Heck yeah!!! Im making a tiefling warlock with an archfey from the summer court and people were like "If you want one of them you need to have some sort of fey blood in you cus otherwise they be ignoring u m8." And I died inside. So I made her grandmother (on her mothers side) an archfey who mated with an elemental and boom earth genasi who later had the dirty dance with a tiefling and boom, here's my character lol
In response to those talking about the subrace as a totally different race, I've been running one of these guys, and came up with a medium. Tieflings abandoned in the feywild for whatever reason, such as being born to eladrin or elves in the fey wild, will slowly mutate until their demonic aspects manifest in a fey-like manner.
Q: what exactly would the Iron Sensitivity be? Vulnerable to Iron weapons would be way too much. You have to give them Gaes and a Conjure X spell to make that up!
Just a note: although many legends give fey an iron phobia, in D&D history that was limited to cold iron (vaguely defined). A real world analog may be iron that's been refined and worked without heat, but in D&D it may have a more magical origin.
Also, one may caution against using the word tiefling for something without a connection to the lower planes because the name is derived from the German word for "low".
There's multiple 'issues' with the whole notion of 'cold iron'. The least of which is that iron is too weak to be an effective weapon in a world with steel armor, and worse 'cold' iron is brittle as hell. The bigger issue is that *iron* is supposed to be a weakness to fey because it is a physical manifestation of *order*. Steel is only more so a manifestation of that same order in every way, so using that as a basis for a weakness would mean virtually *every* weapon is exceptionally strong vs. the fey.
There's multiple 'issues' with the whole notion of 'cold iron'. The least of which is that iron is too weak to be an effective weapon in a world with steel armor, and worse 'cold' iron is brittle as hell. The bigger issue is that *iron* is supposed to be a weakness to fey because it is a physical manifestation of *order*. Steel is only more so a manifestation of that same order in every way, so using that as a basis for a weakness would mean virtually *every* weapon is exceptionally strong vs. the fey.
Yeah that's true in the real world, but in 3.5e cold iron had the same hardness (soak) and hp as steel weapons, and was half again as costly. Alchemically silvered weapons were slightly less resilient. Blame it on magic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean look at the Elder Scrolls series where glass armor and weaponry is more resilient than steel.
I would personally instead modify this to be a tiefling/elf (typically of eladrin subrace) hybrid. (since Tieflings, lore-wise, are basically half-elves, so a subrace of tieflings like this would probably exist).
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity and one other score of your choice increases by 1, and your Charisma increases by 2.
Elven Infernal Legacy. Your have resistance to fire damage and saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.
Fiendish Fey Legacy. You know the druidcraft and firebolt cantrips. 3rd level, you can cast Charm Person once per day at 2nd level. At 5th level, you can cast Hellish Rebuke once per day at third level. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
Languages. You know Common, Elvish, and Infernal.
Keen Sight. You have proficiency in the Wisdom (Perception) skill.
I chose to add firebolt instead of thaumaturgy, like a regular tiefling gets, because Druidcraft is basically the nature themed thaumaturgy/prestidigitation.
Also, what in the NINE HELLS are you doing not adding any fiend-inspired traits in your version of this!? If you don't add any devilish stuff in there, then you might as well play an eladrin or half-elf and add a headband with antlers.
tieflings are supposed to have infernal ancestry so the fiend would be OK but if you make them descended from the fey you you might as well make a new race
I would personally instead modify this to be a tiefling/elf (typically of eladrin subrace) hybrid. (since Tieflings, lore-wise, are basically half-elves, so a subrace of tieflings like this would probably exist).
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity and one other score of your choice increases by 1, and your Charisma increases by 2.
Elven Infernal Legacy. Your have resistance to fire damage and saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.
Fiendish Fey Legacy. You know the druidcraft and firebolt cantrips. 3rd level, you can cast Charm Person once per day at 2nd level. At 5th level, you can cast Hellish Rebuke once per day at third level. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
Languages. You know Common, Elvish, and Infernal.
Keen Sight. You have proficiency in the Wisdom (Perception) skill.
I chose to add firebolt instead of thaumaturgy, like a regular tiefling gets, because Druidcraft is basically the nature themed thaumaturgy/prestidigitation.
Also, what in the NINE HELLS are you doing not adding any fiend-inspired traits in your version of this!? If you don't add any devilish stuff in there, then you might as well play an eladrin or half-elf and add a headband with antlers.
IF YOU WANT SOME FEY TIEFLING THING THEN JUST MAKE SOME FEY RACE THAT'S JUST A TIEFLING EXCEPT BLESSED BY FEY INSTEAD OF CURSED BY DEVILS
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its a fey tiefling.
We do bones, motherf***ker!
FYI: I have just pushed out the write-up as a Homebrew race.
I really like this. Fey-touched Tieflings are very close to SATYRs in concept, so that's certainly a very valid and good race option. Well done.
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Heck yeah!!! Im making a tiefling warlock with an archfey from the summer court and people were like "If you want one of them you need to have some sort of fey blood in you cus otherwise they be ignoring u m8." And I died inside. So I made her grandmother (on her mothers side) an archfey who mated with an elemental and boom earth genasi who later had the dirty dance with a tiefling and boom, here's my character lol
In response to those talking about the subrace as a totally different race, I've been running one of these guys, and came up with a medium. Tieflings abandoned in the feywild for whatever reason, such as being born to eladrin or elves in the fey wild, will slowly mutate until their demonic aspects manifest in a fey-like manner.
Just a note: although many legends give fey an iron phobia, in D&D history that was limited to cold iron (vaguely defined). A real world analog may be iron that's been refined and worked without heat, but in D&D it may have a more magical origin.
Also, one may caution against using the word tiefling for something without a connection to the lower planes because the name is derived from the German word for "low".
There's multiple 'issues' with the whole notion of 'cold iron'. The least of which is that iron is too weak to be an effective weapon in a world with steel armor, and worse 'cold' iron is brittle as hell. The bigger issue is that *iron* is supposed to be a weakness to fey because it is a physical manifestation of *order*. Steel is only more so a manifestation of that same order in every way, so using that as a basis for a weakness would mean virtually *every* weapon is exceptionally strong vs. the fey.
Yeah that's true in the real world, but in 3.5e cold iron had the same hardness (soak) and hp as steel weapons, and was half again as costly. Alchemically silvered weapons were slightly less resilient. Blame it on magic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean look at the Elder Scrolls series where glass armor and weaponry is more resilient than steel.
I would personally instead modify this to be a tiefling/elf (typically of eladrin subrace) hybrid. (since Tieflings, lore-wise, are basically half-elves, so a subrace of tieflings like this would probably exist).
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity and one other score of your choice increases by 1, and your Charisma increases by 2.
Elven Infernal Legacy. Your have resistance to fire damage and saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.
Fiendish Fey Legacy. You know the druidcraft and firebolt cantrips. 3rd level, you can cast Charm Person once per day at 2nd level. At 5th level, you can cast Hellish Rebuke once per day at third level. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
Languages. You know Common, Elvish, and Infernal.
Keen Sight. You have proficiency in the Wisdom (Perception) skill.
I chose to add firebolt instead of thaumaturgy, like a regular tiefling gets, because Druidcraft is basically the nature themed thaumaturgy/prestidigitation.
Also, what in the NINE HELLS are you doing not adding any fiend-inspired traits in your version of this!? If you don't add any devilish stuff in there, then you might as well play an eladrin or half-elf and add a headband with antlers.
tieflings are supposed to have infernal ancestry so the fiend would be OK but if you make them descended from the fey you you might as well make a new race
IF YOU WANT SOME FEY TIEFLING THING THEN JUST MAKE SOME FEY RACE THAT'S JUST A TIEFLING EXCEPT BLESSED BY FEY INSTEAD OF CURSED BY DEVILS