Quote Originally Posted by Inevitability View Post
Its type being monstrous humanoid rather than outsider is slightly surprising...
I'd say it was one of those creatures built to subvert player expectations of the sorts of things a creature with a given appearance would have...except that its resistances and whatnot are exactly what you'd expect from a devil.


Quote Originally Posted by Efrate View Post
As a TO exercise, how many would you need to make them into a swarm, dark speech a hive mind, combine all of those copies essentially, then make pun pun cry? The numbers are so staggering that I think this is an emminently reasonable extrapolation.
Except that there aren't swarms of creatures larger than Tiny. There are mobs in the DMG2, but that only takes a few dozen creatures at most.