Demonography - Designing Demons
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:42 pm
"If you stare into the abyss... remember your spectacles, you don't want to miss anything."
The Abyss is infinitely vast and infinitely vile in Its diversity. This is a contest to see whom can craft the most interesting specimen within Its chaotic layers. Is it the shepherd of the doomed, a harvester of souls, a guardian in a demonic citadel, a worm of corpses, a sentient war engine, a demonic hydra, or a foot soldier of the apocalypse? Wizards and scholars alike engage in this heretical research into one of the most forbidding realms of occult lore: compiling a demography.
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[b]Short description:[/b] - The name of the Demon species.
[b]Long description:[/b] - A Demon is here. How a Demon appears when looking at a room.
[b]Main description:[/b] - What the Demon actually looks like, when looking at the Demon itself.
[b]Monster size:[/b] - Tiny, gigantic, human-sized?
[b]Monster type:[/b] - Tanar'i, Demonic Construct, Demonic Undead, Demonic Elemental?
[b]Demon layer:[/b] - From which layer of the Abyss does it hale.
[b]Demon lord:[/b] - To which demon Lord is it loyal to if any.
[b]Demon rank:[/b] - What is its effective rank/power level, is it a grunt, an officer, a commander? Is it equal to a quasit or a marilith?
[b]Preferred terrain:[/b] - Does it like caves, deserts, the arctic?
[b]Movement type:[/b] Do they swim, fly? Agile, slow?
[b]Demon stats:[/b] - Give us an idea of their relative strength and intelligence, etc. 10 is average human level.
[b]Base Monster:[/b] - Have an idea what race we should use to build the Demon off of? Is it effectively a modified goblin?
[b]Special abilities:[/b] - Does it turn invisible, use a specific kind of poison, cast a negative energy aura?
[b]Combat tactics:[/b] Does it use slashing claw attacks, does it have preferred spells or position in combat?
[b]Monster history:[/b] - General information of your demon, how did this strain come into existence, what was the first of its kind? General history/ecology/temperament.
[b]Demonograph:[/b] Is there a particular ritual to summon it, to bind it? Does it have special weaknesses or aversions?
