There's no mechanical need for the game to go into that level of anatomical nuance, consequently I doubt you'll find any consistent "lore answer" to that either. "Ecology of" articles back in the AD&D days used to treat creatures to a sort of pseudoscientific scrutiny, but now it's sorta a table call. If you want sweaty Tieflings or sweetless Tieflings, of having perspiration being a some but not necessarily all Tieflings thing, to me, I'd treat this as a DM or collaborative table call.
Like maybe Tieflings don't perspire, but they got musky or infernally attached brimstone stank.
Are Tieflings raised on a human or humanoid mother's milk? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe not in all cases.
Can a Tiefling be mammalian reproductive? Same answer.
Do Elves sweat? Can a Celestial dance on the head of a pin? Maybe. As Gygax is reputed to say in my favorite videos portraying him, "<sniff> It's FANTASY, man, we can just make it up."
Solid. We were just pondering if salt is painful to tieflings as in salt repels demons and if so is salt present in tiefling sweat. We just got down the rabit hole lol. Cheers mate.
Salt is integral/essential to most mammalian biochemistry, I also don't know any mammal that likes salt being rubbed in its wounds. Maybe Tieflings sweat blood, so always have a little superficial perspiration that affects them.
But I didn't know the salt was bad for Tieflings thing either so....
If tieflings have hair, birth live children, and feed on mother’s milk when newborn then they’re mammals. As a DM you gotta answer that question for yourself. (In my world they are indeed mammals.)
Do they sweat? That’s a great question. That came up once in one of my campaigns regarding earth genasi instead of tieflings. We decided that earth genasi don not sweat, because it was cooler for the story. (See what I did there?) Again, it’s a DM’s call. They might, they might not.
While many mammals possess sweat glands, only primates sweat as a primary method to regulate body temperature so the real question here is whether tieflings are primates or do they pant like dogs and use their ears for radiators like elephants?
While many mammals possess sweat glands, only primates sweat as a primary method to regulate body temperature so the real question here is whether tieflings are primates or do they pant like dogs and use their ears for radiators like elephants?
Or use the horns to radiate excess heat, like some African ungulates.
Salt is integral/essential to most mammalian biochemistry, I also don't know any mammal that likes salt being rubbed in its wounds. Maybe Tieflings sweat blood, so always have a little superficial perspiration that affects them.
But I didn't know the salt was bad for Tieflings thing either so....
Salt is essential to ALL biochemistry dude...even plants require microscopic doses of sodium and chlorine ions. Humans have a predilection for salt that is *quite* beyond anything even remotely rational and the only other creature with taste receptors for sodium chloride, and the only other creature with out level of cravings for salt are...... rats.
We also are the only creatures that will not consume salt alone, we eat it with other things, which may hint at salt and maybe even lacto-fermentation as a method of making food easier to digest and later store as an essential part of our genetic history. Much like our resistance to alcohol poisoning may be linked to a history of eating fermented fruit....
But as someone said, "it's fantasy!"
I say demonic heritage is more like a symbiotic std. The demonic portion is passed down kinda haphazardly and whatever the non-demonic side is, well, that's what it is.
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I know they derive from humans but anatomically are they still considered mammals?
Additional question if theyvare mammals do they secrete sweat like humans?
There's no mechanical need for the game to go into that level of anatomical nuance, consequently I doubt you'll find any consistent "lore answer" to that either. "Ecology of" articles back in the AD&D days used to treat creatures to a sort of pseudoscientific scrutiny, but now it's sorta a table call. If you want sweaty Tieflings or sweetless Tieflings, of having perspiration being a some but not necessarily all Tieflings thing, to me, I'd treat this as a DM or collaborative table call.
Like maybe Tieflings don't perspire, but they got musky or infernally attached brimstone stank.
Are Tieflings raised on a human or humanoid mother's milk? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe not in all cases.
Can a Tiefling be mammalian reproductive? Same answer.
Do Elves sweat? Can a Celestial dance on the head of a pin? Maybe. As Gygax is reputed to say in my favorite videos portraying him, "<sniff> It's FANTASY, man, we can just make it up."
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Solid. We were just pondering if salt is painful to tieflings as in salt repels demons and if so is salt present in tiefling sweat. We just got down the rabit hole lol. Cheers mate.
Salt is integral/essential to most mammalian biochemistry, I also don't know any mammal that likes salt being rubbed in its wounds. Maybe Tieflings sweat blood, so always have a little superficial perspiration that affects them.
But I didn't know the salt was bad for Tieflings thing either so....
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I think it’s a local/cultural tale it’s certainly not a d&d mechanic.
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If tieflings have hair, birth live children, and feed on mother’s milk when newborn then they’re mammals. As a DM you gotta answer that question for yourself. (In my world they are indeed mammals.)
Do they sweat? That’s a great question. That came up once in one of my campaigns regarding earth genasi instead of tieflings. We decided that earth genasi don not sweat, because it was cooler for the story. (See what I did there?) Again, it’s a DM’s call. They might, they might not.
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Salt isn't a typical weakness for fiends in D&D, much less tieflings.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Except the tieflings with high blood pressure.
While many mammals possess sweat glands, only primates sweat as a primary method to regulate body temperature so the real question here is whether tieflings are primates or do they pant like dogs and use their ears for radiators like elephants?
Touche.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Or use the horns to radiate excess heat, like some African ungulates.
Salt is essential to ALL biochemistry dude...even plants require microscopic doses of sodium and chlorine ions. Humans have a predilection for salt that is *quite* beyond anything even remotely rational and the only other creature with taste receptors for sodium chloride, and the only other creature with out level of cravings for salt are...... rats.
We also are the only creatures that will not consume salt alone, we eat it with other things, which may hint at salt and maybe even lacto-fermentation as a method of making food easier to digest and later store as an essential part of our genetic history. Much like our resistance to alcohol poisoning may be linked to a history of eating fermented fruit....
But as someone said, "it's fantasy!"
I say demonic heritage is more like a symbiotic std. The demonic portion is passed down kinda haphazardly and whatever the non-demonic side is, well, that's what it is.