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The Jackson 5 would be proud. La la la la la la la la la la la la la la. La la la la la la la la la la la la la la. My Shami-Amourae lovely as a summer day My Shami-Amourae distant as the Milky Way My Shami-Amourae pretty little one that I adore You're the only girl my heart leaps for. How...

I tried to adapt The Primal Order to the 3e Deities & Demigods system out of curiosity, but they're not very compatible at all. The main difference is that power in D&Dg is based entirely on rank, while in TPO divine power comes from planes and worshippers (primarily) and rank is only...

Those are certainly possibilities, though they don't seem as appropriate to me. I mean, they're demon spirits. No matter how you parse that, the Abyss is the plane that comes to mind first.

That's true, but that doesn't mean they didn't use the full complement of planes on the Great Wheel. The Palace of Judgement in the Outlands has portals leading to more planes than any town but Sigil so that Yen-Wang-Yeh can assign petitioners to the place most appropriate to them. The...

Although in the game she had cleric levels, and in Dragon she's just a succubus. There are a lot of differences between the Dragon stats and the stats that ended up in the final version of the game (Ravel is a standard hag in Dragon, where she was a frighteningly potent sorceress in Torment)...

Right. The demilich in the conversion is a constuct because the real Acererak is in the Negative Energy Plane, awaiting the conclusion of the Return to... module. He puts soul-eating constructs here and there in order to empower his final ritual. Being a construct means it's immune to clerical...

Devious! Sure, if the Spirit World exists in your campaign. In a core cosmology-only campaign, you're pretty much stuck with the Abyss (or the Material Plane). Certainly in 2e the Celestial Bureaucracy was tied to the rest of the multiverse and its rules.

Yes, they were. Look at their entry in the 2e Monstrous Manual (which is the same as that in the 2e Monstrous Compendium: Greyhawk Appendix). "Gremlins are magical creatures that originated on an unknown plane of existence." "Gremlins are not a natural part of the ecology." The designers of...

From the Kara-Tur Appendix: "The krakentua is a powerful demon spirit with an insatiable appetite for destruction..." From the Forgotten Realms appendix II: "Mara are chaotic evil spirits that inhabit great bodies of stone... Mara are subserviant to tanar'ri and other powerful lower planar...

Older edition references Spyder-Fiend: Kakkuu, Spithriku, Phisarazu, Lycosidilith, Raklupis (Rod of Seven Parts, MCA4) Kara-Tur Appendix: Krakentoa Abyssal Bat (Planes of Chaos; AKA Varrangoin) Equar, Charnalbalk (Dragon #243) Shadow hounds (Giantcraft) Bodak (PSMC1) Eyewing (Monstrous...

This was my list. It's not as extensive as some, as I'm kind of picky about what I consider to be "Far Realm" and what I consider to be just a weird-looking alien or extraplanar monster. Xtech = Monte Cook's Chaositech Far Realm Aboleth (MM) Amoebic Crawler (Dragon #330) Bhorkei (Xtech)...

The Fiend-Sage of Rel Astra originally appeared in Ivid the Undying. The Fiend-Sage is the molydeus advisor to Drax, ruler of Rel Astra in the World of Greyhawk. It is known for dressing in mortal finery, and it is a brilliant scholar.

See the Compilation of Far Realm Materials thread on the Wizards boards.

Could be. I tend to assume that just because something isn't mentioned doesn't mean it doesn't exist, or that Lolth doesn't rule it (the various worlds described in Queen of the Demonweb Pits haven't been mentioned since then either, but Lolth probably still has a presence there). But, I mean...

Rather, I think she took her second layer (Lolth's Web) from Zanassu. Her first layer (the Demonweb Pits) she already had. See the 1st edition Manual of the Planes, page 103, which clearly gives Lolth dominion over both the 65th and 66th layers of the Abyss.

As an addendum, I just coined the word "bemaning" above to refer to the formation of manes, either directly from incorporeal souls or evolving from larvae. Just because I like to make up words sometimes. The verb I use to describe the equivalent process in nupperibos is "nupper," which is a...

You're absolutely right about that. I meant that post-Faces of Evil, which I think introduced the "Grand Unified Theory of Larval-based Fiendish evolution" or GUToLF, as I like to call it when I'm feeling familiar, as I am right now - and which, now that I think of it, pretty much only existed...

Hall of Heroes also mentions Phalse, a humanoid demon with the head of a beholder who disguises himself as a halfling. Interesting guy.

There's no reason they should be any more of a blank slate, as a group, than any other kind of petitioners. The Abyss attracts souls who were chaotic evil in life; Hades attracts souls who were neutral evil in life. Neutral doesn't mean "undecided" in this case - most NE characters are as...

Ah, here's the quote: "Like larvae, manes are still petitioners." - Faces of Evil, page 42. "Other tanar'ri do not consider the manes to be real tanar'ri - they are just petitioners, spirits of mortal berks who spent their lives on chaos and evil." - Ibid, page 44. Well, yeah, officially. I...