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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 2896538" data-attributes="member: 23937">1) I think that there's plenty of room to keep developing new demons, be they tanar'ri, loumaras, obyriths, just plain demons, or something else altogether. I'd love to see them further expanded upon, personally, but the tanar'ri remain the most common and most populous demons in the Abyss. Personally, I see the tanar'ri as manifestations of the failings of humanity, loumaras as evil parasites that prey on humanity, and the obyriths as evil and chaos personified that would exist with our wtihout humanity. Or, to put it less confusingly: tanar'ri are human-shaped, loumaras are invisible and possess things, obyriths are Lovecraftian.2) We'd originally intended to include some prestige classes, but most of the obvious ideas were already done in other books. Plus, there just wasn't any room in the project for them. Personally, I think there's probably enough prestige classes as there is; for a new one to be justified, it must rise naturally from the flavor rather than the other way around. In any case, no new prestige classes were ever written for (and then cut from) the book. As far as I know.3) If I remember correctly, the Pazuzu article doesn't give him a demonic race type at all, tanar'ri or otherwise. Mostly because at the time I hadn't fully gelled the idea of the obyriths in my head... all I knew was that Pazuzu was older than the tanar'ri race. In any event, since he's a "missing link" between the two races, his stats need no adjustment, apart from giving him the obyrith subtype (which, in his case, doesn't really mean much anymore).</blockquote>

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