Warrior Demon

These demons have 2 known forms. Their shape change takes their full action.

Physical Form Six-foot-three like 260 pound heavyset demon warrior. Vaguely humanoid, no wings, no horns. Medium Creature. Their body is covered in small spikes everywhere with big bulging muscles and large claws. Bright yellow eyes. Has a 2 foot long Forked Tongue.

They have blackish iridescent plates coming out of all their joints. Their chest has these blue interlocking plates between them.

It carries a curved sword of obsidian as well as obsidian shields. Seem to have +12 to hit using this sword (but there could be unknown factors to boost it this high). They attack twice a round with this weapon (mastery). While they are in the Prime Material Plane, they do not appear to have this high of a hit bonus. The breakdown looks to be +9 from hit dice and +3 from mastery, giving the +12 bonus. They deal 1d8+3 damage with the sword (+3 from mastery, no bonus from strength). The sword is classified as a Bastard Sword with a +6 to initiative.

Has a level of fire resistance, and takes double damage from an ethereal blade (reason yet unknown). Estimated 10 hit dice (from bonus to hit and saving throws), HP range from 35-72. Strength 15.

In their home realm against people from the Prime Material Plane, they have AC 35-36 when wearing Plated Armor and 26 without armor (2e). Breakdown is as follows:

Base (10) + Natural armor (12) + Shield (4) + Plating (9-10) = 35-36 AC

Successful fighting strategies employed are to grapple the creature, taking away it's shield bonus to AC and adding a modifier to hit for being held. Smaller weapons (such as daggers) can also find holes in the natural armor of the creature with a called shot (ineffective against plated creatures), giving it an AC of 10.

While in the Prime Material Plane, they have AC 17 (5e).

8800 exp each (2.Neal)