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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eyada" data-source="post: 4025547" data-attributes="member: 59589">As mentioned earlier, any encounter against a Pit Fiend could theoretically feature swarms of extremely low level Devils that are too weak to ever injure the PCs in direct combat, but, in the presence of their Master, become a very serious threat. I think it's a great way to include low level monsters in a high-level fight and have them still be relevant enough for the PCs to even recognize their existence. After all, most of the descriptions for Devils mention "leading fiendish hordes" or something similar, so having such a retinue with any given Pit Fiend sounds perfectly reasonable to me. It provides more tactical complexity to the encounter while remaining thematically appropriate. PCs must choose between spending precious time eradicating the teeming Lemur horde in order to take away the Pit Fiends ammunition, or just bear the rain of fire as they assault the Pit Fiend itself.Those little winged imps circling overhead that the players scoff at are only an amusing thematic background element until the Pit Fiend shows up to lay down the law in his domain. That's how I picture it, anyway.</blockquote>