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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MG.0" data-source="post: 6795758" data-attributes="member: 6799436">That's all well and good, but eventually you need to come up with something more substantive and then it gets weird. What would Xorn culture be like? They don't wear clothes. They don't even eat oragnic material. Would they even have buildings? Would they have a concept of currency, and what form would it take? Xorn trading in gold would be like humans trading in baked chickens. How would they be accepted into human communities when their idea of a restaurant or alehouse is the local blacksmith's shop? Can you answer these questions and the inevitable thousand or so follow-ups in a consistent manner? Sure, but it's hard. The further you get from human the harder it gets because less and less of our own shared history and experience remains useful and the less believable and identifiable the end result tends to be.Of course Dragonborn are nowhere near this extreme, but they are further out than elves, dwarves and the like which are at least distinctly mammalian. Like I said, I include them because some of my players like them, but I personally don't care for them.In my opinion Tieflings are probably even worse. I find it hard to conceive of a human culture that would have no problem with a bunch of quite obviously demonically descended beings strolling around. It also begs the question of how common this type of interbreeding is. I would think Tieflings would inspire hatred and revulsion almost universally among human cultures, making them exponentially more difficult to integrate than even Dragonborn are.Edit: ...and the word Tiefling just plain bugs the crap out me. The first time I heard it I thought "What is that, a race of pixies or brownies or something?" It sounds so incredibly mismatched. Do not like.</blockquote>

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