Fair - I hadn't considered that. When I played regularly, I did so with a club that had a regular meeting time, and I designed my games to account for missing players.
Here's how it was going to work.
I try to do that, but the local scene is a mess. Basically non-existent.
anyone who plays gorge world is not in fact a friend.
I'm looking at Role Player Independent magazine's (Volume 1 Issue 5 if you want to track it down) A Rough Guide to Africa article as I type this and they always include a White South African state with a neon sign above that says "OVERTHROW EVIL RACISTS HERE". Because White people banding together to avoid being raped, burned or hacked to death is verboten.
Ever see Serpent and the Rainbow? Maybe something like that....
I did. The Whicker's World banger episode on Papa Doc's Haiti too. I even ran two CoC scenarios in Haiti when it was under jarhead management after reading William Seabrook's The Magic Island. For more modern games: a Tonton Macoute run Fort Dimanche and Ghouls would go together like peanut butter and jelly.
I've played a couple, but they weren't in full campaigns.
Bold way to end Dice Scum with a suicide live on air, but I can respect the commitment.
You know that's actually a race I've never thought about playing. I have played with a player that did run a tiefling. They tried to speak for autistics when she tried to scold me and another guy for making tism jokes. Given the fact I'm on this site for so long should explain why this is fucking hilarious.
Iron Eagle is majestically terrible. Classic rubbish in an entertaining way
No, I'd rather kill myself than play one and anyone who wants to is permabanned.
I played a Tiefling warlock in 4e. I zapped bad guys, it was a good time. I didn't know I was supposed to play him as some kind of homosexual, so he was just some guy, really. Liked zapping bad guys.
Played as? Never had any interest. Played at a table with other people who have played tieflings, sure and most of them have been varying levels of annoying to insufferable. I don't know if I'd call them the fag race of the game, but they are quite often the modern equivalent of what would have previously been someone's "nuh uh, this isn't a drizzt clone" when it was absolutely a drizzt clone. It's not an issue with the race itself, just the stupidity of players choosing it.
Pathfinder 1st, Lawful Evil Monk Faultspawn (Asura Tiefling), played him as the most arrogant kungfu guy ever. Evil bastard who was only concerned with upholding his personal honor and becoming more skilled in combat. Tieflings are not supposed to be "fun" but rather the sweepings of the planes; some of them take it in stride, others it is a defining quality, but it does affect them and ought to be considered (at least if you are playing a serious character). Also, reject right out of hand the idea that they are all technicolor horned bastards; they are mutants and of any evil outsider origin, they SHOULD be varied, and I might suggest that you impose some degree of the original Planescape Tiefling appearance chart.
No but I have some thoughts. Tieflings (who are kind of like Warhammer Mutants to me) should either get a hard on from being half demonic of be completely repulsed by it. Maybe even to the point of self harm like alcohol abuse, cutting off their tails or sawing off their horns in a misguided attempt to fit in because skin color can't be changed without magic. Top Nazi descendants chose to sterilize themselves or married Jews, Arabs and Africans for a lot less. Children of serial killers probably make therapists or bar/distillery/brewery/liquor store owners rich. I can't imagine Bob Bornthisway the Tiefling baker who just goes to work every morning, married Aregund the single mother of three, likes to play bagpipe and drinks a pint over a friendly dice game in the Hungry Hungry Hippogriff with his bros every other evening. My gut would tell me to read a guide to play Half-orcs, keep in mind that Tieflings are worse off and start from there. There could be an old Ecology of the Tiefling/Cambion type Dragon/Dungeon/whatever article out there somewhere, I used one for Wererats this weekend because Warhammer never bothered to flesh Werecreatures out. I found heaps of old TTRPG zines on the Internet Archive in the last couple of years. Maybe check out other games for how-tos because playable races similar to Tieflings undoubtedly exist elsewhere.