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 😔

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.

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...."

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

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.

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)

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)

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 😭😭

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^

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!

I gotta say, you're right about the idea that most PCs don't make Faustian deals at the table. However, there's one recent example of a meaningful, live devil deal that blew me away - and it came from a certain character in the final episode of EXU: Calamity. That deal had everything you described: real importance for the story, real consequences, and truly interesting parameters that served as the structure for the remainder of the story.

Pointy Hat over here having clearly made a deal with the Adept of KZfaq, creating better and better content for his followers, who ever grow in number, but also consuming himself along the way! Great content! My soul is sold!

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.

Another thing that I personally like in "historical" Faustian bargains is that the contract usually doesn't say outloud that the soul is immediately and completely damned. Instead, there is a condition: the mortal has to either perform something as a payment (which is either secretly impossible and results in damnation via collateral or leads to greater corruption and damns the soul anyway) or has to NOT do something as the contract specifies that their soul can only be collected on a condition (which is very likely to actually happen at some point, because people are foolish). Hell, in actual "Faust" by Goethe the bargain was formed in a latter way: Mephistopheles will serve Faust until Faust will feel so satisfies that he will wish that moment to last forever and *SPOILER DOWN*. Anyway, introducing such conditions, even if blatantly lopsided, seems to be the exact thing that would make PC devilish bargains happen. Because it gives this psychological safety valve that is I'm good enough or clever enough I can find a way out (your mileage may vary if it's true or not) and because D&D players are that kind of people that are guaranteed to rules lawyer every problem they're allowed to rules lawyer. *HERE SPOILER* when he does so at the end, the angels appear and rule that it is because he feels joy at seeing humans prosper and develop, thus his joy is not because of earthly satisfaction, but because of idea of perfect future, thus the deal's condition was not satisfied and Faust dies without damning himself, so he avoids Hell.

1:19-1:23 To be fair, if I remember alignments correctly, Devils are Lawful Evil and Demons Chaotic Evil. Having minions about as powerful as you are who hate being controlled and will actively ignore your plans at best and downright rebel at the earliest opportunity at worst, even if you nominally have the same or similar goals would hamper the whole "evil mastermind" thing just as much if not more. Edit: I see you actually touched on that.

I once played a character who made a Faustian Deal. She was a sorceress who, in her youth, was "taken advantage of" by the town sheriff. Since he was, well, the sheriff, there wasn't really much that could be done about that. So, somehow, devil's got involved, and a deal was struck that this sheriff would get what he deserved and she would write her name in the devil's book. Tried to scorch the book immediately after, but of course that doesn't work. The sheriff was immediately comatose, and the sorceress was haunted by his ghost or something (i think it was just a devil trick though). Anyway, it was some damn good role playing.

11:40 Hold monster actually works on humanoids. The spell's text only specifies targeting "a creature". And people are definitely still creatures.

Demons DO get a book, multiple in fact! Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes and Out of the Abyss are both great for that stuff, and Mordenkainen gives so much more to work with for devils than Avernus does, I feel, as far as lore, especially for the Blood War

Our Barbarian once made a deal with the Demogorgon, this however, didn't last untill the end of the campaign though. Realising his contract wasn't really binding, there were a bunch of cultists and really powerfull demons thrown at them, but the players absolutely wrecked them. My party also picked up two Quasits they found locked up in a hag's lair pretty early on, and they became group members throughout the entire story. They didn't respawn and one of the two (Toad) died pretty early on, obviously going out with "I'll see y'all in hell". The other serving as the diviner's familiar at the end of the campaign when everyone split up and she became your average tower wizard. They were a crap ton to roleplay. Invisible most of the time so they could just kind of be thrown into the fray by me or the players screaming "Toad! Jeff!". They really had a bunch of personality and even their own statblocks. Both remained in their toad forms most of the time. Toad had lower wisdom but higher Charisma, a bold fiend who constantly threw himself in battle. This backfired when the party was fighting a wizard and he suddendly dropped on the wizard while he was flying and broke the wizard's concentration, making her fall. This however also got him Squashed with a rock when the wizard started using telekenisis. Jeff, an uncomfortably ripped frog, with a strength of 12, higher wisdom and not really and flaws. He really enjoyed the bard's bagpipe music, making him think of the layer he lived on. The barbarian who had made AND broken a pact with presumably the Demogorgon went into the abbyss after the campaign to find Toad and reunite him with Jeff.

I love how your animation is coming along. To be able to convey such emotion with just one eye is great. The whole 'hat wearing a hat' thing is something we need to see more of. 🍻

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.

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.

Been binge watching your entire catalog soon, and every video, even those with a topic I don’t naturally gravitate towards have been Stellar. Artwork is Amazing, the fresh thinking is super cool and you’re just generally entertaining to listen to/watch. Keep up the great work! Gonna go paste this on the rest of your videos to feed the algorithm gods

Love your Hellish Adept idea and it gave me a very twisted idea of my own. "How do you tempt your players to make a Faustian bargain?" is a very good question and so I asked myself "What would tempt a player more than anything?". The answer: Stat increases. Instead of the ultra-rare magical item books, imagine a devil straight-up offering you that coveted +2 increase to a relevant stat (and the ability to reach the 22 score). Or a Feat! More tempting if it's a feat that you couldn't take on your own like a racial feat. I know players would be jumping at the chance to get those things they could never get on their own.

3:40 wait... so it's all just a big pyramid scheme? makes sense

Way back in my teen days of DMing, in the middle of a 6 year campaign of the original, first Edition Advanced Dungeon and Dragons, the following happened: The fiend who was the major thorn in my party of heroes' side was an Ultrodaemon. He was always a few steps ahead of them, and misled the party, which thought they were in his home of Gehenna, but were in one of the Nine Hells... One of the PCs, Evolius Pummelstone, a Paladin of the Lawful Good variety (there were no other kinds back then, even though Dragon Magazine had an "Anti-Paladin" class featured early on which was suggested to be only playable by the DM...), around 12th level, if I remember correctly, starting from level 1. He was married to a lovely bard, who was an NPC who was part of the party. During their stay in the Nine Hells, old Evo's wife died in battle. After witnessing the trauma caused by this loss, in the Nine Hells, no less, Asmodeus was nothing less than touched by what he witnessed happening in his domain. Civin, the bard, got back to life, 100%. Evolius loss his status as a good boy Paladin, and became a Lawful Neutral Cavalier (a class which appeared in Dragon Mag). The Ultrodaemon got gratitude from a new contact in a different Lower Plane than his own. That's the one time there was a Faustian deal at my table as a DM. Most things about adolescence were pretty awful. But even though me and my friends went pretty much down different paths, whenever we do meet, we recall the stories we created together with great fondness. I recently found this channel, and it's a great, cheeky, fun take of old TTRPGs. Keep up the well-researched, compelling goofy, and imaginative work! Cheers!!

Really loved this video (and am looking forward to your video on the Nine Hells)! I'm trying to think of ways to work fiends into a homebrew setting I'm fleshing out, and I want the conflict between Demons, Devils, and Celestials (or some other entity possibly) to be a big part of it. Hearing your explanations and ideas for giving Devils a twist is deeply inspiring. As a relatively new player/DM, just know that your videos help a lot, and they're very entertaining! I'll definitely be watching for the Hellish Adepts whenever they're finished.

TLDR: A ramble about DND hell lore I wanted to discuss somewhere on the internet. It features the Ars Goetia but in a different way than presented in Pointy Hat's video. Had the same idea (to use the Ars Goetia) months ago. Didn't really do anything with it up until now. It is, frankly, a bit more literal and not as innovative as your concepts. I used their hierarchy with Kings, Dukes, Marquises etc. with the Presidents keeping everyone in check. They still fight demons, they also battle each other, be it in court or with their legions. I also did some maths calculating the military power of the hells (there are more than nine now, it's really just fortresses and islands floating over some infernal void (no, not THE void) ). If a legion (by Roman standards) consists of 3.000 to 6.000 soldiers and there are 2686 legions of hell this equals a total of 8.058.000 - 16.116.000 soldiers. That would be enough to run over any medieval fantasy world (medieval = less humans ?). Let's just hope they don't start to AGREE all of a sudden and decide to conquer the Material Plane for easier access to souls. To finally beat those f*ing demons. (Campaign/Plothook) Also they locked Malphas away so he (the Architect of Hell) could not be captured and interrogated about their fortifications. (Also because he is very scary.) They are able to manifest in the Material Plane, either through invocation or by a surge of violence, e.g. a war. But only fragments of them can pass the aether, they have to act from the shadows and corrupt mortals to do their bidding. Essentially, Baal now runs the show, and the mightiest of every tier answers directly to him, e.g. Aamon as highest Marquis. Humans sometimes harness their power and knowledge but don't under any circumstances trust them. On the other hand, humans are crazy enough to deal with them at all. Because of their short lives they desperately have to ensure their survival and want to leave a mark on the world despite of it. My Tieflings for example, are descendants of warlocks striking deals with the hells to survive in a crueal world with much more potent species. The mirrored thing for Aasimar, only with clerics and (biblically accurate) angels. Closing sentiment: I really REALLY like @vincentcoviellos illustrations of Ars Goetia over on instagram. It is just great and weird and fantastical and surreal. Something to show to players. Just don't use it without permission. All art of his is terrific, tbh. All in all this was good fun, and I hope to have inspired at least one person with this text. Unless it's filtered because of too long. I appreciate feedback, but will not demand it. And I look forward to the next video. They all have been awesome (Especially like the Tiefling one from some time ago. I love it. So much.). That's all, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. :)

You said the Erinnyes were like the Furies. They literally ARE the Furies. Furies are basically the Latin translation/version of the Greek Erinnyes. Megaera, Tisiphone and Alecto are the three Erinnyes just as much as they are the three Furies

11:44 Hold monster actually does work on the party. It works on any creature and is strictly a better version of hold person, except for upcasting if you only want to cast on humanoids(you get one extra target per spell slot so a 9th level hold person effects 8 humanoids, whereas a 9th level hold monster effects 5 creatures of any kind.)

"Very little in their statblock [...] is about what they could offer..." This is a change. Prior editions, especially 3rd ed., went on at length for many of the devils of what, and how, they'd tempt mortals into giving up their souls, in great detail. It's unfortunate that this didn't carry over - but, it was probably to save on page space or some other practical concern. I'd hoped that Descent into Avernus would bring with it that kind of info again, but as it stands, I just refer to my old books and manuals for that information when I'm stumped on how this dinky little imp is supposed to convince anyone to sell their soul or whatever. Most of the greater devils don't even involve themselves in the gathering side of the soul trade, though - they're often the ones USING that raw material to do stuff, like build infernal war-machines or what-have-you.

I love ur content sm. The editing, the jokes, and the art u do, everything is so good and funny!! So glad i found this channel. Its always so enjoyable to watch. Thank YOU for all the hard work u put into making these!! ^^

"Sorry I can't tell devils and demons apart" "Rude" "Well aren't both you peop-" "YOU PEOPLE!?"

Really loving this channel! I think I'm going to binge every episode while I work. I learned a lot from this video on devils and I hope one on demons is made eventually.

God I hope you continue to do more of these corruption systems. I've been wanting stuff like this for a while. I already picked apart your Psionic Transformation doc. Looking forward to dissect this for inspiration. Love your work :D

Pointy hat: asks comments to tell him why they would make a deal with a devil. I see what you’re trying to do, well it won’t work on me.

Was about to sleep, but I heard devil’s calling

50+k in 4 month is the fastest I have seen a KZfaqr grow! That is impressive! You started off with a really strong, unique branding and confidence, from what I have seen that is one of the keys to growing quickly. That's what gets people to stay after finding your videos.

This was hell of good. Will be waiting for the Adepts, this concept is very innovating

I love this idea! One of the things that I do mind though is that the price is usually your character. Of course that’s the point, but my players are usually VERY careful and never take a deal that would potentially change their character’s personalities. You can get really attached to a character, and damming them to hell forever is a pretty big price for some players. Something I recommend to DMs with players like mine is offering them abilities at the cost of AC reductions, hp reductions, and maybe even permanent death fails if the ability you’re giving is particularly powerful. These permanent debuffs can give more alternatives than “an eternity of being pure evil” and my players have taken quite a few of these because they feel less out-of-character. If you’re wondering why a devil would ever make a deal that doesn’t involve a player’s soul, you could say they’re doing it to put the players at risk. If a low ac or hp score gets the adventurer killed, there will be less good in the world, so it’s a devil’s way of destroying hope and playing the long-con

You're so creative! Your ideas are really fresh, and bring something new and dynamic to D&D! Great way to freshen up games when you've played for many years and gotten used to the same old stuff. Thank you for your hard work 💕

Im running a Strixhaven game and for sure going to work in either one or both of a devil being summoned to teach or some anceient protected text that produces a devil adept. Love your channel and of course the awesome free content you dish out! Very impressive! 😈

Dude. Can we just take a quick minute to appreciate Pointy Hat? I'm pretty new to DnD so I'm not planning to be a DM anytime soon but the effort he puts into these videos plus the free treats at the end are amazing. Just how can someone be so creative? I may not be a DM looking for new ideas, but I sure am learning a lot about the game through this channel.

I'd love to see your take on a Werewolf player character. I have always enjoyed the werewolf mythology and I had an idea of someone who has a "familiar" that is a conduit for the werewolf transformation. So maybe a ranger base but can only use a wolf as a companion. And to activate the power they fuse or the wolf is absorbed removing it from battle but then transforming into a werewolf. Having the wolf separate allows the lycan to avoid unwanted transformations at night. And I thought maybe having the last goal of the user to be the werewolves goal, like attacking that one person or maybe traversing that difficult terrain etc. But once that goal is completed, rolls are needed to be made to either break the curse and revert back to man and wolf, or if failed the werewolf becomes unstable and feral with no real guidance and starts attacking whoever and going wherever it wants until a successful roll and control is regained. Dunno if it's balanced but I was just spit balling and having the loss of control seems like a big hindrance for balance sake. Any suggestions and pointers are welcome. I can also give a few more points if anyone likes the idea.

Looks awesome! Devils are interesting already and your twist makes them feel so alive and influential in the mundane world. The Paladin example is great especially if you combine it with the question: is siding with a devil to defend the city the greater evil to letting the town perish or the lesser? Fighting and defeating this Paladin might doom the city at the same time. Or letting them stay that way might condemn the entire city to a fate of slow creeping corruption. I am wondering about Demons. You made them (both directly and indirectly) sound pretty lame and if they're just evil for the lulz I guess that would be true. Maybe you can give even those a twist to make them exciting :D but do what you want. Your passion behind a topic makes these videos! Looking forward to more!

I only found your channel recently, but I’ve found it endlessly creative and really cool. Thank you very much.

This was exactly what i was looking for and you summarized it incredibly! Thank you so much for the video and the effort, i'll be definitely using those statblocks! 👍

What a fiendishly interesting twist…

10:45 I think you're right that it's kind of dumb for Erinyes to be succubi, but I will say that it makes sense for them to be hypocrites. It makes sense for a fiends to be hypocritical legalists who will punish people for breaking rules that they themselves violate. It's also appropriate for Hell to encourage doublethink for exactly the same reasons The Party in 1984 does.

I am certainly looking forward to the stats of the Hellish Adepts, as the extraplanar is my favorite part of D&D, and among the various extraplanar entities of the multiverse, devils are my absolute favorite and before I run my first full campaign within my setting with its own cosmology I've decided to work on them as a focus as they have huge relevance to the overarching story, as such I'm going to be making an adventure set in my version of the Hells for my campaign group to get used to DMing for them. The fact you mentioned Ars Goetia and Devils made me smile as I had planned for my version of the Hells to have two hierarchies of devils, the first is the military hierarchy (pretty much many of the known devils in 5e and prior editions) and the second is a nobility hierarchy; the nobles are the Ars Goetia and control the "civil world" of the Hells, basically instead of a straight up militaristic promotion/demotion hierarchy, there is the devil military and the devil nobles they serve, with a non-noble devil being brought into one of these goetian families basically being the most tantalizing reward as it means they no longer are required to serve the military and can instead indulge in the benefits of nobility, but of course they now have to contend with the intricacies and backdealings of nobility, and a militaristic devil not prepared for this will likely be removed from the picture by opposition quite easily.

Demons sort of get a part of a book: Out of the Abyss. Starts at the under dark but then something hits the fan and you get demon lords

YES! This. This is what I’ve needed to keep it going in the summer heat. The devils know nothing. Thanks for the continued great content! It’s very inspiring and means the world, seeing all the stuff you share for free to the community. Especially at the quality it is.

Bit late to this one but not only is it top notch quality, as usual, I was also pleasantly surprised to see snippets of the "Witch" music video. Apashe and Alina Pash are my most recent musical addictions since last year, and that specific song is some of my foundation for my tiefling cleric of Beshaba (as sexy, edgy and basic as they come don't @ me), so it's nice to wonder if my music inspiration into D&D is shared with a content creator I admire. Gives a nice feeling of right path and such. Anyway thanks for the content and free materials, long days and pleasant nights mr. Pointy.

Every time I watch your videos I get excited to implement in my world's campaing, as a starting DM who loves storytelling I found amazing how you manage to the do someting fun to roleplay and that matches the whole system

I wanna be in the frat house of doom and torment

The content, the creativity, editing and the comedic timing are the why I fell in irreparable love with this channel, thanks for another great video. I have to ask, Antonio, do you plan on doing something about the elemental planes and their denizens?

Your content is amazing and I have to pace myself not to binge it in one take. Thanks so much for making these!!

This is an awesome video! Very informational, and your new devil is gonna be loads of fun at the table! I’m also working on my own homebrew TRRPG and have been wondering how pacts for magic may work (since I think things like that should be open to all players and not just a class archetype). This video has given me lots of inspirational points to draw on and ponder over, so thank you very much! Keep up the wonderful work 😘

This is so perfect! I am running a game where a devil is slowly corrupting everyone on board a train and causing the whole place to turn into hell on wheels. One of these is Exactly what I need 😱

I think the biggest problem with Faustian deals in D&D is that even if their PCs would be enticed by such an offer... the players themselves really don't want that feeling of being bamboozled. It hits them in that prideful area where we like to believe were better than that, I guess. I could totally see myself using the Hellish Adepts though. I'm imagining them as a kind of twist on the Four Fiends trope from Final Fantasy where they'd each presents a boss fight that's oriented towards a different kind of skill focus rather than an elemental affinity, testing the range and flexibility of the party.

Found your channel through the grace of l'algorithme via your Tiefling video like two days ago and I have spent these last two days just going through your videos. Shockingly great quality for such a fresh faced channel! Subbed and hungry for more, thank you Monsieur Pointy Hat.

Love the concept and the rythm of your video ! At first I thought you were gonna give advices on how to have a Devil PC, but i guess how to make deals is a great idea too ^^

I have a Paladin player in one of my campaigns, and I’m really hoping to lure him into a Faustian deal by promising him an eternity of fighting the agents of evil, just like he always wanted (as a soldier in the Blood War >:] ) Thank you for making this video, this is great inspiration!

There was this one time a player made a deal with a devil I've seen on a table he was a squishy wizard about to die and when he failed his third death save a devil appeared making a deal with the wizard which was permanently taking some of the wizards spell slots and if the wizard agreed the devil would save his life the wizard agreed and after that the next levels he had he put into warlock devoting himself to the devil who once saved his life

I'm binging these videos today, the art is such a great treat at the end.

Just found your channel, as one does, and I'm loving the binge through the backlog; I really liked Brownies and I really like this. I'll love using it and playing wit it at the table.

My bard made a deal with a devil. She had infernal calling as one of her magical secrets spells to summon it She promised to let him loose in her time period (we'd been pulled to the aftermath of the apocalypse) in exchange for a form of protection. Her soul and those of her companions (without their knowledge) were pinned as collateral (if she didn't summon him in her time). The form of protection was an armband that fed off her life force (10hp) every time she used it but gave her the telepathy and hurl flame skills of a barbed devil for a minute. It also slightly altered her appearance to resemble a barbed devil when used. Absolutely loved making the deal in-game and ended up taking eldritch adept as a feat for devil's sight to lean into it more. The other players also loved it and it was the topic of a lot of conversation over the table even tho the only thing their characters knew was that they all had brands on their necks for some reason

Where's the hellish adept of constitution? I wanna be indestructible!

Still (im)patiently waiting on the 9 hells video, dukes and lords of hell video and demons/abyss videos!! I love the way you cover topics! Seriously can't wait for the videos mentioned above and to listen to them several times xD

Love the thinking on this one, very creative as always.

Would have loved to see an artwork for your idea of a Charisma Adept. I can’t really picture it.

This video kinda reminds me of one of my first characters, an Erinyes monk who rebelled against her kind as she wanted to go back to being a celestial like their ancestors. She fought against her own nature to try and be better, so the celestials would accept her. All while dealing with the hatred of mortals who wanted nothing more than her destruction. And her own kind trying to hunt her down for her betrayal…..

Still loving your content bro! Keep up the awesome work! It really teaches and inspires a lot!

I really enjoyed your video, its the first video I saw from you and I'll check the rest of them later. Now I'm not a big fan of demons or devils but you did gave me me an idea of how to use my fey that run amok in my campaign. Have a good one

I typically let people find means to multiclass or level up rather than just doing XP. (e.g. Barbarian finds a really powerful sword > They take level in hexblade Wizard reads the Necronomicon > They take a level in pact of the tome Party makes friends with an archfey in the feywild? > Everyone takes a level with them as their patron or something with wild magic sorcerer or oath of ancients paladin, etc etc) Your actions should have consequences. Getting hit should leave scars. You shouldn't get abilities based on things you never did.

I've always had this Lawful Paladin concept who had something of a Devilish quality to him. That being, at least in my own interpretation on Devils, the fact he could never tell a lie, however he was quite good at twisting the truth as it were, and he'd often make subtly open ended deals. For example, the party has captured a bandit are are attempting to interrogate him to find their bosses lair. My Devilish Paladin would come in and effectively "give his word as an honorable Paladin" that no harm shall befall him and that he promises to let the bandit go if he tells them what they want to know. Afterwards, the bandit is still kept in custody, at least till my devilish paladin eventually decides to let him go. That of course likely being... right into the arms of the town guard. Thus keeping his end of the deal by well, letting the bandit go. Just that it was the bandit who well, "failed to specify when or where," when the deal was made. 😈 Might not quite be a Faustian Deal, but do tend to consider such open ended deals and the dealmaker exploiting such loop-holes, as devilish deals.

Love this content! Your videos give me inspiration to write my campaign!

As a DM I applaud any attempt to make monster campaigns more a thing. It can be incredibly fun.

Saving people, hunting things. The family business.

and we're still waiting, 2 months later

Okay, the fact you included Ephemeral ASMR in this video was fantastic. Now I want to go watch that video of his.

Excellent video! Can't wait for the stat blocks. Great content 👌!

Small correction: Hold Monster works on any creature, so it works against the party. 'monster' means creature, as opposed to 'beast', which is more narrow

The adepts of intellegence remind me of Dantalion, 72th archdemon of hell, who in the Ars Goetia had a hundred faces

Such awesome ideas! Thanks for another fun video. I'll definitiley be adopting them on my campaign

I have now watched every pointy hat video and am plotting ways to sneak your influence into my future games

It says something that D&D Hell is basically just modern corporate capitalism with a pentagram slapped on top.

I offered a Faustian deal to a player for a free magic item. They passed, but one of my other players was upset because the devil (the dice gods) didn’t want his soul. He still occasionally suggests they go back to that city and try again.

Been running Descent into Avernus, and Fiends are my new favorite enemy time. Each have unique combat strategies, a definable personality which makes RP easy for DMs and easy for players to grasp, and they can also interact directly with the party socially offering deals and bargains to corrupt

I loved these designs. I took the hellish adept of intelligence for my adventure. He was basicly a side character based on the laplace demon and your video as a antagonist for my party. He delievered them information about my boss and a way out of avernus for killing a fellow Demon who was standing in his climbing career. Now he got his territory and the other demon was a nice boss fight. I will bring him back later again because one of my players is a Warden Paladin so he was really pissed of on making a contract to get out of avernus, but there happened a lot :D. There was drama and tension and in the end he will be the next demon enemy some time soon. He even dumbminded my cleric with his spell. They really avoid or kill demons now, more to slay as they say ^^ Thank you so much ❤

11:24 You have described the near entirety of the monster manual. Instant Edit: yes I am aware there are unique monsters but the majority are copy and pasted of the same monsters but with different numbers.

👉👈 When are this sweet little devils coming out? 🥴

very interesting ans inspiring video for DnD. Really liked the ideas with the imp and how the erinyes are actually supposed to work. :D

I love the free stuff at the end, truly fantastic thank you

What about a Hellish Adept who makes a contract with other Adepts like intellect wants strength or wisdom wants dexterity. And the Druid from earlier wants strength or more wisdom or all of the others. so do they become a Jack of all trades Adept? weaker boons but switch between all of them. A muscled form with multiple arms that have multiple faces with multiple mouths and eyes and ears on each face?