It's an interesting idea to have a tiefling that did manage to find a loving home growing up but still had to be aware of how they were different. It creates an interesting flavor of bitterness centered around a knowledge one was genuinely loved and a need to prove that love was not a mistake.

“The Druid’s Call” novel confirms 5E tieflings can be born to normal humans.

I'm playing my first D&D game with some friends and made a Tiefling Rogue. Being the worldbuilding nerd I am I had to look into the lore and I came out with him having been raised by a single (tiefling) mother who became a healer in an attempt to prove that she was not a threat. But tieflings still faced discrimination and when my character wanted to flee their city and look for somewhere that would be safer for them his mother refused. They ended up separated because he ran off and eventually joined a thieves guild for a secure source of food and work. I'm really proud of the backstory I set up for him and my DM seems to really like it too. I can't imagine not considering ancestry and culture in a character's backstory.

My tiefling bard character was based on the following writing prompt: [A woman makes a deal with a demon to have his child in exchange for immortality, then sells her firstborn to a witch for unimaginable riches. After the birth, the mother leaves the child with the witch (druid) for her and demon to fight over. You, a half-demon, have grown up under shared custody.] Only difference is, her father and adopted mother have a FANTASTIC relationship as they raise this girl and she's loved deeply by them, even if society isn't a big fan. She just knows she can't change everyone's minds and tries to build her own status as a talented musician and not let the stereotypes of her ancestry or her class get the better of her. So far, she's been doing very well and I've had a lot of fun developing her character more.

Currently writing up a teifling wizard who has two human parents who are part of a devil worshipping cult so obviously infernal runs in the mix somewhere. She thinks they're fools and meets a benevolent witch who lives gardening and cooking and is loved by the locals. She leads by example and the teifling is inspired ✨️

I like that you call it ancestry and not by the terms D&D uses or plans to use in One D&D.

Im about to.finish my first Baldurs Gate 3 playthrough and I really enjoyrd having Karlach in my party and helping the tieflings in the druid grove. Now Im doing a tiefling druid and am learning even more about tieflings.

I'm very late to the party but thank you for this. I'm very much a newcomer to DnD but in preparation for Baldur's Gate 3 I decided to lean into it and write a back story for my proposed Tiefling Rogue character. In particular I was unsure about parentage so it's reassuring to hear that a Tiefling can be the product of two unsuspecting humans as that fits my ideas perfectly. At least I got the idea of "me against the world" right as I thought that would be a psychological outcome of growing up as an outsider in a human society.

Good video. Liked and subscribed.

My character Akta is a tiefling paladin, she is more so thought of as a paladin during game play but I’ve been thinking of her backstory and how her being a tiefling affected /shaped her destiny in being a paladin. I’m so excited to come up with a story for her. I like to think she doesn’t struggle much with demonic inclinations from having demon blood tho lol

Both Tieflings and Aasimars were playable races in 3.0.

Ive been working on a Levistus tribe of Snow Tieflings its a pretty fun group of nomads.

Mine is a tiefling priest with a troumatic back story cuz his family was made of all necromancers mages

Interesting video, but now i want to hear more about your settings tiefling nation. Is there a video about that, too? The tiefling in one of my parties is an orphan who was raised by human barbarians in Rashemen and always had the urge to proove himself even though noone else ever expected him to. He wrote a few pages about his past and I really like it. The homebrew adventure hook for our Curse of Strahd campaign dealt a lot with racism, which is how he developed a bond with the drow pc and a family of travelling vistani who later brought them to Barovia.

currently preparing my first big dnd session and working on my characters background. Not knowing a lot yet about dnd lore I was really unsure if I had a good idea but after your video I think I made the right choice. My idea was to play a tiefling druid. Born from human parents and outcast from not only them but everyone else, who found peace and harmony in nature. Having a deep connection to wildlife beause they are the first living things to not judge them for their appearence.. I am very open for suggestions if someone reads this. as I said I still have much to learn but I try ^^

I wound up creating a whole lore and cultural legacy for tieflings in my home game setting. I diverged pretty far from the bog-standard tieflings and downplayed their Forgotten Realms lore regarding infernal heritage. I made them a diaspora-struck people with ancient roots and no known homeland, who've become itenirate peoples through most of the inhabited continents of my setting. As a result they have a complex cultural history, norms, and tradition, including a strong tendancy towards clannish, inward-looking society, focused on survival, oral history, and a strong faith in a neutral deity who watches over those who wander. I wanted to wander away from the generic woobie archetype for them, and give them some real depth. I kept virtue names, but tied it to a religious ritual, and as such, non-devout ones don't have virtue names. They're still a widely scorned, stereotyped people (at least on the continent where our current game is set), but have found niches in winder society as workers in the background---servants, merchants, SWers, entertainers, sellswords, and a variety of other professions at the margins of society, living in either enclaves in cities, or as wandering caravan/traveling troupes. They have pretty distinct clothing, eating habits (I made them into obligate carnivores), cleanliness culture, and a distinct language (which few know how to read/write, and instead use concentric symbology similar to helraldry on their clothing, armor, and buildings that are closer to ideograms than language). In our setting, they're NOT humans. Their tails are prehensile, their spines have different vertebrae (to account for that), and complex rituals regarding the grooming of their horns. Even 'tiefling' is basically a slur in this setting, an exonym used by outsiders, rather than their cultural name, Vishkarin ("wandering folk"), their endonym.

What would you give a yugaloth tiefling

My Tiefling warlock was born to normal humans (who actually accepted their child as he was, but his father was quite severe because he did not want his son to become as bad as some people think of Tieflings) and also subject to racism - going so far that a gang of racist thugs tried to hunt him down and kill him. This was the moment when he made his pact - and then fled the town because he killed one of these thugs in self-defense with his new Hellish powers. He is neutral in alignment, but tries to be a hero despite his pact - his part of a bargain is to send evil souls to the Hells for his patron to use, and being an adventurer is a great way to encounter plenty of evil people. My HC is that Tieflings with their fire resistance are enjoying warm climates and heat - imagine how awful Barovia feels to him. He is the one who always sits right beside the fireplace or campfire, needs almost boiling water for his bath etc. We seem to have had the same idea in this regard. But he finally found himself a group of friends who are accepting him (=the party) and probably even the love of his life (our bard), and he is very grateful for that and is in turn very loyal to them.

I like the idea that tieflings are the result of infernal pacts made in the past. And now that this fiendish blood is in the world, the world rejects them. And even if they don’t have a powerful tendency toward evil, which I believe they SHOULD, their rejection by society would cause them to resent the greater human society. Their numbers would grow, they discover a messiah, and Eventually lead to a rebellion that topples the empire of the gods. Seems like a very long game scheme by Asmodeus.

So basically an asian immigrant in the 90’s 😂

In an universe where devils, demons, magic and curses exist, the concept of a tiefling being mistreated only based on prejudice is kinda childish. Every tiefling should be cursed and driven to being evil by design of their existence, not society, and actually being good should be a central point of a PC storyline, a struggle for sure. Having demon blood inside you should have consequences, and not all brushed under the "society" umbrella. We in the real world can blame "society" and play the discrimination card, but tieflings devil and demons cannot.