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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8260130" data-attributes="member: 6779196">This is pretty far afield of the topic, but Tieflings weren’t just chanted to “a full race of uniformly red-skinned, goat-horned, and lizard-tailed Devilpeople.” The change was first introduced in 4e, and it was specific to 4e’s assumed setting, commonly referred to as Nentir Vale. In that setting, there was an ancient empire called Bael Turath, who’s (human) nobility made a pact with Asmodeus to maintain control over their empire. As a result of this pact, all of their descendants were cursed to bear a devilish visage as mark of their forebears’ sin. The Tieflings of the Nentir Vale setting aren’t even a race as the word is typically used in D&D, they’re a cursed bloodline of humans.Now, 5e moved away from the 4e assumed setting, so there’s no Bael Turath and no cursed bloodline, but for some reason they kept the appearance of 4e Tieflings despite not keeping the lore behind them. So, I agree that in the context of 5e where Tieflings are back to being people with fiendish heritage, the uniform appearance doesn’t make sense. But it did make sense in the context of their 4e lore, which is where the uniform appearance originated from.</blockquote>