Thoughts?

Thoughts?

The horns on the left are gross. The look like maggots sticking out of her forehead.

My thought is that it has more to do with the way they want game mechanics to interact than with some sort of value judgement about the attractiveness of a fictional creature.

My other thought is that you're a colossal faggot.

New tieflings are too much on the nose. They also all look the same.

The problem is tieflings themselves, not their ability scores. They are boring as hell

New tiefling try too hard.

They want Tieflings to be mostly Warlocks and Sorcerers, I guess.
They seem like the type of race that'd fit that flavor and there's already quite a few races that'd make for good rogues or other DEX based classes.

Being able to play as an elf used to be a big deal.

They are a race that is effectively ageless and immortal, deific in their magical strengths, able to see in the dark, only requiring the briefest rest to restore their strength, etc etc. Especially in earlier editions that were closer to Tolkein's work elves were presented as being a rare and powerful folk. If a new NPC is an elf he is probably a big deal.

Now elves are just another player race and the same crowd plays as tieflings and hybrids between mortals and extra-planar beings are common enough to be a base playable race. Someone saying "i want to play a half demon race. they get +1 int and +2 cha and also have red skin and horns but the +2 cha is because they are badass" would have been laughing them off the table tier bullshit.

>hybrids between mortals and extra-planar beings

They're not though? They're humans tainted by fell energies, not hybrids.

Charisma is not physical appearance.

They stopped being a rogue race and become a sorcerer race.