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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 3967372" data-attributes="member: 1106">Not originally conceived, but two favourites that leap to mind:The guildmaster of the Slayer's Guild in Nehwon, who's a lawful evil assassin and a traitor, but is so charismatic and savvy that he paints himself publicly as a hero of the people with the occasional beneficial act, working the grapevine etc.&nbsp; And they buy it.Another is from Dungeon magazine - a paladin with a phobia of spiders who loses his paladin status when he's unable to save an innocent from them.&nbsp; Is being a loser and a coward sufficient to qualify someone as an &quot;anti-hero&quot;?&nbsp; Arguably.Incidentally, neither of these PCs would work as well with the race &quot;tiefling&quot;.&nbsp; It's just auxillary gimmickry that would be tacked on, and would kill some of the pathos in both cases. (Both benefit from the ambiguity of being race &quot;human&quot;.&nbsp; It's one of those subtlety things which doesn't benefit from advertising either way with horns and a tail, which would lead to playing the &quot;oh I'm so misunderstood&quot; card too consistently because they'd always be playing against type...which leads us to the main thrust of the &quot;tieflings are like so emo already&quot; argument.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 3967372, member: 1106"] Not originally conceived, but two favourites that leap to mind: The guildmaster of the Slayer's Guild in Nehwon, who's a lawful evil assassin and a traitor, but is so charismatic and savvy that he paints himself publicly as a hero of the people with the occasional beneficial act, working the grapevine etc. And they buy it. Another is from Dungeon magazine - a paladin with a phobia of spiders who loses his paladin status when he's unable to save an innocent from them. Is being a loser and a coward sufficient to qualify someone as an "anti-hero"? Arguably. Incidentally, neither of these PCs would work as well with the race "tiefling". It's just auxillary gimmickry that would be tacked on, and would kill some of the pathos in both cases. (Both benefit from the ambiguity of being race "human". It's one of those subtlety things which doesn't benefit from advertising either way with horns and a tail, which would lead to playing the "oh I'm so misunderstood" card too consistently because they'd always be playing against type...which leads us to the main thrust of the "tieflings are like so emo already" argument.) [/QUOTE]

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