Do you want Tieflings in the phb?

[Green Knight]

I'm all for it... so long as Aasimar's are included, as well.

 

[Midknightsun]

Put me in the "I really don't care, but if they end up booting gnomes for it then YAHOOOO!" camp. While their at it, maybe they can replace Half-Orcs, or at least retool them so they are not mostly suck.

 

[Piratecat]

I'll let you know when I see what they've done with them.

 

[TerraDave]

I'll let you know when I see what they've done with them.

Yes. assuming I care that mutch one way or another.

 

[FreeXenon]

I like the idea as long as they have the Aasimar as well. I bet that they will have a Plane Touched race that will have Aaismar and Tiefling, and possibly a few more types, defined more through Talent trees.

Just a thought.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

What the heck is a Tiefling, anyway? I've never actually used or read about the race. I'm curious as to why people would feel strongly about it being a core race, one way or the other.

In prior editions, at least, a tiefling was a human with fiendish heritage. It was never outright stated, but the general assumption is that you get a tiefling when a half-fiend mates with a human, and that the "fiendish heritage" continues to express itself for generations afterward - so any given tiefling may have only a fiendish great-great-great-great-grandparent.

Fourth Edition press has referred to the "half-demon" tiefling, but this may be dumbed-down marketing verbiage for the non-D&D-gamer market (since we're talking about ICv2 and InQuest magazine, here). On the other hand, they may well have redefined the tiefling as "half-fiends and subsequent generations", since the promotional art seems more dramatically fiendish - larger horns and tails - than previous conceptions, such as the example in the current Monster Manual.

 

[FreeXenon]

or perhaps they can gain half-fiendish status through a series of racial talents and feats?

 

[drothgery]

About the only things I've heard about 4e that I'm less than enthusiastic about are tieflings as a core race, and non-LG paladins (though I wouldn't mind a holy warrior class where the paladins were the LG version). I guess I think D&D is supposed to be a heroic game that's about the good guys.

 

[Klaus]

What the heck is a Tiefling, anyway? I've never actually used or read about the race. I'm curious as to why people would feel strongly about it being a core race, one way or the other.

It's in the 3.5 Monster Manual, under "Planetouched", alongside their celestial counterparts, the Aasimar.

 

[Baby Samurai]

I like the name Cambion better.

The "ling" part at the end bothers me, because I think of Halflings, which makes me think of Hobbits, and then I get a cramp.