First house rule: Tieflings have small horns

[wrightdjohn]

I think the most popular houserule in the game will be to just ban both the tiefling and the dragonborn. I wouldn't cry if none of my players played one. Alas I probably won't ban them outright.


I did change the look of tieflings. They look human now: no tails, no horns. They are a human subrace. The only distinguishing trait they have is their eyes may flash when they get really angry. I also houseruled in 5 or 6 elven races each of which uses the crunch for Eladrin and/or Elf.


Begin against houseruling fluff is absolutely silly. Any DM that would let players force fluff on him isn't a DM I'd want to play with. Different fluff is good. Even the WTOC employees create all kinds of odd worlds that do not fit perfectly the D&D fluff.

 

[Klaus]

I had to try my hand at doing the tieflings as described in the PHB (and thanks to the scooper who posted the photographed pages), if only too see if the awkwardness was in the race itself or just in William O'Connors' depiction (so far we've only see tieflings by him).

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[pawsplay]

Hellboy is not what I think of when I hear "little demon" (which is what tiefling comes from). To me, tieflings are street rats and minions lurking about Sigil, not a race of horned, red-skinned devil warriors armed with chunks of scrap metal.

 

[Incenjucar]

Isn't Hellboy... a full-blooded demon...?

I mean aside from also being a living artifact.

 

[Oni]

I prefer my tiefling to be a little more oldschool. Mostly human with a tainted look, not looking like a completely different race. i quite like the tiefling pic from the 3e MM. I'm less enthused about the 4e look, it seems to lack the variety I associate with tieflings, too uniform and too inhuman. But changing it to whatever floats your boat seems like largely a nonissue as their appearance doesn't seem to be in anyway tied up mechanically speaking (i.e. they don't have four arms or something silly like that). The only real downside is the artwork we'll have to look at for the next however long.

 

[Gort]

Hmm. Now that they've been directly equated with Hellboy, my interest in tieflings has increased greatly.

Wonder why I didn't make that link myself...

 

[Villano]

As it is, they look like goat-people. Give them little goatees and change the name to Goatborn.

I don't know about that. I mean, if they didn't want to include Half-Orcs because they implied a very ugly backstory. I'm not sure what they would say about Goatborn.

Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-Ewwwww!!!!

 

[Leatherhead]

Isn't Hellboy... a full-blooded demon...?

I mean aside from also being a living artifact.

Yes, yes he is.

 

[DandD]

Well, for the german community, the Tiefling name rather sounds like a "Deep"-ling, or littled devil. Tief(el) = Teufel = Devil, and ling to make it sound like a minor one. So, minor devil.

 

[Klaus]

Isn't Hellboy... a full-blooded demon...?

I mean aside from also being a living artifact.

No, he isn't. He's the son of a demon and a human ex-witch.