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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2784117" data-attributes="member: 11697">AFAIK, demon amulets were never touched upon after 1E, but subsequent 2e material made them almost superfluous with the boost that they gave to archfiends w/ respect to how they interacted with their layers, how hard as hell it was to screw with them within their native plane and personal layers, etc. On some level the archfiends and their layers were very nearly the same thing, and if 'killed' outside of there they had a tendency to reform (without needing an item to do so), and subsequently be very unhappy with you.Lacking body/soul duality also might make anything remotely like the 1e amulet things a bit difficult, though I could see arguments that worked around this. However, I'd prefer that anything like this was more tied to the basic nature of an archfiend, as an archfiend, rather than linked to an item like a mortal derived lich. Having Grazzt in a symbiotic relationship with Azzagrat, continually linking it to his will and reshaping it at his whim, and blurring the distinction between fiend and layer, it just strikes me as more evocative than having a fiend with what amounts to a phylactery. *shrugs*</blockquote>