Another Immortals Handbook thread

[Upper_Krust]

Howdy!

From a passage in Paradise Lost:

Ah, okay.

I guess this generates multiple questions. Is Chaos personified in the IH? Or Mother Nature?

Yes, see the First Ones in the Glimpse of the Kosmos section.

I'm reminded of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series. The first one was gold (On a Pale Horse), but the others weren't as good. The incarnations are Death, Time, Fate, War, Earth, Evil and Good. [D]evil and G[o]od, of course.

Remove Earth and make War = Chaos/Thought and he would have had it right.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey U_K!

Hiya mate!

I was curious as to whether anyone had done any playtesting with the Bestiary Preview.

Not beyond what Playtesting was done for the Challenge Rating system.

I have been tinkering around and have determined that the Robe(s) of the Almighty are even more powerful than I initially anticipated.

To be honest I sort of rushed the Challenge Ratings in the unofficial release, rest assured I won't treat the official version as slipshod.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi UK!

Hi Shariell dude!

I've been out for a while... months ago I've purchased the first part of your awesome bestiary, the version without artwork, and not all the monsters statted.

The thread is so long..and I've not time to read again all posts to search my response, so I ask you:

- Is the full version of thr 1st part of the bestiary out there? Where I can find it?

Its almost ready. I will send it to you (and everyone else who purchased the preview) when I have it completed. Apologies for taking so long.

http://www.immortalshandbook.com/immortalshandbook.htm

http://www.immortalshandbook.com/IHpreview3.htm

- Has any other part of the IH been relased?

Not yet.

I'll try to have the Bestiary done within a week and try my hardest to get the Apotheosis ready before Christmas.

 

[Pssthpok]

I'll try to have the Bestiary done within a week and try my hardest to get the Apotheosis ready before Christmas.

That'd be excellent. Godspeed *badumching*

 

[Pssthpok]

No it works out at 502.

Hmm.. how does this work? If its density is 1E+14 then its weight factor is [0.83 x 1E+14] 8.3E+13... x2.5 (the relationship between +20 and x8) and the Strength is 2.08E+14 (208,000,000,000,000) with a modifier in the neighborhood of 1.04E+14. Despite the relative sanity your results create, I'm not sure how you came to +502; frankly, that's about where I placed scrith (100 meters of which is as dense as a light-year of lead). Am I still missing something?

Well if it wa sMedium sized then it would be a Platinum Guardian.

Of course.

Well Platinum is a softmetal so although its heavy it will have a very poor hardness.

So, like silver it might incur a damage penalty as well as have a relatively low hardness?

 

[historian]

Hey U_K!

Not beyond what Playtesting was done for the Challenge Rating system.

Which is the definitive standard!

To be honest I sort of rushed the Challenge Ratings in the unofficial release, rest assured I won't treat the official version as slipshod.

In no way do I view the CRs as slipshod, your ratings are BY FAR better than what I could come up with and far better than I would expect anywhere else. As the aforementioned, they are the standard.

FWIW, I was drawing mainly from Nimrod whose CR BTW is variable even in the unofficial release. In other words, you nailed it!

Nimrod's artifact is just so bad @ss. Put another way, if he were to master the "kiloton" spell from the IH I would give him better than even odds vs. even the neutronium golem.

P.S. Fieari, your campaign sounds awesome.

 

[Anabstercorian]

Platinum really isn't a particularly soft metal.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey Pssthpok mate!

Hmm.. how does this work? If its density is 1E+14 then its weight factor is [0.83 x 1E+14] 8.3E+13... x2.5 (the relationship between +20 and x8) and the Strength is 2.08E+14 (208,000,000,000,000) with a modifier in the neighborhood of 1.04E+14. Despite the relative sanity your results create, I'm not sure how you came to +502; frankly, that's about where I placed scrith (100 meters of which is as dense as a light-year of lead). Am I still missing something?

Not sure what you are doing wrong.

In the official release its...

+30 Str/x8 Density, +60/x64, +90/x512, +120/x4096 etc.

So, like silver it might incur a damage penalty as well as have a relatively low hardness?

Not sure if it would have a damage penalty as such, but certainly soft metal would have a tendency to lose its edge pretty quickly. Might not make much difference to a bludgeoning weapon.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey U_K!

Howdy mate!

Which is the definitive standard!

...well its almost perfect.

In no way do I view the CRs as slipshod, your ratings are BY FAR better than what I could come up with and far better than I would expect anywhere else. As the aforementioned, they are the standard.

FWIW, I was drawing mainly from Nimrod whose CR BTW is variable even in the unofficial release. In other words, you nailed it!

Nimrod's artifact is just so bad @ss. Put another way, if he were to master the "kiloton" spell from the IH I would give him better than even odds vs. even the neutronium golem.

Nimrod is getting something of a boost in the official release, I didn't think his relatively low levels were taking full advantage of the Akalich Template.

P.S. Fieari, your campaign sounds awesome.

Yes, very interesting stuff Fieari!

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hiya mate!

Platinum really isn't a particularly soft metal.

Indeed. My mistake. On MOHs scale...

Gold and Silver both 2.5
Platinum 3.5
Iron 4

For the purposes of D&D I would imagine that each point on the Mohs scale equals 3.33 hardness (with 1 on the Mohs scale treated as 0 Hardness)

So...

Diamond = Hardness 30*
Glass = Hardness 15*
Iron = Hardness 10
Platinum = Hardness 8
Copper = Hardness 6
Gold/Silver = Hardness 5
Fingernails = Hardness 3

*But fragile and subject to critical hits.