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[Steely Dan]

Regarding the new Balor:

I thought demons are now supposed to be the non-weapon wielding bestial fang and claw boys, and devils are the more humanoid weapon-wielders?

 

[HeinorNY]

Really? I've always thought looked like some Diablo-esque crap.

"Diablo-esque crap" doesn't even have wings.

 

[Kunimatyu]

Regarding the new Balor:

I thought demons are now supposed to be the non-weapon wielding bestial fang and claw boys, and devils are the more humanoid weapon-wielders?

Well yeah, but you know how demons are supposed to be animal-esque now? The Balor's simply a bestial demonic version of a sacred cow.

 

[med stud]

...and arms should have actual deltoids, biceps, triceps, brachialises, etc, instead of being giant red socks full of bowling balls.

Yes, because demons are known to have exactly the same musculature as humans

 

[Derren]

Amazing. WotC really made devil and demons fundamentally different like they said they would...

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Yes, because demons are known to have exactly the same musculature as humans

See, if a medical student says so on the internet, it must be true!

 

[Protagonist]

See, if a medical student says so on the internet, it must be true!

I thought he was a Mediterranean male animal employed for breeding Oo

 

[LordArchaon]

I like the Balor, and pretty much every artwork seen to date (except for Efreets), but I agree that they're not different enough from Pit Fiends.

A color change would have been much appreciated, with red remaining tied to the big devil, but I see they considered it, since the Balor has a much darker hue.
Maybe the things that strikes me the most is seeing the Balor better armored/clothed than the Pit Fiend... Come on! The demons are the bestial ones, the devils are the sophisticated. Pit Fiend needed a cool hell-armor or hell-clothing. Balor only needed much fire and skulls. I see they were going that direction, but then why the naked Pit Fiend?

The angels are by far my biggest favorites. Wow. Maybe I'd only have preferred the elemental bottom being tied to "genies", but it just adds awesomeness to angels as well.

 

[med stud]

See, if a medical student says so on the internet, it must be true!

It's the rule zero of the internet

Actually, in my own professionally inbred way I like when the anatomy is diffusely off when it comes to creatures. It lends a wrongness to a creature that is the living, breathing defenition of wrong. It's the same thing as the skin of the balor; it is glistening, almost plastic and it looks more like a set of clothes than it looks like skin. It is perfectly unsettling, a skin fitting a demon lord

PS: I'm not a student anymore, I just haven't found a way to change the nick

 

[Steely Dan]

Well yeah, but you know how demons are supposed to be animal-esque now? The Balor's simply a bestial demonic version of a sacred cow.

Shame, maybe they should have merged the balor and the pit fiend...?