Can I give you an advice? Blissfully ignore the paragraph:
A'tuin was made before IH or without knowledge of IH it's pure 3.5
You're absolutely right on about that. That paralleled thing makes macrobes stupid. To me. The macrobes in my campaign are just giants, but more like GIANTS. They don't have any special powers, Magic is like little parlor tricks to them generally speaking, and gods are tiny terrifying little fairies to them. Their power comes from sheer hit dice, sheer attack bonus and the massive amount of basic power they can reach just through virtual size categories and bulk. Which generally is far more than most can handle until they hit about intermediate deity level or higher and can just circumvent their pretty straightforward approach.
I'd also chime in that rules are only a suggestion and, unfortunately, IH was released basically in its beta or even late alpha state, so the rules are sometimes a little whackadoo, so if something doesn't feel right or looks off, fix it, or go with your gut. I had to do that with Virtual Size Categories as the damage went up at a J curve and the wheels basically fell off of the game. I had to figure out a solution and I think what I ended up making worked out pretty well
I agree, your might system works very well .... as long as you do not put weapons made of materials that multiply the dice of the weapons in it and the wheel does not come out but directly ascends towards the planetary orbit, just see my Kronos. She cuts a First One or a Demiurge in two with one blow. And she is an Elder One. That's putting me in enough trouble to balance, how can we fix it?
I actually allow that as otherwise the materials are meaningless. And if you're a pure unga bunga strength build, it's kind of your shtick. I don't however allow like Neutronium Body and Neutronium weapons to stack however and normalized the weapon damage increase to be less insane.
