![]() ![]() ![]() O'Connor highlighted a conversation he had with the creative director Stacy Longstreet who described tieflings as a "cursed people" which helped him figure out "their cultural aesthetic". The horns and the tail were the defining elements of the race so my first direction was to make them as prominent as possible. Part of the design of the 4th edition was to integrate the design into being a miniature game so part of the process was to make the character's silhouettes easily recognizable from a distance". However, with the tiefling becoming a core player race, the 4th edition design team "wanted to radically update their appearance to make them look more intimidating and 'cool'. William O'Connor, the artist responsible for designing tieflings in this edition, commented that there were few artistic depictions of the race in previous editions. Tieflings also have a racial book dedicated to them in this edition, Player's Handbook Races: Tieflings. The tiefling appears as a player character race in the Player's Handbook for the 4th edition (2008), and again in Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms (2010). The tiefling appears as a player character race in the Planar Handbook (2004), and Races of Destiny (2004). The tiefling paragon was introduced in Unearthed Arcana (2004). The tiefling appears in the revised Monster Manual for this edition (2003) under the planetouched entry. The tiefling is presented as a player character race for the Forgotten Realms setting in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (2001), and the tiefling and fey'ri appear as player character races in Races of Faerûn (2003). The fey'ri and tanna'ruk tieflings appeared in Monsters of Faerun (2001). The tiefling appears in the Monster Manual for this edition (2000) under the "planetouched" entry. The tiefling was introduced in the Planescape Campaign Setting (1994) with more information in the first Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994) and The Planewalker's Handbook (1996). One of the first artists to depict the tiefling was Tony DiTerlizzi. The name, pronounced / ˈ t iː f l ɪ ŋ/, was derived by Wolfgang Baur from German tief meaning "deep, low", and the suffix -ling, "offspring," alluding to their origins in the "lower planes" (in the 2nd and 3rd editions). In 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, tieflings are a race whose human ancestors made a bargain with devils to increase their power. This description remained true in 3rd Edition. In further supplements it was clarified that tieflings were usually descended from fiends but not in the same manner as half-fiends, since a tiefling's fiendish ancestry lies further up the family tree. In the Planescape setting, where tieflings were introduced, they were described as being a mixture of human and "something else" with the implication that the medium-sized non-human ancestors originated from the evil "lower planes". Originally introduced in the Planescape campaign setting in the second edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as a player character race for the setting, they became one of the primary races available for player characters in the fourth edition of the game. The tiefling ( / ˈ t iː f l ɪ ŋ/ TEEF-ling) is a fictional humanoid race in the Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D) fantasy roleplaying game. Tiefling fighter designed by William O'Connor for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. ![]()
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