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<blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4460219" data-attributes="member: 65637">Eh, I'm a professor in laser.&nbsp; My research doesn't require lots of quotations and such.&nbsp; Plus the committes here in Gensokyo are rather light on that sort of thing.&lt;/internet persona&gt;It specifically talks about the Aasimar being lame and &quot;goody two shoes.&quot;&nbsp; The other quote was &quot;I'll take fire and brimstone over rainbows and sunshine anyday.&quot;&nbsp; Or rather, something along those lines again, though I think that's mostly correct.&nbsp; In the end, I was really dismayed at this idea of good guys having to be &quot;goody two shoes,&quot; which was repeated later in either the Aasimar or the paladin section (I forget which).&nbsp; It's really my biggest problem with 4e fluff - they forget it's no longer the 90's, so GRIM AND GRITTY isn't - and shouldn't - be in vogue anymore.&nbsp; A lawful good Aasimar paladin smiting evil isn't any less cool as a tiefling trying to wrestle with some ambiguously dark and sordid past, yet that's exactly what we're told in the tiefling section - good guys are lame, angst and FIGHTING YOUR INNER DARKNESS is awesome.As for Tieflings being the James Dean type and not the angsty teenager, unfortunately, Races and Classes VERY SPECIFICALLY talks about how giving tieflings angst is a great idea.&nbsp; And while angst certainly has had many meanings in hte past, nowadays it's been fairly regulated to just beig used by and towards teenagers.&nbsp; It also draws positive parallels to Drizzt.&nbsp; Positive in that the person who wrote it thought &quot;Drizzt is awesome, we should connect him to tieflings!&quot;Ugh.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ProfessorCirno, post: 4460219, member: 65637"] Eh, I'm a professor in laser. My research doesn't require lots of quotations and such. Plus the committes here in Gensokyo are rather light on that sort of thing. </internet persona> It specifically talks about the Aasimar being lame and "goody two shoes." The other quote was "I'll take fire and brimstone over rainbows and sunshine anyday." Or rather, something along those lines again, though I think that's mostly correct. In the end, I was really dismayed at this idea of good guys having to be "goody two shoes," which was repeated later in either the Aasimar or the paladin section (I forget which). It's really my biggest problem with 4e fluff - they forget it's no longer the 90's, so GRIM AND GRITTY isn't - and shouldn't - be in vogue anymore. A lawful good Aasimar paladin smiting evil isn't any less cool as a tiefling trying to wrestle with some ambiguously dark and sordid past, yet that's exactly what we're told in the tiefling section - good guys are lame, angst and FIGHTING YOUR INNER DARKNESS is awesome. As for Tieflings being the James Dean type and not the angsty teenager, unfortunately, Races and Classes VERY SPECIFICALLY talks about how giving tieflings angst is a great idea. And while angst certainly has had many meanings in hte past, nowadays it's been fairly regulated to just beig used by and towards teenagers. It also draws [I]positive[/I] parallels to Drizzt. Positive in that the person who wrote it thought "Drizzt is awesome, we should connect him to tieflings!" Ugh. [/QUOTE]

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