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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7175853" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!"All of the above". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  When someone makes a tiefling for my game, they can come up with a reason/back story, I add/modify it, they change their idea, I add in my own 2 coppers, they switch something around, I say cool, they say cool, and we're off to the races. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In my 5e campaign, most tieflings played (I think there's been maybe 4 played since 5e came out) have gone with a more "recessive gene" sort of idea; someone in the characters deep, dark family history, someone knocked up/got knocked up by an extra-planner baddie or someone/thing with enough of a connection the said bad guys (e.g., powerful warlock, high-level cleric, anti-paladin, etc). I think one of those four was a "My dad is a devil" type of tiefling. As for procreation for the whole "tieflings as a race" idea...I don't like it. Same thing with half-elves and such. I go by a more 1e take on that; if a half-whatever has sex with anything else, the offspring will be a human. I liken it to the whole "humans are durable and adaptable". I figure this may as well start with conception. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> So a half-orc and a half-elf, will have a human. A half-elf and an elf, will still have a human...one reason why there are so many humans then any other race. Now, tieflings...they're a bit different. They don't play by the same rules (most extra-planner bad guys don't!). So, with tieflings, they are more a "tainted bloodline for all time" kind of thing. Theoretically, someone could have two, three or more generations 'skipped', and then blammo!...out pops a bundle of joy with bright red skin, cat eyes, horn nubs, and a tail. Surprise!^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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