Fiendish Creature 2E?

[Luke Styer]

I miss the old Fiendish Creature template from 1E, so I twisted it up and threw it into my session today on some animals that had invaded the Prime Material Plane from the Abyss and was pretty happy with the results, so I thought I’d share what I did, see whether anyone else had tried this, and get thoughts.

I simplified it to add darkvision (though that didn’t come up at all), resistance 5 to cold, electricity, and fire, weakness 5 good, and +5 evil damage on all natural attacks. For this I gave XP at +1 level but didn’t adjust other numbers.

[Cyouni]

I did something similar, but I also
tailored mine more around the Fiend traits given in Monster Creation. They definitely shouldn't get the resistances any more, though, since that's more a PF1 design concept.

[Luke Styer]

That’s a good point. The Demons themselves didn’t have energy resistances across the board. With that gone, we just have darkvision, weakness to good, and a little extra evil damage. Do you think it’s still worth a level bump?

[Ediwir]

They also have some extra hp most of the time.

[BellyBeard]

That wouldn't be a level bump on its own imo, unless you also adjusted other stats.