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1e also said Demogorgon ruled more than one layer, so perhaps the simplest explanation (and the one used by Chris Nichols on the Mimir) is that one of his layers is jungle-filled, and another one is the watery layer of Gaping Maw (Abysm, as noted in both the Manual of the Planes and the Book of...

Dragon #122: "Out of Africa." Included the chemosit, "an aggressive, fearless, speech-using, carnivorous minor demon" and the ngojama, "an agressive, speech-using, climbing, fearless, man-eating minor demon."

Yes. The celestials should get much more coverage.

Added - thanks.

Illssender (Hellbound: The Dark of the War, page 24) A balor, one of the greatest warleaders of his kind, ruler of a tower on the 313th layer of the Abyss (if not the entire layer). Taramanda (Hellbound: The Dark of the War, page 24) A marilith general, ruler of a sprawling fortress in Blood...

It's mentioned in Faces of Evil, which is essential reading for the fiend-literate. Also, and more importantly, it's damned cool. Well, exactly. That was the original poster's point - fiend lords ought to, by rights, be far more powerful than mere gods in some respects. Although I think the...

Yeenoghu rules his whole layer, and, if he desires and pulls power away from other activities, can be at least dimly aware of everything that goes on in that infinity at once. In a sense, Yeenoghu and his layer are one thing - the process of becoming an Abyssal Lord means entering into a...

Forgotten Realms, Shmorgotten Shmelms! Halflings, shmalflings! Dragons, shmmagons! Dungeons, shmungeons! Positive Energy Plane, Shmositive Shmenergy Shmlane! Illithid ceremorphosis, shmillithid schmeremorphosis! (This is fun!)

Advancing in caste is different from advancing in hit dice. It's the rule in the current edition that outsiders grow bigger as they grow in their "outsider class." Advancing in caste represents a complete transformation of body and spirit - the creature essentially "starts over" at that point...

You know there are other sites with the SRD on them, right? Try http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/35/theraven_stephenh/index.html for example. The URL isn't as catchy, but it's the same material. There are lots more at http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/

I think this is actually true in all dimensions. In fact, if Hordes of the Abyss does not canonize this obvious fact, I will boycott it. I will also boycott the letter "F," which I believe is one of today's sponsors.

Outsiders are defined in the MM as beings who were born from or contain the essence of an outer, inner, or transitive plane. In the case of outer planar beings, they're various ratios of good, evil, law, chaos, or balance given solid form - not actually "material" in the sense of the Material...

So to you angels, devils, and indeed all souls are as foreign to the proper order of things as walking skeletons? Creatures should "naturally" walk around souless and collapse into oblivion after death? I'm baffled by that sort of attitude. But there's obviously a correspondence between size...

They're effectively spawn of the Abyss itself, pieces of raw evil and chaos taken form. Their plane is made of the same spiritual matter they are, and somewhat sentient besides, so this is hardly a stretch. Remember what I said earlier about true tanar'ri? The offspring of balors are lesser or...

Wise words. If the character has seen a white dragon, he can become a white dragon. If he's just heard about them in stories and myths it doesn't make a lot of sense to let him become one - the spell doesn't come with instructions for making every monster there is. At the very least, force the...

There ought to be, though. Tanar'ri are, in a sense, all unique beings, each capable of evolving into any shape imaginable. In practice, they take on the shapes that have proven most successful in surviving the Abyss and impressing their enemies and potential allies, but there's no real reason...

It's partly about that, and partly it has nothing to do with the designers or product. The whole "what's crappy about Planescape" part of the thread (which I partly began with my ill-advised "why Erik Mona is not fit to sneer at us" rant) was really its own entity, not tethered to the question...

I think of it a different way - that spirits and souls are part of a natural cycle, as natural as anything else in the D&D multiverse, and the migration of spirits from the Inner Planes to the Material Plane to the Outer Planes is a completely natural one. Most religions would agree with this...

Dragon #272 has the Ecology of the Hydra in it. Page 87 (footnote) - "Female hydras lay small clutches of 1d4 eggs." And if dragons can be liches, derro can. You might need a template just for them, but that's probably more interesting anyway.

What is "unnatural?" By whose standard? Are you seriously suggesting that just because something is from another plane it isn't part of the natural order? The inevitables would disagree. Then why do they grow bigger as they advance in hit dice? A balor, for example, becomes Huge when it...