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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 6972610" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Looking these guys over again, they get some nice at will magic.</p><p></p><p>At-will dispel magic means warded areas never keep them out for long. Any spell 3rd or lower is automatically snuffed and... that includes Magic Circle, the go to "let's summon a demon and get it to work for us/let's keep demons out" spell. This could be an ability they use very rarely, allowing themselves to be summoned by mortals, get them used to making it easy, then dispelling the circle that contains them and ripping into their erstwhile masters. </p><p></p><p>Any spell higher than 3rd is going to take some time to get through, +1 wisdom means d20+1 needing to get 10+spell level DC... but give them however much time they would need to "take 20" and even the most powerful wards are going to be destroyed by these guys.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Combine this with at-will fear (even with a crappy save, DC 11 is nothing) and a half dozen of these guys could sneak into a magic school to terrorize and kill the students and perhaps bring more powerful demons who can't defeat magic wards along with them. </p><p></p><p>At will levitate is good too (again crappy save) because I think the caster controls the movement, so levitating a warrior makes them rather helpless against any ranged spear attacks these things make, because they wouldn't be able to close on the Babau to hit them. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Man, the more I think about at-will Dispel Magic opens so many possibilities for Babau to lead the charge on an infiltration, or sneak up to the city walls and slowly tear apart the wards that protect it. Eventually they will roll high enough to break the spell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 6972610, member: 6801228"] Looking these guys over again, they get some nice at will magic. At-will dispel magic means warded areas never keep them out for long. Any spell 3rd or lower is automatically snuffed and... that includes Magic Circle, the go to "let's summon a demon and get it to work for us/let's keep demons out" spell. This could be an ability they use very rarely, allowing themselves to be summoned by mortals, get them used to making it easy, then dispelling the circle that contains them and ripping into their erstwhile masters. Any spell higher than 3rd is going to take some time to get through, +1 wisdom means d20+1 needing to get 10+spell level DC... but give them however much time they would need to "take 20" and even the most powerful wards are going to be destroyed by these guys. Combine this with at-will fear (even with a crappy save, DC 11 is nothing) and a half dozen of these guys could sneak into a magic school to terrorize and kill the students and perhaps bring more powerful demons who can't defeat magic wards along with them. At will levitate is good too (again crappy save) because I think the caster controls the movement, so levitating a warrior makes them rather helpless against any ranged spear attacks these things make, because they wouldn't be able to close on the Babau to hit them. Man, the more I think about at-will Dispel Magic opens so many possibilities for Babau to lead the charge on an infiltration, or sneak up to the city walls and slowly tear apart the wards that protect it. Eventually they will roll high enough to break the spell. [/QUOTE]
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