Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
do you not imagine how your character looks plus certain backstory elements would take great rewrite to get to work plus aside fom teifling if you want a conection to dark other world forces there is no phb race avalible with massive rewrite and some time multiclassing in to warlock is just not realistically an option.Some people have stated that they "cannot play the character they want because the DM does not allow race X". That the restriction will destroy their fun (or at least significantly reduce it). I think you can get 99% of any race (in this case tieflings) without actually playing a tiefling so I disagree with the idea that a character must be race X. Because that 1% you can't achieve? Nobody will notice. YMMV.