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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackofname" data-source="post: 8153529" data-attributes="member: 87598">1) Yeenoghu is well... he doesn't feel big? He's just not going to be the guy that can bring down a civilization. While what I am proposing for D is a step back, he is also a schemer.2) His look does fit. Giant monstrous baboon is great for a Skull Island-esque game. Yeenoghu is just a big gnoll. He's not as freaky.I think part of this is being perhaps a little too literal with the idea of "chaotic". Chaos can mean disorder, but it also means change. Something can have a structure and still be unstable, unpredictable, and given to turnover.Think of a game of king of the hill. Everyone vying for the top, throwing the guy off, only to be the king and then be pushed off. A "might makes right" brutal circumstance kind of becomes orderly and "lordly" when it stagnates and new winner upsetting the status quo. If there's constant war, the position is precarious and whoever's on top won't last long, then it is chaos because there's nothing dependable. There's no reliable rule. Nothing can be accomplished except making undertakers very rich.Right after the French revolution, France went through a period of about 10-20 years where they beheaded the rulers and aristocracy ten times. Because things were unstable and not improving--in no small part because they were cleaving off the heads of state with every setback. No matter how lawful France was as a country, that was a chaotic period.I'm not too knowledgable on the Demon Princes, but one archetype or motive I haven't seen is the idea of the powerful entity that does things to see what will happen. "Let's put this insane hermit as the king and see what he does. Let's give this lowly henchmen massive power, and once he's kicked the hornet's nest enough, take it away--just to see if he can get out of it. Let's swap the mind of this goat with that of a mighty dragon, and see how they both cope. How long would it take the peasantry to notice and riot if these clerics' magic stops working?" The sort to cause mayhem out of demented curiosity and malicious sense of humor. What if The Joker had godlike power but was more about watching than performing.</blockquote>

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