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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 4029303" data-attributes="member: 1106">Yeeaaah....or maybe you could try not pretending to be able to read my mind?&nbsp; You're at least as myopic as I am, but in a different way.Look...basic human psychology here - the very point of tieflings and many other exotic races is that they seem cool when not everyone's a tiefling.&nbsp; Now they're everywhere, people will go looking for the next &quot;more magical magic&quot;.&nbsp; Whatever is more rare will become the new cool.&nbsp; It's magic and psionics all over again (i.e. magic is too common and so psionics becomes &quot;the new magic&quot;).Oh, that and +2 to dex/int is much more useful than +2 to wis/cha.&nbsp; Probably skewed their data one heck of a lot.&nbsp; You don't seriously think people didn't have one eye firmly fixed on the statistics bonuses when choosing a 3E race, do you?&nbsp; It's many people's main reason for choosing the race they do.&nbsp; Perhaps even the majority reason by a fair margin, even if it's to choose a deliberately suboptimal combination as a &quot;go against type&quot; novelty.On this board, I tipped the tiefling as &quot;the next drow&quot; a couple of years ago.&nbsp; At the time people scoffed, but how the wyrm turns.&nbsp; I don't mind them in the core, but think they'd be better served alongside the aasimar.&nbsp; And get called &quot;cambion&quot; (that's their proper english name) but now there's monsters getting called that for some reason.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 4029303, member: 1106"] Yeeaaah....or maybe you could try not pretending to be able to read my mind? You're at least as myopic as I am, but in a different way. Look...basic human psychology here - the very point of tieflings and many other exotic races is that they seem cool when not everyone's a tiefling. Now they're everywhere, people will go looking for the next "more magical magic". Whatever is more rare will become the new cool. It's magic and psionics all over again (i.e. magic is too common and so psionics becomes "the new magic"). Oh, that and +2 to dex/int is much more useful than +2 to wis/cha. Probably skewed their data one heck of a lot. You don't seriously think people didn't have one eye firmly fixed on the statistics bonuses when choosing a 3E race, do you? It's many people's main reason for choosing the race they do. Perhaps even the majority reason by a fair margin, even if it's to choose a deliberately suboptimal combination as a "go against type" novelty. On this board, I tipped the tiefling as "the next drow" a couple of years ago. At the time people scoffed, but how the wyrm turns. I don't mind them in the core, but think they'd be better served alongside the aasimar. And get called "cambion" (that's their proper english name) but now there's monsters getting called that for some reason. [/QUOTE]

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