A hundred different traits for a Tiefling character or NPC.
| d100 | Entry |
|---|---|
| 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 colors randomly. |