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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9501859" data-attributes="member: 5948">I've lost the link now, but i remember someone actually asked one of the 4e designers (4e being when tieflings were visually homogenised, after being extremely varied in Planescape 2e and largely ignored in 3e) why tieflings got their now-familiar uniform 'look', and was told it was a mandate from legal in order to make them trademarkable (/copyrightable, IANAL).  So that change in particular was probaly inevitable.  Hell, I suppose we should be marginally grateful that sometimes we get tieflings with skin colours other than red in art these days...Dragonborn in Ravenloft ... would depend on the circumstance.  I've thought for a long time that there was legit horror-story potential in dragons that he Ravenloft line almost completely neglected.  You could certainly do something cool there.  As for dragonborn in particular - I'd be tempted to go back to the old 3.5e Races of the Dragon lore where they were created from other humanoids BY a dragon rather than being a self-sustaining race of their own.  Plenty of horror story potential there, especially if the transformation is not entirely voluntary...</blockquote>