Does anyone actually like Dragonborn and Tieflings?

[Ahnehnois]

I like somewhat the increased focus in dragons that emerged in late 3.5e. I like dragonborn in some ways better than half-orcs. Tieflings I like less. They're fine monsters, but having them as standard PC races sends two messages I don't want sent to my players:
1...Let's everyone play a conflicted e-evil character
2...Fiends and mortals reproduce so often they've created a standard character race. [note I don't know the official origin story, nor would it apply to most people's homebrews]

 

[Nifft]

Tieflings I like less. They're fine monsters, but having them as standard PC races sends two messages I don't want sent to my players:
1...Let's everyone play a conflicted e-evil character

But hopefully they already saw the rules on alignment in the previous chapter, which explicitly state the opposite.

2...Fiends and mortals reproduce so often they've created a standard character race.

Well, there's always been at least one specific type of fiend expressly designed to mate with mortals, so fiends must have decided mating with mortal dudes was a pretty high priority.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Old Gumphrey]

I'm going in a different direction with this. I'm so bored and fed up with elves in D&D, but they went ahead and added a third elf option to the core. So now, given random chance, fully 3 out of every 8 players in my game will be some type of elf. Yuck, to say the least. Bring on the new races.

 

[The Green Adam]

In my two groups, we have three tieflings and one dragonborn. The one player playing a Dragonborn really, really loves them - he used to play a Dragon Disciple back during 3e.

For my groups, Wizards made the right call. (Number of half-orcs and gnomes in 8 years of two 3e campaigns? None).

Cheers!

I guess that's really what it boils down to for most people. If not enough people played a species, perhaps a new species is in order.

For myself, in the 30+ years I've been slinging dice I've seen at least 5 half-orcs and at least 7 gnomes (one of those half-orces and three of the gnomes were mine). I've seen two half-dragons (both story based and 1 was back in first edition) and nothing quite like a Tiefling.

AD

 

[Mark]

I don't like adding too many new things all at once to my game so I am combining these races and just adding Draglings.

 

[DandD]

Meh, Tieflings, Half-Elves, Half-Dragons and all that stuff is just the proof that D&D is all about sex, and the many impossible ways how dragons, demons and devils can have babies with weakling humans, halflings, elves, ugly trolls, beardy dwarves, dumb ogres and even insects, or elementals.

That comic below symbolizes all mixed freak-races of D&D perfectly.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I'm so bored and fed up with elves in D&D, but they went ahead and added a third elf option to the core.

You know what, I am very sympathetic to this.

 

[ki11erDM]

I did not like the dragonborn. But then I found a cool way of fitting them into my new 4e world and now I have to say I really liked them now. The tieflings I thought I was going to like... but the art is SO bad it just kills me.

 

[Brennin Magalus]

Dragon-people with boobs: Do not want.

Tieflings (Can't stand the name) with exaggerated horns: Do not want.

 

[Brennin Magalus]

i don't like adding too many new things all at once to my game so i am combining these races and just adding draglings.

lol