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So, this is not a dig on the artist's skill, I have no idea what direction they were working with, but strong art design generally actively communicates something about what is depicted. The art should generally be giving you strong clues, not just leaving you with a blank slate. We have no...

Pudgy stumpy caterpillar arms Chest looks like it has fat rolls due to lack of definition and the way that muscle overlaps the shoulders Scales look like like they're from a rattle snake who was stroked the wrong direction, hard Purple/blue, spiky, scaly, and glowy, with slung-under arms makes...

I was responding to someone saying that demons should be brutish and undignified. Context has been removed for reasons. I apologize that this is confusing!

The impression that I've gotten is that mariliths are constantly ticked off because they have brilliant ideas and it's a constant struggle to get any of their minions or their superiors to listen. Like they would be constantly flipping tables every time they lose fifty vrocks because they wanted...

Asserting that your version of reality about other people's beliefs and actions is gaslighting. Second google result: How To Recognize The Signs Of Gaslighting Graphic shows "You don't really mean that" as an example. It's also just so unhelpful! We can just have different preferences, we...

They're some of the more popular monsters in D&D for the last fifty years, so plenty of people find the design interesting. I cannot speak to your personal tastes. Are unicorns just a horse or antelope with a horn jammed on? Dragons have been done to death. Wizards come in more flavors than ice...

That's how time works. Final Fantasy 7 and Harry Potter came out in 1997 and people are still gaga for them. If things are only relevant to you for six months, well no there probably haven't been 20 marilith stories since last fall.

People making claims about what other people think despite them stating that no they do not think that. "You don't really mean that" is a classic gaslighting response.

Are you under the impression that chaos is just brutishness? Are you against the idea of contrast? Are you working under the "chaotic evil are the stupid minions and lawful evil are the smart bosses" version of alignment?

No need to struggle given this information is available online in wikis. Hellbound: The Blood War heavily features a cambion/marilith story. Tara Strong voiced the Marilith Yxunomei in Icewind Dale. Incidentally they're they're also in some Final Fantasy games.

Why should demons be brutish and undignified?

It's about taking a monster with an interesting design that has endured and inspired several official stories since 1E and replacing it with a muddy and generic design that doesn't do anything new and interesting relative to what it replaced.

The marilith has always been a great contrast with the balor, the succubus, and the more hordey demons. At least as understood in earlier generations, balors would have been a very brutal masculine figure, while many of the other demons are monstrous beasts or basically trolls and goblins, so...

"Seems like" indeed. It's been pages of gaslighting and people seeing the argument they want to argue against. It's like if the contrary conjecture was erasure of strong feminine characteristics. You can certainly imagine such an argument but it is also not the case. The real arguments going on...

This is not about boobs. Even for the folks who explicitly want mariliths to remain strictly female this isn't about boobs.

WotC has been turning demons into brutish beasts for awhile now. Compare with 2E, where they had, in addition to standard tanar'ri spells and summons: animate dead, cause serious wounds, cloudkill, comprehend languages, curse, detect evil, detect magic, detect invisibility, polymorph self...

Me eating ice cream doesn't prevent you from mowing the lawn; it's all irrelevant. Mariliths are not themed around being snakey. Being a strategic genius is not exactly a classic trait of any reptilians other than dragons. They don't have poison abilities. They don't swallow things. They don't...

War queen demon? High five demon?

So a succubus is a bat demon? A marilith's theme is being strategic geniuses able to coordinate the chaotic hordes. The snake butt is just a feature, equal to its six-armed human top.

Since when is a marilith a "snake demon"?