| Thane36425 |
I'll post this as a hypothetical question since it is not coming up in our current game. However, in the past, this situation has come up before though not with this part of the solution.
Here it is. The party and its allies need to defend a given location against a large enemy force. The odds are strongly against the party. The position has already been prepared as much as possible with a couple of strong points within.
Suppose the party wizard use Planar Binding to summon a Succubus. The intent would be to use her to sow discord in the enemy ranks.
First question: how much control would be reasonable over the Succubus from a player's standpoint? For the most part she would have an indirect effect as I'll explain below. Only a few times could I see the need for anything close to role playing her.
Now, the assumption here is that the commanders and some other of the enemy would be too strong for the Succubus to approach, that they would be too likely to detect her and the jig would be up. So instead she would be sent against the troops and low to mid level commanders who would be less likely to detect her. Here are a couple of situations to consider.
1. The enemy is in camp and in good spirits because of seemingly easy victory to come. The Succubus would move amongst them causing minor arguments to become outright fights. The objective here would be to cause one of the units to lose a night of sleep to be fatigued the next day.
2. To influence, possibly by "suggestion," to send some or all of their unit into traps. An example of this would be to direct their troops at what seems to be a weak point in the defenses but instead is a kill zone.
3. After a couple of defeats, assuming there are any, encouraging defeatist talk amongst the enemy camp to lower morale.
4. Lastly, scouting the camp and delivering intelligence on enemy movements and preparations.
How much of this is allowable as is or with modification?
| Kalyth |
Ok as long as the characters calling the sucubus roleplay well and offer a good "trade" for the sucubus' services I see no reason the succubus wouldn't do even more than you have stated. Remeber that Succubi are Chaotic and causing lies and discontent is straight into her nature. This could be a golden opprotunity for the succubus.
It would be easy enough for her to cause all manner of problems and should would make an excellent spy. She could easily use her ability to change her appearance to infultrate the camp and cause all manner of mayham.
As long as the PC dont abuse her assistance I could see her becoming a source of future story hooks as well.
As far as I can tell all of your points would be allowable depending on what specifics the PC set down in the deal struck with the succubus.