How to make a Pit Fiend

These are modified rules for creating PC demons based off the NPC rules provided in the Shadow Knight sorce book. I found the rules did nto work well for player characters. These I think work better.

Demons

A player must state at character creation that they are making a demon. character. A demon character is either a child of two demons or another being and a demon with it's demon heritage is dominant (this is due to the very special advantages and disadvantages a demon gets)

Stats:
Demons start at Chaos instead of Amber
It costs 10 pts to be Amber level buying down to human only gives them 10 pts not the normal 25

Weaknesses:
Demons CANNOT get Pattern EVER EVER EVER. Even if they buy the demon power resistance to Order.
Demons cannot survive in Amber or a place of order unless they buy that power. Demons are known for their weakness to order. It hurts them to be near it and attacks powered buy order or order Based artifacts do more damage to them.

Powers
Demons can’t get Pattern but they can get Broken Pattern or Logrus.

Strengths
All demon. are natural shape shifters (unless they buy down this power)

Demon Powers
Some demon powers are basic to demons. They get them automatically free of charge and is priced at (0). Of course you have the option of buying them up or down.

Natural Armor

Demons by their very nature have built in armor of tough hides, scales, and boney plates. This offers them great protection from most normal weapons. (If a shape sifted the demon must be in a form that HAS this armor for it to be fully effective)

(-4) None:

You are a very unfortunate demon. You were born with no natural armament whatever. Though you may posses scales and spines these are as soft and tender as human flesh and offer no protection.

(-2) Natural Bone:

Oh you have some armor sure but it's not much. Made of natural shell and bone, it offers little protection. Your armor can be cut through or pierced by any ordinary sharpened weapons. The armor offers little to no resistance to arrows or bullets

(0) Resistant to Normal Weapons:

Like most demons your hide is tough enough to resist most glancing or weak blows (Chaos level strength and/or warfare) Wielded right with a good angle of attack and enough strength normal weapons such as swords, axes, spears, and arrows can penetrate but the damage will be reduced due to your armor. Even enchanted weapons such as Double Damage and Deadly Damage artifacts must be wielded with some skill or they may glance off your scales. You can even take a shoot from a small caliber pistol without fear. (muzzle loaders)

(2) Impenetrable to Weapons & Firearms:

You are forever wearing a bullet proof vest. Though high Powered rifles can still penetrate your armor you will not take full damage with the exception of armor-piercing weapons designed to work against armored vehicles, these still do full damage. You armor is completely resistant to most weapons including those with Doubling Damage and Deadly Damage artifacts barley harm you. You are even protect against expositions, fire, and chemical attacks

(4) Resistant to all Energy & Conventional Weapons:

Now your getting Impressive. Pretty much any non-magical attack has no effect on you. Weapons relying on physical force simple won't penetrate even though sometimes the shock of the impact against your plating is annoying. Even artifact that do Deadly Damage are no longer effective. Even lasers and other energy based attacks cant harm you though enough heat from flame can boil your body inside it's plating. But then most demons are notoriously resistant to high temperatures.

(8) Impervious

Oh no that Amberite is coming at you with a Destructive Damage sword! What ARE you going to do?! Probably laugh. Yes even such a weapon no longer harms you sometimes you have to look out for the occasionally super magic weapon, atom bomb, or being teleported into the sun. But usually you are an unstoppable tank.

Natural Armament

Like having natural armor demons also tend to have talons, fangs, horns, back quills, elbow spikes, shoulder barbs, knee thorns, back quills, heel spurs, and miscellaneous bristles that they can use to attack with wicked results. Most demons have a couple of sets of "primary" weapons.. the rest or one step lower on the ladder of possibilities (once again in order to use these weapons a shape shifted demon. must form them)

(-4) Organic:

Fate did not smile upon you. You either are naked of defenses or they are no stronger then a aver fingernail and can be easily broken. They do no more damage then if you decided to punch the person. Your secondary armament is just for looks.

(-2) Natural Bone:

You didn't do well in the school yard scraps. Though as tough as bone your talons and horns broke easily against your peers natural armor. Strong enough to rend human flesh you still would not want to use it on metal or stone. The edges and points are easily dulled and broken.. you’ve had to regrow that horn twelve times already and it hurt. You secondary armament is even worse.

(0) Extra Hard Points and Edges:

Demons are nasty critters. They are equip from birth with weapons that can be used to fight armored opponent with out fear of them breaking or being damaged. And you are a demon. You can scratch stone, claw threw doors, and attempt to rend armor. Sometimes it doesn’t work but your claws wont break if you do. You secondary armament is less effective. slicing into that cow didn’t hurt them but they will break if hammered into metal or stone.

(2) Doubling Damage Armament:

Anyone need a can opener. Not only does your natural weaponry survive the battle you get into but now you can really start doing damage. You can slash threw most armor and even artifact and creature that are "resistant to Normal Weapons" will suffer under your attack. Your secondary armament don’t do so well but they don’t break easily either.

(4) Deadly Damage:

Hehehe.. now your talking. Slicing into opponents, clawing threw stone walls. Nothing will stop you. Your primary weaponry can even punch holes "resistant to Guns" armor and inflict horrific life-threatening wounds. Yes... isn't being a demon grand.

(8) Destructive Damage:

It's not the ability to cut threw even "Invulnerable" armor that you like or the fact that your spines look really cool. Nope.. what you love most is that your armament is poisonous. Poison has so many uses. Some demons posses glands in their mouths that ooze caustic venom which coats their fangs. Before battle they can be seen licking their talons and other weapons coating them with the wondrous stuff. This venom is particularly useful against shape shifters since aside from being painful it also prevents them from shifting the wound closed or even regeneration till they clean the poison from the wound. Other demons have stingers in the mouth or at the tip of the tail or even hollow barbs along parts of their bodies. These stingers and barbs inject a dose of fast-acting poison into their victims. Human level victims tend to die quickly while those with Chaos rank endurance simply fall unconscious. Sadly they often recover after only a few hours of painful tremors. Even those with Amberite Endurance are not safe the poison which causes excruciating pain and may even paralyze a portion of the body. It usually takes more then a dozen stings to kill them. Your lesser armament are also extremely effective piercing "resistant to Guns armor" and causing life threatening injuries.

Demonic Resistance to Order.

Demons don’t do well outside of the abyss. Order makes them sick.. actually it kills them.. Though some have developed a resistance to it. Even with the best of resistance the demon will still be uncomfortable and very miserable the closer it gets to Amber. (Optional rule you might want to cheapen this as it is hard to play in Amber if you cant GO to Amber.)

(0) None:

Outside of the environment of Chaos the demon will sicken immediately. Picture all the worst symptoms of a really bad cold, with demon-sized snot to boot. Not a pretty sight. If not rescued the demon will whine and complain loudly for a day before dying. Man that is so annoying and really pathetic if this describes you.

(2) Sensitive to Order:

You start to slow down as soon as you enter an area dominated by Order. If you stick around a couple hours your reflexes in combat begin to be off, and in eight hours you feel like your moving at half speed. Eventually after a couple days, you begin to become rigid and immobile.. guess what.. now you’re a pretty statue. You can survive this way for years serving as a great perch for pigeons. If someone is nice enough to take you back to chaos you will recover in time. (about a day for every week spent as statuary) Hopefully they will also be nice enough to clean the bird poop off of you before you awaken.

(4) Temporary Resistance to Order:

You can stay in a shadow of Order for a whole day! Aren’t you excited! After a day you lose your ability to shape shift, but you still are alright for another week. You can function but man it's uncomfortable. If you shape shift to a more suitable form (human, animal, or something else unpleasant) you can survive indefinitely. If not.. I hope you like being statuary. At this level you take triple damage from pattern magic and weapons.

(8) Permanent Resistance to Order:

You can take it.. you really can take it. Order no longer hurts you. Sure your Shape shifting power slows down after a week of being exposed but other then that your just fine. Except for that nagging headache you get if you spend time in your nice demon form. At this level you take double damage from pattern sorcery and weapons ( just like a chaos lord)

Demonic Shape shifting

Due to where they live demons start with Shape shifting freed advanced shape shifting only costs 35 and a special Demonic Shape Shift Costs 65

Demonic Shape shift: A demons shape shifting ability has greater potential then any other being. They can do almost anything with their bodies instantly. Survive any conditions. No poison or disease effects them as their body adapts instinctually. They can also take on a none physical form and posses a being with a lower psyche. The demon can even shape shift any body it controls.

Magic Manipulation

As creatures of Chaos demons have natural resistance to sorcery and spell casting.

(0) No Magic:

The demon is resistant to all magic, sorcery, power words, except compelling. But cant sense or manipulate magic it's self. This ability grants demons a bonus defending against standard sorcery.

(2) Magic Intuition:

You now has the sense of magic. You see auras and know when magic is being used or if something is innately magic. This includes all the powers like Trump, Logrus, and Pattern. This ability grants a bonus verses all types of magic.

(4) Magic Manipulation

You can now also sense the lines of magic running threw shadow. And sometimes manipulate it. Or even contain it so someone else’s spells don’t work. This ability allows the demon to attempt to subvert any non primal magic that are not cast by a mage with a higher psyche, rendering them ineffectual.

(8) Magic Well

Now your becoming immune to magic You can ground it out threw your body almost completely and unaffected by any spells.

(16) Magic Drain

You can now devour magic sucking it up from it's source or eating spells cast at you. Using it to power your own personal reserves. You still have to watch out for Pattern powerd spells as Pattern still hurts you.

(32) Magic Domination

You are now a force of magic yourself and are capable of warping, damping, or energizing all the fields of magic power in the vicinity. Unless you are right next to a major power you pretty much control all the flow of magical energy in the area.