• Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    Little known fact about D&D succubi: since 4e succubi can change sexes freely. Incubi and succubi are just different forms of the same monster.

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        8 months ago

        Why would they be?

        I may be missing something—I wasn’t sure what they were so I looked them up and I found the Wikipedia entry, which makes some mention of medieval lore of them being similar to incubi, but nothing about them being able to change sex at will. Alps don’t exist in D&D either.

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      This has been the case since 2e. However in 2e their “True form” was always Female. In 3.5 they could be born either and just switch between, but one or the other is their “true form”

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    “Oh, hey friend! I just made garlic bread! It’s warm enough that you can see the garlic butter oozing across the golden crust of the bread, and steam comes out when you tear a piece off. If you murder all your friends, I’ll let you have some~”

    And for the warforged: “sudo murder all your friends”

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    8 months ago

    Aren’t incubi and succubi the same creatures that just change their form to seduce the desired target?

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      Other fantasy doesn’t always do that, treating each more as its own race. I’ve seen male succubi and female incubi. It’s kinda hilarious.

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    They’re not actually sexy women with wings and little horns; that’s just the form they usually use when someone summons them deliberately because it’s the form most summoners want to see. They’re malevolent, shape-shifting extra-dimensional entities, they’re adept at emotional manipulation, they want to drain away a mortal’s soul through physical contact, and they prefer having that contact given willingly. (Maybe the soul is more useful to them like that, or maybe it just tastes better.)

    They don’t need to seduce you. Maybe being a mercenary has severed your bonds to your family and your community? Maybe you’ve seen things that you wish you hadn’t? Mommy understands. Mommy will make you all better. Give Mommy a hug…

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      They don’t need to seduce you.

      Mommy will make you all better. Give Mommy a hug…

      Well do they or don’t they?

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      They don’t need to seduce you.

      If anything I think that makes it all the more valuable that they go to all that effort anyway. Who doesn’t wanna be wined, dined, and have-their-soul-drained-leaving-nothing-else-behind every once in a while?