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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 7726110" data-attributes="member: 1288"><p>I have no particular feelings to these tiefling options one way or the other, but I do have to point something out.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes it's not a question of how simple (or even "lazy," if you like) an idea is, but simply coming up with it.</p><p></p><p>Sure, anyone can swap out the spell options and the stat bonuses to create different tieflings connected to different devils. But <em>did</em> anyone? Everyone saying "I could have done this," sure you could have, but had you actually <em>thought</em> to do it prior to this?</p><p></p><p>Lots of things are easy in retrospect. The formula for gunpowder is (so far as such things go) a simple one, but it still wasn't invented until it was invented.</p><p></p><p>Maybe, at the last minute, someone at WoC said, "Hey, we could create sub-tieflings by swapping out spells and stats!" And they could have just thrown that on there as a sentence or two, since all they were really trying to do was share the idea, except they knew they'd then get reamed for not providing examples and doing the work. But the <em>purpose</em> (in this hypothetical; I'm not saying I know what they intended) was simply to present the idea, because it hadn't come up before.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 7726110, member: 1288"] I have no particular feelings to these tiefling options one way or the other, but I do have to point something out. Sometimes it's not a question of how simple (or even "lazy," if you like) an idea is, but simply coming up with it. Sure, anyone can swap out the spell options and the stat bonuses to create different tieflings connected to different devils. But [I]did[/I] anyone? Everyone saying "I could have done this," sure you could have, but had you actually [I]thought[/I] to do it prior to this? Lots of things are easy in retrospect. The formula for gunpowder is (so far as such things go) a simple one, but it still wasn't invented until it was invented. Maybe, at the last minute, someone at WoC said, "Hey, we could create sub-tieflings by swapping out spells and stats!" And they could have just thrown that on there as a sentence or two, since all they were really trying to do was share the idea, except they knew they'd then get reamed for not providing examples and doing the work. But the [I]purpose[/I] (in this hypothetical; I'm not saying I know what they intended) was simply to present the idea, because it hadn't come up before. [/QUOTE]
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