D&D 5E Tiefling preview!

[bogmad]

I'm disappointed, sure, but not despondent.

It's totally possible they're just trying to lock down what the "core" tiefling looks like for branding purposes, but will release possible subraces and alterations with upcoming splat and campaign guides.

Same way a Dark Sun book would presumably have sections detailing what makes a cannibalistic DS halfling from a core Lightfoot, bald dwarves, etc, they could be saving the "Planescape" tiefling for a later book with extra fluff and subraces.

 

[bogmad]

And I actually prefer the art style! I'd much rather see brushstrokes and a painted quality before the kind of art that people complained about in 4e

 

[Evenglare]

They just should have a the tiefling, slaughtering aasimar. Might as well rub salt in my wound, ya know?

 

[Jester David]

The tail also looks HUGE. This was a big problem with 4e tiefling art where they often got these massive unwieldy tails that would weigh two-dozen kilos.

 

[CasvalRemDeikun]

I'm not happy, nor do I like the art. But I find the level of agreement in the thread disconcerting - where are the pro voices?

Probably somewhere in the 175,000 playtesters.

 

[Halivar]

It's just the first page. There's always a chance they can have options. TBH, I would prefer the PS tiefling be in an actual PS supplement next to the aasimar.

 

[Thaumaturge]

The tail also looks HUGE. This was a big problem with 4e tiefling art where they often got these massive unwieldy tails that would weigh two-dozen kilos.

Now we're using space measurements?

Thaumaturge.

 

[Melkor]

Those horns look like giant asymmetrical eyebrows.

 

[Dungeoneer]

Actually, those horns are WAY scaled back from the horns of the 4e tiefling, which were straight outta Hellboy.

I'm not familiar with Planescape tieflings other than the fact that they had smaller horns and were generally tailless. I gotta say, I prefer that option, but it's trivial to re-fluff it.

The idea that people with horns have devil's blood seems non-controversial to me, but I never played 2e.

 

[Jester David]

Now we're using space measurements?

Thaumaturge.

I'm Canadian. I'm using the form of measurement accepted by 95.7% of the world.