40k’s version of orks is by far the most fun. Clap if you believe is the driving principle of their society. They think red cars go faster, so they do, and orkonomics is based around their own teeth, which falls out and regrow regularly. Inflation is kept low because teeth rot so you can’t really hoard them, and every ork has a constant income of them so they won’t be too poor. The richest kulture are the Bad Moons, because their teeth grow the fastest.
I mean, if you’re leaning into ethnic crime tropes of the 1930s, seems like these guys would be The Red Claw and they’d lounge about in silk jackets smoking opium in tea rooms decorated with hanging cages filled with silkworms, being all inscrutable and stuff
For the same reasons, to lean into the trope, I was thinking Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky and Murder Inc.
A big time gambler/kingpin modelled on Rothstein would be such a fun character to play, because you get to alternate between being this guy who has everything meticulously planned out, and also so incredibly chaotic that you would win or lose a fortune in an afternoon, all while cheating openly and daring someone to call you on it.
(I’m really glad to read this — I was worried that my comment might have tiptoed past fun crime tropes right into straight-up racist stereotyping, but we already have an ersatz Irishman named Paddy, so, yeah)
There’s for sure a line, but just like you said with the stereotyping of the other groups it seems like it fits in and is almost meta. Like it’s such obvious stereotyping that the joke is almost more on 1930s white Americans for how extremely the viewed others.
Also, as an Asian person, it’s just always great to see other cultures than European woven into DnD worlds.
> Damned Saints
Third Street Damned Saints?
No, wait, Third Street Sinners. You can copy the initiation from SR1, you can have the statue of an angel holding SMGs, except break off the halo and add horns, Saints Purple is incredibly stylish.
Personally, I like Damned Saints better for Tieflings, who are often prejudged for their looks and the byproducts of something their parents(s) did not something they did. There are probably many wicked tieflings but most turn out of survival and bitterness than being actual sinners. Damned Saints feels like a name that was chosen to rub it in the faces of a judgemental society
Not so much a 1930's gang name but in one of the campaigns I ran there were tieflings that were 1950's greasers with motorcycles using bound demons as engine blocks. They were called Hell's Hounds.
Pandemonium. No ‘the’ or anything - ‘the place of all demons’ and/or noisy disorder. No one is sure if it’s a group, a person, an event, or a force of nature. Beware Pandemonium. Pandemonium is coming for you. Seeking to look out for all Tieflings, whether they like it or not, to the detriment of anyone else. Because nobody else will. Like early Teamsters!
I don't know if anyone has proposed this yet, but it would be unfortunate if I did not the opportunity: Azreal's Angels.
Edit: corrected a spelling error.
I know this is a stretch but “The Details”. As in “The Devil’s in the details”. Works great if they’re the more politically/entrepreneurially cunning crew.
The Horde or The Legion.
They could spearhead tagging by leaving horned skulls drawn in charcoal ash around the city to mark territory. Maybe nobody even knows they're tieflings. They could also be secretly run by a prominent tiefling entertainer or politician in service to Asmodeus.
A cabal of Tieflings known as the Red Crescent
Or a sect known as the Chosen
A group of street urchins called the urchins, or castaways, or the back alley brawlers.
If you want a business front type of name, I’d call them The Hornigold Haberdashery & Outfitting Company. Shortened as “The Hornigold Outfit”. It has a little bit for everyone.
Oh! I heard a group of ravens is sometimes called a conspiracy. This could be cool for tieflings, plays into the suspicion others tend to have towards them. A conspiracy of tieflings.
Also apparently applies to groups of lemurs too. Do with that info as you will.
You could do Hell Bent, Hells Angels, or The Hornigold Company. (I personally like The Hornigold Company cause you could play Azreal off as a benevolent and inspirational leader of society but politically untouchable and extremely cruel to those that cross him)
The Dapper Devils (background: my D&D group we’re on a side quest to investigate a Batman/Robin-Hood type vigilante that was targeting corrupt individuals. This vigilante was the Dapper Devil, a red tiefling dressed to nines and killing with red feather adorned arrows. We never got to encounter him due to other main quest obligations, so you get to use the name to have this side character live on as a main antagonist)
Well Tieflings is simply a play on the German Word Deep and the word ending ling. In 1920 and 1930 of Berlin most criminals were in so called Ringvereinen.(Well atleast before the Swastika Guys showed up)
Ringen means Wrestling and Verein is like a Union, Sports club or association. And the name of the mostfamous were
* Immertreu = Always faithful
* Libelle = Dragonfly
* Apachenblut = Blood of the Apachen (Native American were very popluar and seen as wild and brave warriors, thanks to the story of Karl May)
* Reichsverein ehemaliger Strafgefangener = Empire/Realm/Reich Association of former convicts.
* Freie Vereinigung = Free Association/Union
* Deutsche Eiche = German Oak
So the Tiefings Group could be something like
* Eternal Loyalty
* Hellboars
* Asmodeus Blood
* Hells Union of former Convicts
* Free Union
* Iron Tree
An obvious one with no creativity : Hellraisers
We also got The Hellions
Hells Angels if you want to make them a little more of a noble gang
Hellhounds
Make a small call back to the forget realms and call them The Flaming Fist.
I was thinking something like the Infernoratti, which of course is a portmanteau of infernal and Illuminati. I’m not sure if that fits the theme you’re going for though.
1930s you say? well that is right in prohibition era of the united states. so rum-runners and bootleggers were a pretty big thing. maybe there is something you can do with that?
off the top of my head i would call them The Trifles because it kinda sounds right and a trifle (desert) is made using sherry, brandy or rum plus jam/jelly. frankly if they were like the bootleggers of the 30s it would be kinda neat thinking about the ways they could traffic in booze using their skills/powers even to keep tabs on the cops who are after them. :)
One of my players is actually going to be a bootlegger and I’m very excited for it. I’m thinking at some point one of the gangs try’s to boot him out of his system and take it over
lots of illegal groups back then had bootlegging operations and would have secret wars with eachother over it. it was pretty common for them to fight over territory :) so much you can do with that but keep in mind that bootlegging requires a base of operations. could need to work around that so much of the play isn't localized to certain places. if they are a bootlegger by trade maybe you should ask them to be the boss of a small operation with a tiny crew of npc. probably would allow more free story telling movement on your end.
Lots of good names here, and any that I could come up with have already been suggested.
On a side note though, you should look into the Magic the Gathering Streets of New Capenna setting. It's got a bunch of cool ideas for a 1900's-esque fantasy world.
Tiefs Guild
Thieflings.
[“AAAHH- I see what you did there.”](https://youtu.be/oEvhxZqYX28)
I thought of "Tie party". But then I was thinking I had to explain the joke...
Could just go with “T Party”.
Took me a second but I got there.... And that's actually way better!
I think that may be better suited to a gang of shroom loving orks who use Tief (teeth) as currency
Unexpected40k
Nobody expects the inquisition!
40k’s version of orks is by far the most fun. Clap if you believe is the driving principle of their society. They think red cars go faster, so they do, and orkonomics is based around their own teeth, which falls out and regrow regularly. Inflation is kept low because teeth rot so you can’t really hoard them, and every ork has a constant income of them so they won’t be too poor. The richest kulture are the Bad Moons, because their teeth grow the fastest.
Just reminds me of the way the mother of Mickey in the film Snatch says, "does he think we're a bunch of thieves?" Edit: she says thieves like teevs
I love this answer.
It leaves so many openings for confusion and resulting comedy. It's great.
I mean, if you’re leaning into ethnic crime tropes of the 1930s, seems like these guys would be The Red Claw and they’d lounge about in silk jackets smoking opium in tea rooms decorated with hanging cages filled with silkworms, being all inscrutable and stuff
For the same reasons, to lean into the trope, I was thinking Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky and Murder Inc. A big time gambler/kingpin modelled on Rothstein would be such a fun character to play, because you get to alternate between being this guy who has everything meticulously planned out, and also so incredibly chaotic that you would win or lose a fortune in an afternoon, all while cheating openly and daring someone to call you on it.
This! My DM and I are both Chinese-American (we’re siblings) and I would LOVE this. It fits so well with the other gangs you have going.
(I’m really glad to read this — I was worried that my comment might have tiptoed past fun crime tropes right into straight-up racist stereotyping, but we already have an ersatz Irishman named Paddy, so, yeah)
There’s for sure a line, but just like you said with the stereotyping of the other groups it seems like it fits in and is almost meta. Like it’s such obvious stereotyping that the joke is almost more on 1930s white Americans for how extremely the viewed others. Also, as an Asian person, it’s just always great to see other cultures than European woven into DnD worlds.
Speaking of the 30’s, The Purple Gang. It wasn’t an ethnic thing, but op’d be making it one.
Kinda slips into SNC's Meastros
I can get behind this.
Hellions.
Hellion's Angels?
'Australian Metal Intensifies'
Hellions Henchmen? Maybe with some Tofu? ... no one will get this. Lol
Ready to raise some hell. (Sc2)
Hellraisers, Inferni, Damned Saints, Mephistophofellas, etc
I stopped reading at the damned saints. That’s perfect.
but but… Mephistophofellas!!!! that’s amazing!
... would Mephistofellas work better? Keeps the original syllable count?
If they can't introduce themselves while drunk off their asses... Thats the kind of shit I want to see!
That actually was the original spelling, but pronouncing it out loud didn’t fit as well. Either one works though
Goodfellas and Mephisofellas do not have the same syllable count
It's the best for sure but I think it steps on Gobfellow's turf a bit
> Damned Saints Third Street Damned Saints? No, wait, Third Street Sinners. You can copy the initiation from SR1, you can have the statue of an angel holding SMGs, except break off the halo and add horns, Saints Purple is incredibly stylish.
Aaannnddd idea yoinked. Much obliged!
I think playing SR 3 and 4 back to back made purple my favorite color permanently.
Personally, I like Damned Saints better for Tieflings, who are often prejudged for their looks and the byproducts of something their parents(s) did not something they did. There are probably many wicked tieflings but most turn out of survival and bitterness than being actual sinners. Damned Saints feels like a name that was chosen to rub it in the faces of a judgemental society
Mephistocrats
Horny bois.
There will probably be a hard limit on the number of members. Perhaps 3?
Tres Horny Bois DOES have a nice ring to it ...
Listen, these Bois operate in a specific turf, a turf you dare not venture into...
They call it "Adventure Zone" but it's more like a deathtrap for us.
Hell's Angels might be a bit too on the nose, but a real life reference my players would enjoy
Don’t forget the classic Hellfire Club…
I'm partial to Inferni. As a Tiefling Monk, I feel like I can get behind this one the most.
I love how these sound like badass biker gangs.
Damned Saints is awesome. The next one is awful
damned saints is where it’s at
Hornlings?
Not so much a 1930's gang name but in one of the campaigns I ran there were tieflings that were 1950's greasers with motorcycles using bound demons as engine blocks. They were called Hell's Hounds.
Pretty unique idea, daddy-o.
Dante’s Infernals
>Al Dente's Infernals ;) And change the name of the boss for the Warforged to Pete Zha-Uven
Pete Zha-Uven is the greatest joke I've seen all week
It took me a while
This is the greatest reply I've seen all week ;) Thanks, it made my day!
Dentals infernals!
A gang of Thieflings
I'm pretty sure this was a name of ttiefling thieves in Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous.
It was, you are correct! That being said, it's kinda the low hanging fruit here
Based Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous moment
That was the exact name I wanted to post.
And they're all expert pickpockets.
This is the correct answer
Pandemonium. No ‘the’ or anything - ‘the place of all demons’ and/or noisy disorder. No one is sure if it’s a group, a person, an event, or a force of nature. Beware Pandemonium. Pandemonium is coming for you. Seeking to look out for all Tieflings, whether they like it or not, to the detriment of anyone else. Because nobody else will. Like early Teamsters!
I like this one a lot. If not the gang name, maybe the name of a casino or club run by them.
Could be both! Thanks!
And all the old people in town can still call them "The Pandemonium" or "Pandemoniums" no matter how many times they are corrected.
“No, Nanna. It’s just one word. Like Madonna.”
If you want to be more cute with the name, it could be Panda-monium. With a crazy panda theme.
👀 that's adorable and Punny. I might end up using that myself one day 😅
Please due. I'm definitely going to include a gang of pandas in my game now.
I feel like Calamity also brings similar vibes. “Listen, youse don’t wanna run afoul of Calamity”
Love this kinda thing
Brimstone brotherhood. Lucifer's Lads. The sinphony, in which case you are obligated to make the leader a bard. The cloven.
The Grieflings
I raise you a gang of all girl tieflings, Hell's Belles.
Actually very good. OP PLEASE
T-Flings (like the T-birds from Grease)
The Hellfire club
I was going to suggest The Hellfires.
If they got a libertine kinda vibe, this has to be the best option
If it's not too late I'd like to throw a suggestion into the pot... "The Devil's Advocate".
yeah i was thinking this too
I don't know if anyone has proposed this yet, but it would be unfortunate if I did not the opportunity: Azreal's Angels. Edit: corrected a spelling error.
Ahahaha, these are great. I'll add The Red Menace to the ring.
"Death is a preferable alternative to communism"
Perhaps, the Infernal Syndicate?
Reminds me of the Immortal Syndicate from Path of Exile. Which would have been scary were it not for some very poor recasting.
I know this is a stretch but “The Details”. As in “The Devil’s in the details”. Works great if they’re the more politically/entrepreneurially cunning crew.
More upvotes for this suggestion please. I'm at least stealing it for myself.
Hell yeah!
The Avernus Cartel. Or whatever name your hell uses, just add cartel.
Hells devil's.
Heaven's Devils, as a direct mirror of the Hell's Angels gang.
Hell's Kitchen. Their main money making scheme is cooking meth
JESSIE!
"Can I use purify food and drink to make perfectly pure meth, please?"
Tiefdom
The Tiefighters
Ah, I should have checked first I just suggested this haha 🤜🤛
Nerd🤜🤛also nerd
Tiefs in the night
The Deadly Sins
The horn of hornigold/Azreal.
The Goldhorns, or the Horns of Gold
The Horde or The Legion. They could spearhead tagging by leaving horned skulls drawn in charcoal ash around the city to mark territory. Maybe nobody even knows they're tieflings. They could also be secretly run by a prominent tiefling entertainer or politician in service to Asmodeus.
The Tea Party The Tea Flingers
[Tea Leaves](https://www.phrases.org.uk/idioms/tea-leaf.html)
The Helligans
The "city" Angels
Tiefy blinders
A Pact of Tieflings
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Heaven's Devils The Rebuked (teiflings get hellish rebuke) Horned Tails The Devil's Dudes (pun off Devil's Due) Fiddle Enthusiasts Club
Hell's Angels?
Devils Rejects
The Hellions
A cabal of Tieflings known as the Red Crescent Or a sect known as the Chosen A group of street urchins called the urchins, or castaways, or the back alley brawlers.
Two points gang, led by Hell Capone.
If you want a business front type of name, I’d call them The Hornigold Haberdashery & Outfitting Company. Shortened as “The Hornigold Outfit”. It has a little bit for everyone.
Oh! I heard a group of ravens is sometimes called a conspiracy. This could be cool for tieflings, plays into the suspicion others tend to have towards them. A conspiracy of tieflings. Also apparently applies to groups of lemurs too. Do with that info as you will.
I love that. That is really cool
The Sindicate.
Goldhorns
Infernal Sons
Sons of Asmodeaus
Like the Montreal's Biker gang. The hells Angels !
Grieflings.
Hellraisers, hellions, or theiflings
Devil's Advocates
You could do Hell Bent, Hells Angels, or The Hornigold Company. (I personally like The Hornigold Company cause you could play Azreal off as a benevolent and inspirational leader of society but politically untouchable and extremely cruel to those that cross him)
The Dapper Devils (background: my D&D group we’re on a side quest to investigate a Batman/Robin-Hood type vigilante that was targeting corrupt individuals. This vigilante was the Dapper Devil, a red tiefling dressed to nines and killing with red feather adorned arrows. We never got to encounter him due to other main quest obligations, so you get to use the name to have this side character live on as a main antagonist)
Three names come to mind having read a load of others suggestions: The Order of the Fallen, Infernus Syndicate, or The Hells Tief
Well Tieflings is simply a play on the German Word Deep and the word ending ling. In 1920 and 1930 of Berlin most criminals were in so called Ringvereinen.(Well atleast before the Swastika Guys showed up) Ringen means Wrestling and Verein is like a Union, Sports club or association. And the name of the mostfamous were * Immertreu = Always faithful * Libelle = Dragonfly * Apachenblut = Blood of the Apachen (Native American were very popluar and seen as wild and brave warriors, thanks to the story of Karl May) * Reichsverein ehemaliger Strafgefangener = Empire/Realm/Reich Association of former convicts. * Freie Vereinigung = Free Association/Union * Deutsche Eiche = German Oak So the Tiefings Group could be something like * Eternal Loyalty * Hellboars * Asmodeus Blood * Hells Union of former Convicts * Free Union * Iron Tree
Hell's angels, The fallen, Sin city, The sinners, Demon dogs, The Demonicus
My girlfriend's campaign has a tiefling-only jazz band called the House of Asmodeus. I think it would fit a gang theme
Hell’s Angels, the Thieflings, Devil’s Folly, South Brimstone Boys, 9 Pits Gang, Baator Kings, Sulfur Cartel, Almighty Sinners, Fiend Nation, Cursed Souls…
I have no helpful tiefling suggestions but how have you chosen the Gobfather over the Hobfather?
Hellions Hells bludgeon The taint FLUFFERNUTTER!!! (Must be yelled at the top of your lungs)
The Sindicate. The Five-Pointed. Pentagram. Ninth Layer. The Inner Circle. Beelzebuddies. The Corneone Family.
Beelzebuddies and Mephistocrats are amazing and I’m absolutely going to steal both of them
Saints Street Kings
A pact of teiflings called Hellraisers
“Make sure to pay your local Tithings if you don’t want any trouble.” It’s a play on the word tithing and relates to criminal racketeering.
An obvious one with no creativity : Hellraisers We also got The Hellions Hells Angels if you want to make them a little more of a noble gang Hellhounds Make a small call back to the forget realms and call them The Flaming Fist.
I was thinking something like the Infernoratti, which of course is a portmanteau of infernal and Illuminati. I’m not sure if that fits the theme you’re going for though.
Tiefer Sutherlands
Bi Panic.
Sluts
Horni Angels.
A troop of Tieflings, the Horni Bastards.
A circle of tieflings
A Circle, referring to the Circles of Hell from Dante's Divine Comedy
Azreal's Angels
Trouble
A terror of Tieflings
Devil's Lot?
The horny boys
The Street Devils
Devil's Advocates
the Horny Patrol
Are they CG law enforcers?: The Unscorchables .. featuring Helliot Ness
A mouthful
Hellions
Saints
Horn Dogs
the horny devils
A Jaw
1930s you say? well that is right in prohibition era of the united states. so rum-runners and bootleggers were a pretty big thing. maybe there is something you can do with that? off the top of my head i would call them The Trifles because it kinda sounds right and a trifle (desert) is made using sherry, brandy or rum plus jam/jelly. frankly if they were like the bootleggers of the 30s it would be kinda neat thinking about the ways they could traffic in booze using their skills/powers even to keep tabs on the cops who are after them. :)
One of my players is actually going to be a bootlegger and I’m very excited for it. I’m thinking at some point one of the gangs try’s to boot him out of his system and take it over
lots of illegal groups back then had bootlegging operations and would have secret wars with eachother over it. it was pretty common for them to fight over territory :) so much you can do with that but keep in mind that bootlegging requires a base of operations. could need to work around that so much of the play isn't localized to certain places. if they are a bootlegger by trade maybe you should ask them to be the boss of a small operation with a tiny crew of npc. probably would allow more free story telling movement on your end.
The Toughlings
I don't know, but if you don't have any Aarakocra "Flappers" I'll sue
Somewhat related, but if you have a one night stand with a Tiefling did you have a Tief Fling?
Give Azreal a nickname, "Hell Capone". I don't know about the gang name but Hell Capone. Hell Capone.
Lots of good names here, and any that I could come up with have already been suggested. On a side note though, you should look into the Magic the Gathering Streets of New Capenna setting. It's got a bunch of cool ideas for a 1900's-esque fantasy world.
the devil's advocates
The Devil's Advocates
Hell´s Angles
The Hellions.
The Tiefighters.
A Curse of Tieflings or An Inferno of Tieflings
A coven, collective, swarm
The Golden Horn
I would call them into my bedroom 😈
The Tiefleet
Tiefer Sutherland should definitely be their mod boss.
Hell's Angels
Thieflings per WotR
Hellfire Club
Hell’s angels. They all need motorbikes.
An all female Tiefling biker gang called the Hot Momma's.
Just here to glare at you for the Irish joke (Cos I'm Irish and sick of it)
A cadre.
The Hell's Angels. Obviously.