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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6002198" data-attributes="member: 11697"><p>One of the key things regarding the 'loths however was their utter antipathy towards gods. Hellbound came out and stated that no yugoloths become clerics, and if any have, they're hunted down as outcasts - the whole 'godless yugoloths' was a striking point for them. Additionally, they take their hatred of gods to a pretty striking level given that they carved Khin-Oin from the spine of a god they killed (though the precise history here doesn't state if the younger 'loths did it, or the elder baernaloths).</p><p></p><p>I'd never consider placing a baern as a deific servitor unless its intent was to corrupt and destroy the fiend, and it likely wouldn't make its presence known in the process if it could avoid it.</p><p></p><p>As for the mechanical weakness in their 2e stats, it's a strange thing since it doesn't match well with what they as a race were said to have done, and Daru Ib Shamiq was capable of things in 'Squaring the Circle' in the Hellbound box set that by the stats, he shouldn't have been able to do (creating the ghost yugoloth).</p><p></p><p>The way I personally approach the issue is that the 2e stats represent those baernaloths who have long-since succumbed to the wasting and spiritual decay of the Waste. I'd use a different set of statistics (or none at all) for those who haven't, such as the baernaloths among The Demented who are still active and spinning plans hatched long before the first gods and first mortals evolved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 6002198, member: 11697"] One of the key things regarding the 'loths however was their utter antipathy towards gods. Hellbound came out and stated that no yugoloths become clerics, and if any have, they're hunted down as outcasts - the whole 'godless yugoloths' was a striking point for them. Additionally, they take their hatred of gods to a pretty striking level given that they carved Khin-Oin from the spine of a god they killed (though the precise history here doesn't state if the younger 'loths did it, or the elder baernaloths). I'd never consider placing a baern as a deific servitor unless its intent was to corrupt and destroy the fiend, and it likely wouldn't make its presence known in the process if it could avoid it. As for the mechanical weakness in their 2e stats, it's a strange thing since it doesn't match well with what they as a race were said to have done, and Daru Ib Shamiq was capable of things in 'Squaring the Circle' in the Hellbound box set that by the stats, he shouldn't have been able to do (creating the ghost yugoloth). The way I personally approach the issue is that the 2e stats represent those baernaloths who have long-since succumbed to the wasting and spiritual decay of the Waste. I'd use a different set of statistics (or none at all) for those who haven't, such as the baernaloths among The Demented who are still active and spinning plans hatched long before the first gods and first mortals evolved. [/QUOTE]
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