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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7600568" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>In 2e Tieflings were fairly rare and very individualized, with multiple traits that marked them as descended from the lower planes.  3e minimized that and turned them into, "some of them have a minor trait marking them."  4e brought back multiple traits, but normalized them in society, listing them as heirs to an empire that used to be theirs, and all the traits were the same for the entire race, further changing them from what 2e had.  5e continued that idea, getting rid of the physical variations and rarity that made them cool.  Now someone can just point at a tiefling and say, "That's a tiefling.  I can tell, because they are all physically similar."  In 2e you couldn't do that.  There was no real way to know if the person was a tiefling, half-demon, demon, other lower planar creature, or some other sort of monster.  They were unique.</p></blockquote><p></p>