There's a perfectly good explanation for all the tieflings. I mean, have you guys SEEN what succubi look like?

Of course, devas are gorgeous too. So we need more aasimars.

honestly Tieflings are pretty much the choice if your LGBT+... and changelings are the choice if your AGGRESSIVELY LGBT+

They changed the tiefling rules. Now a tiefling can be born from mere contact with the lower realms and generations later just like genasi with the elements. So the current tiefling population is not the result of some horny demon bard
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It's the net result of two factors. First, tieflings got a major overhaul with 5e. They got an official Players Handbook entry and adjustment, making them much more accessible. Second, they featured in a number of EXTREMELY popular streamer DND games. Such as Jester is Critical Role.

Nowadays, the bold move is to roll a Human Champion Fighter named Bob.

Wow sparkle dogs have somehow gotten even worse.

Tieflings kinda underwent a renaissance. The tieflings in BG3 especially are basically, ummm...well, their city got sucked into hell and the city's denizens blamed the tieflings, so they kicked em out. Tieflings are by and large harmless, and actually friendly.

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He also happens to be a two-metre-something burly guy with muscles upon muscles and a huge-ass longsword. And a bagpipe. Which was recently upgraded to a flamethrower bagpipe by our resident artificer.

So yeah, 100% a bard, 0% Bard class levels.

I'm playing a bard too in our Dungeon World campaign. He's human though. And a single-class barbarian.

You see, when I say my character is a bard I don't mean he's got the bard class, I mean he's literally a bard: he's an artist, diplomat, teacher, historian, genealogist and storyteller.

As a fellow old-school D&D player, I have no idea why this happened either. Why'd they have to make tieflings a common race that's running around all over the place anyway? Tieflings have been around as an option in 2e, and they used to be unique and special, now they're just dull.

BG3 takes place right after The Descent into Avernus Campaign book, where the Arch Devil Zariel kidnaps the entire city of Elturel. At the end of the campaign (if you win) you restore the city back to the material plane, but all the citizens ended up turning into tieflings because they were in hell.

It should be noted that the 4E tiefling origin mentioned above is not part of Forgotten Realms canon, but from the "Points of Light" setting that was the default 4E setting. The group of tieflings in BG3 are refugees from Elturel, which has become paranoid after being shunted into Hell for a week.

4th edition wanted tieflings to be a core race as part of their bid to attract WoW players, so now instead of being people from any race or culture that happen to have a tiny bit of demonic ancestry, they're a single culture that all descended from a fallen empire that made a stupid collective Pact.

Long story short tieflings are not demons. Their ancestors were humans who made a pact with a demon and now they carry the mark of a sin they didn’t commit.

Tieflings are the dark brooding bad boys of D&D. They could easily go down that evil road or show every one they can be good. They are the new Dark Elf.

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