Warlock pact for NPC with demonic connections?

[msherman]

Thanks for all the thoughts, folks. Especially Mouseferatu. I hate that too.

Yeah, normally I wouldn't spend too much time on crunch for an NPC, but this one is the twin sister of one of the PCs, and the PC is multi'd as a warlock herself, so I fully expect to have to answer detailed questions about this NPCs craft and background (so that the PCs can plan appropriately when the time comes to confront her). Also, I'm tentatively setting this NPC up as a campaign-arc BBEG, so I expect to have to level her up a few times, adjusting powers each time -- I want to be consistent.

So Lolth is a demon, right? I suppose that means that the Dark pact is the closest fit. I guess I'll have to go pick up the FRPG now.

Does it say somewhere specifically that demons don't do pacts? Where is that? The NPC is Tiefling, so I could always give her Infernal Pact for the racial heritage, and just make the demon-consorting a hobby as opposed to a calling.

 

[Ryujin]

Demons come from the deepest layers of the Elemental Chaos (Abyss) and exist only to destroy, so they aren't really into creating contracts with mortals.

How about treating it as Dark Pact for mechanics, but explain it as some sort of possession/melding with a Demonic intelligence?

 

[Shroomy]

Warning! Language tangent!



Love ya, Shroomy, but you just hit one of my grammar buttons. The expression is "for all intents and purposes."

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

D'oh!

 

[Xris Robin]

So Lolth is a demon, right? I suppose that means that the Dark pact is the closest fit. I guess I'll have to go pick up the FRPG now.

Lolth is a goddess. She has clerics, not warlocks. Dark Pact is with the powers of the Underdark, which is not quite the same thing.

 

[Kesh]

Lolth is a goddess. She has clerics, not warlocks. Dark Pact is with the powers of the Underdark, which is not quite the same thing.

Right. Dark Pact is for forging deals with the things that lurk in the darkness. Specifically, the deep reaches of the Underdark, but I also allow it to be a Shadowfell analogue of the Fey Pact.

Don't get hung up on the name of the Infernal Pact, or that demons don't normally enter agreements. While they're chaotic and unpredictable, that doesn't preclude them from offering a mortal power in exchange for a price. Especially if the mortal will use that power to spread chaos.