WotC James Wyatt is on the Dungeons & Dragons Team Again

[Kobold Avenger]

Granted I already did my own writeup on the Tieflings, but I feel the shift to Lineages rather than races now and the idea that they're recognizing that diversity matters (even if it's in small ways), will eventually fix the homogenization of the Tieflings that started in 4e.

The 2e Tiefling writeup in the book Fiends: Faces of Evil actually has the line: "Tieflings can be of either gender, or none, or both. There's a broad range of possibilties open to us, and we can experiment whenever we can (a story for another time)."

This was from a book in 1997 roughly 2 decades before Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes wrote something like that out for Elves.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I find the homogenisation complain of tiefling odd as according to the list they always look generically fiend-like, perhaps I would see it if the devils, demons and the yugiloths did not largely look all that different from each other and have similar aesthetics the planes need an overhaul before your desire makes sense.

This just made me think how cool a yugoloth-descended tiefling might look.

 

[Scribe]

Are you talking about the SCAG options?

This, plus the expansion in MToF, plus the Abyssal UA option, plus art as seen in Rime of the Frost Maiden.

My 2 main issues are they retconned the appearance, and made them a Monolith.

It wasn't that way, didn't need to be done, and thankfully they have realized many are not taken, with their retcon.

 

[Mind of tempest]

This, plus the expansion in MToF, plus the Abyssal UA option, plus art as seen in Rime of the Frost Maiden.

My 2 main issues are they retconned the appearance, and made them a Monolith.

It wasn't that way, didn't need to be done, and thankfully they have realized many are not taken, with their retcon.

they wanted an icon plus the look was always similar to that.

 

[tetrasodium]

they wanted an icon plus the look was always similar to that.

Spoiler: no not really

 

[Kobold Avenger]

This, plus the expansion in MToF, plus the Abyssal UA option, plus art as seen in Rime of the Frost Maiden.

My 2 main issues are they retconned the appearance, and made them a Monolith.

It wasn't that way, didn't need to be done, and thankfully they have realized many are not taken, with their retcon.

I've never seen the art in Rime of the Frost Maiden, what was it?

I know of the art for (Guildmaster not Factol) Rhys in Tasha's Cauldron For Everything, but she was a character that existed in 2e that made an appearance in 5e.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I've never seen the art in Rime of the Frost Maiden, what was it?

The main one is the character Avarice, who is an albino with smallish swept back horns, slightly pointed ears and a pointed tail.

Pretty much typical for a 2nd/3rd/Pathfinder tiefling.

There is also Kandroth, who is similar but has red skin and more over the head horns - Avarice's turn out to the sides a bit. He may also have very pointed feet, or just poor taste in shoes.

 

[Scribe]

they wanted an icon plus the look was always similar to that.

You may want to go back and look.

 

[Scribe]

Let's see if this works...

 

[Aldarc]

It wasn't that way, didn't need to be done, and thankfully they have realized many are not taken, with their retcon.

Many are quite taken with it and many more don't care either way, and many of those amorphous "many" who aren't taken with it seem unable to fathom the idea that others may have different opinions and actually like the changes.

Let's see if this works...

The main one is the character Avarice, who is an albino with smallish swept back horns, slightly pointed ears and a pointed tail.

Pretty much typical for a 2nd/3rd/Pathfinder tiefling.

It's also about what I would expect a 4e albino tiefling to look like. So how is this indicative of a return to pre-4e tieflings?