2nd Ed stats for balor and pit fiend

[Memnoch]

THIS is what a balor and a pit fiend REALLY are.


Baatezu

Pit Fiend Black Abishai Green Abishai Red Abishai
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: The Nine Hells The Nine Hells The Nine Hells The Nine Hells
FREQUENCY: Very rare Common Common Common
ORGANIZATION: Solitary Solitary Solitary Solitary
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Any Any Any Any
DIET: Carnivore Carnivore Carnivore Carnivore
INTELLIGENCE: Genius (17-18) Average (8-10) Average (8-10) Average (8-10)
TREASURE: G, W Nil Nil Nil
ALIGNMENT: Lawful evil Lawful evil Lawful evil Lawful evil
NO. APPEARING: 1-4 2-20 2-8 1
ARMOR CLASS: -5 5 3 1
MOVEMENT: 15, Fl 24 (C) 9, Fl 12 (C) 9, Fl 12 (C) 9, Fl 12 (C)
HIT DICE: 13 4+1 5+2 6+3
THAC0: 7 17 15 13
NO.OF ATTACKS: 6 3 3 3
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-4x2/1-6x2/ 1-4/1-4/2-5 1-4/1-4/2-5 1-4/1-4/2-5
2-12/2-8
or weapon
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Fear, poison, Poison, dive Poison, dive Poison, dive
tail constriction
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Regeneration, Regeneration, Regeneration, Regeneration,
+3 or better +1 or better +1 or better +1 or better
weapons to hit weapons to hit weapons to hit weapons to hit
MAGIC RESISTANCE: 50% 30% 30% 30%
SIZE: L (12' tall) L (8' tall) L (7' tall) M (6' tall)
MORALE: Fearless (19-20) Average (8-10) Average (8-10) Steady (11-12)
XP VALUE: 57,500 21,500 23,500 25,500

General: The baatezu are the primary inhabitants of the Nine Hells. They are a strong, evil tempered race held together by an equally strong organization. The baatezu live in a rigid caste system where authority is derived from power and station.
The baatezu wish to fulfill their ancient quest to destroy the tanar'ri, their blood enemies. The baatezu also know that by infiltrating humans and entering their world they will gain power over the tanar'ri. Toward this end they constantly strive to dominate the Prime Material plane and its natives.
The baatezu are divided into three groups: greater, lesser, and least. Below are listed a few:


Greater baatezu Lesser baatezu least baatezu
amnizu abishai nupperibo
cornugon barbazu spinagon
gelugon erinyes
pit fiend hamatula
osyluth

In addition, there are the lemures, the common "foot soldiers" of the baatezu at the very bottom in station.

Combat: All baatezu except for lemures, nupperibo, and spinagon are able to perform the following magical abilities, once per round, at will: advanced illusion, animate dead, charm person, infravision, know alignment (always active), suggestion, and teleport without error.
Baatezu are affected by the following attack forms:


Attack Damage Attack Damage
acid full cold half*
electricity (lightning) full fire (dragon, magical) none*
gas half iron weapon none**
magic missile full poison none
silver weapon full***


*the gelugon suffers half damage from fire and none from cold.
**unless affected by normal weapons.
***greater baatezu suffer half damage from silver weapons.


Pit Fiend: The most terrible baatezu of the Nine Hells, pit fiends appear to be giant, winged humanoids, very much like gargoyles in appearance, with huge wings that wrap around their bodies for defense. Pit fiend's fangs are large and drip with a vile, green liquid. Their bodies are red and scaly, often emitting flames when they are angered or excited. In the rare situations they choose to communicate, they use telepathy.

Combat: In physical combat, the pit fiend is capable of dealing out tremendous punishment, using its incredible 18/00 Strength (+6 damage adjustment). They can attack six times in a single round, dividing attacks against six different opponents. They can attack with two hard, scaly wing buffets for 1-4 points of damage per hit. Their powerful claws do 1-6 points of damage per successful attack. The bite of a pit fiend is dreadful indeed, causing any creature bitten to take 2-12 points of damage and receive a lethal dose of poison. A saving throw vs. poison is required or the victim dies in 1-4 rounds. The bite also infects the victim with a disease.
Pit fiends can also attack with their tail every round, inflicting 2-8 points of damage per hit. The tail can then hold and constrict the victim for 2-8 points of damage per round until the victim makes a successful Strength check to break free. Pit fiends can also carry jagged-toothed clubs which inflict 7-12 points of damage per hit (this replaces one claw attack).
Once per round a pit fiend can use one of the following spell-like powers, plus those available to all baatezu: detect magic, detect invisibility, fireball, hold person, improved invisibility, polymorph self, produce flame, pyrotechnics, and wall of fire.
They can, once per year, cast a wish spell. They may always gate in two lesser or one greater baatezu with a 100% chance of success, performing this action once per round. Once per day, a pit fiend can use a symbol of pain -- the victim must save vs. rod, staff or wand or suffer a -4 penalty on attack dice, and a -2 penalty to Dexterity for 2-20 rounds.
Pit fiends regenerate 2 hit points per round and radiate a fear aura in a 20-foot radius (save vs. rod, staff, or wand at a -3 penalty or flee in panic for 1-10 rounds).

Habitat/Society: Pit fiends are the lords of the Nine Hells. They are the baatezu of the greatest power and the highest station. Pit fiends are found throughout the various layers of the Nine Hells, but are very rare on the upper layers.
Wherever they are found, these mighty lords hold a position of great authority and power. They sometimes command vast legions consisting of dozens of complete armies, leading them into battle against the tanar'ri. These huge forces are terrifying to behold, and any non-native of the lower planes, of less than 10 Hit Dice, who sees them, flees in panic for 1-3 days. Those of 10 Hit Dice or more must make a saving throw vs. rod, staff, or wand or flee in panic for 1-12 turns.

Ecology: Pit fiends are spawned from the powerful gelugons of the Nine Hells' eighth layer. When those icy fiends are found worthy they are cast into the Pit of Flame for 1,001 days after which they emerge as pit fiends.



Tanar'ri

Balor Marilith
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: The Abyss The Abyss
FREQUENCY: Very rare Very rare
ORGANIZATION: Solitary Solitary
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Any Any
DIET: Carnivore Carnivore
INTELLIGENCE: Supra-genius(19-20) Genius (17-18)
TREASURE: Hx3 C, F
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil Chaotic evil
NO. APPEARING: 1 1-2
ARMOR CLASS: -8 -9
MOVEMENT: 15, Fl 36 (B) 15
HIT DICE: 13 12
THAC0: 7 9
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1 or 2 7
DAMAGE/ATTACK: by weapon or 2-12 4-24 and 6 by weapon
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Terror, body flames, Magical weapons,
death throes, explosion constriction
SPECIAL DEFENSES: +3 or better weapons to hit +2 or better weapon to hit,
never surprised, spell immunity
MAGIC RESISTANCE: 70% 70%
SIZE: L (12' tall) L (7' tall)
MORALE: Fanatic (17-18) Fanatic (17-18)
XP VALUE: 46,000 45,000


Tanar'ri are, in the broadest terms, chaos and evil defined. The less intelligent often attack without question and fight until slain. True and greater tanar'ri often roam the Astral and Ethereal Planes -- their attention is attracted by those in an ethereal state.

Combat: In addition to the separate abilities of each sort of tanar'ri, they all share the following magical powers:


Attack Damage Attack Damage
acid full gas (poisonous, etc.) half
cold half iron weapon full
electricity (lightning) none magic missile full
fire (magical) half poison none
fire (nonmagical) none silver weapon full*

* greater tanar'ri suffer half damage from silver weapons.

All tanar'ri with average or above average intelligence have a form of telepathy that enables them to communicate with any intelligent life form, regardless of any language barriers.
Frequently, the Abyss-forged, magical weapons of the tanar'ri dissolve upon the death of the creature. When one doesn't, it is likely that the weapon in question originated somewhere else.

Habitat/Society: There are five classifications of tanar'ri, listed in ascending order of power, and with species, below:

Least: dretch, manes, rutterkin
Lesser: alu-fiend, bar-lgura, cambion, succubus
Greater: babau, chasme, nabassu
True: balor, glabrezu, hezrou, marilith, nalfeshnee, vrock
Guardian: molydeus

Balor (True Tanar'ri): The greatest and most terrible of the true tanar'ri, the balors are the undisputed terrors of the Abyss. They are the very motivation behind the tanar'ri involvement in the Blood War. In every sense of the word, balors are the quintessential tanar'ri. They derive great pleasure from the suffering of others and go out of their way to torment lesser beings and cause them pain.
Balors are repulsive and loathsome to behold. They are towering humanoids with deep, dark red skin. They have huge wings that propel them with unnatural speed and agility. They have long, wicked claws and grotesque fangs that drip with venom. Balors are commonly surrounded by searing flames.

Combat: Balors attack with their great fists for 2-12 points of damage. Anyone struck by a balor's fists must roll a saving throw vs. spells with a -6 penalty or flee in terror for 1-6 turns.
Balors much prefer weapons to fists in combat. Each carries a great sword that looks like a bolt of lightning. In the hands of a balor, these swords are vorpal and can detect evil/good in a 30 foot radius. Any creature that picks up a balor's sword, regardless of whether its skin actually touches it, immediately suffers 10-60 points of damage and must roll a saving throw vs. spells, or die immediately.
Balors also use a great whip with many tails. These whips will inflict but 1-4 points of damage per hit. However, they magically wrap the victim, allowing the balor to draw the victim into his ever-present bodily flames. Once dragged into the flames, the victim suffers 4-24 points of damage per round. Escaping the whip requires a successful one-half strength check. When the whip holds a victim, it cannot be used in other attacks.
Balors may use one of the following additional magical powers at the 20th level of spell use per round at will: detect invisibility (always active), detect magic (always active), dispel magic, fear, pyrotechnics, read magic, suggestion, symbol (any type), telekinesis, and tongues.
They may also gate 1-8 least, 1-6 lesser, 1-4 greater, or 1 true tanar'ri to their location. The gate is always successful but may only be used once per hour.
Balors are completely immune to gas. If a balor is slain in the Abyss, it explodes in a blinding flash of light, inflicting 50 points of damage to everything in a 100-foot radius around the creature (saving throw vs. spell for half damage).

Habitat/Society: Balors exist for one purpose only: to wage the Blood War. They are driven by the strongest primal desire to fight and will command whole legions of beings into battle.
Balors also recognize a subtle but important aspect of the War: the prime material plane. They will often make pacts with mortals to perform services for the purpose of gaining power in the prime material plane. Balors know that the more followers or allies they can gain in the prime material, the more power they will have there.
There are at least 24 balors known to exist. The creatures do not inhabit any particular area of the Abyss, but wander about forming armies for battle with the baatezu (q.v.).

Ecology: There is nothing more important in the Abyss than the Blood War. The balor, in a sense, are the Blood War from a tanar'ri perspective, the ecology of the Abyss, driving the creation of new beings and mandating their survival.

Marilith (True Tanar'ri): Bold and cunning, marilith are the generals and tacticians for the Blood War. Where the balors are the influence and energy behind the war effort, the marilith are the brains and tactics.
Terrible to behold, these creatures have the bodies of giant snakes, with huge, green, scaly coils. From the waist up, they are beautiful, comely females. Besides her obvious snake body, the feature that reveals the true nature of this tanar'ri is her six arms. They are commonly adorned with precious jewelry and highly decorated weapons -- marilith most often carry a different weapon in each of their six hands.

Combat: Although marilith are strategists and tacticians, they love to join combat and do so whenever the opportunity presents itself. They can attack with each of their six arms and constrict a victim with their snaky tails as well.
Marilith always carry a different weapon in each hand, favoring exotic swords and axes. The DM should assign specific weapons; 90% of them should be enchanted versions of the common variety, and 15% of those should be a special weapon. Marilith favor their weapons highly. If one should ever be lost or stolen, marilith go to great lengths to see that the weapon is recovered.
A marilith can also constrict with her deadly tail. If the tail hits in combat, it wraps around a victim, automatically inflicting 4-24 points of crushing damage each round. Additionally, due to the constriction of air, the victim must roll a successful Constitution check every round or fall unconscious. No opponent with less than a 15 Strength score can even hope to break free of the marilith's coils. There is a 10% chance per round, per point of Strength over 14, that the victim can escape. Marilith have the following additional magical powers that they can use once per round, one at a time, at will: animate dead, cause serious wounds, cloudkill, comprehend languages, curse, detect evil, detect magic, detect invisibility, polymorph self (7 times per day), project image, pyrotechnics, and telekinesis.
They may also attempt to gate in 2-20 least tanar'ri, 1-6 lesser tanar'ri, 1-4 greater tanar'ri, or 1 true tanar'ri once per hour with a 35% chance of success.
Weapons of +1 or less magical enchantment cannot harm a marilith. These creatures are never surprised. They cannot be fooled by illusions and are immune to mind-affecting spells.

Habitat/Society: As noted, marilith are the strategists of the Blood War. They are in charge of devising all tactics to be used during the battles and coordinate the activities of all true tanar'ri (save the mighty balors, of course). Due to the chaotic nature of the tanar'ri, it is not really possible to coordinate their activities, but the marilith are charged with it, nonetheless.
These stunningly powerful creatures have a hatred for the glabrezu. They feel that the subtle warfare of the glabrezu is a children's game and inferior to proper warfare. A marilith will attempt to discredit the workings of the glabrezu any chance it gets. They would completely destroy the subtle beasts, but the all powerful balors favor the glabrezus' tactics and would have them continue their ways.

Ecology: Marilith are true tanar'ri, which makes them a part of the driving force behind the Blood War. Moreover, they are the coordinators and generals of the war effort. Marilith feel that they are the true force behind the war. Secretly, they feel that the balors have their place only because of their great power, but are not absolutely necessary. They may be right in their belief, but the power of the balors remains unchallenged.


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[AzureWolf]

now thats what im talking about some serious demon lords. I knew they were powerful but not that powerful. But since they have already used the names of pit fiends and balors they cant create proper demon lords in TOB They would be a real fun fight to have

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"I was born of darkness. My fathers eyes closed before mine opened. I am not of this world or the other, and I have the right to be what I am..."

[Killer]

menmoch can you get indo obut ach lech?there was only one ach lech
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death is the way of life Killer

[Memnoch]

Originally posted by Killer: menmoch can you get indo obut ach lech?there was only one ach lech

Sorry killer mate I didn't understand a word you said. Could you clarify for me please?

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[AzureWolf]

Originally posted by Memnoch: Sorry killer mate I didn't understand a word you said. Could you clarify for me please?

i think he wants stats and info for the arch lich or something bcos there is only one arch lich or that is my translation of wat killer said
I have a feeling hes talking about the one and only kangaxx

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"I was born of darkness. My fathers eyes closed before mine opened. I am not of this world or the other, and I have the right to be what I am..."

[dimon37]

I believe he is asking about Aec'Latec - the demon from ToSC

[caleb]

They can still make powerful demons. They will probably be named creatures. You forgot cornagins or whatever their called. They have screenshots of them fighting deva's.

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Welcome to hell.

[Azred]

hmmm.... Those measly pit fiends and balors are wimps compared to a nasty creature that eternally plagued me back in Bard's Tale III (and now I'm really showing my age.... The much-dreaded "Cursed Nuisance", a nasty little critter that didn't have many hit points but always attacked first and never missed. As if that weren't bad enough, they were almost always totally immune to magic and really difficult to hit. I converted them to AD&D rules, giving them MR 100%, a thaco of "misses only on a 1" and an AC of "hit only on a 20". They were most often used to humble arrogant players.....

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An intelligent mind is the key to the universe.

The most distressing thing about practicing magic is the fact that even the most learned sorcerers cannot accurately describe what magic *is*....

[This message has been edited by Azred (edited 05-10-2001).]

[caleb]

Bards tale 3? is that the special forged in hell by satan himself edition?

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Welcome to hell.

[Azred]

Originally posted by caleb: Bards tale 3? is that the special forged in hell by satan himself edition?

At times it certainly seemed that way. In reality, though, BT3 was an Interplay game from 1987, about the same time as both Pool of Radiance and Wasteland. These three games defined computer-based RPGs; many modern games could still learn from these ground-breakers.


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An intelligent mind is the key to the universe.

The most distressing thing about practicing magic is the fact that even the most learned sorcerers cannot accurately describe what magic *is*....