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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kinneus" data-source="post: 5190490" data-attributes="member: 48215">Here are some ideas. Feel free to poach. -Bael Turath. It's just sitting there, a glittering gem of devilish fluff in 4e's basic Points of Light setting. A campaign focused on devils should definitely end up in the ruins of Bael Turath at some point. Maybe the tieflings started the whole prevalance of devils in your campaign world? Or maybe history had it wrong: instead of making deals with devils, perhaps Bael Turath was invaded by devils. Maybe imps and other weaker devils are just tieflings that didn't escape in time? -Duergar. Duergar, according to MM2, have a definite connection to Asmodeus. They could make good high-Heroic to Paragon antagonists for your party. Or maybe you could allow the party to witness the creation of the duergar? Perhaps some particularly powerful dwarven wizard completes a ritual to gain boons from devilish entities... and accidentally creates the duergar race in the process. Maybe duergar are simply dwarves who have been fallen into despicable evil? Or that have been infected by some rampant devilish curse (that the PCs must, naturally, find a way to lift)? -An earlier poster mentioned this: evil rituals. As to the question of: "How do I bring lesser devils into the material world?", rituals that are inherently evil are excellent way. They can powerful, but because they're super-evil, you won't have to worry about your party using them by stealing an enemy spellbook. What about a ritual that requires the blood of dozen clerics of Pelor as a focus? Or the heart of a deva? Or the souls of an entire village? -Infernal warlocks. Use them. Use them as antagonists (bonus points if you have a PC infernal warlock in your party! What a great way to make it "personal"). Imagine for a moment a desperate man. A starving farmer, desperate to provide for his family. Maybe there's an external danger: an orc raiding party on the horizon, a pack of ravenous wolves threatening his livestock. A devilish emissary offers him a deal: "Give us the soul of your first born son, and we will empower you with enough magic to defend the rest of your family." And then imagine that he does it... and the party is hired to investigate the disappearance of a local peasant child. Hello, moral gray area. Chaos ensues.</blockquote>

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