D&D (2024) Do you think they will add more races to PHB2024 to make up for dropping other stuff?

[QuentinGeorge]

Because "choose between a human and a Balor's stats" is silly.

I thought you said that's not what a tiefling is.

 

[Yaarel]

Tell me then why tieflings deserve their own write-up, and half-elves don't?

Tieflings arent a miltispecies. They are a new species originating from humans altered by fiend magic.

 

[Incenjucar]

Tieflings arent a miltispecies. They are a new species originating from humans altered by fiend magic.

2E tieflings appear to be coming back, so that's only the case for a subset of them.

 

[Scribe]

Tieflings arent a miltispecies. They are a new species originating from humans altered by fiend magic.

If we are to expect that a Plasmoid and a Tabaxi are able to have children, just as well as a Dragonborn and a Dwarf, and every other nonsense combination in between, then yes, there 'must' be a unique result of a Tiefling and anything else.

Not that I actually agree, I think its absolutely nonsensical (Tortle and Harengon?! sure!) but that's the logical conclusion we are heading towards.

Or, we accept that Half Elf and Half Orc stand apart, have history and context, and a special status due to those things.

 

[Yaarel]

2E tieflings appear to be coming back, so that's only the case for a subset of them.

The fiends are astral beings made out of thought stuff. There is no flesh, no bone, no blood. There is no such thing as fiend DNA.

The tiefling lineages are transmissions of astral magic via planar creatures.

 

[Scribe]

The fiends sre astral beings made oit of thought stuff. There is no flesh, no bone, no blood. There is no such thing as fiend DNA.

The tiefling lineages are transmissions of astral magic via planar creatures.

Source, from 5e?

 

[Incenjucar]

Magic and dragons etc.

The fiends are astral beings made out of thought stuff. There is no flesh, no bone, no blood. There is no such thing as fiend DNA.

The tiefling lineages are transmissions of astral magic via planar creatures.

Is DNA a thing in 5E? Previous editions are chock full of hybrid beings.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

The fiends are astral beings made out of thought stuff. There is no flesh, no bone, no blood. There is no such thing as fiend DNA.

The tiefling lineages are transmissions of astral magic via planar creatures.

Yeah that's not the case for all tieflings, and perhaps not even the majority of them.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Source, from 5e?

 

[Yaarel]

Source, from 5e?

It comes from the description of what the Astral Plane is. But the playtest Tiefling description is explicit.