Dispater, Iron Duke of Dis

Dispater

Large Fiend (Devil), Lawful Evil

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Armor Class 30 (infernal natural armor)

Hit Points 1,435 (82d10 + 984)

Speed 120 ft., Fly 250 ft. (Hover)

Gear Iron Staff of Dis, Rod of Dis

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Saving Throws Str +22, Dex +20, Con +23, Int +26, Wis +25, Cha +26

Skills Deception +37, Insight +36, Intimidation +26, Perception +25, Persuasion +37

Damage Resistances Acid, Cold; Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing from attacks that are neither silvered nor made with an artifact

Damage Immunities Fire, Poison

Condition Immunities Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Poisoned

Senses Truesight 500 ft., Passive Perception 35

Languages All; Telepathy 1,000 ft.

Challenge 40 (SpiralWorlds epic)

Proficiency Bonus +11

Traits

Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If Dispater fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.

Magic Resistance. Dispater has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Regeneration. Dispater regains 50 Hit Points at the start of each of his turns if he has at least 1 Hit Point.

Diabolical Empowerment. Dispater uses Intelligence for his spellcasting and the saving throw DCs of his signature supernatural powers. His principal save DC is 34, and his spell attack modifier is +26.

Diabolical Prowess. Dispater’s attacks, spells and supernatural abilities count as epic and magical for overcoming resistance and immunity.

Acedia’s Influence. When a creature of Dispater’s choice starts its turn within 200 feet of him, it must succeed on a DC 34 Wisdom saving throw or become afflicted for 1 minute.

While afflicted, whenever that creature willingly takes the Help action, restores Hit Points to another creature, removes a harmful condition from another creature, or uses an effect whose principal purpose is to protect another creature, it must repeat the save. On a failure, the attempted action is wasted, its Speed becomes 0 and it has the Incapacitated condition until the end of its next turn.

The creature repeats the save at the end of each turn, ending the affliction on a success. A creature that successfully saves against Acedia’s Influence is immune to it for 24 hours.

Aura of Hell. Enemies within 1,400 feet that can perceive Dispater feel the sovereign pressure of the Second Perdition. The first time an enemy starts its turn in the aura, it must succeed on a DC 34 Wisdom saving throw or become Frightened until the end of its next turn. A creature already Frightened by Dispater that fails also has Speed 0 for that duration.

Ferric Affinity. Dispater senses and pinpoints iron and iron-dominant alloys within 15 miles, increasing to 18 miles in Dis. He can perceive through such metal as though it were transparent, and iron does not block his supernatural line of effect.

He can animate or reposition up to 38,400 pounds of unattended iron at one time and can cast Wall of Iron at will.

Infernal Nobility. Dispater possesses Cosmic Rank 15 and functions at Cosmic Rank 18 while exercising the recognised authority of the Lord of the Second within Dis.

While in Dis he cannot be unwillingly banished, teleported or stripped of his territorial authority except by Asmodeus or comparable cosmic authority.

Polished Façade. Magic cannot force Dispater to reveal his actual intentions. Effects attempting to determine whether he is lying or to read his true motives automatically fail unless their source possesses comparable cosmic authority.

Psionic Prescience. Dispater cannot be surprised. He has Advantage on Initiative rolls and on saving throws against effects he can perceive that would incapacitate or restrain him.

Iron Staff of Dis. While holding the staff, Dispater can maintain two Contingency effects simultaneously.

The staff is also attuned through Spell Stowaway to Gate, Heal, Miracle, Time Stop and Wish.

Actions

Multiattack. Dispater makes four attacks using the Iron Staff of Dis or the Rod of Dis in any combination.

Iron Staff of Dis. Melee Attack Roll: +22, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 33 (4d10 + 11) Bludgeoning damage plus 36 (8d8) Necrotic damage.

Rod of Dis. Melee Attack Roll: +22, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 29 (4d8 + 11) Bludgeoning damage plus 21 (6d6) Force damage.

The target must succeed on a DC 34 Wisdom saving throw or be affected by Dominate Monster as cast by Dispater.

Hell’s Fire (22/Day). Dispater releases a 10-foot-wide, 1,900-foot-long line of whirling iron blades and rust-red infernal fire. Each creature in the line makes a DC 34 Dexterity saving throw, taking 71 (11d12) Fire damage plus 71 (11d12) Necrotic damage on a failure, or half as much on a success.

Perseverating Glance (9/Day per Creature). Dispater targets one creature he can perceive within 1,800 feet. The creature makes a DC 34 Constitution saving throw. On a successful save, it is affected as though by Slow until the end of its next turn.

On a failure, the target falls into compulsive physical repetition for up to 1 minute. On each of its turns it must repeat its most recent meaningful action as closely as possible. If that action cannot be repeated, it expends the closest available resource or wastes the action.

The target repeats the saving throw at the end of each turn, ending the effect on a success. Perseverating Glance is not a gaze attack or a Charmed effect; it directly controls physical behaviour.

Call Devils (9/Day). Dispater calls one Duke of Hell, nine Pit Fiends or eighteen lesser devils. Called devils appear in spaces Dispater can perceive and act immediately after him.

Spellcasting

Dispater casts spells using Intelligence (spell save DC 34, +26 to hit with spell attacks). He requires no material components.

• At will: detect magic, detect thoughts, dispel magic, greater invisibility, greater teleport, hallucinatory terrain, hold monster, mirage arcana, scrying, suggestion, wall of fire, wall of iron
• 3/day each: counterspell, dimension door, dominate monster, feeblemind, globe of invulnerability, greater restoration, mass suggestion, power word stun, reverse gravity, telekinesis, true seeing
• 2/day each: banishment, dimensional lock, mind blank, prismatic wall, spell turning
• 1/day each: foresight, gate, imprisonment, mage’s disjunction, moment of prescience, prismatic sphere, time stop, wish

Psionic Mastery

Dispater’s seer powers are not merely another spell list. They represent the translated remnants of his immense psionic mastery in the source creature.

Ego Whip (Recharge 4–6). One creature Dispater can perceive within 120 feet must make a DC 34 Intelligence saving throw. On a failure it takes 55 (10d10) Psychic damage and has Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the end of its next turn. On a success it takes half damage with no further effect.

Microcosm (1/Day). One creature Dispater can perceive within 120 feet makes a DC 34 Intelligence saving throw. On a failure, its awareness is trapped inside an internally generated psychic reality for 1 minute. It is Incapacitated, has Speed 0 and is unaware of its actual surroundings. It repeats the save at the end of each turn, ending the effect on a success.

Bend Reality (1/Day). Dispater immediately casts one spell of 8th level or lower from his Spellcasting list without expending one of that spell’s normal uses.

Bonus Actions

Temporal Acceleration (3/Day). Dispater takes one additional Action immediately. That action can be used to Attack, Dash, Disengage, use Ego Whip, use Ferric Command or take another non-spell action.

Diabolical Decree (9/Day). Dispater issues an infernal decree to a devil he can perceive within 1 mile. A subordinate devil must use its Reaction to move up to its Speed and make one attack or carry out another immediately possible command.

Within Dis, Dispater may instead grant, suspend or alter a lesser infernal office, title or permission until overturned by superior recognised authority.

Ferric Command. Dispater moves, twists or animates unattended iron within 300 feet, subject to his 38,400-pound Ferric Affinity limit. He may create a temporary barrier, open or close an iron gate, drag an unattended iron object up to 120 feet, or attempt to wrench an iron-dominant weapon from a creature.

The Might of Hell (3/Day). Dispater imposes an Unhallow effect centred on a point he can perceive, extending through a radius of up to 1,560 feet.

Reactions

Precognitive Ward. When Dispater is targeted by an attack he can perceive, he gains a +6 bonus to AC against that attack. If it still hits, the bonus ends after the attack resolves.

Iron Curtain (9/Day). When Dispater is hit by an attack or fails a saving throw, he may raise the Iron Curtain.

Against an attack roll, Dispater makes a Constitution saving throw against the triggering attack result. Against another effect, he repeats the triggering saving throw. On a success, the triggering attack or effect has no effect on him.

Whether or not that save succeeds, Dispater then gains an Iron Curtain with 300 Hit Points. Damage that would be dealt to Dispater is dealt to the Curtain first. If created inside the Iron Tower, it instead has 600 Hit Points. Only one Iron Curtain can exist at a time.

Legendary Actions

Dispater has 5 Legendary Action uses, regaining all expended uses at the start of his turn. He can expend them immediately after another creature’s turn.

Iron Step — 1 Use. Dispater teleports up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space he can perceive.

Infernal Command — 1 Use. One devil within 300 feet uses its Reaction to move up to its Speed or make one attack.

Ferric Seizure — 2 Uses. One creature within 120 feet wearing or carrying substantial iron must succeed on a DC 34 Strength saving throw or become Restrained until the end of its next turn. If it is holding an iron-dominant weapon, Dispater may instead wrench the weapon from its grasp.

Reaving Dispel — 2 Uses. Dispater uses Reaving Dispel against one creature he can perceive.

Hell’s Fire — 3 Uses. Dispater uses Hell’s Fire.

The Iron Tower — Lair Actions

On Initiative count 20, Dispater chooses one of the following effects. The same effect cannot be used on two consecutive rounds.

• Dimensional Lock. Unauthorised teleportation, planar travel and comparable movement fail inside a selected 120-foot-radius region until the next Initiative count 20.
• Telekinetic Interference. Up to three enemies holding weapons or spellcasting implements make a DC 34 Strength saving throw. On a failure the held object is torn away and hurled up to 60 feet.
• Catapsi Field. Until the next Initiative count 20, creatures other than Dispater have Disadvantage on Constitution saves made to maintain Concentration and on checks associated with psionic manifestation.
• Corrupt Reprisal. One enemy that attacked Dispater since the previous Initiative count 20 makes a DC 34 Dexterity saving throw, taking 66 (12d10) Lightning damage plus 66 (12d10) Necrotic damage on a failure, or half as much on a success.
• Mass Arrest. Up to six creatures Dispater can perceive must succeed on a DC 34 Wisdom saving throw or become Paralyzed until the next Initiative count 20.
• Disjunction Pulse. The Tower invokes Mage’s Disjunction against magical effects selected by Dispater within the lair.

Chains of Toil

Dispater can offer supernatural infernal boons that transfer labour and obedience onto bound servants. These are contracts rather than automatic moral effects. A soul is subject to an infernal claim only where the actual bargain pledges or binds it.

Dispater — D&D 3.5e

Large Outsider (Abomination, Evil, Extraplanar, Lawful) · Seer 10 / Abjurer 10 / Cerebremancer 10

Symbol	The Iron Tower upon red within an iron-grey inverted triangle
Cosmic Rank	15; 18 in Dis
Hit Dice	52d8 + 30d4 + 1,148 (1,457 hp)
Initiative	+11
Speed	120 ft.; fly 250 ft. (perfect)
Armor Class	82 (-1 size, +11 Dex, +34 natural, +9 profane, +19 deflection), touch 48, flat-footed 71
Base Attack/Grapple	+67 / +83
Attack	Iron Staff of Dis +84 melee (2d6+18/×3); or Rod of Dis +84 melee (2d6+18 plus 3d6 lawful plus 1 negative level/×3); or spell +78 melee touch / +77 ranged touch
Full Attack	Iron Staff +84/+79/+74/+69; or Rod of Dis +84/+79/+74/+69
Space/Reach	10 ft. / 10 ft.
Special Attacks	Acedia’s Influence, Aura of Hell, Call Devils, Hell’s Fire, Might of Hell, Perseverating Glance, psionics, spell-like abilities, spells
Special Qualities	Abomination traits, blindsight 500 ft., Chains of Toil, DR 40/anarchic, epic, good and silver, darkvision 60 ft., Diabolical Decree, Diabolical Empowerment, Diabolical Prowess, Ferric Affinity, fire and poison immunity, Infernal Nobility, Iron Curtain, Locked Within the Gates, Lord of the Nine, Polished Façade, regeneration 22, acid resistance 40, cold resistance 40, see in darkness, SR 73, telepathy 1,000 ft.
Saves	Fort +57, Ref +54, Will +62
Abilities	Str 35, Dex 32, Con 39, Int 48, Wis 48, Cha 48
Environment	Iron Tower, Dis
Organization	Unique
Challenge Rating	63
Treasure	Quintuple standard plus Iron Staff of Dis and Rod of Dis
Alignment	Lawful Evil

Skills

Appraise +74 (+84 alchemical), Balance +82, Bluff +122, Concentration +99, Craft (alchemy) +104, Decipher Script +39, Diplomacy +150, Disguise +19 (+29 acting), Escape Artist +66, Forgery +74, Gather Information +114, Hide +77, Intimidate +114, Jump +54, Listen +94, Knowledge (arcana) +104, Knowledge (history) +94, Knowledge (local: Hell) +104, Knowledge (nature) +94, Knowledge (nobility and royalty) +94, Knowledge (the planes) +94, Knowledge (psionics) +104, Knowledge (religion) +94, Move Silently +81, Psicraft +124, Search +74, Sense Motive +122, Spellcraft +114, Spot +104, Survival +19, Tumble +66.

Feats

Corrupt Spell-Like Ability, Dark Speech, Burrowing Power, Chain Power, Chain Spell, Craft Contingent Spell, Craft Magic Arms and Armour, Craft Rod, Craft Staff, Craft Universal Item, Empower Power, Inquisitor, Psionic Meditation, Quicken Power, Quicken Spell, Scribe Scroll.

Epic Feats: Craft Epic Contingent Spell, Craft Epic Rod, Craft Epic Staff, Craft Epic Universal Item, Epic Evil Brand, Epic Manifestation, Epic Psionic Focus ×2, Epic Skill Focus (Psicraft), Epic Spellcasting, Focused Metapsionics (Quicken Power), Improved Metapsionics ×3, Improved Spell Capacity ×4, Multipower ×3.

While wielding the Iron Staff, Dispater gains Spell Stowaway for gate, Heal, miracle, time stop and wish.

Acedia’s Influence

Creatures of good alignment within 200 feet must succeed on a Will save DC 64 or become afflicted by Acedia’s Influence. An afflicted creature attempting a good deed must save again or become helpless until it resolves not to perform that action. A successful initial save grants immunity for 24 hours.

Aura of Hell

Dispater’s Aura of Hell extends 1,400 feet. Will DC 64 negates its effects.

Call Devils

Nine times per day as a move-equivalent action, Dispater can call one Duke of Hell, nine pit fiends or eighteen lesser devils.

Chains of Toil

Up to nine times per day Dispater can offer a supernatural contract granting access to powerful domination magic. The client gains the practical advantage of magically bound labour while accepting corresponding infernal debt.

A soul becomes subject to Dispater only where the actual contract pledges or binds it. A fully established compact can require miracle followed by atonement, restitution and destruction or satisfaction of the underlying claim.

Diabolical Authority

Diabolical Decree. Dispater can exercise the formal powers of a Lord of the Nine over lesser devils within his recognised jurisdiction.

Diabolical Empowerment. Dispater uses Intelligence rather than Charisma when determining the power of his special attacks and qualities.

Diabolical Prowess. The exceptional bonuses associated with his infernal rank are incorporated into his listed statistics and DCs.

Ferric Affinity

Dispater senses and pinpoints iron or iron-dominant alloys within 15 miles, increasing to 18 miles in Dis. He may animate unattended iron as a free action, controlling no more than 38,400 pounds at once.

As a move action he can perceive through iron and treat creatures beyond it as within line of sight and line of effect. He gains wall of iron as an at-will spell-like ability.

Hell’s Fire

Twenty-two times per day Dispater creates a 10-foot-wide, 1,900-foot-long line dealing 22d12 points of diabolical damage; Reflex DC 64 halves. His Hell’s Fire appears as whirling iron blades carried inside rust-red mist.

Infernal Nobility

Dispater possesses Cosmic Rank 15. Within Dis, and elsewhere where Asmodeus recognises that authority, he functions at Cosmic Rank 18.

Iron Curtain

Nine times per day as a free action Dispater raises the Iron Curtain. He first receives a Fortitude saving throw to negate an incoming attack entirely even when that attack would not normally allow a save. The DC is 10 + one-half the attacker’s Hit Dice + the attacker’s Constitution modifier.

If the save fails, the attack resolves normally. Hit point damage is then applied to the Curtain before Dispater. The Curtain absorbs 300 points of damage, or 600 if first activated inside the Iron Tower.

Might of Hell

Three times per day as a free action Dispater can unhallow an area with a 1,560-foot radius at caster level 76th.

Perseverating Glance

Dispater can target a creature within 1,800 feet no more than nine times per day against the same creature. Fortitude DC 64 resists. A successful save instead slows the target.

On a failed save the target repeats its previous action again and again. The ability directly controls physical behaviour and is neither a gaze attack nor a mind-influencing effect.

Polished Façade

Dispater receives a +18 profane bonus to Bluff, Diplomacy and Sense Motive and is immune to magical attempts to discern his genuine intentions.

Psionic Powers

Dispater manifests powers as a 68th-level seer. Power points/day: 533. Save DC equals 38 + power level.

1st: defensive precognition, detect psionics, force screen, offensive precognition, offensive prescience.

2nd: concussion blast, ego whip, recall agony, sensitivity to psychic impressions.

3rd: body adjustment, danger sense, dispel psionics, energy retort, mind trap.

4th: aura sight, intellect fortress, mindwipe, psionic divination.

5th: catapsi, incarnate, power resistance.

6th: greater precognition, psionic contingency, temporal acceleration.

7th: divert teleport, fate of one, flesh to iron, psionic moment of prescience, ultrablast.

8th: bend reality, psionic iron body, recall death.

9th: apopsi, metafaculty, microcosm, reality revision.

Epic Psionic Powers, up to 8/day: Dispater’s Iron Defense, Epic Dimension Door, Esoteric Aegis, greater epic psionic armor (using Greater Epic Mage Armor as its model), Trojan Curse.

Spell-Like Abilities

At will: animate dead, baleful polymorph, blasphemy, blur, charm monster, create greater undead, deeper darkness, delayed blast fireball, desecrate, detect chaos, detect good, detect magic, dominate monster, flame strike, greater dispel magic, greater invisibility, greater teleport, hallucinatory terrain, hold monster, magic circle against chaos, magic circle against good, mass hold monster, mirage arcana, persistent image, polymorph, power word stun, produce flame, pyrotechnics, read magic, restoration, resurrection, scrying, suggestion, symbol of pain, unhallow, unholy aura, unholy blight, wall of fire, wall of iron.

9/day: destruction, detect thoughts, dictum, discern lies, fire storm, geas/quest, greater restoration, imprisonment, meteor swarm, shield of law, true resurrection, true seeing, zone of truth.

6/day: accursed, hellball, oppress, tyranny.

3/day: wish.

Caster level 76th; save DC 38 + spell level. Dispater gains a +4 bonus on dispel checks.

Wizard Spellcasting — 68th-Level Abjurer

Dispater’s forbidden schools are Conjuration and Evocation. Spells/day: 4/9/9/9/8/8/8/8/7/7/4/4/3.

0: flare, no light, resistance, touch of fatigue.

1st: alarm, obscuring mist, ray of enfeeblement ×2, shield ×2, true strike ×3.

2nd: addiction, arcane lock, bear’s endurance, fox’s cunning, sap strength, slow consumption, spectral hand, touch of idiocy, wither limb.

3rd: explosive runes, haste ×3, ray of exhaustion, reality blind, slow ×3.

4th: crushing despair, dimensional anchor, enervation, grim revenge, mnemonic enhancer, psychic poison, rainbow pattern, stoneskin.

5th: chained addiction, dismissal, feeblemind, mind fog, quickened true strike, resonating resistance, stop heart, telekinesis.

6th: analyze dweomer ×2, antimagic field ×2, fiendish quickening, globe of invulnerability, repulsion, true seeing.

7th: banishment ×2, chained enervation, ethereal jaunt, greater arcane sight, greater shadow conjuration, project image, reverse gravity.

8th: bestow greater curse, chained stop heart, dimensional lock, mind blank, moment of prescience, prismatic wall, soul’s treasure lost.

9th: foresight, imprisonment, mage’s disjunction, prismatic sphere ×2, time stop ×2.

10th: chained finger of death, chained insanity, quickened globe of invulnerability, quickened greater heroism.

11th: chained polymorph any object, quickened limited wish ×2, quickened spell turning.

12th: chained Reaving Dispel ×2, quickened absorption.

Spells marked chained use Chain Spell; spells marked quickened use Quicken Spell.

Epic Spells

Dispater can prepare up to eight epic spells each day. Known workings include contingent true resurrection, esoteric aegis, greater epic mage armor, oppress, superb dispelling and tyranny.

The Iron Staff of Dis

The Iron Staff is a plain iron bar functioning as a +6 quarterstaff of defending. It deals 1d8 base damage before size adjustments and has a ×3 critical multiplier.

The Staff grants Spell Stowaway for gate, Heal, miracle, time stop and wish.

Dispater can maintain two contingencies on himself. Spells or spell-like abilities that fail to penetrate his spell resistance can be reflected as though by spell turning.

Iron or iron-alloy weapons that actually penetrate his defences and deal damage must succeed on a Fortitude save DC 64 or rust away. Critical hits and sneak attacks have a 75% chance to be negated while the Staff’s protection applies.

The Rod of Dis

The Rod is a four-foot length of twisted iron bound with links of adamantine chain and crowned by a great ruby surrounded by garnets. It functions as a +6 heavy mace of lawful power with a ×3 critical multiplier.

As an epic instrument of rulership it can influence up to 1,500 creatures within 15 miles, none exceeding 30 Hit Dice. In Dis this increases to 1,800 creatures of up to 36 Hit Dice.

A creature struck directly by the Rod must succeed on a Will save DC 64 or be affected by dominate monster.

The Iron Tower

Inside the Iron Tower, a constant dimensional anchor suppresses unauthorised dimensional and psychoportive travel. Tokens of Dis convey different grades of access.

Telekinetic fields interfere with weapons and with spells requiring material or somatic components. Metallic weapons are especially vulnerable to being torn from their wielders. A constant catapsi effect interferes with hostile psionic activity.

The Tower can retaliate against enemies attacking Dispater, subject intruders to hold monster and periodically invoke mage’s disjunction selectively against targets chosen by the Iron Duke.