Tiefling Variant Heritages and Fiendish Sorcery


Rules Questions


Given the variant heritage of the Tiefling, is it possible to adjust the Fiendish Sorcery trait for the relevant Sorcerer Bloodlines?

Daemon Spawn - Daemon Bloodline
Div Spawn - Div Bloodline
Rakshasa Spawn - Rakshasa Bloodline

Silver Crusade Contributor

Not for the first two, but there's a feat to expand fiendish sorcery to cover the rakshasa and shadow bloodlines.

In a home game, though, I'd totally allow it. ^_^


Pathfinder Starfinder Society Subscriber

Only as a (perfectly reasonable) house rule.


There is nothing that requires a Tiefling sorcerer to have the "relevant" bloodline to benefit from Fiendish Sorcery.

A Demon-blooded Tiefling would get the bonus if they had the Infernal bloodline. Even with Improved Fiendish Sorcery, a Div-blooded Tiefling would get the benefit for the Shadow bloodline.

Restricting the benefit of Fiendish Sorcery to only the bloodline related to the tiefling's heritage would be a (reasonable) houserule.

Allowing Fiendish Sorcery to apply to appropriate bloodlines in addition to Abyssal, Infernal, Raskshasa, or Shadow is also a (reasonable) houserule.

Personally, I would use both rules. Tieflings get the bonus if they have the equivalent bloodline.

Devil - Infernal
Demon - Abyssal
Kyton - Shadow
Rakshasa - Rakshasa
Oni - Oni
Div - Div
Daemon - Daemon

For Asura, Demodand, and Qlippoth I would pick a "close enough" bloodline until such time as they may get their own.
Asura - probably Div or Infernal
Demodand - Abyssal or Protean
Qlippoth - Aberrant or Abyssal (possibly specify the Brutal wildblood bloodline)


@Samasboy1
I like that idea, makes more sense too. I'm gonna ask my DM to incorporate that.

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