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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8037510" data-attributes="member: 907">The problem with Yugoloths/Daemons is that they're a result of Gygax's (and possibly other early designers') obsession with ticking checkboxes.So, the original MM had a whole hierarchy of Lawful Evil devils, and another hierarchy of Chaotic Evil demons? Well, that's not enough – we clearly need to fill in those gaps with Neutral Evil daemons (ignoring that that's just an alternate spelling of demon). And hey, let's put in a set of Chaotic/Neutral Evil things too and call them demodands. And Chaotic Neutral frog-abominations, and Lawful Neutral geometric shapes, and so on. And of course we need to later expand it to the Upper Planes as well, and introduce any-good angels, Lawful Good archons, Neutral Good guardinals, and Chaotic Good eladrin, each with their own hierarchy. And in the process, these hierarchies dominate any description or discussion of the planes in question, leaving more singular creatures like hollyphants and night hags as an afterthought.Heck, the whole Great Wheel structure is an extremely Lawful way of looking at the multiverse. That's probably why I dislike it so much in favor of more flexible planar arrangements.</blockquote>