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<blockquote data-quote="Khisanth the Ancient" data-source="post: 5056708" data-attributes="member: 11368"><p>Definitely not.</p><p></p><p>SW personal weaponry does not seem ALL that dramatically beyond ours. However, this is probably because human carried weapons need a lethal radius smaller than the range they will be fired at (your grenade blast radius problem). Hand carried weapons that fire 1 megaton bullets might be possible, but will be useless since they will always kill those using them.</p><p></p><p>So personal, or even tank carried - anything for use on-planet - will hit a hard limit not determined by a civilization's actual energy capabilites. Space based weapons (or on-planet weapons that fire into space), which can fire at far greater ranges, can increase in power theoretically indefinitely.</p><p></p><p>But if we are to consider the power of a WHOLE civilization vs. a SINGLE immortal, like on your table, I'd suggest a Lesser or Intermediate deity would probably have a pretty good chance against us. It would probably have the hp and resistances to soak up a nuke hit [if it took Cosmic Toughness as an esoteric, it CERTAINLY would], and that in itself would probably shatter world morale to fight it. Anything less than nukes it could defeat easily. A shrewd Demi-deity might be able to do it. When I was working on the Cloverfield stuff I did some math based on the x2 damage - x64 energy thing, and it looks like a Great Wyrm Red Dragon could survive anything short of a nuke, and it would have a decent chance against a smaller nuke. Conventional weapons would be practically useless. So there are only a few nations on Earth that could defeat a Great Wyrm Red. Our world is simply not that powerful compared to Epic/Immortal D&D. Even a mid-high-level monster like a Nightwing or Gelugon would require major military intervention (multiple tanks or fighter planes) and would be a city-level threat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Khisanth the Ancient, post: 5056708, member: 11368"] Definitely not. SW personal weaponry does not seem ALL that dramatically beyond ours. However, this is probably because human carried weapons need a lethal radius smaller than the range they will be fired at (your grenade blast radius problem). Hand carried weapons that fire 1 megaton bullets might be possible, but will be useless since they will always kill those using them. So personal, or even tank carried - anything for use on-planet - will hit a hard limit not determined by a civilization's actual energy capabilites. Space based weapons (or on-planet weapons that fire into space), which can fire at far greater ranges, can increase in power theoretically indefinitely. But if we are to consider the power of a WHOLE civilization vs. a SINGLE immortal, like on your table, I'd suggest a Lesser or Intermediate deity would probably have a pretty good chance against us. It would probably have the hp and resistances to soak up a nuke hit [if it took Cosmic Toughness as an esoteric, it CERTAINLY would], and that in itself would probably shatter world morale to fight it. Anything less than nukes it could defeat easily. A shrewd Demi-deity might be able to do it. When I was working on the Cloverfield stuff I did some math based on the x2 damage - x64 energy thing, and it looks like a Great Wyrm Red Dragon could survive anything short of a nuke, and it would have a decent chance against a smaller nuke. Conventional weapons would be practically useless. So there are only a few nations on Earth that could defeat a Great Wyrm Red. Our world is simply not that powerful compared to Epic/Immortal D&D. Even a mid-high-level monster like a Nightwing or Gelugon would require major military intervention (multiple tanks or fighter planes) and would be a city-level threat. [/QUOTE]
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