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<blockquote data-quote="Kunimatyu" data-source="post: 4453908" data-attributes="member: 22057"><p>The flavor-quotient wasn't huge, but it IS worth pointing out that the 4e description is both consistent with the original ways in which mezzodaemons were used, and allows for easy introduction of the yugoloths as distinct from "normal" demons. Not bad for two sentences. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not singing a swan song for the rast and ravid. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>While your campaign setting/cosmology preferences understandably color this, I think most DMs aren't sorry to see guardinals/archons/formians go. The geniunely popular guys (demons, devils, angels, eladrin, slaadi, some inevitables) survived just fine. I suspect formians will be back, but I won't miss lion-headed angelic things -- give me the "living flame" Biblical-ish new angels any day.</p><p></p><p>Disses aside, the evistro filled a necessary niche for the demons, just as the legion devil does for the devils. Now both groups have a "foot soldier" type; legion devils embodying the orderly precision of the devils, and evistro embodying the vicious destructive rage of the demons. Evistro vs. Legion Devils is also a *much* more compelling Blood War image than one with dretches and lemures. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kunimatyu, post: 4453908, member: 22057"] The flavor-quotient wasn't huge, but it IS worth pointing out that the 4e description is both consistent with the original ways in which mezzodaemons were used, and allows for easy introduction of the yugoloths as distinct from "normal" demons. Not bad for two sentences. :) I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not singing a swan song for the rast and ravid. :) While your campaign setting/cosmology preferences understandably color this, I think most DMs aren't sorry to see guardinals/archons/formians go. The geniunely popular guys (demons, devils, angels, eladrin, slaadi, some inevitables) survived just fine. I suspect formians will be back, but I won't miss lion-headed angelic things -- give me the "living flame" Biblical-ish new angels any day. Disses aside, the evistro filled a necessary niche for the demons, just as the legion devil does for the devils. Now both groups have a "foot soldier" type; legion devils embodying the orderly precision of the devils, and evistro embodying the vicious destructive rage of the demons. Evistro vs. Legion Devils is also a *much* more compelling Blood War image than one with dretches and lemures. :) [/QUOTE]
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