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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmartkdr2" data-source="post: 9350869" data-attributes="member: 7017304">Well keep in mind that people who aren't new (as in have played more than 20 sessions) tend to realize that all the pictures in the book are merely suggestions. I've only once encountered a dm who enforced "all tieflings have horns" and she had a really good, highly-campaign-specific reason. The vast majority of dms will let your tiefling (or aasimar or shifter) look like whatever you want. But the art direction isn't telling you what you're allowed to do, it's showing you what you can do, which means it needs to display the diversity of lineage options - if aasimar don't look angelic, then they don't appear in the art. The more consistent they appear in the core art, the more internal diversity they can demonstrate. If halo = aasimar, then elven and dwarfy and even orcish aasimar can show up in the core books. If aasimar are just paladins... then they don't appearat all. Wings are good but wings alone aren't enough I think; halos are easy to draw and easy to ignore if you don't like them. If I'm showing a new player what a tiefling is via art, it can't just be a human.</blockquote>