Converting Monsters from Polyhedron Magazine

[Cleon]

This last version is good for me.

I also like your revision of the cocoadaemon's tactics, except we need to swap "chocodaemon" to cocoadaemon. That was my mistake.

For the chocodeva:
Chocodevas are weak fighters, so they usually stay out of melee, offering advice to their summoners. If the tide of battle turns against their allies, they offer themselves in sacrifice to aid their friends.

That all looks fine to me, including the 'devas.

Updating Cocoadaemon Working Draft and Chocodeva Working Draft.

 

[freyar]

The same description can probably serve for both (or with slight modifications). Something like this?

A small replica of a human made of a delectable chocolate.

 

[Cleon]

The same description can probably serve for both (or with slight modifications). Something like this?

A small replica of a human made of a delectable chocolate.

I imagine them looking like a fat caricature of a fiend or angel.

e.g. the cocoademon has a cape, forked tail, little horns and a pitchfork, while the chocodeva has a toga, halo and a harp. They both have ridiculously small wings (batlike for 'daemons, feathery for 'devas), but these are purely ornamental. They probably have expressions of leering cunning or blissful contentment.

Thus...

A foot-tall creature seemingly molded from the darkest chocolate. It has the form of an obese humanoid with little horns, a forked tail, and an expression of leering cunning. A pair of ridiculously small batlike wings sprout from its shoulders, but these appendages seem purely ornamental.

and

A foot-tall creature seemingly molded from delectable chocolate. It has the form of an rotund humanoid wearing a toga-like garment, a halo, and an expression of blissful contentment. A pair of ridiculously small feathery wings sprout from its shoulders, but these appendages seem purely ornamental.

The agricultural instruments and musical instruments can be left to the background info.

 

[freyar]

Hmmm, I had proposed that the deva is the dark chocolate one, while the daemon is the less expensive (and less tasty ) milk chocolate. I'm fine with "delectable" in the chocodeva description, but could we use some other adjective for the cocoadaemon? "Sinful" maybe?

 

[Cleon]

Hmmm, I had proposed that the deva is the dark chocolate one, while the daemon is the less expensive (and less tasty ) milk chocolate. I'm fine with "delectable" in the chocodeva description, but could we use some other adjective for the cocoadaemon? "Sinful" maybe?

I'd rather not have an explicit moral adjective, how about "tantalizing milky chocolate" for the 'daemon and "delectable dark chocolate" for the 'deva?

"Tantalizing" has an element of teasing/temptating and implied sinfulness, and the word derives from the name of a soul being tortured in the underworld, giving it a fiendish connection too!

 

[freyar]

"Tantalizing" it is. Excellent!

Some ideas for flavor: created by outsiders to influence mortal spellcasters, fill a similar role to a familiar, ??

 

[Cleon]

"Tantalizing" it is. Excellent!

Updating Cocoadaemon Working Draft and Chocodeva Working Draft.

A foot-tall creature seemingly molded from tantalizing milky chocolate. It has the form of an obese humanoid with little horns, a forked tail, and an expression of leering cunning. A pair of ridiculously small batlike wings sprout from its shoulders, but these appendages seem purely ornamental.

and

A foot-tall creature seemingly molded from delectable dark chocolate. It has the form of an rotund humanoid wearing a toga-like garment, a halo, and an expression of blissful contentment. A pair of ridiculously small feathery wings sprout from its shoulders, but these appendages seem purely ornamental.

Some ideas for flavor: created by outsiders to influence mortal spellcasters, fill a similar role to a familiar, ??

Sounds rather like we should allow them to become Special Familiars, or familiar-like Companions to a "Zee Chef" cleric.

 

[freyar]

I wouldn't suggest making them actually be familiars, but I would say that they often become constant companions to Zee Chefs, much like familiars to other casters.

 

[Cleon]

I wouldn't suggest making them actually be familiars, but I would say that they often become constant companions to Zee Chefs, much like familiars to other casters.

Yes, well "actual familiar" is a bit hard when Zee Chefs are clerics.

Shall we just make them Cohorts, then?

 

[freyar]

Yes, that's the rule set I should have been thinking about!

Cocoadaemons were originally created by daemon rulers as a way of tempting spellcasters onto the path of evil. Sometime shortly after, the angels devised chocodevas in answer to do the reverse.

Neither cocoadaemons or chocodevas are terribly effective combatants, but, as cohorts to clerics, they often serve as advisors and at times carry out the same tasks as an arcane caster's familiar.