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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 2881148" data-attributes="member: 38324">He might take a balor one on one, but the balor can make alliances more effectively than he can. So can a marilith and even (slightly) a nalfeshnee. Given a choice between following the bullying gnoll who thinks he's entitled to his throne merely by circumstance and luck or following a charismatic natural leader, they're not choosing the gnoll. Yeenoghu's gone within a week because he can't keep his troops.That's what would happen with the listed stats. This is what should happen:From a throne of gnawed bones rose a tall, nearly skeletal horror with mangy fur, pallid corpselike skin, and the twisted face of a beast; a terrible laugh-howl reverberated across the landscape, and the massed and quarreling demons around the being began to transform, some becoming gaunt and corpselike, their eyes filled with an eternal hunger; others instantly leaping on one another and devouring their fellows alive. Still others became beastlike and feral, drooling and snarling as their intellects were subsumed by raw instinct.As one voice, the massed crowd howled in answer: Yeenoghu! Lord of carrion! Devourer of the Dead! Cannibalism incarnate! Before their master they were malleable clay, mere playthings - he was the urge that dwelled within each of their hearts, the dark longing that filled their dreams. The demon prince strode through his adoring, worshipping followers, his presence filling them to bursting, rendering them carnal, insensate, mad. Yeenoghu howled, his cry becoming hideous reverberating laughter. And his minions laughed too.It's not about whether they have 20 HD or 50. Demon lords should be forces of nature. They're the dark horror that dwells within every sapient mortal - within the gods themselves - and until we conquer the beasts within ourselves their personifications in the Abyss will live on.Or, at the very least, they should be better at gathering minions than balors and mariliths. Or else the balors and mariliths rule, not them.</blockquote>

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