Editing Tiefling (section)

===3rd edition===
The [[Planescape]] setting may have fallen into the background when 3rd edition rolled around (appearing only in part of one obscure module), but tieflings themselves survived. They got an NPC writeup in the very first ''Monster Manual'', followed by a full PC treatment in the [[Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting]], which was repeated with small modifications in the ''[[Planar Handbook]]'' and ''[[Races of Destiny]]''.

Whilst tieflings in 3e retained their Intelligence bonus (now boosted to +2), their ability to see up to 60 feet in the dark, and their ability to cast Darkness once per day, they had changed a lot. Medium sized Native Outsiders, their former resistance to elemental damages had been downgraded to Energy Resistance (Cold, Electricity, and Fire) 5, and went from having penalties in Strength and Wisdom to suffering a -2 penalty to Charisma. They also gained a +2 racial bonus to Bluff and Hide checks, a +2 Dexterity increase, a [[Favored Class]] of [[Rogue]], and a [[Level Adjustment]] of +1. Like most exotic races, nothing they had was really worth that level adjustment, especially compared to the bonus feat Humans got.

''Player's Guide to Faerûn'' introduced the "Lesser Planetouched" variant rule, wherein ALL planetouched, be they Aasimars, Tieflings, Genasi, or whatever, and regardless of whether they were players or NPCs, counted as "Humanoid (Planetouched)" rather than as "Outsider (Native)", thus cutting them off from Darkvision, martial weapon proficiencies, the ability to take outsider forms with polymorph spells, immunity to "person" spells, and nothing else of importance, in exchange for dropping the level adjustment. This was widely misinterpreted as a subrace that individual players could take during character-creation.

Strangely, ''[[Races of Destiny]]'' includes an error in its copy of the tiefling statblock, saying it lacks its trinity of Energy Resistances. As every other version of the statblock says they ''can'' resist Cold, Electricity and Fire, it's obviously an editing error that slipped through somewhere along the line.

Flavor-wise, tieflings remained the mongrel offspring of mortals and denizens of the [[Lower Planes]]. But change was coming...