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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6432998" data-attributes="member: 6677017">I noticed that they are directly paralleling aasimar with tieflings, which seems to imply that the PHB tieflings are what we are going to get and that we are intended to refluff and re-visualize them to represent pre-4e tieflings if desired.I'm completely okay with that, but I do hope at some point, even if it's just a tweet, they actually say that. If anyone with a bit more success than I at getting twitter responses from the D&amp;D team could try to get a comment from them on that it would be great.Before someone says &quot;Why should you need permission to do that?&quot; the&nbsp; point I am making is that they completely abstained from giving any such&nbsp; leeway in the PHB tieflings. There was no indication that they were&nbsp; intended to be flexible enough in appearance and origin to represent&nbsp; Planescape tieflings. We are given a very specific backstory and&nbsp; physical description which in no way correlate to the Planescape&nbsp; tieflings, and it isn't presented as &quot;most tieflings&quot; or &quot;the majority,&quot;&nbsp; and no statement is made that, &quot;other tieflings exist that have no&nbsp; connection to &lt;this backstory&gt; but are descendents from fiends.&nbsp; Their physical traits can vary markedly...&quot; They gave us nothing. If&nbsp; they are giving us something now, they need to at least say, &quot;okay,&nbsp; whatever, HERE, now you can use them for your silly Planescape&nbsp; tieflings; now stop bothering us about it!&quot; Yell at me if you must, designers, but talk to me about it!Gar! They wouldn't let me laugh and give XP at the same time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 6432998, member: 6677017"] I noticed that they are directly paralleling aasimar with tieflings, which seems to imply that the PHB tieflings are what we are going to get and that we are intended to refluff and re-visualize them to represent pre-4e tieflings if desired. I'm completely okay with that, but I do hope at some point, even if it's just a tweet, they actually say that. If anyone with a bit more success than I at getting twitter responses from the D&D team could try to get a comment from them on that it would be great. Before someone says "Why should you need permission to do that?" the point I am making is that they completely abstained from giving any such leeway in the PHB tieflings. There was no indication that they were intended to be flexible enough in appearance and origin to represent Planescape tieflings. We are given a very specific backstory and physical description which in no way correlate to the Planescape tieflings, and it isn't presented as "most tieflings" or "the majority," and no statement is made that, "other tieflings exist that have no connection to <this backstory> but are descendents from fiends. Their physical traits can vary markedly..." They gave us nothing. If they are giving us something now, they need to at least say, "okay, whatever, HERE, now you can use them for your silly Planescape tieflings; now stop bothering us about it!" Yell at me if you must, designers, but talk to me about it! Gar! They wouldn't let me laugh and give XP at the same time. [/QUOTE]

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