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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imp" data-source="post: 3797366" data-attributes="member: 40094">But but but no, that is not my position.  I don't believe that tieflings, as written, are only cool to 14-year-olds.  I believe that tieflings, as currently conceived, are less compelling to 14-year-olds, or anyone, than just about any other monstrous badass option out there.  Does your inner 14-year-old want to play a tiefling, or a drow?  A tiefling, or a werewolf?  A tiefling, or a vampire?  A tiefling, or a m-@%$ing yuan-ti?  It is my hope that the 4E designers make them into some sort of Melnibonean analogue at the very least.  But it says something about the weakness of the current concept that when setting designers look for a way to insert a Melnibone into their worlds, elves are the go-to race, and tieflings just sit there in the Monster Manual, losing at dominoes to the aasimar again.</blockquote>