WOTC, attention please

[Ry]

I always said Tie-fling.

 

[Aus_Snow]

'Tee eff ling' is how I've always said it. I haven't ecountered 'tie fling' until just now.

 

[Glyfair]

The only thing I can find online is this which gives TEEF-ling. Given that's how I have always pronounced it, I accept it as authoritative

 

[CleverNickName]

The only thing I can find online is this which gives TEEF-ling. Given that's how I have always pronounced it, I accept it as authoritative

Wikipedia gives two different pronounciations (imagine that): Teef and Tie, respective. Gotta love those user-edited information sites. :\

 

[Irda Ranger]

there would almost certainly be competing pronunciations. Like E.N. World and Nworld.

Sure, but I prefer to pronounce things "the right way." That's why I say "Eee Enn World." And "teef-ling".

 

[Jack99]

Yeah, I pronounced it rhyming with row/bow for almost 20 years. It was a few years ago that I saw it should rhyme with cow, and I'm mostly succeeded in retraining myself.

Really...I'd prefer a different name. Maybe its just worn thin over the last couple decades, but to me 'drow' (either pronouncation) doesn't convey "underdark-dwelling-spider-demon-worshipping-black-skinned-elves."

Call them Dark Elves?

 

[Goblyn]

Call them Dark Elves?

Or Dunmer. IMC Drow was pronounced differently depending on the speaker; no drow have actually said it, yet, given that they've only ever lived long enough to say "Hey, yo-aagkh!"

My players tend to shoot first and cast speak with dead when necessary.

 

[Gold Roger]

Please, please, please include a pronunciation guide for any words that cannot be found in the dictionary! When my wife and I were discussing the new races in the PHB, we got into a argument as whether the Tiefling rhymes whith Thief-ling or Fife-ling.

Wolfgang Baur claims he derived it from the german word tief (deep), so it rymes with Thief-ling.

 

[kikai]

Wolfgang Baur claims he derived it from the german word tief (deep), so it rymes with Thief-ling.

then it would be teef ling (tee like in "tea", ling like in "halfling")
Regards,
kikai

 

[Shadeydm]

I pronounce it, "Not available in my campaign."

Win!