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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaTarrasque" data-source="post: 7910308" data-attributes="member: 6801226">The monster manual monsters are just the ones that PC's get into fights with.  The legions of Hell don't waste magic weapons on devils sent to the mortal worlds, they save them for the Blood War.  If demons that regularly cast 9th level spells showed up on a campaign world, everyone there would have their brains leak out through their ears (just think of what kind of 9th level spell unknown to mortals that demons spend millennia developing, leaking brains might be on the tame side.....).Monsters that are likely to be summoned are a different story (and remember that only clerics could summon fiends using spells from the PHB, so not much need for them to have magic weapons, since evil clerics could beg for fallen celestials with magic melee attacks).  There does seem to be a 7th level gate to getting monsters with magic weapons via summoning (most critters available for conjure celestial and at 7th level you can get elemental myrmidons whose attacks are considered magical for purposes of overcoming resistances and immunities from conjure elemental).</blockquote>