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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3225023" data-attributes="member: 2205">Their motivations--and therefore the amount of forethought needed to &quot;successfully&quot; run them--are also a lot simpler and easier for a lot of DMs to grok, I'd imagine.I don't actually have much interest in the law/chaos axis of alignment so I tend to lump the fiends together and see their &quot;type&quot;--baatezu, tanar'ri, or even oni, demodand, yugoloth, obiryth, or &quot;other&quot;--heck, I'll even throw stuff like efreet and slaadi in there--as not very important, and my versions of the lower planes tend to feature all of the fiends much more on the same page about basic motivations and whatnot.&nbsp; I prefer to see archdevils and demon princes alike as the heads of lower planes &quot;city states&quot; each with their own Machiavellian courts of nobles and retainers, and each making and breaking alliances with each other all over the place.I suppose in many ways, that is more like the Abyss than Hell, but like I said; the law/chaos axis of alignment doesn't interest me very much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 3225023, member: 2205"] Their motivations--and therefore the amount of forethought needed to "successfully" run them--are also a lot simpler and easier for a lot of DMs to grok, I'd imagine. I don't actually have much interest in the law/chaos axis of alignment so I tend to lump the fiends together and see their "type"--baatezu, tanar'ri, or even oni, demodand, yugoloth, obiryth, or "other"--heck, I'll even throw stuff like efreet and slaadi in there--as not very important, and my versions of the lower planes tend to feature all of the fiends much more on the same page about basic motivations and whatnot. I prefer to see archdevils and demon princes alike as the heads of lower planes "city states" each with their own Machiavellian courts of nobles and retainers, and each making and breaking alliances with each other all over the place. I suppose in many ways, that is more like the Abyss than Hell, but like I said; the law/chaos axis of alignment doesn't interest me very much. [/QUOTE]

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