Grog Logs
2018-07-29, 02:48 PM
When a devil or demon is killed on the Material Plane in D&D, it returns to its home plane of the Nine Hells or the Abyss and reforms. Does a similar thing traditionally occur to other extraplanar beings (such as the Fey from the Feywild, shadow creatures from the Shadow Plane, Angels from Mount Celestia, Yugoloths from their native planes, and Elementals from the Elemental Planes)? Assume that the creature entered the Material Plane through a Planar Gate (or similar method) and was not summoned by a concentration spell.
I am DMing a custom 5e world, so I know that I can make up whatever lore/fluff that I want. But, I am crafting a story that relies on breaking certain conventions. Recently in the campaign, the Party slew and decapitated a Babau (Demon from Volo's). When the body remained on the Material Plane, the NPC that they rescued from the Babau entered a near panic over the fact that the body did not disintegrate into smoke or dissolve into liquid. For what its worth, the Demon did NOT know this would happen, which is why it did not retreat when low on HP (but the Party does not know this). What happened (i.e., the body remaining) is completely unprecedented as far as the Party, NPC, and Demon are concerned.
I am DMing a custom 5e world, so I know that I can make up whatever lore/fluff that I want. But, I am crafting a story that relies on breaking certain conventions. Recently in the campaign, the Party slew and decapitated a Babau (Demon from Volo's). When the body remained on the Material Plane, the NPC that they rescued from the Babau entered a near panic over the fact that the body did not disintegrate into smoke or dissolve into liquid. For what its worth, the Demon did NOT know this would happen, which is why it did not retreat when low on HP (but the Party does not know this). What happened (i.e., the body remaining) is completely unprecedented as far as the Party, NPC, and Demon are concerned.