Fiends of Corruption, or, An Economy of Souls [Archive] - Wizards Community

Fiends of Corruption, or, An Economy of Souls [Archive] - Wizards Community

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WyzardWhately
12-01-04, 12:16 AM The Fiend of Corruption has a neat ability to trade favors for a soul-binding contract, whereby the contractee's soul is immediately transferred into the possession of the Fiend upon death. This uses a specially prepared gem. The gist of things being that souls are used as currency in the lower planes (we already knew this).

My question is: How much are they worth? Apparently quite a bit, since the Fiend of Corruption is at least occasionally willing to blow wish XP to get one. I could see the worth being based on the level or other qualities of the soul in question (paladins might be worth a bit more, frex).

If this has been covered anywhere before, neither me nor my gaming buddies have seen it.
catharz
12-01-04, 01:28 AM My question is: How much are they worth? Apparently quite a bit, since the Fiend of Corruption is at least occasionally willing to blow wish XP to get one. I could see the worth being based on the level or other qualities of the soul in question (paladins might be worth a bit more, frex).

Check out the Book of Vile Darkness, it has rules for trapped souls as spell components and currency. Also look at the "Trap the soul" spell.
Shemeska the Marauder
12-01-04, 12:16 PM Fiends using souls for currency, usually funneled through such sellers of things as shadow fiends, tend to rate the souls based on the power of the individual in life, their alignment, their memories and knowledge from life, etc etc. It's hard to put into game mechanics and the rules in the BoVD weren't all that well done in terms of handling souls as money and spell componants.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
WyzardWhately 12-01-04, 12:16 AM	The Fiend of Corruption has a neat ability to trade favors for a soul-binding contract, whereby the contractee's soul is immediately transferred into the possession of the Fiend upon death. This uses a specially prepared gem. The gist of things being that souls are used as currency in the lower planes (we already knew this). My question is: How much are they worth? Apparently quite a bit, since the Fiend of Corruption is at least occasionally willing to blow wish XP to get one. I could see the worth being based on the level or other qualities of the soul in question (paladins might be worth a bit more, frex). If this has been covered anywhere before, neither me nor my gaming buddies have seen it.
catharz 12-01-04, 01:28 AM	My question is: How much are they worth? Apparently quite a bit, since the Fiend of Corruption is at least occasionally willing to blow wish XP to get one. I could see the worth being based on the level or other qualities of the soul in question (paladins might be worth a bit more, frex). Check out the Book of Vile Darkness, it has rules for trapped souls as spell components and currency. Also look at the "Trap the soul" spell.
Shemeska the Marauder 12-01-04, 12:16 PM	Fiends using souls for currency, usually funneled through such sellers of things as shadow fiends, tend to rate the souls based on the power of the individual in life, their alignment, their memories and knowledge from life, etc etc. It's hard to put into game mechanics and the rules in the BoVD weren't all that well done in terms of handling souls as money and spell componants.