how to ACTUALLY use Devils in D&D

Devils are one of the coolest monster types in D&D (and the cooler of the fiends, fight me) so I had to give them the old twist!

Check out the Hellish Adept of Dexterity, Intelligence, and Wisdom HERE!

[pointyhatstudios]

Well well well, speak of the devil (in a 24 minute long youtube video oh god this one sure was long)
The twist is not ready yet! This was the longest video yet, and it's three pieces of fully illustrated art AND statblocks AND rules to make pacts with the Hellish Adepts. Will update this message and make a little community post when they are up! (so check those out!)
Thank u for understanding, I'm doing my very best 😔

[fearjunkie]

Character concept: Fiendchain Warlock, Son of an erinyes who wants him to take her place in the Nine Hells as she's slated to be promoted to a Pit Fiend in the near future (even though he would rather do literally anything else). His imp familiar is his mother's underling, sent to make sure the poor guy doesn't get himself killed.

[PhycoKrusk]

Here's an idea for a party ally: The Duke of Hell, Steve.

See, Steve isn't much of a devil. He's not terribly powerful, and worse, he is _lazy;_ nowhere will you find a devil with less ambition. But, how then did he reach the rank of Duke, and how does he stay there?

Easy! There is one thing that Steve understands better than any other devil around, even the Archdevils: _Bureaucracy._ By very carefully agreeing to the correct contracts, performing the right favors, making the right deals, and getting his name into the correct stones, Steve not only secured for himself the rank of Duke, but he also doesn't have to do any actual work, and even better, due to the arcane nature of the rules that got him into that position, nobody can compel him to do anything, _or_ get rid of him! At least, those who want to can't get rid of him, because for many others, he's the one devil who can acquire the item or perform the task that they need acquired or performed (even if all he ever does is pawn the task or acquisition off onto someone else. All within the rules, of course!)

He's the ideal mix of replaceable and indispensable that makes for the perfect middle manager!

How does he serve as a party ally? Easy! The party asks him for a favor, and he's always thrilled to help them out with whatever they need. "But listen, the gears of Hell always need a little more grease, so I'm going to need you to do/get something for me...."

[myersa]

Pathfinder actually did a slight twist on the Enriyes specifically, almost as if Paizo agrees with your complaint, in that the lore in that universe says that Furies actually deeply resent the comparison they often get to Succubi, and one of the quickest ways to piss one off is to ask if they'll try to seduce you.

[controllerfreak]

I love the idea of a secretly good devil who acts like Mr. Incredible at the insurance agency. Keeping up the appearance of evil and sadism and rising through the ranks, but actually being super nice behind closed doors. Other devils try to rat him out for being good or try to spread rumors that he’s working with celestials, but his paperwork is always orderly so they can’t do anything to him

[masterpiece]

I’ve actually had a player take a Faustian Deal to bring an NPC (The characters best friend and eventual lover) back to life. The player accidentally broke the deal (because our Paladin meta gamed) and we had an instance of “soul reclamation”, but the party won that fight… which was impressive considering they went up against a Pit Fiend, a Balor, a Chain Devil, and a Bone Devil (I was a new DM back then, I made a lot of mistakes)

[Diditallforthexp]

The Lemure to lemur mispronunciation was hilarious every time, thank you for this. From now on my devil spawn will look like little raccoon monkeys from hell.

[DaudAlzayer]

I got a character to sell their soul in-game- here's how: A wizard PC died- and the party had no divine casters. I took the wizard into another room and described a devil coming and offering a simple contract; A resurrection in exchange for the bearer of the contract owning the soul when the wizard dies.

Fast forward more than a year and now the party is level 17. The wizard still has the sword of Damocles over their head, but they're all convinced that someday they can go down to hell and steal the contract to nullify it by becoming the bearer ( since they're nearing the highest tier of play, this might actually be possible)

[bobbyjon]

I want you to know you've inspired so many NPCs during the short time I've known about your channel. Thanks for sharing your creativity

[florianflame]

I wasn’t sure how you were going to make a twist for one of the most compelling and lore-filled monster types in D&D, but my good sir you crushed it!! I already have so many ideas running through my head on how to bring Hellish Adepts into my games!! ^w^

[arx]

Idea for a character: a powerful devil gets tired of the nine hells and wants to go fet out, with the help of a god who owed him a favor he manages to "reincarnate" into the mortal plane by possessing an unborn human child. The result looks a lot like a teafling, and the main drawback is that now he has the mind and body of an infant. After spending a relatively normal childhood his memories and power start coming back, slowly.

[platinumreaver]

I've become an addict to your content! Not only do you encourage creativity and offer new ways for us to use things in DND, but you have tangible content to employ in our own games! Thank you so much, for doing this work. Moment I get a credit card, I'm gonna support ya!

[woodgrooves]

Honestly the fact you pump out all of these homebrew ideas out for FREE is astounding. You have such creative takes, and put in the work for gorgeous art and well-crafted stats and lore. I really hope you know that I, and so many others, hugely appreciate you

[amessinger]

I love the idea of erinyes basically being Internal Affairs for the Nine Hells. 😆

[TheKauzdoctor]

I had a faustian deal in my campaign wich came very suprising. My BBEG is an Archdevil and at lvl 5 my party beat one of his mortal minions who had an evil book that gave him his powers, the Octo Tenebris. After the fight I had the BBEG show up and taunt the players, as you do, saying that if they wanted whatever they desired most all they needed was to pick up the book and become his champion. Suprisingly one of the players made a jump for the book. The others stopped him and threw the book in a portal, but his intention was declared and so the book found his way back to the new champion. After that I got to plot with him against the party wich was amazing, he killed kings, incited wars, hindered the party and at lvl 8 turned on them. Of course the Archdevil betrayed him afterwards, he only said he would support the player as long as he was his champion, but when he didnt need him anymore he fired him. And now the group is back together to stop the BBEG. All in all it was totally amazing and really helped the campaign to become great.

[GreyPatzer]

I'd like to think that one way devils increase the number of souls they get through contracts is to not have the soul necessarily be the thing up on offer, but as collateral that the signatory must give up if they don't complete a seemingly easy task before they die.

[gods_little_potato]

The advice and kiss at the end of every video makes me so happy, it’s like older brother vibes who’s actually cool and cares about you 😭😭

[queenofsparrows]

In a setting where magic items are rare - like mine, cough cough - mercantile devils offering powerful, but cursed, magic items would be very interesting as well. Imagining a powerful cursed axe that sends the soul of every monster or humanoid slain with it straight into the Nine Hells, but slowly eats away at the sanity of its user until they become an unstoppable, murderous fiend themselves.

I also like the idea of a Warlock trying to gain a pact of the devil, thinking they've aligned with a powerful patron, but got their ritual slightly wrong and instead gets punked by a lowly imp who becomes their familiar, the warlock and the patron both growing in strength as they work directly together.

[stevefilms]

Nah I want to meet the devil who’s just been slowly rising the ranks purely for being consistently competent at his job and is completely chill.

[thecreatornooj]

3:48 I appreciate that hell in DnD is just a corporate ladder grind you find yourself in after selling your soul to one of its higher-ups. It literally drains the life out of you and makes you complacent to evil.