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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4154880" data-attributes="member: 2205">There effectively being any difference between demon lords and deities seems to be a relatively recent thing, and honestly it's still pretty muddled.  All of the demon lords have clerics and domains, for example.I'm not much of a fan of having actual gods appear anywhere in the setting itself, honestly—which means demon lords and other powerful critters are free to claim that they're gods, and act like they're gods, and who's going to say that they're wrong?  So to me, the "elevation" of Llolth out of the demon lord ranks and into the god ranks is nothing more than claims of status rather than anything mechanically distinctive or different.  One thing I like a lot about demon lords (vs. archdevils) is that there's always room for more.  I don't think there's too many; I'd love to have even more options.  Let's detail up some of the ones that we don't know much about, and create homebrew ones, and, and, and... anyway.  I like their variety.  You can find just the one you need for your campaign that way, and the fact that they represent rival empires rather than, as in the case of the devils, rival subsidiaries of the same parent company, I feel a lot freer trying to use them the way I want to.Officialness be damned, too—Shax from Erik Mona's Armies of the Abyss is one of my favorite demon lords, and his cult is just the right blend of creepy and insidious for me.</blockquote>

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