They tend to start fights with an ambush, and excellently use a combination of sneak attacks and multiple attacks. If they are unarmed, they will use their claws, and their horn. For actually damaging foes, Babau prefer to use weapons. They are adept at hiding, moving silently, searching, listening, and making sneak attacks, and use this greatly to their advantage in fights. Due to their horn, babau are sometimes known as the one-horned horror, and due to their color, as the ebony death.īabau are assassins, and hence they are sneaky, sly, cunning and stealthy, and this is the governing factor in their combat. They are particularly fond of the flesh of nalfeshnees, and nalfeshnees especially fear and despise them with a passion. Babau sometimes work with succubi, but hate and are hated by glabrezu, hezrous, nalfeshnees and vrocks. They are very careful and devious, and always form cunning plans before doing anything (or at least before combat). Covering a babau from head to toe is a red, caustic jelly-like slime which protects them from attacks.īabau are native to the Outer Plane of the Abyss, like the majority of all demons in Dungeons & Dragons.īabau are the cunning and sneaky but powerful assassins of the Abyss. The most notable feature of the babau, however, is the single, short, curved horn coming from the back/top of their head. They always walk with a sneaky, alert posture. They have sly, sneaky, goblin-like faces, and long, thin, claw-like fingers. Their skin is a dark brown-reddish-black in color, glossy, leather-like, and highly form fitting, hence the skeletal appearance. They are about 6 feet tall and weigh 140 pounds. Physical description īabau resemble tall, gaunt, elongated, skeleton-like humanoids.
The babau is one of the monsters that will appears in the fourth edition Monster Manual 3 (2010). The babau appears in the revised 3.5 edition Monster Manual (2003). The babau (tanar'ri) appears in third edition in the Book of Vile Darkness (2002). The babau greater tanar'ri also appeared for the Spelljammer setting in The Astromundi Cluster (1993), and for the Planescape campaign setting in the first Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994). The babau greater tanar'ri appeared in second edition first in the Monstrous Compendium Volume Outer Planes Appendix (1991), under the tanar'ri entry. The babau (minor demon) debuted in the first edition Monster Manual II (1983), under the demon entry. They belong to the category of demon known as tanar'ri.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the babau ( / b ə ˈ b aʊ/) is a demon.
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