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It was more like a strategy game there, meaning the gameplay depended entirely on the players' choices. A friend of mine had experience running it (I was one of the testers), and the Northern clans (myself and two other players) formed an alliance and advanced to victory without much trouble (as a result, when one of the players had a scripted mega-army of demons, one of the players we had defeated, in response to our offer of a temporary alliance, told us that he would fight solo against both the Northern clans and the demons). So, alliances require balance.

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I'm all for it, especially when it comes to Dominion.

Interesting idea, but it's definitely not an expansion anymore. In terms of execution, it would be similar to a game of Mafia: send in the nominations, wait for the results. And then there are alliances with "maniacs" and all that.

For some reason, role-playing games are full of demons.

That's because demons are awesome! In my last game, there weren't any demons. However, it ended quickly, SO THAT'S QUITE INDICATIVE.
And in that game, the demon thing wasn't just a little surprising, but we really didn't expect something of that scale. It all started with an encounter with an army of rebels (neutrals) that defeated both my army and the army of one of the opponents. Then, that same opponent bribed them to help conquer one of the provinces. I, as a noble general serving a noble family, immediately realized that his employers (another noble family) wouldn't like that. I reported it to them, and he was kicked out of his position as general. The rebels, however, took him in, and soon we found out that the rebels themselves were working for the demons. I don't know if the GM had foreseen this scenario from the beginning, but in the finale, a huge army of demons led by this player was marching on the northern alliance... only to lose a third of their army to the mines I had accumulated during the game, and the rest were wiped out by my warriors and a hero-mage with very powerful AoE spells. Damn, I even managed to defeat the seemingly invincible demon champion twice.

Nah. That's just old news. A thousand years ago, Tivtrop was already stale. Bloodthirsty hellish creatures invading the mortal world... ooh, how scary, ooh, a deal for a soul, just make sure you don't commit adultery or steal.

I agree with Loca.

But how can we do without absolute evil?

But how can we do without absolute evil?

It exists in real life too; can't we live without it even in fictional universes?

I’ll give Revan a plus one.

Nah. That's a tired trope that was stale a thousand years ago, Tivtrop.

It's a classic, not a stale trope. You just don't understand.

Bloodthirsty hellish creatures invading the mortal world, ooh, how scary, ooh, a deal for a soul, watch out not to commit adultery or steal.

Demons are rarely portrayed as frightening, so I don't understand what the words about fear are for. The only things that come to mind are some cheap horror movies or some pseudo-horror RPGs, like Mythos and Inquisitor (neither of which can boast quality). But the point is that attempts to scare often fail, both in movies and in games. And from an aesthetic or societal point of view, demons are sometimes well-realized, although not always originally.

Demons are not evil. They are cute :3

They just need to be introduced as a separate faction, like the Elves, and that’s it. And not as some kind of universal evil…

They should just be introduced as a separate faction, like the elves, and that's it. Not as some universal evil...

Does this happen often? I can only think of King's Bounty right away.