hello~ i was wondering on how you would go about making a half human/half tiefling sort of race. more of stats rather than characteristics. like darkvision is reduced to 20, tail shorter, horns the same skin color varies, etc.. :)
I would use a tiefling and simply say they are half tiefling. In Xanathar's Guide to Everything, there is a table for determining tiefling lineage and tielfing and human parents is listed as an option. In the DMG, there is a table of racial stats you can apply to NPCs, tiefling is listed.
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Tieflings are the children of cambions and humans, as I have heard, and their children all tend to be humans or tieflings, no in between.
Tieflings also don't have to be directly descended from a devil, their ancestors could have made a pact with Asmodeus, or an archdevil can transform them into tieflings, normally for the price of a soul.
Tieflings in previous editions could be descended from a demon, or a rakshasa, but not in 5e. You have to be tied to a devil, not just any fiend. Cambions can be related to any fiend, but only the devil-related ones can bear Tiefling children.
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In 5th Edition, Tieflings are not a result of interspecies mingling. They were humans changed by an infernal pact turning them into Tieflings - and all current Tieflings are descended from them. The "standard" ones were altered by Asmodeus. There are other versions in other books (Xanathars or Tome of Foes, can't remember) where they were altered by different powerful Devils.
They don't actually have Devil/Fiend blood. They're human blood that is changed by magic. A cambion is a human with fiendish blood. Cambions do not make Tieflings unless they make the whoopee with a Tiefling and Tieflings do not make Cambions unless they actually do the nasty with a Fiend or Cambion.
Of course, you can always RP it however you want with DM permission.
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hello~ i was wondering on how you would go about making a half human/half tiefling sort of race. more of stats rather than characteristics. like darkvision is reduced to 20, tail shorter, horns the same skin color varies, etc.. :)
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I would use a tiefling and simply say they are half tiefling. In Xanathar's Guide to Everything, there is a table for determining tiefling lineage and tielfing and human parents is listed as an option. In the DMG, there is a table of racial stats you can apply to NPCs, tiefling is listed.
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Its kind of a double question, a tiefling is already half human.
A Tiefling is already a half human:half fiend. A half Tiefling:half Human would actually be a 1/4 fiend:3/4 human.
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Cambions are half human-half fiend.
Tieflings are the children of cambions and humans, as I have heard, and their children all tend to be humans or tieflings, no in between.
Tieflings also don't have to be directly descended from a devil, their ancestors could have made a pact with Asmodeus, or an archdevil can transform them into tieflings, normally for the price of a soul.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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Tieflings in previous editions could be descended from a demon, or a rakshasa, but not in 5e. You have to be tied to a devil, not just any fiend. Cambions can be related to any fiend, but only the devil-related ones can bear Tiefling children.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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In 5th Edition, Tieflings are not a result of interspecies mingling. They were humans changed by an infernal pact turning them into Tieflings - and all current Tieflings are descended from them. The "standard" ones were altered by Asmodeus. There are other versions in other books (Xanathars or Tome of Foes, can't remember) where they were altered by different powerful Devils.
They don't actually have Devil/Fiend blood. They're human blood that is changed by magic. A cambion is a human with fiendish blood. Cambions do not make Tieflings unless they make the whoopee with a Tiefling and Tieflings do not make Cambions unless they actually do the nasty with a Fiend or Cambion.
Of course, you can always RP it however you want with DM permission.
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