D&D General Should The Pcs kill A Succubuss that's around 1,600 years old, which is The Succubus equivalent of A very smart 9 month old Baby?, or should they not?

[delericho]

It may be unlikely, but I can think of two examples of it happening -
Fall-from-Grace
Arueshalae

Fiction is all about unlikely stuff happening.

But what players should or should not do is outside of the game's scope. It's up to the players to decide what to do.

Sure.

Everything in my post after "IMC..." was very specifically about my campaign. Others will, of course, do things differently. I'm sorry if that wasn't as clear as it could have been.

 

[jasper]

Like all 9 months old they are demons. Kill them guilt free.
Can you imagine smelling or changing a demon'd diaper?

 

[FrogReaver]

My wife would easily settle the dilemma - is the baby succubus cute or adorable in any way? If so then it lives and anyone that tries to harm it dies. If not then goodbye baby succubus.

 

[jasper]

My wife would easily settle the dilemma - is the baby succubus cute or adorable in any way? If so then it lives and anyone that tries to harm it dies. If not then goodbye baby succubus.

If she keeps it. You are going to be the one to change the diapers.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

Oh, no. OP claims English is their first language, but they once spent several years teaching themselves to write it in a different way out of boredom and now can’t break the habit of writing in that way.

"Homer backing into shrubbery gif"

 

[jmartkdr2]

If you must have Inherently Evil Races, don’t give them a helpless, harmless, innocent state of development and this won’t be a problem.

I'll go one further: if it ever has an innocent state, it's not an inherently evil race.

 

[Charlaquin]

I'll go one further: if it ever has an innocent state, it's not an inherently evil race.

Precisely

 

[gamerprinter]

I've answered this in a later post but I'll give you a answer, its true that not once in the worlds history has even a single Succubus been redeemed, but the thing that most people don't know is that because of how many people hate Succubus not 1 person in history has ever even tried to redeem A Succubus, which means that for all people its possible, and with 1 as the young they'll get their hands on if it is possible to redeem A Succubus then it will definitely be easy, maybe even very easy, to to redeem A Succubus that's The Succubus equivalent of A Very Smart 9 month old baby, but because of how many people hate Succubus not 1 person in history has ever even tried to redeem A Succubus

Again, in standard D&D a succubus is not redeemable - there is no humanity in any demon, they are incapable. So if a demon is known, kill it, it doesn't matter what other details are involved, in baby form or otherwise (which is purely meaningless). Now maybe demons in your setting can be redeemed, then perhaps no instant kill, so yours might be different. In most games, demons aren't people, they're spiritual beings of pure evil, not capable of redemption; a demon cannot be innocent, that's cosmically impossible.

 

[JMISBEST]

Again, in standard D&D a succubus is not redeemable - there is no humanity in any demon, they are incapable. So if a demon is known, kill it, it doesn't matter what other details are involved, in baby form or otherwise (which is purely meaningless). Now maybe demons in your setting can be redeemed, then perhaps no instant kill, so yours might be different. In most games, demons aren't people, they're spiritual beings of pure evil, not capable of redemption; a demon cannot be innocent, that's cosmically impossible.

No one has ever redeemed A Succubus, but Succubus's are so hated that no one has ever even tried to redeem 1, so its possible that Succubus can be redeemed, but not 1 person in the world knows that and that's because the reason that no Succubus has ever been redeemed is because Succubus are so hated that no one has ever tried to redeem A Succubus,

 

[gamerprinter]

No. I don't hate succubi arbitrarily, and certainly fools have tried to redeem demons before with utter failure. By definition nether beings are unredeemable, by the cosmic laws of the universe - there is no possibility of redemption. And I'm now done with this thread, as there is no reasoning with you, so no purpose to posting any longer. My only suggestion is to drop this entire line of thinking, and move on to something better and something that doesn't force your players into gotcha moment.