New D&D movie pretty much F'd BG3 when it comes to Tieflings.

[zeeb]

The BG3 depiction of how Tieflings looks like were completely made non-canon by the movie which has the character Doric. Her wiki page ( https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Doric ) also states "Actually how tieflings usually look" which is located below a picture of her.

This makes the tiefling depiction in BG3 and pretty much everywhere else, which looks great imo, unfortunately non-canon (third-party).

Well, it is what it is. Even if the tieflings in BG3 are not canon anymore, I do like the look of them. The new canon version of tieflings gives me an impression of just a satyr.

[Mr Pibbleton]

Buddy, I'm still mad about how firbolgs look these days.

[War Maiden]

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Shame on you. You almost got me. Almost.

[Popsicles]

I was just talking with my D&D group last night. One of my beefs with the movie is that the tiefling looked like cheap cosplay. It was a girl with little bitty horns. She looked more elven than tiefling.

-We deduced it was the result of 'satanic panic' hangover.
-Or someone said 'we've spent 130 million already, we will have to cut corners on the tiefling. Costume only, no CGI.'

Yes the tiefling in the movie was crap, but the title of this thread is hyperbole. The whole cannon thing. The director, producers and writers of the movie made her look that way. I wouldn't say that is cannon form WoTC.

Plus - Tieflings look pretty badass in BG3. No problem here.

[dolby]

Well the amount of cosplay i seen that's based on the new dnd movie and that Doric druid means they did a good job. Doesn't really matteer what a rando from internet thinks.

I'm fine with both versions so don't really care either way. Both are fine in my book.

[skullymex]

Don't put too much stock in canon. The source material can and should be interpreted many different ways by different people.

[Yojo0o]

Tieflings look exactly like how the creative team wants them to look in any product. It's fine, let's not freak out. Also, one person's wiki caption contribution is not a WotC canon change. Tieflings have a range of depictions from overtly-fiendish to essentially human with 1-2 fiendish qualities.

Annah-of-the-Shadows is perfectly as canon as BG3 tieflings, BG2's Haer'Dalis, or Doric, and she's just a goth Scottish lady who happens to have a tail.

[Yojo0o]

Originally posted by War Maiden:

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Shame on you. You almost got me. Almost. :shantae_annoy:

It's a popular wiki, yeesh. OP isn't phishing you.

[dulany67]

Hollywood. Meh.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Infernal traits of tieflings were originally much more subtle.

BG3 tieflings just look like a cross between a ram and a lizard.

They all have horns, they all have tails, they all have glowing eyes.

It's like a tiefling uniform. It's one of the reasons I hate them. They all look the same, there's no mystery, there's no guesswork, there's no sense of wonder.

D&D making the incredible mundane once again.

"Humans, but wiith goat horns and tails."

[cl656]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Infernal traits of tieflings were originally much more subtle.

BG3 tieflings just look like a cross between a ram and a lizard.

They all have horns, they all have tails, they all have glowing eyes.

It's like a tiefling uniform. It's one of the reasons I hate them. They all look the same, there's no mystery, there's no guesswork, there's no sense of wonder.

D&D making the incredible mundane once again.

"Humans, but wiith goat horns and tails."

Or it was just a creative choice to appeal to a more general audience for increased profits.

[dulany67]

Originally posted by cl656:

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Infernal traits of tieflings were originally much more subtle.

BG3 tieflings just look like a cross between a ram and a lizard.

They all have horns, they all have tails, they all have glowing eyes.

It's like a tiefling uniform. It's one of the reasons I hate them. They all look the same, there's no mystery, there's no guesswork, there's no sense of wonder.

D&D making the incredible mundane once again.

"Humans, but wiith goat horns and tails."

Or it was just a creative choice to appeal to a more general audience for increased profits.

[Coldhands]

4e had the best tieflings, in look and backstory. I get making them look more like regular humans with little horns and a tail for the sake of costuming in a movie, but in video games and table top RPG art, I like the races to look more distinct and have splashier backstories.

[zeeb]

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Shame on you. You almost got me. Almost. :shantae_annoy:

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[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Originally posted by cl656:

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

Infernal traits of tieflings were originally much more subtle.

BG3 tieflings just look like a cross between a ram and a lizard.

They all have horns, they all have tails, they all have glowing eyes.

It's like a tiefling uniform. It's one of the reasons I hate them. They all look the same, there's no mystery, there's no guesswork, there's no sense of wonder.

D&D making the incredible mundane once again.

"Humans, but wiith goat horns and tails."

Or it was just a creative choice to appeal to a more general audience for increased profits.

More likely they were just the latest victim of humanity's obsessive need to label and easily identify everything.

Players have to know at a glance they're dealing with a tiefling, it just won't do to reveal this through subtle cues.

[zeeb]

Originally posted by Balltin:

I was just talking with my D&D group last night. One of my beefs with the movie is that the tiefling looked like cheap cosplay. It was a girl with little bitty horns. She looked more elven than tiefling.

-We deduced it was the result of 'satanic panic' hangover.
-Or someone said 'we've spent 130 million already, we will have to cut corners on the tiefling. Costume only, no CGI.'

Yes the tiefling in the movie was crap, but the title of this thread is hyperbole. The whole cannon thing. The director, producers and writers of the movie made her look that way. I wouldn't say that is cannon form WoTC.

Plus - Tieflings look pretty badass in BG3. No problem here.

The movie is a representation of D&D, they do not have design freedom as you may think they do. There have obviously been WotC people collaborating with the project to ensure it's depicting D&D the correct way and however much I despise WotC, they're the ones in charge of D&D, its lore and its design.

You might not like it, neither do I, but the movie is canon and everything in it.
This is how tiefling looks like now, everything else is now third-party.

I liked the movie though, but yeah, tiefling looks too simple for its lore. I like the BG3 looks of tieflings. But this is how it is. I can homebrew my tieflings to look like the BG3 equivalents, but that's what it's going to be; a homebrew, third-party, non-canon.