Technicolor tieflings are canon and the world is healing 😌

25:28 "She came to a conclusion, the problem was her, or rather her autism"

I know it's rare but I actuallu once used the fact of dark vision not showing the colours. I've had a party made out of only dark vision races(typical for 5e) and due to that they did not carry any torches. So in one of my dungeons i made a puzzle based around pulling the levers with right colours. It took them like like half an hour but finally they made a torch with a mace and peaces of ripped cloths ant lit it up with fire ball (yes my players are very creative)

My only problem with darkvision is that everybody gets it. At this point just make seeing in darkness a base rule and give some species a "can't see in darkness" trait, you'll save about 2 pages of paper.

Character Concept: Chthonic Tiefling Paladin devoted to Hades who hunts Undead because the Unseen One doesn't like it when Shades get out of the Underworld.

The "This a tax write-off now " with the horns had me cackling. I´m glad you got to see a snippet of what´s to come, and it truly seems like an improvement on what Tieflings already were without losing identity! And the three characters, from their backstories to their art and build, are amazing

Instead of the scents thing, how about perceived temperature changes? In the presence of Abyssal Tieflings, the room seems to grow colder and breath becomes visible, despite no actual change in temperature. For Infernal Tieflings, some creatures nearby may begin panting or exhibiting signs of dehydration, despite the temperature remaining unchanged. If Cthonic Tieflings smell weird they can keep that in my opinion, I think that's funny.

The grayscale darkvision doesn't generally matter at the table, but in past editions you also couldn't READ with darkvision, which I always thought was an interesting limitation that made it essential to at least carry some candles or something...

One time, I DMed a game where this robot AI dude was following the characters around via a screen on the Warforged’s chest. They came to a massive creature that spoke Abyssal, and I figured that, in order to make the party hate this AI more, he would be racist and assume that the Tiefling knew Abyssal. When I told the Tiefling to “try and talk to it” in character, they said “oh, sure!”, and I had to remind them that their character could, in fact, not speak Abyssal.

if they made technicolor tiefling canon i hope dragonborn having tails have similar treatment.

I always wanted to use the "darkvision in greyscale" concept at some point by hiding a huge monster because it blends with a wall in greyscale, never got around to it yet XD

I'm so happy to see yugoloths getting love, I have a 6 yr long running campaign where a Baernoloth is the main antagonist! Now I finally have an official stat block to use as a base xD

RIP William O Connor, you are missed.

I like the idea of demons & devils being like tortises & turtles or frogs & toads where specifically people who are especially oblivious get them mixed up.

#1: Backgrounds had features, just most DM's didnt use them well. As example, Acolytes can get free care at temples, including casting Revive spells as long as you have the component. There ones for getting around towns faster, and a few that even did have feats. #2: No one will use the background stats. Everyone since Tasha's has placed 2 in one score and 1 in another score, and you just choose. #3: The feats are a bit weak and dont function with traditional 5e, so if you do use them you need to use ALL of the 2024 rules, and get rid of the old stuff, allowing you to play old 5e characters but in this new rule system. OG 5e can work with 2024, but not the other way.

"as if someone like demons better than devils in D&D" I'm right here bro, them's fightin' words

My name is Chapless Moan, I’m your tiefling’s tiefling tief-ling

13:09 Ah, yes, my favorite legacy... *YUGOSLAVS*

Tiefling, Necromancer, Witch like, "I just want a hug" energy? SIGN ME IN, I LOVE HER!!!!

Did everyone else also immediately swarm here when you got the notif

i was getting afraid that one of the best d&d channels wouldn't recieve a lil spoiler to share with us thank god he did

It's a sidenote in the video, but I still wanna talk about the background. I really hate the set stats for each background. I can't wait to never take Acolyte because it forces me to put the stats in 2/3 mental stats.

My favorite thing in DND is small beastmaster that uses its animal companion as a mount so I'm glad to see more options. Would love to have an abyssal tiefling riding a giant snake

A) I love the Pointy Hat/Familiar dynamic. 2) Looks like WotC has been paying more attention to Paizo than we thought

Things we need more: Tieflings, Hats and Potatoes.

'Someone is probably typing' I mean yes, but because 5E tieflings never saw in greyscale, they saw in shades of red. They were the only creatures who DIDN'T see in grey.

- holds up my fox arcanadaemon tiefling - Finally... He's canon...

They should do the same for the Aasimar with 3 Celestial Lineages for the 3 sections of the Upper Planes.

my first long dnd character. Druscylla was a dhamphir born of a tiefling father and a vampire elf mother and basically was a lilac skin white haired tiefling, she inherited the unique trait to eat pain and suffering instead of blood, which helped as her parents were healers in the kingdom she grew up in. She went on a long adventure in a spelljammer type world but returned to her home realm to become a great doctor type being a circle of the stars druid to heal and start a charity to reincarnate terminally ill children. that's her story for now, but her home is like the Xmansion of a gothic refugee for monsters who don't want to be evil

"left as quickly as he came" 💀

I found Pointy Hat at the beginning of last week and now have binged all of his videos. Genuinely the most creative dnd stuff I’ve ever seen, including official material. I can’t get over how cool each twist is. I genuinely haven’t disliked a single one and so many of them have made me actually want to play races/classes/in locations that I never had any interest in before. I am a relatively new dm, but I am planning to include so many of Pointy Hat’s creations in my campaign going forward. Not only are the stat locks interesting and dynamic, but each twist provides so many story hooks that makes it practically impossible to not find a way to work them into your story. The Tips of the Hat have also really helped me and given me so many ideas on how to be a better dm. All this to say, thank you so much for all you do. I can’t imagine having to make all this, especially for free. Each video doesn’t just have amazing dnd stuff, but each is just so funny and entertaining that I would watch them anyway even if they didn’t have any dnd stuff. It would be awesome to see a kickstarter project or dnd home brew book one day from you. I hope you have a wonderful day, and thank you again!

3:20 Hey Hat! The human familiar didn't know how to pronounce Fey'ri and Tanarukk!

I am also adopting Alma, thank you very much for her.

Hello, hopefully I'm not the bad guy, but I don't understand the dislike of species based attribute bonuses and decreases. Different species evolve differently and have different strengths and weaknesses. For instance an elephant is larger, stronger, and tougher than any human, but a Loxodon is meant to have the same base stats as a human or a halfling? I guess I understand it for balance reasons, but it makes all species feel fundamentally identical, which is the exact opposite reason why other species in fantasy and sci-fi are so cool. He mentioned it odd that elves have higher intelligence than other species. This is something I agree with in part, depending on the setting. I always understood the bonus to intelligence to reflect their old age, an elf reaches adulthood at 100, they have lived an entire lifetime before they even begin adventuring. It makes sense to reflect 100 years of education, experience, and accumulated knowledge mechanically right? Intelligence for the longest time reflected the number of skills you had, which is reflective of your life experiences and knowledge. You still roll for attributes, or use point buy, so you still pick which attributes are low and high only with bonuses to reflect your species. I suppose picking where to put bonuses makes it easier to power game, but I feel like conceding interesting differences between species for that is a heavy downgrade for mechanical storytelling. I'm not trying to fight here or anything, I just don't think I've ever heard an explanation for why it's a bad thing.

It makes sense that languages are not related to races/species, as not every elf grew up in an elf community or invested in their natural intelligence to learn more languages

I really like the fact they gave tiefling lineages actually useful spells. In MToF the 2nd level spell you got for reaching level 3 was a 1st level that was considered upcast, even when the spell itself didn't specify anything about upcasting (i'm looking at you disguise self). Although i think a lot of players, mine included, also like the illusionist or charmer side of tieflings, and i hope they come up with an option for those styles of play (like bloodline of glaysya or fierna). I thought that's what they were gonna do with the chtonic one, since it's related to hags. right now the three options seem to be focused mainly on damage output, which can be limitating

Forgotten Realms was 1E AD&D but the 4th world setting, behind: Greyhawk, Mystara and Krynn. It's the Rocky Road to the first three Neapolitan flavored worlds,

Hey, I'm a '94 baby too. It's weird turning 30

I appreciate the amount of Zevlor shown in this video. He kinda looks a lot like how a demon tiefling would look like, with the big jagged horns and the more prominent ridges.

I'm glad wotc is recognizing how important their fans are. Glad they're recognizing how cool you are Mr Hat.

ooooh i love tieflings i'm glad that they've stayed in spirit and have done some really cool stuff with them. i'm loving the legacies and the ideas that can stem from them. they actually fit my current tiefling characters really well, i love giving my tiefs more odd traits so i'm really liking how the abyssal legacy makes it not just a kind of weird design choice on my end, i look forward to seeing what else can be done with them :]

Yay! I am very excited about this now! I'm also glad that you have come into your confidence as a content creator. I look forward to your videos each time them come out! (Also congrats to you on the coming out!).

Small correction: the default setting for 3rd edition and 3.5 was Greyhawk. Forgotten Realms was definitely still around, though, with a ton of supplements just for that setting.

Yeay! Yugoloth Tieflings at last! Also, love that most of the technicolor Tieflings are having a great time, except two who appear to be questioning their life choices... XD For what it's worth I actually already had an Abyssal and a two Yugoluth Tieflings as NPCs in my campaign, but I hadn't decided what sorts of abilities to give the two Yugoluth descent ladies do to there LITERALLY being NOTHING on those. The Abyssal Tiefling is a Wildmagic Sorcerer and the grandaughter of the Demon Lord Graz'zt (who is basically considered "the hot one" of the 5e Demon Lords) who is currently working as a courtesan to pay for her tuition to one of the setting's magic schools where she hopes to gain more control over her abilities and not have to worry about causing some sort of horrible disaster when she casts spells. She's the primary witness of an incident where a Fey showed up at the establishment she works at, and tricked several courtesans into giving him their names, and was the only one who escaped because she thought he was annoying and responded "Pudding and tame" when he asked her what her name was, which he mistook as being a Virtue name rather than her trying to get him to leave her alone. She's understandably outraged about what happened to her coworkers, and as a magic user herself, is willing to help the party fight the fey to get them back. She is also going by "Pudding" for the time being as she's kinda paranoid about names at the moment. One of the Yugoluth Tieflings is the grandmother of Todd, the human Wizard NPC the party recruited. She's not really important, but he mentions her sometimes, as his dad's side of the family had to flee their home country when the emporer decided to banish all the Tieflings because after a portal to Hades opened up for a while there 100 years ago, the Tiefling population skyrocketed and he felt like there were just too many of them running around for his liking (the rest of Todd's relatives are human.) The third is a coincidentally purple Way of Mercy Monk NPC who's family was forced to flee as result of the same incident, who is trying her best to find a medical school willing to enroll her so she can become a doctor, and is trying to keep her little brother from getting himself into trouble. She is a quest giving NPC, who seeks the party's help to try to find her brother who she has good reason to believe as fallen in with a bad crowd. Like Pudding, she is willing to temporarily join the party while they search for them, but is designed with a focus on healing rather than damage dealing.

The Chthonic Legacy is perfect for my oldest character concept: Adopted off the streets by a local thieves guild as a child, Grentilda Cackle ("Gren" to her friends) has always been a bit odd. Her mannerisms and hobbies have always seemed more like those of an old grandmother than a young lady. She also has no memories of her life before she wandered into the city. However, she grew up as a cheerful girl who treated the guild like a family. As she grew older, Gren was plagued by horrible nightmares. In these nightmares, she recalled a terrible Night Hag and her young daughter, who was fated to also become a Hag on her thirteenth birthday. Gren also discovered that she had access to magic beyond that of a typical Tiefling; blasts of eldritch energy, bursts of flame from her fingertips and the ability to compel others to obey simple commands. Fearing that the Hag from her nightmares would hunt her down and destroy her family, Gren sets out to confront them. However, she may not have fully understood who, or what, she really is.

The door bell at the beginning made my dogs lose their minds. 10/10, would watch again.

Spectacular video! I do enjoy a good Tiefling story and you really dove into everything that's important about them, cool about them and bizarre about them. Fantastic, thank you!

3:30 Literally just had this conversation with a friend 2 days ago

Idea: similar to which lich, do every class and turn them into a race. For example, a bard race could attack by syncing to music that they play.

Feels like a full circle moment cuz I discovered your channel from that first Tieflings video and now you're doing an official WOTC sponsorship. Congrats on your success and everything you have built to this point!

Cthonic Tiefling as the result of a Succubus tryst, the legacy magic spells would be, Friends, Charm Person and Alter Self

So otherworldly presence just give you +10000 aura?

YES MORE POINTYHAT

I was a little skeptic about the new things to come but this looks pretty cool! also have been enjoying a lot of your work for quite a while now, keep it up, my dude! Love and dice to you!

I think Tieflings should still be able to be born if a member of there family made a pact with a fiend. That would be cool

I can't believe Pointy Hat made this video specifically for me 🥹

Cthonic tieflings feels so damn good conceptwise. I already have so many ideas on how I can illustrate multiple variants based on the descriptive alone, since it refers to the word used to associate greek deities to the underworld and the earth in general. For example: imagine a cthonic tiefling venerated in an isolated tribe with an earth based cult, they value nature but have the wisdom to care for all aspects in it, not only life but the return of said life to the soil, the death aspect of the thing being seen as a fountain of life in the cycle. Then, this character is pressured by their traditions since their birth to become their sage in that matter(As a class, we can make they a spores druid or grave domain cleric, for example). What happens when something considered "unnatural" by them starts to damage the local nature and they discover that the source is in other lands? Will the character take the mission to adventure in unknown foreign lands to save their people? Will they flee because they cannot hold those responsibilities that they never asked for anymore? How the outside world will view they and how they will react to it? Maybe they're able to teach things about death that leave people in piece with it, maybe they will be seen as some bad omen that brings disease because bigotry about those isolated tribes, SO MANY BRANCHES!

Aday is my dream man/tiefling. Thank you again for your work it's so good !

Yeah, the whole changing it to species thing is a bit questionable choice, in my opinion. I get that race can be a loaded term for some people, and they wanted to avoid that, but idk if species was the best alternative, since it implies more of an divide between different people, and that they are fundamentally different. It also makes it seem that they are afraid of the term race and things like interracial couples (not saying that they are, but it does make it seem that way) Personally I think it's not too big of a deal, and most people won't care, but they should probably have thought twice about it. Personally i would have just done the pathfinder thing and picked something like ancestry, since it sounds better, but it's honestly not a big deal, and i like the legacies for the tieflings, with the three types of fiends.

Dude, your first video is the first one I ever saw from your channel, and I've been following you ever since. It was such a well-made video that I didn't realize until a year later when I went back to look for it that you were new. You've been doing a great job, man. And as a Hispanic Tiefling enjoyed myself, gotta say I'm pretty sure your opinions are just objective truth

Mainly what I got out of this is that tieflings tend toward chaotic alignments.

A well deserved acknowledgement and sponsorship from WotC. The amount of work you put into making these videos is ridiculous. Well deserved. Keep going~

Abyssal Tieflings were tried in UA years ago, nice to see them as well as Cthonic. I would still use the sub-subraces from Mordekainen's I really like those.

THAT ART IS SO STUNNING OMFG its absolutely gorgeous

“The internet’s favorite format- a numbered list!” Me: “I love that format!” *cheers*

The change from "race" to "species" makes sense for some of them, like goblins vs humans, or lizardfolk vs dwarves, but elves, orcs, and humans are technically the same species, because half-elves and half-orcs exist. (Unless they're sterile)

Incredible art and awesome concepts! I really like how they are handling the new tiefling approach. I like that they are giving players more ideas for character creation to help get them started. As someone who has DM'd for a lot of newer players to the game, some people come to this more naturally than others.

Ooh I love each of these three characters so much! Really nice designs and backstories :D And thanks for this overview, that all sounds great honestly

I really hope that the background tie-ins aren't going to result in every wizard being from a library, every cleric an acolyte, every fighter being a Miner etc...

If they really are “species” shouldn’t they have set bonuses? Like I wouldn’t expect a cat and a dog to have the same dex modifier. They should share characteristics other than “looks purple” right?

I love the new art, it's so detailed but still clearly in your style, well done

When they said "Tieflings are fully accepted now" I could see the problem with that development. It's less plot points to work with when there's no more bias towards them. The change from "everyone fears and hates them" to _some_ doing so is better.

Legacies should be Races. Race isn't a bad word so if we actually are just trying to fix terminology, you pick your species of elf. Then decide your race of High Elf, Wood Elf etc. thats a race. There's no reason to over complicate it other than being afraid of the word race.

I love teiflings ! I can't wait to see how the new DND changes them

This is so well written and thought through - I loved the sample back stories.

I've stuck with the concept of inherent proficiencies/ASIs in the original 5e rules for my modern game, which may seem strange but it makes sense in the lore. In this setting all non-humans are "living stories," literally folklore, narrative, etc., archetypes come to live in an extradimensional realm. They're normally not actually sapient (any more than a character in a book is sapient) unless an actual human interacts with them for an extended period of time in such a way that they're treated as a person (despite explicitly and obviously not being one) and forced to break out of the narrative concept that gave birth to them. But they still retain some of the skills that they had. An elf speaks Elvish (or Gaelic or Norse -- it's a modern setting) and knows how to use a longbow because the popular concept of an elf involves speaking those languages and wielding that weapon. Same for being stronger or smarter -- I have a species that's a standard Ufology "grey alien" that gets an inherent +2 bonus to INT because its whole folklore concept, the thing that caused it to exist, is "superintelligent alien" and making it not intelligent wouldn't work. In a way it's really meta, where what made it exist out of universe is also what did it in-universe. (Planetouched are different -- they didn't go through this process, they're just people who were affected by some form of planar power, but that still affects people in odd ways. Also, I *love* tieflings having Infernal inherently, since I like the idea of extraplanar languages not just being normal languages that are spoken, but the actual tongue of the plane of existence, with some factors that make it difficult or impossible to learn normally, like constantly changing of its own accord on a day-to-day basis. It's fun to describe someone speaking them: "The demon's voice resonates on a level that makes you squirm. Though you don't truly understand what is being said, the very sound of it erodes your faith in an orderly universe." Or "The word 'melodic' doesn't begin to cover the archfey's voice. The language soothes you, sounding less like words and more like the sense of calm conveyed by a babbling brook. As you listen, you notice a small gathering of woodland creatures form to listen as well.") But in any other setting, where these things are just people, inherent proficiencies don't make a whole lot of sense. (At the same time I don't have a problem with species ASIs, and think most discomfort comes with the misuse of the term "race" and the fact that our society, at least implicitly, believes intelligence to be the highest virtue that conveys a special status upon someone and not a semi-immutable factor that means nothing for someone's value as a person.)

"... Smiled a smile that did not reach his eyes." OMFG That's poetry; beautiful and sinister at the same time. *chef's kiss*

Ooh! Speaking of planetouched would you ever cover genasi? I know you did genies but ive always like the idea of playing a half-elemental character

Btw, allowing players to put their ASIs literally wherever they want is part of the custom background mechanic available to DMs in the new DMG, so if you want to let your players have literally whatever background they want, you are allowed to allow that, of course you are allowed to do anything, but you are encouraged to work with a player to make their own unique custom background which makes sense for your campaign setting (maybe there is a band of librarian pirates in your setting, plundering the booty of knowledge, I am playing a pirate wizard in a campaign literally right now)

For me, the race/or species giving values in wisdom, or intelligence makes a certain sense if the race is of the magical type and has a natural facility in intellectual matters or that involve wisdom like elves who are naturally wise and intelligent and beautiful beings regardless of story but it's just a gift, not something that could be invested in if your character didn't focus on it

Alma is such a bean.

THANK GOD FOR THE YGOLOTHS ARE GIVEN A LEGACY!!!! As someone playing a tiefling with a Ygoloth ancestor I am very happy.

The language proficiencies from previous additions made sense for some races, because they would innately know them as a result of magic, such as how gnolls automatically knew abyssal because of their strong ties to demons, it would just come to them naturally without them having to learn it from anyone. Ability score bonuses being fixed by race made sense as a majority lean, where the average intelligence of a race might trend higher for some races. Generally a society that values intelligence is going to be more intelligent on average than one that doesn't value intelligence. And d&d didn't always shy away from having races actually have lower mental capacity than others, I got the impression this would be the case for things like trolls & ogres.

Your Tiefling video was the first Pointy Hat video I ever watched. I was in the aftermath of a hellish breakup where the ex would. not. leave. It was funny (not the ex - your video), got me out of my head, made me smile for the first time in a few weeks, and reminded me of this game I love and almost forgot. About 5 videos later, the ex finally left, but I was already reminded I had better things to do. You and I were born different and that is a good thing, no matter how many people demand we "should" have been born differently (I mean, what does that even mean? Who am I supposed to sue? God, my parents? The purple Tele-Tubby?). You never even met me, and you helped me through a really rough time. I think all the different, rare, and beautiful ways you are - these are things you should feel good about being - because you are good, and you were made right exactly the way you are. That's why so many people enjoy watching what you make on this channel. We are Tieflings, and proud of it, so let our horns soar with pride. Those people who are so caught up in something about you that has nothing to do with them are just a bunch of lousy dragons: bad dragons, really bad dragons.

I love tieflings. You love tieflings. We all love tieflings!

My largest problem with 5th's tiefling was that it was 4th's tiefling with a pretty Faerunian bow on it. It wasn't until the Sword Coast Guide that we got a nod (via a sidebar) of tieflings that didn't have the same origin as 4th's tiefling. For me tieflings were only properly represented in the original Planescape set and that's how I run them for my characters.

That art at the end looks amazing! Really like the style.

Being able to see in the dark in color (or not able to) actually came up in an adventure I played in! There was a puzzle set up specifically for Humans, and if you used dark vision you wouldn't be able to see the black text on the walls/ceiling, you could only see it if you had a torch.

Dam the familiar can foreshadow too :)

I still do feel that physical ability scores should be tied to species. like, the warforged are literal robots made of metal it makes sense for them to have +2 constitution and +1 ac because they're robots.

21:16 What a coincidence. Listening to your video I imagined a big, menacing tiefling with massive horns, obsidian skin and burning eyes... and a soft voice reminiscent of a warm fireplace on a cold night

I do feel like there’s a couple things that lose a little flavour with moving stats to backgrounds, but overall I do think it’s definitely for the better. Stuff like, I feel orcs being naturally just a bit stronger than most people makes sense. But still, overall definitely a good change.

Pathfinder isn't scared to have ability scores tied to your race/species/ancestry (including *gasp*, INTELLIGENCE) They also have ability score increases from your background and class. 5e has become so "inclusive" that it has no target audience and appeals to no one. Its the lowest common denominator of TTRPGs.

i'm one of those players/dm's that thinks there still should be some in world hesitation around tieflings, they are conected and kinda look like beings from the lower planes who have quite a bad reputation for a good reason. i think there should be prejudices in a medieval fantasy setting towards certain groups (may that be justified (which is rarely) or not) it shouldn't be like our own modern day world, where we had centuries to get to the level of social exceptance that we have nowadays. if there is not it feels kinda weird for me atleast.

I really would love for them to compound of the infernal legacies again. Levistus was by far my favorite, and i still haven't given up on it being reintroduced at some point.

"Being an elf makes you more intelligent, yikes!" Me: Being a race that is literally centuries old?

We have been blessed! With this hellish pointy hat video!

Praise to the new art style. But what about DRAGONS? Dragons have feelings too, people, we cannot forget the dragons!

I have been a big fan of your content, so I am really glad to see a part two of the Tiefling video (the one that made me a fan}

I gotta take issue with 6:11. If they can crossbreed and their offspring aren't sterile/nonviable, they're the same species