Talk:Tiefling
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How do you pronounce this? I've heard "TEE'-fling" and I've heard "TY'-fling."
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- In Planescape: Torment, the word is always pronounced "TEE-fling", and I've never seen any official material pronounce it otherwise.
- Sorry, TEE-fling sounds horrible. I would only go for TY'fling. --Calidore Chase 12:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- The word seems Germanic and would thus be pronounced TEE-Fling. --Infosocialist 09:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, TEE-fling sounds horrible. I would only go for TY'fling. --Calidore Chase 12:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- In Planescape: Torment, the word is always pronounced "TEE-fling", and I've never seen any official material pronounce it otherwise.
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- It has been explained to me as a German word and I still use TY-Fling. Expecting an english speaking audience to know a German pronunciation rule, especially when the rest of the pronunciations are fairly obvious is a bit much. That, and "TEEF-ling" sounds like babytalk to me. -- Bear Eagleson
- It might be German in origin, but remember it was derived from a German word. It is obviously it's own word, as created by Baur, so its pronunciation could be different. Torment made it pretty clear how the word is pronounced. The way the Planescape Setting portrayed tieflings was that of devious, conniving beings. I always liked to think that it was really a corruption of "Thief-ling", and have thus pronunced it TEEF-ling. To each his own though. "TEEF-ling" sounds no more babyish than "TY-fling".-- Vinlund (talk) 21:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
- It has been explained to me as a German word and I still use TY-Fling. Expecting an english speaking audience to know a German pronunciation rule, especially when the rest of the pronunciations are fairly obvious is a bit much. That, and "TEEF-ling" sounds like babytalk to me. -- Bear Eagleson
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the first paragraf is written terribly and needs to be rewritten. 81.214.36.116 (talk) 15:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
the person who added the ranting about 4th edition, had better done it in a separate section. the introductory paragraf had been messed up terribly and incomprehensible. 81.214.36.116 (talk) 15:29, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Tieflings and Half-Fiends
Does anyone know if a Half-Fiend counts as a Tiefling or not? I know a Tiefling can be further down the descent than a half-fiend can, but I was wondering if a half-fiend might count as one themselves? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.27.191.54 (talk) 03:42, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
- In the original Planescape boxed set, a Tiefling was described as half human, half something (assumedly lower planar) else. While it is suggested there are tieflings who may be half bloods, the Planewalker's Handbook suggests most of them a quarter or less fiendish. -- Bear Eagleson
[edit] Non-notable?... surely you jest
Given that this is a main player race in D&D 4th edition, the most extensive and one of the most played roleplaying system developed by man. There really doesn't seem to be much justification for the non-notable tag. If no one objects after a few days, I or whoever reads this should remove the tag. If you want to debate, please feel free to contact me, I won't make any moves if there is objection.M4bwav (talk) 22:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
