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<blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 4964534" data-attributes="member: 63763">True. But while a sole demon could do quite a bit of damage before someone is sent to dispatch it, they would probably end up drawing attention to themselves and the appropriate level of adventurers would be there soon.&nbsp;Generally, for the demons to overrun the world would require quite a few to get through at once. Demons lack the coordiation to plan and execute a full scale invassion, so most incursions are in small numbers. Most ways they would get in would be short term. In 4e, there are ways to make permanent teleportation links ... but they require a year worth of maintaining the ritual before it becomes permanent (as an example), and even then it's possible to destroy it. The general threat of one of these portals being open (and demons on the material plane in general) is a magnet for exactly the kind of people that would go and shut something like that down. &nbsp;The lack of restraint that make it seem unlikely demons would hold out for a bigger reward in the long term would also be the reason they couldn't create a sustainable portal to the material plane from which to mount an invasion (or to even mount an invasion in the first place). Their short sightedness would mean that most that escape into the material plane would be concerned solely with wreaking havok instead of any detailed world domination plan, or even just laying low or covering their tracks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WalterKovacs, post: 4964534, member: 63763"] True. But while a sole demon could do quite a bit of damage before someone is sent to dispatch it, they would probably end up drawing attention to themselves and the appropriate level of adventurers would be there soon. Generally, for the demons to overrun the world would require quite a few to get through at once. Demons lack the coordiation to plan and execute a full scale invassion, so most incursions are in small numbers. Most ways they would get in would be short term. In 4e, there are ways to make permanent teleportation links ... but they require a year worth of maintaining the ritual before it becomes permanent (as an example), and even then it's possible to destroy it. The general threat of one of these portals being open (and demons on the material plane in general) is a magnet for exactly the kind of people that would go and shut something like that down. The lack of restraint that make it seem unlikely demons would hold out for a bigger reward in the long term would also be the reason they couldn't create a sustainable portal to the material plane from which to mount an invasion (or to even mount an invasion in the first place). Their short sightedness would mean that most that escape into the material plane would be concerned solely with wreaking havok instead of any detailed world domination plan, or even just laying low or covering their tracks. [/QUOTE]

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