WotC James Wyatt is on the Dungeons & Dragons Team Again

[tetrasodium]

Back to James Wyatt, given his history maybe we will see some

Spoiler: znir pact gnolls

hired by

Spoiler: shadowmarches orcs

to protect

Spoiler: magewrights

from bandits

 

[Zardnaar]

Let's see if this works...

That looks better.

The tail sizes are a bit silly and horns a bit big.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Spoiler: no not really

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generically hellish with a more medieval devil image compared to modern ones but not really that different.

 

[Scribe]

Many are quite taken with it and many more don't care either way, and many of those amorphous "many" who aren't taken with it seem unable to fathom the idea that others may have different opinions and actually like the changes.

I don't care. When options are removed, the game or setting is worse for it.

People who like 4e Tieflings absolutely 100% deserve to have that option. 100%

People who like what they were for what, decades, before? 100% should have that option.

Oddly enough, one could have had a 4e looking Tiefling in early editions. So...yeah.

Options, flexibility, are good.

'all Tieflings now look like this devil Halloween costume and are all tied to asmodeous' is not satisfactory.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

As originally presented in Planescape there is a huge variety of different appearances in tieflings. There was even a table to roll on for horns, tails, wings, claws, hooves etc. So as far as I'm concerned the only one true tiefling is they all look different.

With the diversity they are going for in D&D now, I think we will find that variety is now cannon - and for EVERYONE. There will be purple tieflings with small devil-horns; snow-white tieflings with curvy goat-horns; hooves; no hooves, etc. Brown-skinned dwarves; asian-looking halflings; light-grey-skinned drow, and on and on.

I think it's awesome.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

'all Tieflings now look like this devil Halloween costume and are all tied to asmodeous' is not satisfactory.

I prefer my Tieflings looking more like one of the Yandy Sexy Devil costumes, instead of the 4e Tiefling...

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I don't care. When options are removed, the game or setting is worse for it.

People who like 4e Tieflings absolutely 100% deserve to have that option. 100%

People who like what they were for what, decades, before? 100% should have that option.

Oddly enough, one could have had a 4e looking Tiefling in early editions. So...yeah.

Options, flexibility, are good.

'all Tieflings now look like this devil Halloween costume and are all tied to asmodeous' is not satisfactory.

I mean, at your table you can have your character look cosmetically however they want. I don't see WotC kicking down Laura Bailey's door because her tiefling in Critical Role is blue instead of red!

 

[Scribe]

I mean, at your table you can have your character look cosmetically however they want. I don't see WotC kicking down Laura Bailey's door because her tiefling in Critical Role is blue instead of red!

Yes, I know. That doesn't change anything I've said though.

 

[Dausuul]

Options, flexibility, are good.

This is how you end up with a book that's 800 pages long.

Editorial choice is good. Picking and choosing what to put in, according to how it will serve the needs of the company and the majority of players, is good. And one option executed with care and polish is better than ten options cranked out in a rush because the folks in charge couldn't make up their minds to cut anything.

 

[Aldarc]

I don't care. When options are removed, the game or setting is worse for it.

There are a ton of options that have not made it in transition from edition to edition. It's the nature of the game. I wish there was a Warlord, a Shaman, or a Psion in 5e, but there's not. When it comes to lore, it evolves. I doubt we are back-tracking, for example, on draconic kobolds any time soon.

Oddly enough, one could have had a 4e looking Tiefling in early editions. So...yeah.

It's not just the look, but also the story. While you may not like the "monolithic" backstory of tieflings, it did help generate a story and player hooks for them that amounted to more than plane-touched mutants.

'all Tieflings now look like this devil Halloween costume and are all tied to asmodeous' is not satisfactory.

So far, they are still all tied to Asmodeus, to which even the MToF alludes. All roads in the Nine Hells lead to Asmodeus.