That Demon is Dead Jim

With my new high level 3.5e game going well, I thought I would let you in on a fun little table I use when the players slay a Tanar’ri, or Demon, or Fiend, you know those creatures native to chaotic evil-aligned planes like the Abyss. I am talking about death throws. Yup the Demonic Death throws table in the Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss, Dungeons and Dragons Supplement, James Jacobs, Erik Mona… It is on Page 9 of the book is great for describing the last blow to a fiend in combat. You could also use it for any big bad guy it is that good. At least in my opinion.

The table is good enough to use in any version of any game where you have a fiend to slay. It came in handy last week during the high level game, by adding some color to the combat. In high level games, single player actions can take forever to complete and can sometimes be anticlimactic, even if the player deals the death blow, but when you make the player roll for a random result and it says the fiend crumbles to the ground into a mass of tiny little beings that fight amongst themselves until there is only one left, which finally disappears in a poof of smoke. Your players can definitely say “that demon is dead Jim.”

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