D&D (2024) Youtube Reveal: Tieflings

[Scribe]

I’m 50, and I found this guy highly entertaining, so I’m not sure what generation it’s aimed at. I like this dude’s sense of humor.

Clearly one with more patience than I.

 

[Gorck]

Clearly one with more patience than I.

My wife would beg to differ

 

[Parmandur]

Probably. The one where they are celebrated around the multiverse for fighting against the fiends at the dawn of time? Had to go look for the laughs.

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If you watch the video, he explicitly says that theu cut this.

 

[Scribe]

If you watch the video, he explicitly says that theu cut this.

Gratifying that I am not alone.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Gratifying that I am not alone.

I'm glad they cut it too, no one plays Tieflings to be a member of a race renowed as heroes. More importantly it smacked in the face of existing lore and made no sense.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I'm broadly a fan, and very glad that they retreated from the "widespread acceptance" angle (for reasons similar to Pointy Hat!).

I do lament a continual loss of diversity in the tiefling since 2e. "Something else" is a broad category, and ties into the social shame angle - something too awful to know about or mention. The random tables of flavorful traits are so much more compelling than three distinct versions with consistent aesthetics. If you can look at a tiefling and tell exactly where their ancestry lies, that's a weak design choice, IMO.

But since the issue is only really "flavor," it's pretty easy to fix, and the fact that each lineage is built from a common template makes it easy to mix and match and add and subtract. So it's an annoying kernel stuck in the teeth, a little bother that I need to extract, but ultimately not the biggest of deals.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I see your point, they couldn't even let Tieflings be edgy, sad.

As a survivor of the 90's I yearn to see a twenty year moratorium on pizza cutters (all edge, no point).

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I generally still don't like they're showing all varieties as all being standardized, but it's at least brings more room in mainstream ideas of Tieflings of them being more varied now.

I'd go still go with features like cloven feet instead of horns, or weirder ones like having an extra pair of tiny arms.

 

[Distracted DM]

... I still like the weird 2e tiefling aesthetic from Planescape.

You know, I guess the best way to have both would be having devil tieflings be the 5e 4e/5e "conformist" versions, and demon tieflings be the 2e "weird random" tieflings.
Is this already established? It seems so obvious it has to be the case.