Demogorgon: Lame or Awesome?

[JoeGKushner]

Over at RPG.net, there is some debate about the wisdom of putting Demogorgon on the cover.

What do the folks at old En World think?

Is Demogorgon a sign that WoTC has it right and he's aweosme or is his two headed baboon nature working against him and he's lame?

 

[Mouseferatu]

Not only is Demogorgon awesome, but anyone who thinks otherwise is having BadWrongFun and should put their books down and go take up knitting.

Okay, that's a bit of an exageration, obviously, but I think Demogorgon is one of the coolest "mega-fiends" the game has ever had, second only to Anthraxus.

Certainly cooler than Orcus.

 

[Stoat]

Aameul = Lame
Hethradiah = Awesome

That's why it hates each other.

 

[darjr]

Demogorgan is awesome.

 

[Nymrohd]

Plus he will probably have two sets of actions in 4E for extra cool effect.

 

[Rechan]

The picture of Demogorgon is quite lame.

 

[Woas]

The picture of Demogorgon is quite lame.

This sums up my feelings on Demogorgon. Being that Demogorgon is considered the definition of ultimate-evil, trying to describe him to someone and having them laugh their head off at the description really doesn't give Demogorgon much awesomeness.

"Well, this ultimate evil being that rules parts of the freaking Abyss! He's got... two baboon monkey faces and some tentacle hand things..." "What's he do? Fling his poo at you? lol what a dweeb"

When I think ultimate evil, I don't think of two headed monkeys. I think of intelligent, smooth talking plotters who utilize psychological warfare and are very patient and will wait years to get some hero to screw themselves over in the long run cause of the massive pleasure s/he gets from the schadenfreude of watching it all unfold.

So my vote is for lame.

 

[Voadam]

Thumbs up.

 

[Oni]

Demogorgon = awesome

Though the depiction on the cover in question is not my favorite.

 

[Voadam]

When I think ultimate evil, I don't think of two headed monkeys. I think of intelligent, smooth talking plotters who utilize psychological warfare and are very patient and will wait years to get some hero to screw themselves over in the long run cause of the massive pleasure s/he gets from the schadenfreude of watching it all unfold.

So my vote is for lame.

Eh, I don't think your ultimate evil image really jives with chaotic evil or the themes of most demons. I think incongruous bestial animal features go well with a primal degenerate destructive malevolent force. Demogorgon fits well in a concept of Chaotic Evil for me.

A devil is classically closer to your image of evil smooth talkers but they still have bat and goat animal features, neither of which really summons up intelligence or smooth talking outside of the traditional image of devils as such.