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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8846971" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Yeah Tiefling is at least cool to say and it makes sense for the name of a devil-race. It also somehow conjures the idea of Nightcrawler from the X-Men, who is obviously Tiefling-esque.</p><p></p><p>Aasimar is just a bunch of junk letters jammed together.</p><p></p><p>Also Tieflings have tended to "give people what they want" re: part-devil people. You want horns and hooves and tails and curses and fire and brimstone? They've pretty much always been at least an option (again 3E being the nadir here). They also had charisma and smarts in the 2E iteration (again 3E messed this up) which made instinctive sense to people's ideas about how a devil-person would be.</p><p></p><p>Aasimar did NOT give people what they want. People think angels, they think wings. Everything else is distantly behind that. Hell back on the X-Men, the X-Man Angel is defined by what? His wings. AFAIK, there's never been an iteration of Aasimar which had wings, even as an option, and what they have had has mostly been a vague mess of "glowy" powers. Even in 2E they were mess of random stuff and a small, inexplicable amount of Magic Resistance. Also all the stuff they did have was ground already claimed by Paladins and Clerics, very much unlike Tieflings (you might make a case for Warlock kind of claiming similar terrain, but not until 5E and not in a very thorough way).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8846971, member: 18"] Yeah Tiefling is at least cool to say and it makes sense for the name of a devil-race. It also somehow conjures the idea of Nightcrawler from the X-Men, who is obviously Tiefling-esque. Aasimar is just a bunch of junk letters jammed together. Also Tieflings have tended to "give people what they want" re: part-devil people. You want horns and hooves and tails and curses and fire and brimstone? They've pretty much always been at least an option (again 3E being the nadir here). They also had charisma and smarts in the 2E iteration (again 3E messed this up) which made instinctive sense to people's ideas about how a devil-person would be. Aasimar did NOT give people what they want. People think angels, they think wings. Everything else is distantly behind that. Hell back on the X-Men, the X-Man Angel is defined by what? His wings. AFAIK, there's never been an iteration of Aasimar which had wings, even as an option, and what they have had has mostly been a vague mess of "glowy" powers. Even in 2E they were mess of random stuff and a small, inexplicable amount of Magic Resistance. Also all the stuff they did have was ground already claimed by Paladins and Clerics, very much unlike Tieflings (you might make a case for Warlock kind of claiming similar terrain, but not until 5E and not in a very thorough way). [/QUOTE]
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