d100 | Result |
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1 |
Patches of red scales along the Tiefling's arms. |
2 |
Tiefling's eye color is inverted in their reflections |
3 |
Sheds skin once every 66 days, in the 6 days up to the molting the skin becomes gray and flakey, until it can be peeled off. |
4 |
Horns grow forever, and must be filed weekly before becoming heavy and hindering. |
5 |
Organs are reversed, pulse on right side etc. (I know that IRL the heart is in the center and only leaning left, suspend the disbelief please). |
6 |
No nose, rather holes that expand and shrink like a snakes. |
7 |
Smell with their (possibly forked) tongue. |
8 |
Can't grow facial hair other than an ominous-looking goatee. |
9 |
Can't lie while at least 25% submerged in a natural body of water. |
10 |
Sweat turns to steam immediately, although not boiling or even hot. |
11 |
Voice is a natural harmony, due to three sets of vocal chords. |
12 |
One hand has fingers with five sections each, the other has fingers with two sections each. |
13 |
Their horns grow like the branches of a tree and split at the ends that need to be trimmed like a bonsai. |
14 |
An insatiable lust for spicy foods. |
15 |
Sleep with eyes open and rolled back, snoring in ancient incantations. |
16 |
When sneezing, you briefly change appearance as if to polymorph into a demon or aberration of some sort. |
17 |
Your tail acts in the same manner a cat's would. |
18 |
When inebriated instead of tripping over yourself or slurring your words, you gaze into nothing and whisper infernal phrases. |
19 |
Tiefling's facial hair is constantly smoldering. |
20 |
Tiefling's shadow is 3 times bigger than it should be. |
21 |
Tiefling has multiple pupils and/or no irises. |
22 |
Tiefling sees images of the Hells when looking through opaque translucent materials. |
23 |
Tiefling has a strong inclination towards formal speech, documentation, and formatting agreements/relationships as contracts. |
24 |
Tiefling causes recently picked small vegetation to wilt immediately upon skin contact. |
25 |
Tiefling is nearly/completely identical to parent of the same sex. |
26 |
Tiefling derives a sense of comfort when faced with noticeable tension between two present parties. |
27 |
Tiefling cannot blink or shed tears. |
28 |
Tiefling has innate dislike of precise and/or complex geometric symbols. |
29 |
The Tiefling has two large horns, each of which has a red crystal carved/implanted into them. |
30 |
The tiefling's tongue is that of a serpent, giving their voice a hissing sound. |
31 |
The tiefling's eyes burn with the fires of their demonic ancestry. |
32 |
The tiefling is devilishly handsome. |
33 |
An Abyssal Rune is scarred into their back. |
34 |
Tiefling can smell any holy water within 20 feet, it is mildly irritating to them. |
35 |
Tiefling's hands are backwards, their palms are where the backs of their hands should be. |
36 |
Tiefling has spines like a porcupine's instead of head hair and facial hair. |
37 |
Teeth are regenerative. |
38 |
Sleeps hanging by tail like an opossum. |
39 |
Only has 8 fingers (including thumbs). |
40 |
Has two sets of eyelids. |
41 |
Can control body temperature (dropping or increasing at will by several degrees). |
42 |
Has a spellscar where sorcerers/wizards/warlocks can draw magical power from. |
43 |
Is disgusted by anything not humanoid. |
44 |
Breath smells like brimstone. |
45 |
Covered with birthmarks shaped like infernal symbols. |
46 |
Face always obscured in shadow. |
47 |
Flames flicker across the back of the hands. |
48 |
Each day a new tally mark scar appears on the skin. |
49 |
Tiefling is blue and cold to the touch. |
50 |
The tiefling's preferred sleeping spot is a burning coffin. |
51 |
Tiefling has tusks instead of fangs, almost like an orc's. |
52 |
Makes domesticated animals nervous - disturbs messenger pigeons in their roosts, sends cats yowling from the room, etc. |
53 |
Has two little nubs on the shoulder blades where wings would ordinarily be. |
54 |
Infernal Shadow: this Tiefling's shadow has its own weight, even though slight, is noticeable by other creatures when it rests upon them. |
55 |
Antlers that grow like a wreath starting 2" behind the ears moving forward. |
56 |
The tiefling has pearly black skin with gold marble veins. |
57 |
Vertebrae are raised slightly, like pointed peaks. |
58 |
Secondary set of eyes set below a typical pair, one set for normal light, the second for darkvision. |
59 |
Only sleeps standing up. |
60 |
Leaves behind brimstone soot on surfaces, especially in it's bed. |
61 |
Spilled fresh blood is dark and gets brighter as it ages out of the body. |
62 |
Hair flows and floats as if underwater. |
63 |
Reflections are tripled. |
64 |
Bones feel creaky under a full moon. |
65 |
Four extra canine teeth on the top and bottom jaws. |
66 |
Each step made on earth bare-footed leaves a charred footprint. |
67 |
Hundreds of healed gashes cover your back, Though you've never been whipped. |
68 |
You carve tiny apocryphal sigils into your skin with fingernails as you sleep. If someone with a mind for puzzles and a knowledge of infernal can decode the script, it will reveal a minor demon's true name. |
69 |
Your tail, if somehow detached from your body, will grow back in a month and a half, as the old one turns to a jagged obsidian, too brittle to work. |
70 |
The Tiefling's shadow shivers visibly, and sometimes twitches and jerks in an unnatural manner. |
71 |
The Tiefling attracts their own blood gravitationally, with the blood being otherwise unaffected by gravity. |
72 |
The Tiefling's tongue is covered in sharp teeth. |
73 |
Small clouds of soot appear as the Tiefling exhales. |
74 |
The Tiefling's teeth can be folded backwards like those of an anglerfish. |
75 |
The echo of your voice returns in Infernal. |
76 |
Followed by a loyal servant that no one else can see, hear or feel. |
77 |
When laughing nearby fires sputter, spark and release sulphuric smoke. |
78 |
In the presence of priests, monks or clerics can only speak in sing-song rhymes. |
79 |
The slightest touch on their skin leaves a black imprint that fades a few seconds after the pressure stops. |
80 |
Their blood glows like magma, and turns into solid glass/obsidian soon after leaving the body. |
81 |
Pupils/irises look like a highly reflective metal and act as mirrors. |
82 |
A ring of long, soft fur grows around the tiefling's neck. |
83 |
Long, black claws in place of nails that cannot be cut, only filed. |
84 |
Candles are snuffed as if by wind in their presence. |
85 |
Short, bobbed tail where a long, pointed one ought to be. |
86 |
All bodily fluids (blood, spit, etc) are pitch black and shine like oil. |
87 |
Grass dies wherever they stand, sit or lay for an extended period of time. |
88 |
With every beat of the tiefling's heart there is a surge of heat through it's body. |
89 |
You are inexplicably drawn to music, but you can never understand how to create it. |
90 |
Small, heatless flames flicker across your skin when you're angry. |
91 |
You understand the thoughts of reptiles. |
92 |
Any fire within 5 feet of the tiefling burns dimmer, but hotter. |
93 |
All bodily fluids are replaced with blood. You will cry, urinate, vomit, and sweat blood. |
94 |
Their breath is icy cold and fogs in all temperatures but the coldest of winter. |
95 |
Their only otherworldly feature is their horns, which they constantly file close to their scalp to attempt to look more human. |
96 |
Has an extra set of teeth on their lips, outside of their mouth. |
97 |
The tiefling doesn’t open its mouth to speak. It’s voice seems to emanate from some source deep within the bowels of the creature. |
98 |
Shadow effects physical objects by touching their shadows and is darker than normal. |
99 |
Naturally black bones. |
100 |
Hair grows in different colours randomly. |
Tiefling Traits (d100)
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