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It's kind of fun to use the words "you" or "your" because it makes these sound like insults.
264.You have a pointy, striated head shaped like a football resting on a kicking stand. There isn't much you can do to hide your chin, but you can hide the top of your head by wearing a fez or conical wizard hat.
265.You have long, pointy ears similar in shape to bat wings which you can flap. It's kind of cute, but Vargouilles are constantly coming onto you and trying to mate with your face.
266.Your neck juts directly out of the middle of your chest to a length of approximately 20cm before ending with a head the size of a grapefuit.
267.Strange wrinkles and impressions on the surface of your butt give it the appearance of an aged, sour-expressioned face.
268.A small mouth set with a constant rictus grin and yellowing teeth like broken popsicle sticks left in a gutter slides about your skin occasionally uttering profanities, insults and threats. Plus, it hates you.
270. When you are wounded, you do not bleed. Instead, little puffs of stardust sprinkle out. Even the most minor wound gapes open, but instead of revealing blood and viscera, it displays a great inky void filled with stars.
271. Your skin is plaid....and the colors become even more gaudy when you get emotional.
272. The skin around your mouth and eyes seal shut when you sleep; you must cut them open anew each morning.
273. Your tears float upwards into the air. If you are really bawling, they form tiny thunderclouds from the reverse rainstorm.
274. You have wiggling tentacles in place of your head and facial hair.
275. You and all of your equipment are monochromatic, appearing in shades of gray.
276. You have fox-like ears.
277. You do not excrete; however, you gain mass whenever you eat, becoming bigger and bigger with each meal.
278. You have diaphanous webbing like a dragonfly's wings along the interior of all your joints.
279. Instead of hair, your head is covered with dozens of beetle-sized and beetle-like protuberances that open up and buzz when you are emotional.
280. Creatures adjacent to you hear their truenames whispered on a breeze that always seems to be blowing near you.
281. Creatures adjacent to you hear their darkest secrets whispered in their ears. You, of course, say you hear nothing.
282. Creatures adjacent to you hear faint unholy prayers and corrupted psalms from holy texts.
283. You gain a feral appearance when viewed with darkvision.
284. Your alignment aura always appears to be overwhelming.
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285. The character's skin is an unnatural color and completely hairless. Where hair should be on their scalp and eyebrows, there is instead a higher concentration of the darker or lighter spots that mark the rest of her body.
286. The character's hands seem to "sign" to each other...while he's sleeping.
287. The character has a birthmark that always resembles an inverted holy symbol of whatever good or neutral god she may worship.
288. The character has a peculiar pair of deformities above his eyes which resemble an extra pair of lashless, closed eyes.
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289. Every so often, one of your arms moves without your knowledge, usually raising a loaded crossbow or a wand at a friend.
290. Despite your best efforts to straighten your hair, it always seem to take the shape of demonic/diabolic/draconic wings, usually folded.
291. You often say things you did not mean, and try to correct it. "Okay, I can hold the ogres, but only if the elf dies first. No, wait, the elf is a friend. Definitly the ogres first."
Those three, Dragonborn3, sound suspiciously like something else I've read recently, Perhaps it was in the sections on character traits in the PHB2.
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Those three,Dragonborn3, sound suspiciously like something else I've read recently, Perhaps it was in the sections on character traits in the PHB2.
Tis true, I admit it. It was in the Warlock section. Thought they worked just as well for tieflings so I posted them. I take no credit for them.
Except for the one about the hair wings, that was my own creation.
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Except for the one about the hair wings, that was my own creation.
Then perhaps you'd like to explain this!
I'm sure it's just a coincedence. You've probably never even heard of Hairbat.
292.Your reflection possesses gargoyle-like features your body does not have and does not perfectly mirror your actions; sometimes even seeming to have a life of its own.
293.Short centipede-like limbs line your torso and pelvis. They twitch and flex of their own accord and are not strong to support your body's weight. You can, however, break them off and enjoy them for dinner if you use enough butter and garlic since they regrow overnight.
294.Infused with the chaos of the Abyss, your body changes form to take on one of the 1,000 traits listed in this thread every time you perform an evil act. Old traits that conflict with new traits melt, bubble or otherwise transform in some horrible manner but some traits may stack (i.e. crab-claw hands would not stack with flipper hands but could become multi-jointed or spotted.)
295.Though you're pretty sure all the pieces are yours, your skin appears to made up of overlapping patches of flesh from different creatures.
296.Left to its own devices, your hair will grow into a forward curving horn-like shape that extends from the back of your head and reaches to hang above your face. Given enough time, the hair becomes calcified. The calcified hair is too brittle to be used a weapon but strong enough to be used a perch for a small bird or bat.
297.Instead of being hinged, your jawbone slides down your neck. In effect, your lower jaw operates like an elevator and rests just above the base of your neck when your mouth is fully open allowing others a beautiful view of the back of your throat.
298.Your uvula ends in the head of a small snake that occasionally slithers out of your mouth or bites and constricts the tongues of people you french kiss. The snake isn't poisonous and doesn't do enough damage to cause HP loss, but it is kind of kinky.
299.Your right hand and wrist have the feel and appearance of being wet with fresh blood. Thank you, Nick Cave.
300.You are diprosopus, having two faces sharing a central eye. However, your second face is a monstrous or devilish twin of your own humanoid face. Your devilish face always appears to display the opposite emotions of your humanoid face but, otherwise, mirrors the actions of its twin even speaking with its own unnerving voice.
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Except for the one about the hair wings, that was my own creation.Then perhaps you'd like to explain this!
I'm sure it's just a coincedence. You've probably never even heard of Hairbat.
Both DC's Lady Godiva (a Global Guardian introduced in the Super-Friends comic book) and madam Medusa (Queen of the Inhumans) have used 'hair-wings' to fly. I'm pretty sure Godiva has even spun her hair around like helicopter blades to fly (and Medusa has used that trick to create a wind to blow people over).
Which just goes to show that there is no idea so lame that it hasn't already been used before... :)
293.Short centipede-like limbs line your torso and pelvis. They twitch and flex of their own accord and are not strong to support your body's weight. You can, however, break them off and enjoy them for dinner if you use enough butter and garlic since they regrow overnight.
Oh, that's perfectly *hideous.* I love it.
301. Ever heard of 'skin tags?' You have skin tags that wriggle like worms (or tiny tentacles, tipped with tiny gasping mouths that feed on tiny insects that live on your skin and open and close rythmnically as they breath) and retreat beneath the skin under barnacle-like warts if you pick at them.
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Except for the one about the hair wings, that was my own creation.Then perhaps you'd like to explain this!
I'm sure it's just a coincedence. You've probably never even heard of Hairbat.
Is that some old comic? I notice it looks more like a wig with bat wings, then wings that are shaped from hair.
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306. If you walk by a temple of a good god, the holy water starts to boil.
307. If you walk into a temple of a good god, the holy water becomes unholy water without anyone knowing about it.
308. When you smile, your teeth become jagged and pointy. At any other time they appear normal.
309. You cannot help but laugh maliciously in battle, regardless of you AL or if you are actually winning the fight.
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Is that some old comic? I notice it looks more like a wig with bat wings, then wings that are shaped from hair.
It's an old comic (1993-now) in ths sense it's been around awhile. It's pretty indy so I really didn't think you were copying it. Your hair wings idea just made me think of it. The hairbat is actually a live bat that lives in that guy's hair. Those are his wings sticking out. Larry Powell, the main character, becomes too afraid to cut his hair after witnessing his father die in a tragic haircut-related accident. Eventually, a talking bat named Oscar decides Larry's afro would be a great place to recuperate after he allegedly injures his wing. It just gets better from there.
313. When viewed in normal light, you are covered with horrible oozing pustules and boils. When viewed by darkvision, you appear beautiful--you're even in full color!
314. Instead of hair, you have wiggling diaphanous wing-like protrusions.
315. You have wounds like stigmata, except they ooze hot cocoa.
Just for the sake of interest, there are 2 #166, and no #312.
Just saying.
Just for the sake of interest, there are 2 #166, and no #312.
Just saying.
316. No sense of humor (see number 312).
317. Really bad at counting (see 166).
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The original #166 was a close copy to another post so I think it was usurped in a bloodless coup. There is no #312 because...er...uh...because #312 is you have no infernal traits. There is nothing special about you at all and nobody would ever guess you're a tiefling. In fact, you're appearance is so boring and nondescript it's almost mephistophilean.
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318. You constanly have nightmares, but your nightmares are strange. You can only remember good creatures(unicorns, aasimars, etc) chasing you for seemingly no reason.
319. Whenever you are humiliated, your face doesn't turn red. It starts to look like molten metal.
320. Your chosen profession is slightly tainted by your ancestry. For example, if your profession is glass blowing, people who but samples start to see vile creatures in the glass out of the corner of their eye.
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321.You were born covered in deep scars that spell out blasphemies, curses and vile prophecies written in either infernal or abyssal.
322.Your feet and/or hands are transposed (i.e. what should be your left is on the right and vice versa.)
323.You were born with metal spikes and rings carved with infernal runes piercing various parts of your body. If your parents had the objects removed when you were a child, the holes never closed leaving your body with permanent perforations. If the objects were left in, they adjusted in size through the years as you grew. Furthermore, the runes glow with a faint, red light, though not enough to light your way in the dark or make you easy to spot while hiding.
324.You were born with a number burned into your skin on some part of your body. Whether by passage of time or some other action, the number occasionally changes as if it is counting down to something. What happens when the count reaches zero is a mystery.
325.Alternately, the number increases due to some mysterious factor. Perhaps it an accounting of your sins?
Couldn't have started this thread BEFORE we put a measly 100 into Pathfinder#25's article on tieflings. From my infamous little black book, here's some I don't think made the cut...
326. Your organs are on the outside.
327. You leave incongruous, beast-like footprints.
328. Fungal growths cover your body.
329. You have beetles instead of blood.
330. Foul voices emanate from your insides.
331. You have no navel.
332. A shape-changing birthmark wanders your body.
333. You have a parasite-infested shell.
334. Your eyes can extend from your head upon slug-like stalks.
335. You have a snood.
336. You have whiskers.
337. Your foot steps wiggle for a few seconds after making them.
338. Your neck elongats as you talk then returns to normal afterwards
339 Grass parts for you as you walk through it.
340. When cut your wounds chuckle evily
341. Your hair and clothes blow against the wind.
342. You're 8-9' tall and lanky, but slouch and walk crouched occasionally stretching showing you true height.
343. Your torso is swollen and disproportionate to the rest of your body, while your head appears smaller and sunken.
344. One of your arms is 2-3x larger than the rest of your body, but does not offer any significant strength advantage.
345. One of your arms is 2-3x smaller than the rest of your body, but does not cause any significant strength penalty.
346. You have the correctly proportioned head of an "animal" which functions in all ways like a normal one would including speech. You are often mistaken for a monstrous humanoid similar to the type of animal chosen. Your bite does the damage you would typically do for a tiefling your size, not that of the chosen animal.
347. You have a pincher(s) instead of hand(s), that function normally and deal the standard non-lethal damage you would typically do for a tiefling your size.
348. Your hair grows in a way that you appear to have horns.
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349.Small bumps grow from your back that harden into brittle, spiraling snail shells. Breaking the shells reveals a slimy, gray sludge that oozes down your back. The sludge tastes like a combination of stagnant, lukewarm dishwater and bread mold, but it contains 9 essential vitamins and minerals and is part of a balanced breakfast.
350.Your pores emit fiendish body, hair and genital lice.
351. You speak in the 3rd person, constantly referring to yourself in conversation using your name. (ex: "Smash is hungry. Smash needs food.")
352. You speak in the 3rd person, constantly referring to yourself in conversation using pronouns.(ex: "He/She/It needs to rest.")
353. You speak in the 3rd person, occasionally referring to yourself in conversation as 'someone' or 'something' else. (ex: "The 'doombringer'would like more mead. A 'small kitten' will take 2nd watch."
354. You refer to yourself in conversation using the plural tense. (ex: "We went to the privy. We ran out of toilet paper.")
355. When someone says your name you say/yell a word or make an odd sound. (ex: Frau Blucher... *Horse Whinny*)
356. When someone says your name you have an involuntary bodily reaction. (Nervous tick, Sneeze, Flatulance, etc.)
357. You have an annoying battlecry or series of triggered expressions/phrases. (ex: "Who's on first..." "In the night, in the dark..." "By the power of Greyskull! - I have the power!")
358. You speak(or pretend to) using a part of your body other than your mouth.
357. You have an annoying battlecry or series of triggered expressions/phrases. (ex: "Who's on first..." "In the night, in the dark..." "By the power of Greyskull! - I have the power!")
"SPOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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359. You *look* normal enough, mostly, but the sickly sweet smell of your flesh, which sloughs off almost constantly in thin sheets, as if you were perpetually recovering from a sunburn, is unpleasant to most companions, but ambrosia to flying and crawling vermin, who circle around you and scurry through the folds of your clothing, attracted by the odor, and staying for the free meals they get from your shedding skin.
360. You have a single eye, but it is a solid band that goes around your head, allowing you to see in all directions.
361. You lack a mouth and cannot speak....however, when viewed with darkvision, your words appear in calligraphic script in the blank space your mouth should be.
362. Your fingertips end in sharp points like the tips of a quill, and they constantly ooze ink, staining any items you handle, unless you write or draw with them.
363. You have thick black hair with a white stripe running from your forehead all the way down your back to a bushy black and white striped tail. You can even spray like a skunk, but the odor attracts predators of all sizes, from tiny spiders to ravening tyrannosaurs.
364. Backwards writing occasionally appears on your abdomen, as if someone were clawing at you from the inside.
365. Your skin is black and white and as smooth as an orca's.
366. The soles of your feet are ridged and have tiny cold iron nails protruding from them.
367. You have a mitten-like flap of skin over your non-thumb fingers that do not interfere with your manual dexterity.
368. You have 2 left feet.
369. If you remain in contact with skin or hide of a living creature, your skin slowly melds with theirs. When you ride a horse or other animal, it makes you seem slightly centauric.
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357. You have an annoying battlecry or series of triggered expressions/phrases. (ex: "Who's on first..." "In the night, in the dark..." "By the power of Greyskull! - I have the power!")
370. Your fingers curl backward to touch the back of your hand when you are not paying attention and holding something.
371. Your eyes often roll upward to reveal the whites of your eyes for no reason.
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372. Your toes resembe cloven hooves.
373. You only have two toes.
374. Your body is unable to sweat, you must pant to cool down.
375. Every time you see your own refelection you see horns on your head. No one else sees this.
376. You have multi faceted eyes like a bug.
377. Your hair color of rust and have wiry fire-colored body hair.
378. A large scar on your torso looks like a stitched mouth.
379. Your lips can pull back to reveal more teeth and gums.
380. Each step you take leaves a small slime trail that evaporates after twenty seconds.
381. No matter the temp or herbs taken your nose is always red as if you had a cold.
382. You have a hole where your nose should be.
383. Your hair follows the rays of the sun like blades of grass.
384. You have two right feet.
388. You are always thirsty no matter how much you drink.
389. As you age your skin becomes more fish like. (No natural armor change)
390. If you have wings they look like insects clear wings.
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391.You have the legs and feet of a powerful and majestic fiendish ostrich.
392.In place of cheeks, you have wattles like a chicken.
393.You involuntarily vomit foul-smelling, steaming, lumpy and mildly acidic goo whenever you feel threatened. The expectorated goo sort of looks like a quivering, yellowish-orange tarbaby before it sinks into a puddle. The goo isn't acidic enough to do damage to creatures or most objects but ruins clothes and stains wooden surfaces.
394.You have ossicones.
395.You urinate through the pores covering your skin leaving your body and hair with a yellow tinge and a foul odor.
396.One of your eyes appears different from the other in some regard and acts independently of the other. It seems to know when to cooperate with your other eye so you take no penalties on sight-based actions or attacks but, the rest of the time, it moves of its own accord sometimes even rolling back into its socket.
397.Your pinky and ring fingers on both hands are thin and covered in red scales. The black nails on these fingers grow like hooks.
398.Your armpit hair occasionally reaches out to ensnare small insects and crush them in web-like cocoons.
399.In place of toes you have wriggling lizard tails which can be pulled off and regrown overnight.
400.Regardless of gender or age, you have the head of Anton Lavey complete with douchebeard. Howie Mandel might be a tielfing.
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Apologies if I've missed any like this previously, I've skimmed through a lot of the entries.
405: Everyone sees you as the person they most hate, viewed by True Seeing or similar effects you appear featureless. NB: You do not know how others see you
406: Everyone sees you as the person they most desire, viewed by True Seeing or similar effects you appear featureless. NB: You do not know how others see you
407: You are constantly pregnant, even without mating, at least once a day you will give birth to d3 children who are also Tieflings
408: You do not need to drink, but water avoids all contact with you, never coming within an inch of any part of you.
409: Your hands always appear bloodstained
410: Anyone looking deeply into your eyes sees an opposite of themselves reflected
407: You are constantly pregnant, even without mating, at least once a day you will give birth to d3 children who are also Tieflings
There was a character in one of the GRRM Wildcards novels who's "power" was similar to this. After she mated, her ovipositer (sp?) laid 1d4+1 eggs that created children with powers....but they were fragile and/or sickly and/or burned up when they used their powers, and would die in 1d6 days or so.
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Some of your suggestions are pretty similiar to others we've had, spinningdice. Most of them also seem like they would affect game mechanics too much to be merely cosmetic, and this one...
407: You are constantly pregnant, even without mating, at least once a day you will give birth to d3 children who are also Tieflings
...seems really inconvenient for a PC and potentially world-breaking. Given a 365 day calendar, that's up to 1095 children a year. Who's going to feed, clothe and shelter these kids? Are you some sort of preggo fetishist or are you just trying to draw connections between Octomom and the lower planes? ^_^
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Couldn't have started this thread BEFORE we put a measly 100 into Pathfinder#25's article on tieflings. From my infamous little black book, here's some I don't think made the cut...
We infuriate because we love!
411. Your fingernails and toenails are made of flint.
412. Whenever you speak, there is always a fainter voice echoing your words as you say them. The voice is not always your own...
413. Your spine is thicker than it should be, parts of it even piercing the skin of your back, albiet painlessly and harmlessly.
414. One of your eyes lags behind the other when they move.
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Apologies if I've missed any like this previously, I've skimmed through a lot of the entries.
405: Everyone sees you as the person they most hate, viewed by True Seeing or similar effects you appear featureless. NB: You do not know how others see you
406: Everyone sees you as the person they most desire, viewed by True Seeing or similar effects you appear featureless. NB: You do not know how others see you
407: You are constantly pregnant, even without mating, at least once a day you will give birth to d3 children who are also Tieflings
408: You do not need to drink, but water avoids all contact with you, never coming within an inch of any part of you.
409: Your hands always appear bloodstained
410: Anyone looking deeply into your eyes sees an opposite of themselves reflected
I think all of those except the pregnant one are ones I already did on the first page...or at least close...
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Ooh, I like 415. They have such neat voices.
417. Your eyes are one solid color, and people are occasionally shocked at the sight of something moving inside of your eye. On close examination, a tiny imp-like humanoid can be seen, hands and face pressed up against the transparent membrane, peering out of your eye, at anyone peering in... There is only one such 'imp,' and it appears to swim over to the other eye when you squint at something through that eye.
418. Your eyes always look opposite of where you are actually looking.
419. Your hair changes lengths as the day goes, then recedes back to it’s shortest length.
420. Fingernails always look like you were digging in the dirt no matter how much you wash them.
421. You have a mole that always seems to be in a different spot when talking to the same person.
422. No matter the temperature you seem to have a chill about you.
423. You put off a slight aura of heat but your skin has a normal person temperature.
424. Every time you kill an “enemy” you receive a hash mark on your arm.
425. Your voice delays a few seconds from your mouth. (Bad dubbed films)
426. As you age your ears and nose shrink slightly.
427. Every time you walk through a door while not sneaking you hear a mechanical whoosh.
428. Your pupils have small thunderstorms in them.
429. You have the voice of a young child deadpanning.
430. Your hair blows as in a strong gale even without wind.
431. Cat’s stalk you as you go through town.
432. When you were born you had wrinkles as you age they disappear.
434. You have rough soled feet and cannot abide wearing foot wear. (magic boots can still be worn but the bottom of the boot disappears as you put them on)
435. No matter the cost or material of your clothing and armor it always looks worn and/or threadbare.
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436.Your eyelids resemble fleshy spiderwebs complete with ribbing.
437.You have long, thick eyebrows that are very animated when you express emotions (i.e. curling, pointing straight up or down, dancing, etc.)
438.You have no heels requiring you to walk on your toes or wear high-heeled shoes in order to walk comfortably.
439.Your entire body is covered in a carpet of fat, rubbery, undulating grubworm-like growths. These wormy growths are even present under the hair on your scalp.
440.Your eyelids open on the left and right instead of the top and bottom of your eyes.