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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 8669516" data-attributes="member: 53176"><h3>Nupperibo (MToF)</h3>Nupperibos are the least of devils. While they are statistically stronger than a lemure, that doesn’t account for potential, which is what really matters for devilkind. Formed from the souls of those who committed evil via inaction, they are doomed to sit around in the hells forever until some other being, be it a higher ranking devil or one of the vermin swarming around them, directs them to attack.It should come as no shock then, that Nupperibos are likewise lacking in combat prowess. With a slow speed, a weak melee attack, and only 20’ of sensory perception, these wretches should prove easy to outmaneuver in combat.  This is one of the few times I’m willing to overlook such deficiencies in threat, given the nature of the creature in question. Even then, the Nupperibo is not entirely without merit. They have a cloud of vermin swarming about them, which has a generously sized AoE damage zone. Furthermore, despite their lack of senses, they can flawlessly track any creature that has been damaged by this cloud for 24 hours, no matter what kind of magic or tactics are employed to shake them.Still, I have to point out that the Stirges hanging out around them are generally a bigger threat. I don’t begrudge the existence of the Nupperibo, something has to function as cannon fodder for the devil legions and their cultists after all. But if you are looking for an actual plot hook involving them, you are going to have to travel back an edition or two, where it was implied that Nupperibos were actually the larval form of something that wasn’t a devil at all. Given enough time and perhaps the proper nutrition, they might evolve into something that could pose a threat to the current hierarchy of the 9 hells. In the changeover, the Nupperibo lost their resistance to non-magical, non-silver weapons. In addition, their Cloud of Vermin passive aura had its damage upped, but was turned to acid damage. Which removes an interesting interaction where it was allowed to bypass nearly every immunity in the game by virtue of being piercing damage that was tied to a non-spell saving throw.</blockquote>

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