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Hello all! Here is the first ever fully completed campaign setting I’ve ever released! I’m really proud of it and I really hope y’all enjoy it!

Asmodeus

Large Fiend (Devil), Lawful Evil

Armor Class: 17 (Natural Armor)

Hit Points: 280 (20d12 + 140)

Speed: 30 ft., Fly 60 ft.

Senses: darkvision 200 ft., passive Perception 16

Languages: Common, Infernal

Challenge Rating: 25 (70,000 XP)

Str 25 (+7) Dex 21 (+5) Con 25 (+7)

Int 26 (+8) Wis 23 (+6) Cha 30 (+10)

Traits

Authority of Nessus: Any creature hostile to Asmodeus that starts its turn within line of sight of him must either avert its eyes or make a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw (if the target is surprised, it cannot avert its eyes).

A target that averts its eyes attacks Asmodeus with disadvantage until the end of its turn.

Failed Save: The target is frightened for 1 minute.

While frightened, the creature has disadvantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, moves at half speed, and deals minimum damage on Strength-­based attacks.

Immunities: Asmodeus is immune to fire and poison damage.

Magic Resistance: Asmodeus has advantage on saving throws against magical effects.

Resistances: Asmodeus is resistant to cold and damage from all weapons except those made of silver.

Telepathy: Asmodeus can communicate telepathically with any creature within 1,000 feet of him that can understand a language.

Actions

Multiattack: Asmodeus makes two rod attacks and can also use infernal domination or summon devil.

Rod: Melee Weapon Attack, +10 to hit (reach 5 ft.; one creature). 

Hit: If the target has 150 hit points or fewer, it dies; otherwise, it takes 20 (2d12 + 7) necrotic damage.

Infernal Domination: Asmodeus chooses one living humanoid he can see and that is within 10 feet.

The target makes a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw.

Failed Save: The target is charmed for 1 day or until Asmodeus or one of its allies harms it.

While the target is charmed, Asmodeus can decide the target’s action and how it moves.

On the target’s next turn, it does as Asmodeus commands.

A creature charmed by Asmodeus in this way receives the commands even if Asmodeus cannot see it.

The creature cannot take reactions.

Asmodeus can have up to seven creatures charmed at a time.

If a charmed creature takes any damage, it can make a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw to end the effect.

A target remembers being charmed by this effect.

A creature that succeeds on its saving throw against this effect is immune to Asmodeus’s infernal domination for 24 hours.

Spellcasting: Asmodeus casts one of the following spells:

At-Will — comprehend languages, detect magic, dispel magic, fear, flame strike.

1/day — cone of cold, hold person, ice storm, polymorph, thunderwave, true seeing, wall of fire.

1/year — wish.

Asmodeus uses Charisma as his magic ability score; the saving throw DC to resist his spells is 23.

Summon Devil (Recharge 5-­6): Asmodeus can summon any devil that is not an archdevil.

The summoned devil appears within 50 feet of Asmodeus, disappears if Asmodeus is slain, and cannot summon devils of its own.

Master of the sneak attack

My “Play RPGs that aren’t D&D” post is getting tons of notes at the moment. Unfortunately, the version that gets reblogged is one that includes links to pirated PDFs for various RPGs.

Please don’t use pirated PDFs. I understand that some people don’t have the money to afford legal copies of RPG rules. But most people simply don’t think that these books are worth the money they cost. 

They are. If you think “I wouldn’t pay 50 bucks for a 300-page novel either” then you have a really weird view on what RPG rulebooks are. They’re not books, they’re games. Designing those games takes hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours. Imagine someone saying: “I am not paying 70 bucks for this videogame because it’s just 5 GB of software, that’s not worth 70 bucks.” Would be weird, wouldn’t it? 

Now, why do I care so much? Because the pirated PDFs that were linked aren’t (just) the big ones. There’s some really small one there. And these small RPGs really don’t make much money. They are often passion projects of small groups or individuals. But if people just pirate their rulebooks, they will not be able to afford to do more things in the future. A few hundred sales can make all the difference for these people. And my post got more than 20 thousand reblogs. So please, if you want to play an RPG, buy the rulebook. 

Now I did mention that some people simply don’t have the money. In that case, try to play the games using free starter rules that are often available online. I’ll link the starter rules for D&D, Shadowrun, and Call of Cthulhu, if you know more, feel free to link them. 

D&D is owned by Wizards of the Coast which is owned by Hasbro. If D&D doesn’t make enough money, what do you think is going to happen? Do you think they will go “Ah darn maybe we should make our books cheaper I guess”?

No. They will lay off people designing D&D. If they continue to not make enough products, they might shut the whole thing down. D&D isn’t making as much money as you think it does. Not when compared to some of the other stuff Hasbro does.