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moon of abyss
Acolyte

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Posted - 13 Sep 2005 :  18:39:41  Show Profile  Visit moon of abyss's Homepage Send moon of abyss a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
are there other fans of this Celestial creature ,
i like them really much, they are so noble i think...

"Yes my ravenous friend" he said quietly, "but there remains two problems."

"First, I work alone."

"And second," Entreri continued, without missing a breath, "you are dead."

Fletcher
Learned Scribe

USA
299 Posts

Posted - 13 Sep 2005 :  19:01:02  Show Profile  Visit Fletcher's Homepage Send Fletcher a Private Message  Reply with Quote
My Cleric of Helm used to summon them almost exclusively. They were great aids and over time using summon ally, he managed to equip them with a bit of magic and made them really fun.
This of course only works if you are using the rule that you summon the same guys every time in the same order... I love that rule.

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moon of abyss
Acolyte

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Posted - 13 Sep 2005 :  19:42:50  Show Profile  Visit moon of abyss's Homepage Send moon of abyss a Private Message  Reply with Quote
also their appearance is cool i think...with their houndish features and that greatsword of them. today at my forgotten realms game, my players came to one of that celestial creatures... a really strong one which is NPC and has character level... i ended the game for today at that point , it was really a sweet end for that play... the celestial will of course aid my players to solve a mystery in a village in the east of Luskan and in the south of Mirabar... the village called Duskgrove...

"Yes my ravenous friend" he said quietly, "but there remains two problems."

"First, I work alone."

"And second," Entreri continued, without missing a breath, "you are dead."
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moon of abyss
Acolyte

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Posted - 13 Sep 2005 :  19:47:05  Show Profile  Visit moon of abyss's Homepage Send moon of abyss a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Also his name is Huan and he is a planewalker. traveling through planes...

"Yes my ravenous friend" he said quietly, "but there remains two problems."

"First, I work alone."

"And second," Entreri continued, without missing a breath, "you are dead."
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Arilou
Acolyte

Sweden
11 Posts

Posted - 21 Sep 2005 :  19:42:41  Show Profile  Visit Arilou's Homepage Send Arilou a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Yah, Hound Archons are cool beans.

"Det sägs att ovan molnen är himlen alltid blå.
Men det kan vara svårt att tro när man inte ser det.
Och det sägs att efter regnet kommer solen fram igen.
Men det hjälper sällan dem som har blivit våta.
För när vännerna försvinner.
Eller kärleken tar slut.
Ser man allt med lite andra ögon.
Man övar sig och långsamt blir man bättre på att se.
Skillnad mellan sanningar och lögner."
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Xysma
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Posted - 29 Sep 2005 :  17:20:37  Show Profile  Visit Xysma's Homepage Send Xysma a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I also like the Fallen Hound Archon from the Fiend Folio, that can be a nasty surprise for players who are familiar with the normall benevolent hound archons.

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Crennen FaerieBane
Master of Realmslore

USA
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Posted - 29 Sep 2005 :  17:48:33  Show Profile Send Crennen FaerieBane a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Yeah, the only problem with fallen celestials is you have to use them sparingly or it becomes an overused technique. Unless you balance it with redeemed fiends... but then that might make the game crazier than it already would be!

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tauster
Senior Scribe

Germany
399 Posts

Posted - 15 Oct 2005 :  15:06:29  Show Profile  Visit tauster's Homepage Send tauster a Private Message  Reply with Quote
...just discovered this thread...

i have a hound archon bound into one of our pc´s backgrounds:
the character in question is a halfling thief with several "question marks" in his past (father vanished on a mission, ancestry not quite clear, etc). quite late in his carreer (around level 8; game started at lvl.1) he found out that he is not a halfling but a blickish(1): a halfing "subrace" whose ancestor was ulmagnus, a hound archon.

after more than one "real life" year of gameplay, lots of confusing and twisting plots and two levels later he encountered ulmagnus as an ally in a climatic battle at the end of a major subplot (which took up ca. one year of roleplaying), but the player didn´t remember the name "ulmagnus", so his character did not recognise just who stood before him!
during the battle, ulmagnus was among one of the few losses the "side of good" suffered. after the battle, with a little help of another npc, the identity of that strange celestial being was revealed to the "halfling" thief, who was totally flabbergasted (one of the greatest roleplaying moments of that character!). now he is plagued by self-reproaches: a depressed halfling, agonizing over his failure...

i plan to stage a "rescue-mission" at a convenient moment somewhere down the road, leading into the lower planes to get the hound archon´s soul plucked out of the claws of several nasty demons.


(1) a race from mythic races (Fantasy Flight Games) who can blink and go etheral (among other things) as they rice in level.


...long story short: i LOVE that particular celestial being!
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