Insinuating that my creations are stupid, simply because one has a limited viewpoint is rather ironic.
I'm not saying your creations are stupid, I'm saying that its going to seem stupid if every monster can destroy the entire galaxy without a way to avoid this. You can leave yourself more room to expand if you don't have the earliest creature able to destroy the universe with it being impossible to counter.
Hence why Deities gain 'Integrated Class Features'.
That's for outsider hit dice guys, not classed conventional PC types.
Ah! I see what the issue is. You're overlooking a major point: Permanent damage can be reversed by a simple wish or miracle spell, healing 1 hp per caster level.
So wait, I thought the point of Oblivion was that its DOUBLE EXTRA permanent damage that can't be reversed, as I thought there's a lower level divine power that gives permanent damage. Is it just omnific level for the permanent spells? Being able to spam summon monster for infinity times is entertaining.
Mind you this is a being that only has 1/5th Riem's power, none of his Metempiric powers, and doesn't even have the healing domain.
True. Though I thought oblivion was double-permanent damage that can't even be healed the way permanent HP damage is.
1) Reim is an Aspect of God, so why would he destroy the multiverse assuming he had the capacity to, in the first place?
That's why I reduced it to galaxy. As in, Reim and most of his enemies are universes, destroying an enemy's galaxy in mortal combat (and with it all their followers, etc) seems to be a rather restrained combat tactic by comparison. To put it into perspective, Earth has about six billion mortals on it, and hence worship points. Killing a Time Lord murders an entire universe anyway (and he seems mainly intended for externals to fight), so it seems logical and expected that if you can, say, wipe out trillions of the enemy's worshipers by blowing up a few solar systems, you would (as exterminating trillions of mortals still doesn't really compare to blowing up the, what, billions of galaxies each universe contains by killing a Time Lord?). A monstrous act to humans, an irrelevance equivalent to kicking an enemy's shins in to a Time Lord willing to engage in to-the-death combat against another Time Lord.
Unless, I guess, its an "unoccupied" Time Lord. I have yet to see a Time Lord that actually has anything in it.
2) Reim can be Abrogated, multiple Abrogates stack, meaning his dreaded permanent damage power, so scary, becomes useless.
Hmmm, they do? Sort of makes it so its a little too easy for armies of sidereals to mob anything higher... but you made it so Expression of Power can't be Abrogated, and there is no way (apparently) to stop him from destroying your home galaxy. If he wants to, which he probably does, if he is engaged in external vs external combat.
Expression of Power: Treated as an Omnific-level Effect power, replaces melee and ranged attacks, avoids all mundane or magical defenses, not subject to negation though Learned Ability Immunity, Thelemic Damage Induction, Invincibility, Sophism, or similar damage blocking powers, and
cannot be Abrogated or otherwise removed.
3) The Supreme Being, and other Time Lords wouldn't allow him to destroy the multiverse.
That's why I changed galaxy instead of universe. Actually, nearly every interstellar sci fi ever, like the Star Wars movies, would work as a "mere" interplanetary sci fi setting.
I have yet to see your work, I've yet to see a High Lord, or a Time Lord created by you.
I don't need to create a High Lord or Time Lord to point out that the ability to destroy the content's of someone's galaxy, with no potential, to counter or be immune to this, even by Billgrammaton, the Billion Universe Time Lord (who has, for whatever reason, a weird obsession for not letting the irrelevant mortal specks in even one of his galaxy-cells be exterminated every time he must engage in mortal combat with another time lord)... other than by communicating his power level to any potential opponent and intimidating or persuading them not to do it.
Normally, while basically any Omnipresent external with (Anything) Storm can wipe out all life within a universe (or, only within those portions of the universe which are useful to his enemies; as you "only" need 166,666 or so Earths to provide all the worship points to completely provide the worship points a basic Time Lord needs), there are a number of ways to stop this from happening; you can see it coming and attack him before he decides to activate it and shape it. Alternately, you can time travel back to before he destroys it. Throw in Abrogate in there anywhere.
Unfortunately, none of that works against Reim, as his "nuke all your worshipers" power can never be Abrogated or be immunized against, and when he's in invincibility-invisibility mode, he cannot be detected, predicted, or engaged. The very, very, very best case scenario is that you engage him the instant he decloaks, but by then, he can annihilate your home galaxy (remember, I'm not saying he can or will take on the multiverse, I'm saying he can selectively disintegrate all portions of the galaxy that are relevant to his enemy's power level) on the very first round that he decloaks.
as has my party to a smaller degree. What level do you expect a party to go after Reim at? Lvl 2?
Be honest: when you create a character that has, for example, damage reduction and universe-spanning AoE of "one million," do you honestly go, "Gee, I fully want, and intend, that if he is fought at all, he will be killed in one round and Rectify'd out of existence so that no one will ever know or care or even be capable of caring that he once was?" I don't even know why you'd spend so much time with that as the intent, and so I conclude that that is not the intent. You really don't need stats for an antagonist that will be killed in one round and forgotten (not figuratively, but literally), that's more of a simple skill challenge type thing.
I suppose if you interpret Abrogate as stacking infinitely... well, Reim's almost ludicrously easy (for his scale), the sidereal sub-cohorts of the demiurge I'm working on could easily obliterate him or any lone Time/High Lord (and I have yet to see a Time or High Lord that has made use of any of that space inside them, not to mention that by definition a Time/High Lord lacks sidereals). I say that not because my god can beat up your god, but that its a really unsporting assumption, and that if the intent is that Reim will be fought by being Abrogated into helplessness and annihilated by a swarm of transmortal First Ones who have been set up to attack him the instant he emerges.
Now, the actual setup of that one-round-gank-by-sidereals could be interesting, involving various future-seers going "Hm, there isn't a future past that point, odd" and time travellers scouting out ahead of time and of course the actual discussion with the First One hit squad and what not. Them philosophizing about how "If we fail, there won't be an us, and if we succeed, nobody will know or care" could be interesting, but still.
Ergo, I criticize certain aspects of Reim (namely the moment he decloaks, that he may destroy all of target universe that is relevant to his enemy's power level, which will in all likelihood be less than 1/1000th of the universe, let alone the multiverse) but I do so on the basis that the only way to defeat him in a violent confrontation (which I assume is what he's there for) without losing all your followers, planets, and what not at least
appears to be to defeat him in the most boring, unsporting, and forgettable fashion possible (no one will be aware there ever was a Reim, or all your followers will be dead).
Now, if the Akashic Aspect of Darkness is intended to be a sporting, chivalrous fellow who challenges rival universes to one on one to duels that are not to the death and doesn't stoop to underhanded tricks like "blow up all the target's worshipers the instant he decloaks" and basically is a really cool dude, disregard all of what I have said. He has (if I understood your fluff right) already killed a few universes a couple times until the Supreme Being decided it'd be less problematic to hire him, so I don't think he has any scruples about fighting dirty.
None of this was intended to offend, to be hostile or be insensitive, and I am sorry that it came off that way; I say all this under the assumption that if people use Reim, you want him, with all the effort gone into him, to be an actually memorable boss fight, not a literally forgotten pest-monster that will be steamrolled in a single round and forgetten by everyone forever.
The only thing I will say that is intended to be (slightly) antagonistic is, what is so special about Time Lords that you can't comment on them unless you have made one? A Time Lord takes a lot of time to make, true, but fully statting out, say, Shiggurath, the First One of the Chaotic Evil Spirit Plane who has, apparently, 666 Elder Ones, would take ludicrously more effort. For that matter, I'm 99% sure statting out a stage 1 demiurge and their cohorts, sub-cohorts, avatars, aspects, and so on would take more effort than just statting out a Time Lord. Time Lords are actually, potentially, the quickest kind of immortal being to stat out.
If you can't see past your own limited view, then you're simply wasting my time.
My view isn't limited (any moreso than anyone else's), I just feel that even in a storyline feeling Externals, there should be ways to counter them exploding arbitrary amounts of planets, etc.
