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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6338380" data-attributes="member: 18">I think more people have experienced unjustified prejudice against them based on their background/appearance/lifestyle etc. than have experienced problems from unreasonably high expectations, though. I mean, I know I've experienced both, but even a white male from the upper middle class from an academic family, I found the former far more of an actual problem than the latter. The latter disappoints people, but they start with a positive attitude and tend to still want to help you do better, and rarely present any kind of threat to you, whereas people making horrible assumptions about you is hard to fight/counter, and can present serious threats to lifestyle, livelyhood and even life and limb. "Imperfect Angel" is just not on the same scale as "Assuming you're actually a monster" (imo, and sorry to contradict Umbran there).Tieflings don't have supernatural compulsions to do Evil in any edition but 3.XE/PF, note. People just inaccurately THINK that they do.You're right re: Devas in PHB2, but they had tons of survey data from 3.XE too, and all the data from the official-play stuff, too. So I don't think this was a random decision.They really need to change that name though... so bad... Deva wasn't a vast improvement given it often ended up pronounced as diva! "Oh you're a total Deva alright..."</blockquote>