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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"?

I'm all for female satyrs and male nymphs. They are not equivalent in lore or abilities. Just don't make the default satyr image based on a lion or something.

No. I'm sure one can find people for whom this is relevant, but the actual composition of the demon is the issue. For a good chunk of the folks complaining, their first marilith is from 2E's monstrous manual, and she looks like if Cruella benched 400 and lived on the beach. Armor them up and...

It has a long reptilian tail, an unusual number of limbs, a humanoid torso, looks mean like any demon, and wields weapons - classic marilith!

This is clearly a marilith.

There is no indication that the behirilith is a variation rather than a replacement. If there was information that this wasn't a design retcon, and was merely an expansion, the topic would be mostly "well even if they can still be the classic look they should still use that in the book art so...

In general, I prefer the marilith to hew most closely to a queen of war feel. Bold, imperious, that kind of gaunt, high cheek boned look, and a constant struggle to not just mince all the idiots around them out of endless frustration. When they are working on a battle plan - and not having to...

We do not know what this marilith has under their scales, or if there even is anything down there. We don't know their pronouns, if they have any. Earlier depictions of mariliths presented the juxtaposition of a powerful feminine, very human-ish figure over a powerful and flexible monsterous...

Maedar were in the 2E Monstrous Manual, and as I understand it have been around since 1E. They've always been fairly obscure. They actually have some rather interesting plot uses, including the ability to become glyptars - spirits trapped in gems who can turn statues into golems or weapons into...

It's a complex topic but, briefly, people cling to previous because they like a thing and want more of it. The more things that they like about a product that change into something they like less, the less likely they are to continue liking that product, and the less they can anticipate that...

Given how clumsy WotC can be with delicate matters, and the specific moment in time, I'm comfortable with just tossing major dimorphism and single-sex creatures with human-like secondary characteristics. It will empower more than it will dilute, and we can look at where the world is in a decade...

While I liked maedar enough that I even named a pet snake after them, I don't mind male-dusas. However, they could also make maedar the full spectrum as well to maintain the relationship and simply up the complexity.

Oh man, that alt cover makes me remember the youthful days when backlight posters were the coolest thing you could see at the mall.

One of the best examples of a really cool swapped-out monster that could be its own monster.

There are many, many deities and other supernatural beings of myth and religion that have a variety of number of limbs. It's the compound of similar traits you have to worry about. Otherwise every blue monster would be a reference to Shiva. Watch out, Smurfs!

I'm not sure it really looks more demonic. It looks more like a behir abomination. Demons frequently are jumbled, chimeric humanoids.

I don't mind the idea of mariliths having a variety of possible forms, though I do not find this particular one compelling. A 100% gooey generic monster thing is not as interesting as scary monster plus human. The juxtaposition is part of the point. I don't see this as a useful way to...

This causes enough fiction friction that there has been a lot of page space spent on classes, subclasses, etc. that get to keep their items as a class feature, most especially the Incarnum book for 3.5E, and more recently the Ikons used by Exemplars. PF2E has a lot of mechanics for holding onto...