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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7631868" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Well, it's your cosmology. What a monster category represents is campaign specific.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For example, in my campaign giants are the offspring of the interbreeding of the gods and the jinn. So Storm Giants for example have a divine parent and a Marid parent. So your question is meaningless within my campaign. There are certainly plague spirits that would be a sort of demon in traditional D&D terms. And it would be more than possible to have a plague giant with a divine parent associated with disease and some jinn paramour, possibly a Makhluqtin the slime jinn from the plane of ooze. But I'd probably just stat up such a being as a unique Formorian and give it some levels in sorcerer or other spellcaster and a template. </p><p></p><p>The point is that I don't define things by their philosophical representation, but by how they were made. And if they are literally a philosophical incarnation of something and that is their origin, they are always Outsiders because that is pretty much how Outsiders are defined in my game. Nothing else explicitly stands for anything. They just have an origin story of some sort. For example, beasts and aberrations in my game are the product of magical tinkering of two different sorts, what you might call natural magical tinkering (genetics in our world) and unnatural magical tinkering to bring in things from outside the universe (or multiverse if you prefer the term).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7631868, member: 4937"] Well, it's your cosmology. What a monster category represents is campaign specific. For example, in my campaign giants are the offspring of the interbreeding of the gods and the jinn. So Storm Giants for example have a divine parent and a Marid parent. So your question is meaningless within my campaign. There are certainly plague spirits that would be a sort of demon in traditional D&D terms. And it would be more than possible to have a plague giant with a divine parent associated with disease and some jinn paramour, possibly a Makhluqtin the slime jinn from the plane of ooze. But I'd probably just stat up such a being as a unique Formorian and give it some levels in sorcerer or other spellcaster and a template. The point is that I don't define things by their philosophical representation, but by how they were made. And if they are literally a philosophical incarnation of something and that is their origin, they are always Outsiders because that is pretty much how Outsiders are defined in my game. Nothing else explicitly stands for anything. They just have an origin story of some sort. For example, beasts and aberrations in my game are the product of magical tinkering of two different sorts, what you might call natural magical tinkering (genetics in our world) and unnatural magical tinkering to bring in things from outside the universe (or multiverse if you prefer the term). [/QUOTE]
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