D&D 4E New Races in 4e

[Ripzerai]

What are the origins of Tieflings?

David "Zeb" Cook shouted over his cubicle at Wolfgang Baur, and asked him for a good German-derived word for humans with fiendish blood.

Wolfgang Baur said, "tieflings?" From the German teufel, or devil. And history was made.

Tieflings first appeared in the Planescape Campaign Setting in 1994. Aasimars first appeared in The Planewalker's Handbook in 1996, written by Monte Cook.

 

[Gez]

The three new races: Tiefling, Drow, and Aquatic Elf.

The complete racial line up will be:
Human, Aquatic Elf, Drow, Dwarf, Half Orc, Elf, Half Elf, , Half Elf (Aquatic), Half Elf (Drow), Halfling, Tiefling.

O wonder! How many goodly creatures there are here! O brave new world that has such people in't!

 

[Asmor]

David "Zeb" Cook shouted over his cubicle at Wolfgang Baur, and asked him for a good German-derived word for humans with fiendish blood.

Wolfgang Baur said, "tieflings?" From the German teufel, or devil. And history was made.

Tieflings first appeared in the Planescape Campaign Setting in 1994. Aasimars first appeared in The Planewalker's Handbook in 1996, written by Monte Cook.

Huh, that's really interesting. I'm surprised that Tieflings and Aasimar weren't created at the same time. Thanks!

 

[Ripzerai]

Aasimars are one of those things created to fill "holes" in the game, like when daemons were invented to answer the question "if devils are lawful evil, and demons are chaotic evil, what do you call the denizens of the neutral evil planes?" People wondered what to call the "tieflings" connected to the upper planes, since they'd be unlikely to have the same powers and associations as your standard tiefling. A few years later, the question was finally answered.

 

[Remathilis]

David "Zeb" Cook shouted over his cubicle at Wolfgang Baur, and asked him for a good German-derived word for humans with fiendish blood.

Wolfgang Baur said, "tieflings?" From the German teufel, or devil. And history was made.

Tieflings first appeared in the Planescape Campaign Setting in 1994. Aasimars first appeared in The Planewalker's Handbook in 1996, written by Monte Cook.

Close. Aasimar's came out in Planescape Monster Compendium II (complete with racial PC stats) but were reprinted in Planeswalkers.

The sources for the planar races:

Aasimar: Planescape Monster Compendium II
Bariaur: Planescape Campaign Setting
Genasai: Planeswalker's Handbook
Githyanki: A Guide to the Astral Plane
Githzerai: Planescape Campaign Setting
Rogue Modron: Planeswalker's Handbook
Tiefling: Planescape Campaign Setting

All but Githyanki were reprinting in Planeswalkers.

 

[pawsplay]

and the race would get a +4 racial bonus against fish.

Angelar, m' love, fetch us some tea, widja?