Angels/Demons in Gaming: Your stories

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I am planning on running a campiagn loosely based on In Nomine, using Anger of Angels. (Read more about it in the link in my sig) So I was wondering: what interesting times have you had using Angels and/or Demons in your games, as PCs, NPCs, or monsters?

PLEASE, no religious dicussion, just your stories.
 

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First of all, if you want to give your campaign the feel of In Nomine, it might help to have a large monotheistic religion rather than the diverse pantheon of the typical D&D game. There should be more of a "black and white" morality, and have the focus on the struggle of good and evil. Also religion should play a bigger part in the campaign, rather than religion only exist to heal adventurers.

This sounds like it will be a more role-playing intensive campaign. In this case, you should think about how to handle encounters with demons. In most D&D campaigns, demons are simply high level baddies to kill and take their treasure. You might want to have encounters with demons focus not on combat, but temptation. Christianity teaches that demons tempt people to evil. The Bible talks about the devil being a tempter and deciever. So imagine a scenario where a demon tempts the party with a powerful magic item, a lot of XP, or help completing an adventure, but wants something in exchange! Also, perhaps demons could take mortal disguises so that they can decieve the party and lead them astray without the party being aware. (This is when "Detect Evil" comes in handy!)

On a side note, once back in 2e days I had a campaign with a randomn encounter chart where the party would meet the devil himself if I rolled a 00 for a random encounter. He would show up in the guise of a silly old man attempting to mislead and trick the party. Unfortunately I never rolled a 00 on a random encounter.
 

yeah, I will have a monotheistic religion, and all the standard In Nomine stuff, I just want stories (or advice) based on experiences using Anegls/Demons in any situation, be it D&D, In Nomine, d20 Modern, anything.
 

I haven't had a whole lot of experiance with Angels vs Demons, but I've had a lot of fun participating in Demons vs. Devils campaigns. Since the two aren't so diametrically opposed, there's a lot more diplomacy and spying between the two (as opposed to out and out battle every time a Demon and an Angel face off). Of course, since both are evil, cold-hearted races, any party dealing with either side is bound to be betrayed at some point or another. It's a different campaign style, and probably not what you're looking for, but I figured I'd put the $.02 as a hijack.
 

Arc said:
It's a different campaign style, and probably not what you're looking for, but I figured I'd put the $.02 as a hijack.
Anything is welcome. I can still see the various infernal superiors from In Nomine competing alot like D&D devils and demons.
 

So will the players be playing angels like In Nomine, or just mortals caught up in everything?

If the players are playing mortals, I think that the idea of temptation and deception by demons will work much better than big fights. However, I have never played in a campaign where players played angels.
 

The players will be playing angels. (Check out this thread for more info.) But any experiences with PC, NPC, or monster Angels/Devils/Demons would be appreciated.
 
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IMC, angels, demons, and devils play a very grand and particular role, but since that campaign is based on the three great monotheisms and the still-great polytheism, I'm affraid it'd get into religious territory. ;)
 

The "Angels" IMC are actually aliens who many thousands of years ago conquered the planet and who are merely overseers of the human population sent to keep them in line (and who conveniently communicate through the clergy who think they are divine beings).
"Demons" are highly advanced machines that were left over from the initial battle against the angels and who are attempting to eliminate the church in order to free the enslaved humans.

Props to anyone who knows what I stole that one from. :)
 

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