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<blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 3353007" data-attributes="member: 30709">To be fair, if Wizards had released the book with your modifications, I wouldn't be crying into my pillow.&nbsp; (Though I do think talking about the &quot;lowest common denominator&quot; is a little terse language-wise, I think your general point stans.)&nbsp; The problem is book size, at the end of the day - you got to make what space you have rock the most for the most people.&nbsp; Stat blocks in the same style as the rest of the book for advanced Demon Princes would chew up quite a lot of text - and are arguably only worth it if they're going to be truly huge (as the Demonomicon articles already cover slightly more powerful figures)&nbsp; at which point we get back to the &quot;who is it for?&quot; question.&nbsp; The amount of players who who use a CR 45 Juiblex is pretty slim, whereas that page space could be used for rules or fluff that more people will get mileage out of.&nbsp; The same goes for army sizes, extra encounter tables etc - it's all a big footprint when you don't necesarilly get as much as other stuff that could go on that space.&nbsp; Overall, I think the Fiendish Codex books make a good balance.&nbsp; You may want to do things another way, of course, but the books at least offer some support for that.&nbsp; With class levels, HD advancing and templates, there's no reason why you can't have as many badical Demon Princes, Balors and what-not to torment your ECL 40 PCs who are finally braving the inner depths of the Abyss.&nbsp; ;-)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GQuail, post: 3353007, member: 30709"] To be fair, if Wizards had released the book with your modifications, I wouldn't be crying into my pillow. (Though I do think talking about the "lowest common denominator" is a little terse language-wise, I think your general point stans.) The problem is book size, at the end of the day - you got to make what space you have rock the most for the most people. Stat blocks in the same style as the rest of the book for advanced Demon Princes would chew up quite a lot of text - and are arguably only worth it if they're going to be truly huge (as the Demonomicon articles already cover slightly more powerful figures) at which point we get back to the "who is it for?" question. The amount of players who who use a CR 45 Juiblex is pretty slim, whereas that page space could be used for rules or fluff that more people will get mileage out of. The same goes for army sizes, extra encounter tables etc - it's all a big footprint when you don't necesarilly get as much as other stuff that could go on that space. Overall, I think the Fiendish Codex books make a good balance. You may want to do things another way, of course, but the books at least offer some support for that. With class levels, HD advancing and templates, there's no reason why you can't have as many badical Demon Princes, Balors and what-not to torment your ECL 40 PCs who are finally braving the inner depths of the Abyss. ;-) [/QUOTE]

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