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Demons, Devils, and Celestials

One of the WOTC adventures includes a devil that has been imprisoned for a very long time-- on the order of several centuries at least. Stuck in an otherwise bare chamber for that time, he has had no food or drink at all, but his abilities are undiminished.

Personally I consider this an innate quality of full-blooded outsiders. Someone else might call it a special effect of the imprisoning magic. As Li Shenron pointed out, the core rules don't specify either way, so it's DM call.
 

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What about adding some half-fiends running arount he place, and quite possibly some tauric template from MMII. I also like the half-golem template for NPC combatants that will harrass my party.
 

Some half-fiends, yeah I have a pair or so into it (but they are truly some WEIRD things, the odder the better, hehehe :D).
I'm planning not only surprise the characters but my players along with them :)
Nice idea, a tauric creature, I'll take a look at that template (I haven't read it yet). I'm in time to add some cretures yet, hehehe.
Yeah, from now I'll consider that no need to eat or drink a caracteristic of full blood demons/devils etc...
I didn't consider half-fiends/celestial creatures not needing to eat/drink, afetr all they have a "mortal" part, hehehe :)

Thanks for the ideas!

Bye!;)
 
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Onysablet said:

I didn't consider half-fiends/celestial creatures not needing to eat/drink, afetr all they have a "mortal" part, hehehe :)

Mmm... yes I didn't think about it either. As how I use Half-somethings in my games, they are mortal 100%, they are material-plane-natives with outsider (or elemental, or dragon...) blood, but that's only my use of them in the story. As I said before, I think it is mostly DM's decision :)
 

If you are going to play the half-templates in the sense that they need sustenance to survive then I might suggest that you put them in some form of stasis. The stasis is lifted when the player characters trigger something. They awake, and reak havoc.
 

Right, but I supply them with food, hehehe... That castle is connected to the city by the sewers (that castle is on the outskirts). One of the monsters discovered that entrance, so it began feeding with people (is a half-fiend one). That was not long ago.
The castle, being in the outskirts, hadn't got that problem before (food), some monsters attacked the near villages, but that villages soon went away from the area (when they discovered form where the attacks were). Now the nearer farm is miles away so the monsters used the entrance to the sewers and began eating only corpses... when they became more and more insatiable, they began attacking people, at first only beggars, so people didn't care. But beggars also began to be scarce, then the hunt switched to people in general... among them a rich merchant and a noble's son. So the city's guards (now occupied in other subjects I have in the city) hired some trustworthy mercenaries (my PC's, hehe) to invstigate, so there they are.
But I'm talking about need-to-feed monsters hehehe. Mydemons are chained up in an antimagic circle or the like, ;)
BTW, putting some of them in some form of extasis is a good idea, just to give a surprise with the trigger :D
Other "experiments" are just undead (well, BoVD undead, they are "funnier") or other simply dead, to make a "nice" background (in their own cages, trying desesperatly to get out, bitting their bars...)
And so on...
Hey, you people are just giving me lots of ideas! :) Thank you all!
Bye! ;)
 

You have to be careful when using the BoVD. Most of the creatures in that book deal a descent amount of vile damage along with descent amounts of regular damage. That vile damage can be a bit of a pain to deal with if the party is not equipped to handle those circumstances. I believe that the CR rating for creatures that deliver vile damage is a little off because the vile damage could wittle away a good party pretty quickly. That I do know is a problem due to my personal play tests with some of those creatures. I was going to try to introduce some of those creatures, or templates, into my campaign, and decided against it because my party is not yet equipped to handle those creatures.
 




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