Those black eyes, cold as a winter storm, were staring right into her heart and the sudden seriousness in his voic e jolted her. Asuraspawn, or faultspawn as they are sometimes called, is the name given to tieflings who are descended from the violent inhabitants of hell born of the mistakes and accidents of gods. Hungerseed are normally taller and bulkier than normal humans, their flesh seems to bulge as if straining against their skin particularly during times of heightened emotion. Tiny horns and a barbed tail reveal that he is something more than human. While there are countless creatures in the bestiaries that could be considered races, this page is for specifically detailing the ones intended for players. Unless they have specific tiefling related size modifiers, the tieflings of each of these races are the same size as their nonfiendish ancestors. Tieflings is your essential guide to the demonmarked. Average rating 2 ratings tainted by the blood of devils.
Tiefling villains often live up to this reputation, whereas player characters have the choice to abandon this stereotype. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. Some people worship standard gods, but others choose to worship great powers such as ancestral spirits, archdevils, demon lords, empyreal lords, four horsemen, great old ones, infernal dukes, malebranche, or whore queens. These short and stocky defenders of mountain fortresses are often seen as stern and humorless. The amazing races pdfs introduce new archetypes, feats, character traits, racial traits, and archetypes for the core, featured, and uncommon races described in the pathfinder roleplaying game. In exchange for magical prowess they coupled with hellish beings, ensuring their bloodlines. Tieflings are any race with infernal or abyssal taint in their ancestral bloodline. Tieflings have a demon or other evil outsider in their family history, and this can cause them some social problems dealing with others, as there is the assumption of evil or deciet on their part. Tieflings might not have an innate tendency toward evil, but many of them end up there. Tieflings being outsiders is a technicality in my book.
Tieflings are quick in body and mind, but are inherently strange. The caster level for this ability equals the tiefling s class level. Like their asura ancestors, faultspawn tend to derive a deep joy from witnessing the myriad failures of the gods and will often devote themselves to the ruin of religions whose values and beliefs do. Pathfinder roleplaying game core reference document. They arent just humans with tainted blood, they can be anyone. Therefore, grimspawn can usually be found at the sights of epidemics, natural disasters, and war zones, such as. Inner sea races, a 256page hardcover pathfinder campaign. In 4th edition and later, tieflings are a core character race and have had their appearance altered from 3. You cant discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Onispawn, or hungerseed as they are sometimes called, is the name given to tieflings who are descended from oni. The rules are just preventing you from appearing as an owlbear or a lich or something crazy like that. Tieflings have cold resistance 5, electricity resistance 5, and fire resistance 5. Grimspawn tend to find themselves unnaturally fascinated by sickness, decay, and death in all its many forms. The path of the tiefling is fraught w tainted by the blood of devils. It presents players with exciting new options for their tiefling characters, including unique. Theres even more diversity among sentient humanoids outside of. While playing the pathfinder rpg, the game master describes the events that occur in the game world, and the players take turns describing what their characters do in response to those events. Tieflings are humans with demonic, devilish, or other evil outsider blood in their ancestry. The trove is the biggest open directory of rpg pdfs on the internet. Tieflings mature at the same rate as humans but live a few years longer. As the title suggests, the pathfinder player companion. For info, news, resources, and anything else about the pathfinder pen and paper rpg. Pathfinder has a massive race selection to choose from.
Tieflings are the offspring of fiends and humans, though the relation couldve happened generations before the individual tiefling was born. Simultaneously more and less than mortal, tieflings are the offspring of humans and fiends. Tiefling traits tieflings share certain racial traits as a result of their infernal descent. Tieflings were humanbased planetouched, native outsiders that were infused with the touch of the fiendish planes, most often through descent from fiendsdemons, yugoloths, devils, evil deities, and others who had bred with humans. Something wicked lurks within born of mortal and fiendish blood intertwined, tieflings are tainted individuals thrust into a world that has learned to both fear and despise them. Book of fiends is a book for the pathfinder roleplaying game, it is intended for players, and it is meant to give more options and ideas on how to play a character of the tiefling race. Core deities core deities are those which appear in the core rulebook p. Typically, these qualities hearken back in some way to the manner of fiend that spawned the tieflings bloodline, but even then the admixture of human and fiendish. Tieflings were known for their cunning and personal allure, which made them excellent deceivers as well as inspiring leaders when prejudices were laid aside. Your intelligence score increases by 1, and your charisma score increases by 2. Often persecuted for their strange appearance and unnatural mannerisms, most tieflings disguise their nature or are forced to live on the fringes or underbelly of civilized society. We kick this pdf off by an expertly written introduction to tieflings in the context of the midgard campaign setting as well as, of course, the tieflings racial traits im not going to rehash them here suffice to say, they are not modified in the midgard setting at least on a basic level. This is meant for all tieflings, regardless of parent races. Tiefling are one of the races available to the player in pathfinder.
Tiefling aims to give players of the horned, demonspawned humanoids immersive, worldneutral materials and support for almost any kind of play. A deity is a supernatural being that is worshiped by creatures in golarion. Long ago, a few of the most ambitious spellcasters entered into dark pacts with certain denizens of the eleven hells. This is playtest material the material here is presented for playtesting and to spark your imagination. In game terms, the difference between nonhuman tieflings and human tieflings is purely a matter of size. This racial trait replaces the spelllike ability racial trait.
Every pdf contains three full pages of high quality content no fluff or filler. Paizo shortened it at some point, to be closer to human ages. Fiendish options this document introduces new playtest options for tieflings, diabolical cults, and demonic boons. Tieflings are planar scions native to golarion who are mostly human, yet with the blood of demons. At a glance, pathfinder tieflings are all but identical to their 3e versions. These game mechanics are in draft form, usable in your campaign but not refined by design iterations or full game development and editing. These tieflings exhibit either powerful, toothy maws or dangerous claws. If you want to play the ultimate tiefling hero, this book is for you. Blood of fiends, a pathfinder companion sourcebook by hal maclean and colin mccomb, was released in april 2012. These game mechanics are in draft form, usable in your campaign but not refined by design iterations or editing. Unlike storytelling, however, the actions of the players and the characters controlled by the game master frequently called nonplayer characters, or.
Some onispawn also posses small tusks which they delight in using to tear into living flesh. Known for mining the earths treasures and crafting magnificent items from ore and gemstones, they have an unrivaled affinity for the bounties of the deep earth. Tiefling aims to give players of the horned, demonspawned humanoids immersive, worldneutral materials and support for almost. Oozemorph shifter is a good example, as are some of the worse core rogue or. Included are new and expanded options for alternate racial traits and subtypes, favored class options for all the base, core, hybrid, and occult classes, and three racial archetypes. The tiefling can choose a bite attack that deals 1d6 points of damage or two claws that each deal 1d4 points of damage. There is some good stuff and no level adjustment for playing them. Feats for races this is playtest material the material here is presented for playtesting and to spark your imagination. With age, a characters physical ability scores decrease and his mental ability scores increase see the aging effects tables.
This name generator will give you 10 random names fit for the tieflings part of the pathfinder universe. Alternatively, roll the dice indicated for your class on the appropriate table and add the result to the minimum age of adulthood for your race to determine your characters age. Dwarf tieflings, halfling tieflings, gnome tieflings, they all exist. Gaming roleplaying games pathfinder first edition compatible 5,824. The players handbook, dungeon masters guide, and monster manual. Its not directly stated, but there is a blanket statement saying that all tieflings have the same attributes regardless of lineage. The following feats have tiefling as a prerequisite. Tiefling character name warlock 1 wizards of the coast. Tieflings have an alternate racial trait called pass for human, that basically lets them blend into society without revealing their true heritage to others. Since their whole identity establishes them as looking strange and exotic, yet still very recognizable human, its totally kosher to use sexy demon chick artwork for a female tiefling character. Lets examine the pathfinder tiefling racial traits, alternative racial traits, favorite class abilities, and feats for your player character pc. Average rating 2 ratings seize the power of hellfire. However, tieflings are as varied as humans, as evidenced. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your warlock.
Most tieflings never know their fiendish sire, as the coupling that produced their curse occurred generations earlier. Tieflings can use darkness once per day as a spelllike ability. With otherworldly blood and traits to match, tieflings are often shunned and despised out of reactionary fear. In fact, tieflings are one of only two noncore races usable in. Daemonspawn, or grimspawn as they are sometimes called, is the name given to tieflings who are descended from daemons. Weve incorporated all the errata and new material into the pdf. Over 500 pdfs from rogue genius games, everybody games, and rite publishing, for pathfinder, starfinder, and 5e. Tieflings pathfinder reference document archives of nethys. The following races are the most common in fantasy settings.