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Can a Tiefling be born from two human parents?
Yes, a tiefling can have two human parents
Borrowing from my question What's the difference between a Tiefling and a Cambion?
From Xanathar's Guide to Everything, we have this table on page 62:
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Is it unbalanced to allow a player to move the tiefling's +1 Int bonus to a different ability score?
This is exactly what is suggested in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
In the section "Customizing Your Origin" (TCoE, p. 7), there is a subsection on Ability Score Increases:
If you’d like ...
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Why is Jester blue and Lillith white in Critical Role?
Jester's coloration is explained in the narrative.
Critical Role Spoilers:
Although Jester's mom is a (red-skinned) tiefling, her father is a
This lends her the blue color, as well as the decidedly ...
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Is it possible for a tiefling warlock to cast Augury when they are first level?
Such a character can't cast augury, barring some kind of magic item or homebrew
Augury is a 2nd-level spell. It is not a tiefling racial spell, as you noted, nor even a warlock spell.
The Sword Coast ...
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Can a Tiefling self-mutilate to remove their horns/tail, and if so, does it do damage?
Yes, a tiefling's horns and tail could be removed
No material specifies that they cannot, nor any mechanical effects or penalties for a tiefling that is mutilated in such a fashion. The nearest we ...
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Is it possible for a tiefling to be a druid?
The druid class contains no racial constraints, and the tiefling race contains no class constraints.
There is no conflict here. There is nothing in the rules that would prevent a tiefling from being a ...
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Can a tiefling have permanent ivory white skin?
The tiefling was born that way
According to the PHB, not all tieflings are red; quite the opposite, their skin might have "the full range of human coloration":
Their skin tones cover the full ...
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How can I replace a lost Horn?
The regenerate spell
The most straightforward RAW way of getting missing bodyparts back is to have somebody cast regenerate on you.
The target’s severed body members (fingers, legs, tails, and so on),...
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Can a tiefling barbarian cast Hellish Rebuke while raging?
The rules are quite clear (emphasis mine):
Rage
[...] If you are able to cast spells, you can't cast them or concentrate on them while raging. [...]
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Infernal Legacy.
[...] you can cast the ...
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Why is Jester blue and Lillith white in Critical Role?
Re: Lillith...
Hi folks! Kit here - Lillith's player. Super simple explanation for Lillith's white colouration: it's due to albinism. She's an albino tiefling :) Hope that clears it up!
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Are Lawful Evil Tiefling Paladins possible?
Paladins in D&D 5e don't have to be of good alignment.
Firstly, even in earlier editions of the game, a tiefling could be of any alignment, even lawful good, and become a paladin. In D&D 5e, ...
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What's the difference between a Tiefling and a Cambion?
XGtE is optional
It's important to remember that most of XGtE's content comprises optional rules, and this particular section on character generation is no exception. In fact, the opening on page 61 ...
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Tiefling - Explanation on the "Virtue" name "Carrion" as suggested in the 5e PHB
OK so let's be honest - these "Virtue Names" are basically like choosing Smurf names, and tieflings are way more emo than Smurfs. So listed "Virtues" include normal positive things we'd normally ...
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Can a tiefling barbarian cast Hellish Rebuke while raging?
Casting Hellish Rebuke when raging is not possible.
If you are able to cast spells, you can't cast them or concentrate on them while raging. (Player's Handbook, page 48, under Rage)
The casting ...
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Does the benefit of the Flames of Phlegethos feat that allows rerolls of fire damage affect its final benefit?
They do not stack because the damage roll of Flames of Phlegethos is separate from any spell's damage roll
The first bullet of Flames of Phlegethos states:
When you roll fire damage for a spell ...
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Can tieflings be born without tails?
Yes
In general: You're the DM...the rules and setting details exist to enable you and your friends to have a good time playing the game together. If there are things that you don't like, you are free ...
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Will a Tiefling be born to a Tiefling/Human couple?
It's always a tiefling offspring.
The PHB, in the section on tieflings says (emphasis mine),
Their appearance and their nature are not their fault but the result of an ancient sin, for which they ...
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Can you add the same modifier to damage rolls multiple times if they come from different sources?
Your friend is right, mostly
I'm assuming a Zariel Tiefling.
Casting shillelagh on your quarterstaff changes its damage die to 1d8 and allows you to use CHA for attack and damage.
Casting searing ...
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Does Arcane Abjuration affect a Tiefling or Aasimar?
No, because tieflings and aasimars are humanoids.
According to the basic rules, player races (such as tiefling or aasimar) are assumed to be humanoid.
Every character belongs to a race, one of the ...
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Can Tieflings derive from stock other than human?
In D&D lore, there are indeed tieflings of races other than human. The stats in the Player's Handbook represent human-tieflings, but this does not preclude the possibility that there are others. ...
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What lore exists to explain tieflings with blue skin?
Tieflings were introduced for the 2e Planescape setting. While the original campaign setting does not give any detailed information about their appearance, The Planewalker's Handbook offers a table (...
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What did Tieflings look like before Asmodeus "claimed" them?
Almost human, with a variety of fiendish traits.
Before D&D 4th edition, tieflings were simply the descendents of humans and evil extraplanar beings, such as demons or devils. 4e retconned them to ...
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Do warlocks with an infernal pact or tieflings have a place in the infernal hierarchy?
Warlocks with fiend pacts are mortals,1 and therefore do not have any relevance to any fiendish hierarchy—in life, anyway.
Fiend-pact warlocks are rather likely to find themselves on the Lower ...
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Would changing the damage type on a tiefling’s abilities affect the game too drastically?
It depends on your campaign
The strength of any kind of damage depends on the campaign. While Sparksbet mentions the resistances from Monster Manual in this question - it matters a lot less than it ...
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Why is Jester blue and Lillith white in Critical Role?
Jester was blue because....
The above relationship is well known, but as the cause for Jester's coloration and resistance to cold damage, Jester concludes that it is the reason for her color in ...
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Is this homebrew Winged Tiefling balanced?
It depends on the campaign, for the "Is this balanced?" question.
I will focus on that in my last section, comparing your race to similar other races.
It's hard to say if features like ...
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Does a Feral Tiefling's Vicious Mockery damage go up as normal?
Yes
Short answer: Cantrip's damage is affected by character level, no matter their origin.
Not-too-long answer: Cantrips increase damage as you gain character levels, as the description of Vicious ...
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Can Infernal Tiefling Always Fly?
That is indeed an official option present in the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide.
SCAG pg 118
Tiefling Variants
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Winged. You have bat-like wings sprouting from your shoulder blades. You have a ...
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How does the vulnerability from the Tomb of Levistus warlock invocation interact with the resistance from the tiefling's Infernal Legacy trait?
Vulnerability and Resistance are not mutually exclusive so there is no general vs specific
The general/specific rule only applies when two rules couldn't occur simultaneously such as two things ...
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Do I add my Proficiency Bonus to the Spell Save DC of a Tiefling's Hellish Rebuke?
The Spell save DC would include the proficiency bonus.
Player Handbook (p.205)
The DC to resist one of your spells equals 8 + your spellcasting ability modifier + your proficiency bonus + any special ...
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