Idalla

Idalla

Series	Dungeons and Dragons
First appearance	The Forge of Fury, Page 26
Created by	Richard Baker
Game information
Gender	Female
Race	Succubus
Class	Lesser Tanar'ri Medium Outsider (Chaotic, Demon, Evil, Extraplanar)
Alignment	Chaotic Evil
Alias	None
Setting	All Settings

The Forge of Fury

Rules required	Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd edition
Authors	Richard Baker
First published	2000

For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).

Idalla is a Succubus NPC character created by Richard Baker who first appeared in the The Forge of Fury adventure module for the Dungeons and Dragons role playing game. As her role in this adventure was very limited, little character information or statistics were provided for her. The only note made of her situation or character was that she was trapped by a wizard in a room which players encounter her in. Physically she is described as a slender beautiful woman of medium height with long, black hair.

Appearance

Idalla is described as a slender beautiful woman of medium height with long, black hair. Being that she has been imprisoned by a wizard in the room she is encountered in, her clothing is described as being being well worn. Her Succubus form is not described, though it can be assumed that her human form is the same, save missing her natural Succubus physical attributes such as horns, tail and wings. She is very bored with being trapped where she is and her sadness is quite real in that she hates the situation she is in. If she is aware of the players, they will not see her in her Succubus form, and if they surprise her, she will shift as quickly as possible from her natural form to her human one before any players can glimpse that she is a Succubus.

Character Background

Idalla appears when players enter her Den during the adventure. The room itself contains some minor treasure, but otherwise is simply a library with many bookshelves and books scattered throughout the room. She is stuck in the room she is found in because a wizard had summoned her and then bound her to the room. She does not know why she was summoned, nor where the wizard is, but desperately wishes to escape and take revenge on the one that imprisoned her. There is however a means for her to escape and this requires a player with "good intentions" to attack her or to give her permission to leave the room.

Assuming Idalla is aware of the players approaching, she will check for any good aligned characters and focus her efforts, and powers on them. She will beg to be released, explaining that a wizard imprisoned her, and they are in another area. Her first actions are to use her powers and abilities to persuade the characters to give her permission to leave the room. If she is released, then she will teleport away to search for the wizard who bound her.

It is possible that Idalla might try to kiss a player and use her energy drain attack before she leaves. If she has not revealed herself to be a Succubus, then just before she leaves she will tell the players that not everyone is as they seem, her eyes will glow for an instant, and then she will vanish.

If the encounter is not peaceful, then Idalla will fight to defend herself. If one of the players is of good alignment, Idalla will play with them, starting with a charm person spell, then kissing the charmed target to use energy drain on them. If she takes any damage or has successfully drained one target, she will leave the area using teleport. She will use the same tactics if the characters attack her after they have freed her from her binding. If there are no good aligned characters, then Idalla will use her charm person ability to turn players against each other, and she can use this ability repeatedly, aiming to have her enemies kill each other.

Statistics

Name	Idalla
Type	Succubus
Sub-Type	Medium-size outsider
Alignment	Chaotic Evil
Challenge Rating	9
HD	6d8+6
hp	33
Init	+1 (Dex)
Speed	30 ft., fly So ft. (average)
Armour Class	Example
Example	20
Attack	+7 melee (1d3+1, 2 claws)
Special Abilities	Spell-like abilities, energy drain. summon tanar'ri
Special Qualities	Damage reduction 20/+2, tanar'ri defenses, alternate form, tongues
SR	12
SV	Fort +6, Ref +6, Will +7 Str 13, Den 13, Con 13, Int 16, Wis 14, Cha 20
Skills and Feats	Bluff +11, Concentration +7, Disguise +11 (+21), Escape Artist +7, Hide +7, Knowledge (the planes) +31 Listen +16, Move Silently 47, Ride +7, Search +3, Spot +16; Dodge, Mobility
Immune	Poison and electricity
Resistance	Cold, fire, and acid resistance +20

Spell-Like Abilities - All spells as cast by a 12th-level sorcerer (save DCs are 15 + spell level)

At will	Charm monster, clairaudience/clairvoyance, darkness, desecrate, detect good, detect thoughts, doom, ethereal jaunt (self plus 50 pounds of objects only), suggestion, and teleport without error (self plus 50 pounds of objects only)
1/day	Unholy blight

• Energy Drain: Succubus's kiss or embrace inflicts one negative level, victim must succeed at Wisdom check (DC 15) to notice, Fort save to remove the negative level has a DC of 18.

• Summon Tanar'ri: 1/day can attempt to summon one balor with a 10% chance of success.

• Alternate Form: Can assume any humanoid form of Small to Large size as a standard action, similar to the polymorph self spell but allows only humanoid forms.

• Tongues: A succubus has a permanent tongues ability as the spell cast by a 12th-level sorcerer. Can communicate telepathically with any creature within 100 ft that has a language.

References

• Baker, Richard (2000). The Forge of Fury. Wizards of the Coast. Page 26.

External Links

• The Forge of Fury adventure module at Wikipedia