Savage Worlds: Six New Demons...

Good Afternoon, All:

Recently, I've been considering revamping the typical demonic hierarchy for my campaign. I looked at a good number of possibilities, considering noble titles and such, but they just didn't appeal to me. The thought then occurred to me that demons are most often pictured as being organized as armies of infernal fiends, ready to invade the Plane Prime at the drop of a hat. With that in mind, I started looking through various medieval and ancient military ranks. I found that I really enjoyed the evocative names of the ranks of the Roman Legions. That's when I decided on the following:

Servitor < Legionnaire < Centurion < Prefect < Tribune < Legate

Assuming that the demons frequently portrayed as Demon Princes fill the roles of the Legate Demons, then the infernal armies cascade from there in terms of power. (Sandamos, King of Demons, sits above the Legates in power and position, equivalent to the position of a Roman Caesar.)

Since I'm currently running a Savage Worlds game, I am providing stats for these planar monsters under that game system. (After all, it helps me more right now in my home game.) In a later post, I'll post MyD20 Lite (and possibly Swords & Wizardry) stats for these foul villains, as fighting demons is very cut-and-dry. It's very hard to justify considering an evil extra-planar creature that feeds on sin and souls as being a Good Guy, although demons are known for trying to manipulate mortals to believing they are just that.

Demon, Servitor
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d4, Spirit d6, Strength d8, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d6, Intimidation d6, Knowledge (Arcane) d6, Notice d6, Stealth d6
Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 8 (1)
Special Abilities:
* Demon: Demons add +2 to Toughness, and gain a +2 to recover from being Shaken. Demons do not suffer from disease or poison.
* Flight: Pace 6, Climb Rate 3
* Natural Armor: Armor +1
* Natural Attacks: Two claws (Str+d4) or one bite (Str+d6)
* Size -1
* Weakness: Demons suffer an additional +1d6 damage from the following: Holy weapons, spells and attacks.

Demon, Legionnaire
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d8, Strength d10, Vigor d10
Skills: Fighting d8, Intimidation d8, Knowledge (Arcane) d6, Notice d6, Spellcasting d6, Stealth d6
Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 10 (1)
Special Abilities:
* Demon: Demons add +2 to Toughness, and gain a +2 to recover from being Shaken. Demons do not suffer from disease or poison.
* Natural Armor: Armor +1
* Natural Attacks: Two claws (Str+d6) or one bite (Str+d8)
* Spells: 10 Power Points; any two Powers selected from: blast, bolt, burst, confusion, jet, lower trait, puppet, telekinesis, teleport.
* Weakness: Demons suffer an additional +1d6 damage from the following: Holy weapons, spells and attacks.

Demon, Centurion
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d8, Spirit d8, Strength d12+1, Vigor d12
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d10, Knowledge (Arcane) d8, Knowledge (Battle) d4, Notice d8, Spellcasting d8, Stealth d8
Pace: 7; Parry: 7; Toughness: 14 (2)
Special Abilities:
* Demon: Demons add +2 to Toughness, and gain a +2 to recover from being Shaken. Demons do not suffer from disease or poison.
* Natural Armor: Armor +2
* Natural Attacks: Two claws (Str+d8) or one bite (Str+d10)
* Size +2
* Spells: 15 Power Points; any three Powers selected from: blast, bolt, burst, confusion, jet, lower trait, puppet, telekinesis, teleport.
* Weakness: Demons suffer an additional +1d6 damage from the following: Holy weapons, spells and attacks.

Demon, Prefect (WC)
Attributes: Agility d12, Smarts d8, Spirit d10, Strength d12, Vigor d12
Skills: Fighting d10, Intimidation d10, Knowledge (Arcane) d8, Knowledge (Battle) d6, Notice d8, Spellcasting d10, Stealth d8
Pace: 7; Parry: 7; Toughness: 16 (2)
Special Abilities:
* Arcane Resistance: Prefect Demons act as if they have 2 points of Armor when hit by damage-causing arcane powers, and add +2 to their Trait rolls when resisting opposed powers. This applies even to friendly arcane powers.
* Demon: Demons add +2 to Toughness, and gain a +2 to recover from being Shaken. Demons do not suffer from disease or poison.
* Flight: Pace 8, Climb Rate 4
* Large: -2 on attack rolls, attackers gain +2 on attacks due to size.
* Natural Armor: Armor +2
* Natural Attacks: Two claws (Str+d10) or one bite (Str+d12)
* Size +4
* Spells: 20 Power Points; any four Powers selected from: blast, bolt, burst, confusion, jet, lower trait, puppet, telekinesis, teleport.
* Weakness: Demons suffer an additional +1d6 damage from the following: Holy weapons, spells and attacks.

Demon, Tribune (WC)
Attributes: Agility d12, Smarts d12, Spirit d12, Strength d12+2, Vigor d12+1
Skills: Fighting d12+2, Intimidation d12, Knowledge (Arcane) d10, Knowledge (Battle) d8, Notice d10, Spellcasting d12, Stealth d10
Pace: 7; Parry: 9; Toughness: 16 (3)
Special Abilities:
* Arcane Resistance: Tribune Demons act as if they have 2 points of Armor when hit by damage-causing arcane powers, and add +2 to their Trait rolls when resisting opposed powers. This applies even to friendly arcane powers.
* Demon: Demons add +2 to Toughness, and gain a +2 to recover from being Shaken. Demons do not suffer from disease or poison.
* Flight: Pace 10, Climb Rate 5
* Natural Armor: Armor +3
* Natural Attacks: Two claws (Str+d8) or one bite (Str+d10)
* Size +3
* Spells: 30 Power Points; any six Powers selected from: blast, bolt, burst, confusion, jet, lower trait, puppet, telekinesis, teleport.
* Weakness: Demons suffer an additional +1d6 damage from the following: Holy weapons, spells and attacks.

Demon, Legate (WC)
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d12, Spirit d12+1, Strength d12+2, Vigor d12
Skills: Fighting d12+2, Intimidation d12, Knowledge (Arcane) d12, Knowledge (Battle) d10, Notice d12, Spellcasting d12+2, Stealth d8
Pace: 8; Parry: 9; Toughness: 18 (4)
Special Abilities:
* Arcane Resistance: Legate Demons act as if they have 2 points of Armor when hit by damage-causing arcane powers, and add +2 to their Trait rolls when resisting opposed powers. This applies even to friendly arcane powers.
* Demon: Demons add +2 to Toughness, and gain a +2 to recover from being Shaken. Demons do not suffer from disease or poison.
* Flight: Pace 12, Climb Rate 6
* Large: -2 on attack rolls, attackers gain +2 on attacks due to size.
* Natural Armor: Armor +4
* Natural Attacks: Two claws (Str+d10) or one bite (Str+d12)
* Size +4
* Spells: 40 Power Points; blast, bolt, burst, confusion, jet, lower trait, puppet, telekinesis, teleport.
* Weakness: Demons suffer an additional +1d6 damage from the following: Holy weapons, spells and attacks.

Enjoy,
Flynn

Random Chart: Quick Demon Name Generator...

Good Afternoon, All:

Today's post is short and simple. I hadn't posted a random table in a while, so I thought I'd post a Quick Demon Name Generator table, just in case someone might have need of one. Simply roll d100 twice, once for the start of the demon's name, and once for the end of the demon's name. Fill free to modify the results to taste.

For example, if I needed to name a balor for my next adventure, I could simply roll two d100s on the following two tables. If I were to roll a 43, followed by a 62, that would give us "Hebin" for the beginning, and "ias" for the ending, or "Hebinias" as the demon's name.

You could also use this for any planar creature's name, but since demons make such great bad guys for PCs to kill, that's typically how I would use this table.

Table: Demonic Name Prefix

d100	Prefix
1-2	Abd
3-4	Agath
5-6	Al
7-8	Am
9-10	Amdos
11-12	As
13-14	Bal
15-16	Bel
17-18	Bor
19-20	Bun
21-22	Cher
23-24	Dax
25-26	Decar
27-28	Dev
29-30	Elig
31-32	Eshm
33-34	Forn
35-36	Geras
37-38	Ghor
39-40	Grem
41-42	Gus
43-44	Hebin
45-46	Ibl
47-48	Juril
49-50	Kul
51-52	Lam
53-54	Lesh
55-56	Mam
57-58	Mar
59-60	March
61-62	Meph
63-64	Mer
65-66	Nordr
67-68	Or
69-70	Orob
71-72	Phor
73-74	Pish
75-76	Ralesh
77-78	Saban
79-80	Sand
81-82	Tenebr
83-84	Thrax
85-86	Ukob
87-88	Ur
89-90	Val
91-92	Vald
93-94	Wrul
95-96	Xesh
97-98	Yamant
99-100	Zair

Table: Demonic Name Suffix

d100	Suffix
1-2	a
3-4	ach
5-6	ai
7-8	ak
9-10	aka
11-12	al
13-14	alor
15-16	am
17-18	amos
19-20	an
21-22	ar
23-24	as
25-26	asa
27-28	axus
29-30	e
31-32	ed
33-34	ek
35-36	el
37-38	em
39-40	emon
41-42	en
43-44	er
45-46	es
47-48	esh
49-50	eth
51-52	eus
53-54	ex
55-56	i
57-58	ia
59-60	ial
61-62	ias
63-64	ible
65-66	igo
67-68	il
69-70	im
71-72	in
73-74	ina
75-76	ing
77-78	ion
79-80	ir
81-82	is
83-84	ith
85-86	o
87-88	on
89-90	or
91-92	os
93-94	u
95-96	ubus
97-98	ula
99-100	us

How did I come up with these tables? I simply took a huge list of demon names from the Master Monster Index on the Sulerin website, and parsed them into prefixes and suffixes using a simple Java app I wrote. I then shortened the list of name parts down to the fifty most frequent, and when there were ties, I took only the ones that sounded really cool. I've done the same with a number of common languages, and with various monster names, for use in my own personal campaign. Over time, I may post more of these tables here, if there's interest, of course.

At any rate, I hope this helps. If you use this, please post one of your created names in the comments section, and give me a little bit of an idea how you will be using it. Inspiration for new adventures and NPCs comes from the most interesting places.

More Tomorrow,
Flynn