflings inline with his bloodline, to spread his influence.
Thanks so much for the insight Katherine, and for watching too!
Goes back one version further IIRC. I'm pretty sure that Tieflings were introduced in 2nd edition as part of the Planescapes setting.
Rather than horns? Perhaps some thorny crests kinda like the Zabrak from Star Wars?
In my original setting I took the playable race of Tieflings and turned it all on it's ear and created a whole culture for them inspirited by fire and taking cues from a variety of Eurasian peoples, to give them more vitality and agency rather than "devil baby woobies everyone likes to bully".
Yeah. I always make mine weird. I do love my Heavy Metal Circus Fighter/Bard from 5th ... but in the recent p2e looksee, I realized a Kitsune tiefling was totally a thing in p2e. So I made a NB fox magus as my backup for my goblin. (Also not sure why the gnome hate, but I would love to resurrect my old WarCraft Gnome Warlock as a Gnome Tiefling. I do miss the pandaria era of WOW)
Nah, they’ve been around since 2e as possible PC races, not 4e. Got better with 3e. That said, I like what PF1e did with Tieflings.
Anyway, I like my mermaids to be fish from the waist up, so needless to say, I also like my other “exotic” races to be truly exotic.
Also, Asmodeus is a chump.
whom else is wanting/expecting tieflings to be medium/small like aasimar and genasi in MOtM? living our impiest life
Awh bless! Now i want to see more short king Tieflings!
First of all, thanks for saying the truth.
Now let's talk.
I think even a boring design can have it's charm, i mean, if you use'em correctly it should show that even a normal guy can do good things or outstand, but they need to have something unique to them to make them easily recognizable in a illustration, cuz otherwise someone can say it's x character or y instead of the one used.
Also yeah, i fo differentiate devils and demons. It's almost like an hierarchy, so i think that demon thiefling would be weaker, but as a design only thing, it should be ok. Iwould love to see those creations.
Lol Thank you so much, Clarisse!
I like this take, especially the demon VS devil strength coming through! Thanks so much for watching!
It grinds my gears that tieflings don't look remotely human half the time. The point of tieflings and aasimar used to be that they could pass for human if you weren't closely inspecting their face (hiding things like a tail if they happened to have one). Now there's no way you'd ever think they were human. They're much closer to the exotic planetouched races like genasi. I like the vast variety of different traits. Everyone does. However dead give-aways like red skin or giant bull horns would logically be ostracized and potentially culled by distrustful populations who know that demons and devils are bad news, but not much more than that. More subtle traits like oddly-colored eyes or a scent of brimstone should be the most common traits you see in a tiefling, because those are the ones that are subtle enough to allow the child to survive.
That's an interesting take John! Gritty realism campaigns can be fun too.
A changeling/Tiefling.
Draw the flaming minotaur in a video
P please
I honestly prefer a more subdued style when it comes to extra-planar influence. Subtle ticks and traits, odd skin textures, budding horns, a pervasive sulfur-y odor, eyes that are of normal form, but unnerving to stare into, like looking into the eyes of a predator... I wouldn't say anything in this video is 'wrong', I enjoyed it a lot and will probably co-opt some of these traits into my own world. However a lot of the descriptors that I see given to modern tieflings feel overdone. It's almost like their creators are designing them for a webcomic protagonist or a piece of art that doesn't quite fit into a living, breathing world. Neon skin, bulky features, elaborate and heavy horns that would be a massive pain to have stuck to your head. I'm just wondering if anyone else feels the same way.