The guy that speaks when you click the audio symbol pronounces it as "lem-ee-yore" Silent e. 

Hellish Rejuvenation states that the Lemure can be killed for good

unless it is killed by a good-aligned creature with a bless spell cast on that creature or its remains are sprinkled with holy water.

In the Devils general description it is stated that

[the Lemure] is only permanently destroyed if it is killed with a blessed weapon or if its shapeless corpse is splashed with holy water before it can return to life.

The Bless spell doesn't include weapons. The person is Blessed, not the weapon. So this means that a person not Blessed with the spell but wielding a holy/blessed weapon can kill a Lemure?

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There is something to be said about quantity over quality, enough low level mobs attacking a party can be just as deadly as a high level mob  

 

 Well, in DnD, not necessarily. for example, imagine 100,000 of these were fighting a Tarrasque. The Tarrasque has 25 AC. The lemures have +3 to hit, wich means that they can only do damage when they roll a criticall hit. (I heard that critical hits ignore AC). The Tarrasque makes 5 attacks per turn + 3 legendary actions. Sure, it will take him 12,500 rounds, but, in the end, he will only take about... 300 damage? That is not even half of the tarrasque's life, and, again, that is fighting 100,000 lemures!

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Hellish Rejuvenation states that the Lemure can be killed for good

unless it is killed by a good-aligned creature with a bless spell cast on that creature or its remains are sprinkled with holy water.

In the Devils general description it is stated that

[the Lemure] is only permanently destroyed if it is killed with a blessed weapon or if its shapeless corpse is splashed with holy water before it can return to life.

The Bless spell doesn't include weapons. The person is Blessed, not the weapon. So this means that a person not Blessed with the spell but wielding a holy/blessed weapon can kill a Lemure?

"Quantity has a quality all its own" - Stalin

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I find it a bit difficult to believe that these things are the foot soldiers in the blood war with just how weak they are. I hope we could maybe see some more frightening versions in the future, perhaps a Lemure that is comprised of 666 useless souls that have been bound together, that retain the Hellish rejuvenation with a CR more appropriate for a common enemy for a high level campaign.  

 They are used as cannon fodder in the Blood War, charging headlong into the fray and overwhelming their enemies with their numbers.  Just like zombies.  

specific beats general, stat block trumps rule

Why does it have a +3 to hit? Its got no strength bonus and it's proficiency mod is +2, so its hit chance should be +2, right? I missing something?

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The guy that speaks when you click the audio symbol pronounces it as "lem-ee-yore" Silent e. 

 

 

Beyond 20

 

 

 

 

 

I could be wrong, but I think that guy is Matt Mercer.  Which is a bit funny because he mispronounced "lemur" (like the monkey) when Vox Machina went to Dis for the first time.  But he later corrected it.

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It’s less that they are foot soldiers and more they are glorified speed bumps that swarm enemies and slow them down long enough for the actual warriors to get organized and in position for a battle. 

I’m pretty sure Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes directly says the Lemures jobs are to die as slowly as possible. They regenerate so they are eternally replenishing obstacle to the demon hordes.  So maybe it’s more comparable to a barrier that only slows and does not stop enemies? 

 Yes, exactly.

Since, a fiend that dies outside is native Plane is just sent back to its home (though often banished from a realm for a variable length of time), Hellish Rejuvenation makes Lemur effectively indestructible (at least in the long term).

 This. The importance of that power cannot be overstated in a long war.

Devils often fight on their own plane, which means they take permanent casualties. If they ever receive too few souls to compensate their losses, they are finished - demons win. But lemures are effectively unkillable, they are the shield of the Nine Hells: any hit that falls on them is one hit that won't kill any of their allies.

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There is something to be said about quantity over quality, enough low level mobs attacking a party can be just as deadly as a high level mob  

 

 Well, in DnD, not necessarily. for example, imagine 100,000 of these were fighting a Tarrasque. The Tarrasque has 25 AC. The lemures have +3 to hit, wich means that they can only do damage when they roll a criticall hit. (I heard that critical hits ignore AC). The Tarrasque makes 5 attacks per turn + 3 legendary actions. Sure, it will take him 12,500 rounds, but, in the end, he will only take about... 300 damage? That is not even half of the tarrasque's life, and, again, that is fighting 100,000 lemures!

 lemures are typically fighting manes and dretches, other low level fiends. and even if they're fighting higher demons, they're hardly fighting a CR 30, 600 hitpoint monster. the highest cr thing they have an even remote chance of encountering is a balor, which though they won't kill it due to resistance against non-magical attacks, but they'll defiantly make a dent

The tarrasque would take 20 attacks a turn (there are 20 spaces around a gargantuan creature, which is 4 by 4 squares). This means that the tarrasque will on average be hit once a turn by one crit, which will deal 5 damage. Over the course of 12500 turns, it will take 62500 damage. The Tarrasque would be a fit match for 1000 lemures, against which it would barely scrape out a victory with 50 HP to spare.

That being said, the point is moot because a Tarrasque is immune to bludgeoning damage from nonmagical weapons, including this creature's Fist attack. It could theoretically fight infinite lemures without breaking a sweat.

633,600 lemures in Hell would be able to regenerate fast enough to fight the Tarrasque perpetually, assuming a 5.5 day regeneration is used. That assumes that 5.5 days of constant fighting wouldn't result in the Tarrasque simply dying of 6 levels of exhaustion, which is certainly a lame way for a Tarrasque to go out.

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The guy that speaks when you click the audio symbol pronounces it as "lem-ee-yore" Silent e. 

 

 

Beyond 20

 

 

 

 

 

I could be wrong, but I think that guy is Matt Mercer.  Which is a bit funny because he mispronounced "lemur" (like the monkey) when Vox Machina went to Dis for the first time.  But he later corrected it.

 ...and then he "corrected" it to the also incorrect Le-moo-ray. 😛 I don't yet know if he starts saying it right later on; I'm actually watching the Dis arc for the first time, right now.

(but wow, that definitely sounds like him, and I hadn't noticed before)

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I find it a bit difficult to believe that these things are the foot soldiers in the blood war with just how weak they are. I hope we could maybe see some more frightening versions in the future, perhaps a Lemure that is comprised of 666 useless souls that have been bound together, that retain the Hellish rejuvenation with a CR more appropriate for a common enemy for a high level campaign.  

I think the correct term to describe the lemures' role in the Blood War would be "cannon fodder" or "meat shields."  

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Why does it have a +3 to hit? Its got no strength bonus and it's proficiency mod is +2, so its hit chance should be +2, right? I missing something?

 Some monsters just have arbitrary stats like to hit modifiers. The Hobgoblin Warlord for example has +9 to hit despite having only a +3 Strength and +3 Proficiency Bonus.

I personally don't like it that much cause I prefer consistency and for the math to add up, but i guess it works.

How are they even promoted? Like, is if they get a demon kill or is it purely luck of the draw to replenish ranks when devils kill each other in the hells. 

Cannon fodder are still soldiers. 

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How is the challenge rating 0 when it could beat a level one party like I know it’s still week but it should be 1/8 challenge rating, in dnd nothing that does damage and has at least 1 health should be a challenge rating of zero.

 How could this possibly defeat a level 1 party. It has 7 AC and does at most 4 damage on a hit. That's not even enough to kill the wizard. 

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How are they even promoted? Like, is if they get a demon kill or is it purely luck of the draw to replenish ranks when devils kill each other in the hells. 

Usually it's more based on what needs replaced or bolstered for that initial step. A devil looking for additional spies would turn a bunch of them into imps, while if the ranks of the bearded devils had taken a beating a commander might turn a crop of lemures into more capable troops.

That's not how CR works, you need at least 7 hit points, an attack bonus of 3 and An average DPR of at least 2, to be CR 1/8, there's a table for it In the DM'S guide. What makes the Lemure 0 is its obscenely low armor class, as a 1/8th creature is still supposed to have an AC of 13, and having an AC more then 2 points below the suggested AC for your CR means your defensive CR gets lowered. With a 7 AC, it's one of the easiest things to hit in the game, even compared to things like Goblins, Kobolds or Animals like Elks. The fact that Goblins are significantly stronger then these things means they shouldn't share the same CR