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5 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2008 - 9:09PM
#11
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Aug 22, 2008
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In the 3.5 book Races of Destiny it says
Adult hood: 15 years
Middle age: 45 years
Old age: 68 years
Venerable: 90 years
Maximum: +3D20
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5 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2008 - 9:37PM
#12
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Jun 22, 2008
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Let us remember that planescape tieflings were often only a generation of two removed from their fiendish blood.
The 4e version have been interbreeding for a millennium or so, so whatever starting infernal spark once existed has weakened over time. They are now creatures of the natural world, even moreso than elves. I surmise that this puts their natural lifespans at just over that of a human. Half-Elf scale, say.
Of course, it's a stickier issue whether it's "natural" for a tiefling to die of old age...
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5 years ago ::
Aug 23, 2008 - 12:24AM
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May 14, 2006
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Actually it seems that the effects of 4th ED tiefling blood is even more powerful then that of planescape tiefling blood. Even if a 4th ed tiefling takes a human parter the child is still a tiefling. Planescape tieflings' bloodlines seem fade after several generations of breeding with humans though they can reappear later along down the line.
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5 years ago ::
Aug 23, 2008 - 12:58AM
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Jul 11, 2008
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Tieflings are a race descended from ancient humans
To me, this implies human lifeline.
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5 years ago ::
Aug 23, 2008 - 1:15AM
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4th ed. tieflings are not 3rd ed. tieflings. They aren't the offspring of humans and devils/demons any more, or even the offspring of humans and cambions. They're a human bloodline with a curse.
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5 years ago ::
Aug 23, 2008 - 1:35AM
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Jun 22, 2008
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Ah yes, the cambion question.
How exactly did this work in previous editions? When Graz'zt gets frisky, the result is a cambion (if not severe hemorrhaging), but trysting with a succubus or vrock gets you a tiefling for your troubles?
Niether particularly on nor offtopic here...
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5 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2008 - 5:20PM
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May 14, 2006
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Fiend + Mortal = half-fiend. Half-fiend + human= tiefling. Prior to 4th ED.
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5 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2008 - 5:41PM
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Honestly I just see them as funky looking humans in the matter of life span, especially considering that the 'Playing a X' flavor block describes the first Tieflings as humans who made pacts with devils to, "solidify their hold over it's (Bael Turath) enormous territory."
But, as with most all things in the D&D world, it's ultimately up to the DM.
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5 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2008 - 6:05PM
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Jun 22, 2008
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Not to seem insulting, but one way to solidify an empire would be to extend it's subjects lifespans. Especially since they'll be facing damnation anyway.
BTW, I appreciate the demonology lesson.
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5 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2008 - 6:41PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 31, 2008
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Not to seem insulting, but one way to solidify an empire would be to extend it's subjects lifespans. Especially since they'll be facing damnation anyway.
BTW, I appreciate the demonology lesson.
On that note, there's the possibility that the devils shortened the lifespans of the humans turned tieflings just so their empire would fall. Seems like a devilish ploy to me. 
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