Just writing up the demodand's stats in Secret of the Soul Pillars. I noticed he can cast acid fog which is a spiffy spell. However the obscuring component also affects him. Does he have some ability I cant see that would let him operate normally?
Or is it, as I suspect, a matter of taking the concealment penalty but effectively screwing up the party en mass (but also screwing up his spring attack)?
Or is it a get out of jail card which seems useless in this instance as he is a bound monster?
Thanks
Don't believe he's immune to the 'solid fog' aspect of the acid fog, either, so it limits him a bunch too. It's perhaps useful for tossing down on casters and the like in the back who he doesn't want to engage at the moment.
He'd probably cast acid fog if the PCs are in a group or if they had him surrounded. He'd then teleport out of the cloud and wait on its fringes for the PCs to emerge, striking at them as they left the cloud behind. He could then teleport back and forth from the cloud. The PCs would have difficulty locating him and he would be more likely to be able to attack them one at a time.