Tiefling as a core race?

[Xyxox]

This is about the stupidest idea I've ever heard of. Teiflings as a PC race was why I abandoned FR as a setting after 3E came out.

 

[Drowbane]

I'm all for a core-race Tiefling. Just being in the PHB doesn't mean a race is common. None of the worlds I've run have had Half-elves or Half-orcs all over the place (even my Eberron).

Second picture is a Fighter-Rogue combo and the Rogue is most definitely a Tiefling.

That Tiefling (or one remarkably like her) has been featured in a ton of pictures in Dungeon during the SCAP, and perhaps longer.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

I think it's a good idea. Anything that makes D&D less Tolkienesque is good.

Less Tolkienesque can be achieved without the implied setting assumption that demons are "all up in our business" sexually.

 

[Nifft]

That's screwy, and I can't say that I like it. Why are demon-spawned children suddenly as common as elves and dwarves in the "default" world of D&D?

"As common as"?

You mean like how Wizards are a core class, so suddenly they're as common as farmers?

This is a game about heroes, and heroes are the exceptional ones.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Mallus]

If you don't like the flavor of a race, you can always leave them out of your campaigns, or file their serial numbers off and call them something else.

Besides, half demon/oni/spirit people are a fantasy staple.

 

[BryonD]

Honestly, I'd rather see Warforged than Tieflings. It fills the roll of being something different without being generic and different.

YIKES!!!!
Worst idea ever.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

"As common as"?

You mean like how Wizards are a core class, so suddenly they're as common as farmers?

This is a game about heroes, and heroes are the exceptional ones.

Cheers, -- N

Common among heroes.
Does every other band of heroes in the land have a demon spawn in tow?

It just comes out of left field.

 

[Nifft]

Common among heroes.
Does every other band of heroes in the land have a demon spawn in tow?

My group consists of three humans and a warforged. No elves or dwarves.

Where do you get "it's an option" == "it's COMMON"?

-- N

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Less Tolkienesque can be achieved without the implied setting assumption that demons are "all up in our business" sexually.

Sure. I'd be just as happy if Satyrs or Centaurs had become core races.

 

[Mortellan]

Terrible idea. Paizo pushed a tiefling iconic character in all the art for their Age of Worms AP. I guess they are the new drow? I missed that. Better tieflings in my campaign than warforged though. That would just cheapen Eberron. Unless Eberron becomes the default world, hmm....