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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 2957624" data-attributes="member: 12460">Can I ask a simple question? Why? Why do you need stats like this? All this really says is that if your PCs encounter him, they are his bitch. You don't need a stat block for that. It's the same reason many people have questioned the necessity for the Deities and Demigods supplement providing deity stats. The fact is, gods are gods and 99% of the time they are not used as opponents but as inspiration or story support so having stats for them really doesn't help. The point is, you don't have to let your PCs know you don't have stats when they encounter something like this. It makes your job a whole lot simpler to just ad-lib his abilities as you clearly want this character to be able to do anything he wants anyway.Maybe you just have fun creating more and more powerful stat blocks. That's fine. But the level of capability we are talking about with a character like this defies D&D conventions. D&D works best when played from levels 1-20. Beyond that, stuff breaks down. Not that it is impossible to have an epic level campaign, but if you expect your PCs to be surviving encounters of this magnitude, then you'd probably best be served either radically altering the D&D rules to be less clunky for epic-level play or switching to or devising an entirely different system altogether.I really am just trying to be helpful here. If you enjoy writing up this stuff, more power to you. But if you are trying to use D&D rules to simulate a creature that is undefeatable, well, there just isn't any point. I like the flavor text and all, but I just can't ever see a need for stats like this in my campaign. If I want the PCs to die when the angel of death enters the room, I tell them, "The angel of death enters the room, roll a saving throw. You fail. You die." Of course I never do that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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