Arioch

[FleshEatingBlackFlutterby]

How powerful would he be in Krustyverse?

 

[Upper_Krust]

How powerful would he be in Krustyverse?

I always think of Arioch in the context of the Michael Moorcock books where he is the Prince of Swords. Thus we need to turn to the original Deities & Demigods which has him as a 379 HP Greater God - which converts to an Intermediate Deity in modern D&D (3e onwards) - only the 400 HP Pantheon Heads are Greater Gods in 3e onwards.

Thus in 5th Edition (my God Rules that is): Arioch would be a Challenge Rating 32 Intermediate Deity with 120 Hit Dice. Doing a quick conversion of his stats: S: 25, D: 25, I: 25, CO: 25, W: 21, CH: Var.

Pre Purviews & Boons (which all give incremental Ability Score bonuses) average Intermediate Ability Scores would be 2 x 30, 2 x 24, 2 x 18. However, we need to split the difference on his top 4 scores. So S: 27, D: 27, CO: 27, I: 27, W: 18, CH: 18 - he can have 3 Purviews* (each give +2 to a score) as well as 3 Divine Boons and 1 Mythic Boon (each give +1 to a score).

*Chaos, Evil and possibly Magic or Trickery.

Not sure what class best suits him - Possibly Eldritch Knight...any thoughts on this? At Divine Rank 5 he would be able to cast 9th-level spells as an Eldritch Knight.

If so that's 120d10 + 960 = 1620 HP with Con 27 (it may be higher depending upon Boons).

He would have 3 Artifacts (at Divine Rank 5). Potentially a +5 Sword (if we just assume flat bonuses and no other properties) dealing 170 (36d8+8) on a Hit....before Divine Boons.

As a CR 32 being I consider him a Boss fight for a party of Divine Rank 3 Demigods or a Solo Boss for a party of Divine Rank 2 Quasi-deities. Below that and its just going to be painful.

Mathematically, I originally had the Intermediate God Multiplier at x5 (since that's what the math progression suggests), but the formula progression (for consistency) suggests x6. While an extra 1 to the multiplier might not seem that big a deal here it is a 20% damage increase.

Minor Trivia: In our Campaign many years ago, the NPC Doomstar (500th-level Wizard-Psionicist) killed Arioch with a Magic Missile spell - though he fled the scene rather than take on all three Sword Gods.