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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6282606" data-attributes="member: 6670763">I run an AD&D campaign, but I am not using the D&D demons. They are just much too mundane.In my campaigns, demons are true spirits without physical form and come from an extraplanar realm where time and space really don't have any true meaning, at least not in a way that mortal minds would understand.Therefore, they can't just open a portal and step into the physical world, but can only interact with it through possession. Possession of the living is rare, but possessing the dead or even unliving material is much easier, as long as these have been heavily corrupted by demonic magic used by sorcerers. Possessed dead animals and fallen warriors are the most common form, but there's also ice demons, shadow demons, ash demons, tar demons, and rock demons.Mortals can not travel into the demon realm either, as their bodies would simply be annihilated instantly, but can explore it through an astral projection (not the spell). They don't actually have eyes in the demon realms and there isn't anything to see anyway, but the mortal mind creates some kind of visual representation that depends on the thoughts and moods of the most powerful nearby demon.To possess something in the material world, it must already be highly corrupted, or a sorcerer needs to create a focused connection to the demon realm and prepare the body for a demon to pass over. Which as a result happens very rarely, except for areas with massive degrees of corruption. If a demon just rides along in a body, it can be exorcised, but if it takes over the body, it's impossible to reverse it other than killing the person and forcing the demon back into the demon realm.Possessed corpses, and maybe individual ice and shadow demons can be defeated by mid-level (4th to 8th) characters, but other than that only high level characters really have any chance to deal with them. Astral visiting the demon realm is just a completely insane idea, and most people don't have any idea why anyone would ever try to do that.</blockquote>

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