D&D 5E (2014) Tiefling preview!

[barasawa]

Tiefling in playtest.

Probably somewhere in the 175,000 playtesters.

I won't bet on that, none of my playtest packets had the tiefling or dragonborn in them.

 

[CasvalRemDeikun]

The stats themselves work fine for PS tieflings (with a light bit of refluffing) and I wager a book devoted to the planes will touch on other types of tieflings.

What is also nice is that it looks like you could replicate the customization of the 2e Planeswalker's Handbook: just choose a different resistance (cold, electric, poison, necrotic) and pick different spells (Cantrip and two 2nd level spells) to replace Thaumaturgy/Hellish Rebuke/Darkness. Swap Infernal for Abyssal and your all set.

Seems easy enough. I would love to see an article that gave a ton of subraces to the Tiefling like you described.

 

[Remathilis]

I won't bet on that, none of my playtest packets had the tiefling or dragonborn in them.

The last one did: it had gnome, half-elf, half-orc, kender, warforged, dragonborn, tiefling, and drow.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Apparently Cambions will be the Demon counterpart of the Teifling.

 

[Thaumaturge]

I won't bet on that, none of my playtest packets had the tiefling or dragonborn in them.

Dragonborn were definitely in. I know because we had a couple in our playtest campaign. I just checked: Tiefling (and kender) were, too.

Thaumaturge.

 

[CasvalRemDeikun]

I won't bet on that, none of my playtest packets had the tiefling or dragonborn in them.

They were in the September 2013 and October 2013 playtest packets. So yeah, my point stands.

 

[Wolfskin]

As a big fan of Planescape, I'm actually ok with this. It's clear enough people liked the 4e Tieflings and Dragonborn for them to make an appearance in the PHB, but I'd wager we'll be getting the PS tieflings and planetouched races either in the DMG or in a planes-related sourcebook.

Dare I say I expect a 5e Planescape Campaign Setting hardback? A man can dream

 

[Thaumaturge]

Apparently Cambions will be the Demon counterpart of the Teifling.

Um...sauce?

Thaumaturge.

 

[GrumpyGamer]

In general I am ok with the tiefling, but my one nitpick would be the +2 cha. The cha seems out of place with the fluff and I would have prefered +con, with the casting being con based - there power is from the blood.

Nitpick could be more a complaint about how D&D treats the cha score...

 

[Raduin711]

I like the story excerpt, I think it does well to put the player in the mind of a Tiefling. I have no particular issue with the origin story. I guess the Tieflings were Demonic rather than Infernal before? Not a huge issue. I mean, there was a thread yesterday about how nobody can tell the difference between devils and demons, and most people seemed to be in agreement that there wasn't much difference save alignment. Kinda surprised it matters here.

The art is smudgy and kind of 'meh' but I wouldn't call it bad. I guess it works for a race that can be quite variable in appearance.

I do kind of miss Aasimar not being put alongside Tieflings, but I guess I had to get used to that idea back in 4e. I do have to admit that from a RP standpoint, Aasimar aren't quite as interesting as Tieflings. *shrug*