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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8165994" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>My suspicion has always been that the problem with yugoloths/daemons is an alignment issue. It's easy to point to the Lawful Evil devils as being corruptors, and the Chaotic Evil demons as being destroyers, but the issue with the Neutral Evil fiends is that it's hard to strike a balance where they don't seem like they're doing one or the other of those things, except less effectively. The old takes on them as "guardian fiends" and "greedy mercenaries" failed to make strong impressions, for that matter.</p><p></p><p>There's also the fact that "daemons" sounds too close to "demons" to be distinguishing, and "yugoloths," while unique, doesn't leave a strong impression either.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I prefer to play up the interpretation (as I read it) of the yugoloths from <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/121100/Faces-of-Evil-The-Fiends-2e?affiliate_id=820" target="_blank"><em>Faces of Evil: The Fiends</em></a> (affiliate link), which basically said that they're ultimately dedicated to Evil as a concept/force, untainted by Law or Chaos. Each yugoloth is trying to advance the cause of capital-E Evil in its own way, and while they'll always pull together in the face of outside resistance, they'll plot and scheme amongst themselves absent that. As such, they're less focused on mortals (and, as I recall, yugoloths don't come from mortal souls anyway) than they are on the state of the Outer Planes in general. And as such, they tend to encounter mortal adventurers less as a rule; they simply don't care about them as much as demons and devils do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8165994, member: 8461"] My suspicion has always been that the problem with yugoloths/daemons is an alignment issue. It's easy to point to the Lawful Evil devils as being corruptors, and the Chaotic Evil demons as being destroyers, but the issue with the Neutral Evil fiends is that it's hard to strike a balance where they don't seem like they're doing one or the other of those things, except less effectively. The old takes on them as "guardian fiends" and "greedy mercenaries" failed to make strong impressions, for that matter. There's also the fact that "daemons" sounds too close to "demons" to be distinguishing, and "yugoloths," while unique, doesn't leave a strong impression either. Personally, I prefer to play up the interpretation (as I read it) of the yugoloths from [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/121100/Faces-of-Evil-The-Fiends-2e?affiliate_id=820'][I]Faces of Evil: The Fiends[/I][/URL] (affiliate link), which basically said that they're ultimately dedicated to Evil as a concept/force, untainted by Law or Chaos. Each yugoloth is trying to advance the cause of capital-E Evil in its own way, and while they'll always pull together in the face of outside resistance, they'll plot and scheme amongst themselves absent that. As such, they're less focused on mortals (and, as I recall, yugoloths don't come from mortal souls anyway) than they are on the state of the Outer Planes in general. And as such, they tend to encounter mortal adventurers less as a rule; they simply don't care about them as much as demons and devils do. [/QUOTE]
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