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<blockquote data-quote="Lurks-no-More" data-source="post: 3743867" data-attributes="member: 8226">I'm a bit torn on these news. On one hand, I'm a Planescape fan, and these changes obviously don't fit that cosmology; on the other hand, the changes seem pretty good on their own. So, at the moment, I'm Neutral w. Optimist tendencies. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As for the Erinyes / Succubus thing, it's true they've been redundant in (A)D&amp;D from the beginning. One personal explanation I had for them was that Erinyi were specifically created devils, intended to mimic the original and wildly successful succubae. Their methods of predation were different, as well: the succubus corrupts you (and the society around you) by tempting you with lust and making you feel everything is acceptable, so that in the end you're doing unmentionable things to small animals, breeding half-fiends and generally having an Abyssal time.The erinyes, in contrast, focuses on making you (and the society) repressed, guilt-ridden and ashamed of every sexual thought or action, until nothing is acceptable, and therefore all sins are equal; this leads to exact same things as the Abyssal seduction, except that you're going to maintain a veneer of excessive respectability and enjoy your damnation considerably less.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lurks-no-More, post: 3743867, member: 8226"] I'm a bit torn on these news. On one hand, I'm a Planescape fan, and these changes obviously don't fit that cosmology; on the other hand, the changes seem pretty good on their own. So, at the moment, I'm Neutral w. Optimist tendencies. ;) As for the Erinyes / Succubus thing, it's true they've been redundant in (A)D&D from the beginning. One personal explanation I had for them was that Erinyi were specifically created devils, intended to mimic the original and wildly successful succubae. Their methods of predation were different, as well: the succubus corrupts you (and the society around you) by tempting you with lust and making you feel everything is acceptable, so that in the end you're doing unmentionable things to small animals, breeding half-fiends and generally having an Abyssal time. The erinyes, in contrast, focuses on making you (and the society) repressed, guilt-ridden and ashamed of every sexual thought or action, until nothing is acceptable, and therefore all sins are equal; this leads to exact same things as the Abyssal seduction, except that you're going to maintain a veneer of excessive respectability and enjoy your damnation considerably less. [/QUOTE]

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