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Converting Epic Level Beings

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i'll switch out epic endurance for epic fortitude, as he doesn't meet the prerequisite. i'm not sure where you get mighty sunder from?

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BOZ said:
i'm not sure where you get mighty sunder from?

Oops. I thought it was in the ELH, but it is actually from Epic Insights (Epic Level Combatants), so we can't use it.
 


He's missing one nonepic feat. I count only six that are not bonus feats, and he should have seven. I think he still gets one more epic feat as well, but I may have miscalculated.

For weight, a mountain giant is 40 feet tall and weighs nearly 50,000 pounds. Elder titans stand 75 feet tall or more, and weigh close to 400,000 pounds. The tarrasque is 70 feet long and 50 feet tall, and it weighs about 260,000 pounds. So maybe for 225,000 pounds for 50 foot Atlas (who is as tall as the tarrasque, but lacks the extra legs and body)?

For the feat of strength ability, maybe +20 bonus and usable 5/day?
 


ok, cronos. :)

Titan, Greater, Cronus
Colossal Outsider (Chaotic, Evil, Extraplanar)
Hit Dice: 51d8+918 (1,147 hp)
Initiative: +10
Speed: 60 ft (10 squares)
Armor Class: 40 (-8 size, +10 Dex, +28 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 30
Base Attack/Grapple: +51/+90
Attack: Adamantine sickle +62 melee (5d10+X)
Full Attack: Adamantine sickle +62 melee (5d10+X)
Space/Reach: X ft/X ft
Special Attacks: lava balls, spell-like abilities, spells
Special Qualities: damage reduction X/epic, darkvision 60 ft, shapechange, spell resistance 36
Saves: Fort +45 Ref +37 Will +38
Abilities: Str 48 Dex 30 Con 46 Int 40 Wis 32 Cha 32
Skills: 1242
Feats: 7+10?

Environment: Tarterian Depths of Carceri
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: X
Treasure: ?
Alignment: Always chaotic evil
Advancement: ---
Level Adjustment: ---

Cronus married his sister, Rhea, and they had six children: Hestia, Hera, Demeter, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus.

Cronus dwells in Mount Othrys on the first layer of Carceri, where he holds court.

Cronus is 100 feet tall and weighs X pounds.

COMBAT


CRONUS (former ruler of the gods and greater titans)
CLERIC/DRUID: 25th level cleric
FIGHTER: 17th level fighter

Cronus appears as a handsome giant. He shape changes at will, and at the beginning of any battle, he hurls lava balls (created out of thin air) up to a maximum range of 200 yards, each doing 4-40 points of damage per strike. His sickle of adamant strikes as a +5 weapon for 5-50 points of damage.

Originally found in the first edition Deities and Demigods (1980, James M. Ward and Robert J. Kuntz), and Legends and Lore (1990).


From Legends and Lore (2E):

Cronus (greater god)
The youngest of the Titans born to Uranus and Gaea, Cronus was the ambitious one who attacked his father and then assumed the throne to become ruler of the universe. However, when his mother Gaea prophesied that one of his children would overthrow him as he had his father, Cronus proved just as despotic as Uranus. As his wife, Rhea, gave birth to the Olympian gods, he seized them and swallowed them up. His plan might have worked, had Rhea not tricked him into swallowing a stone instead of her sixth child. This god, Zeus, eventually returned to lead the successful revolt against him. Because of his past actions, Cronus was imprisoned in Tartarus.
Role-playing Notes: Because Cronus remains penned in Tartarus, he is unable to influence events on earth except through his avatars. Therefore, at least one avatar is constantly moving about Greece, promising men great rewards in return for worshipping Cronus and turning their backs on the Olympian gods. On occasion, these avatars rise to a position of power in a polis, and the result is invariably war as the avatar attacks the power bases of Cronus’ rivals. Because of his imprisonment, Cronus cannot send omens or portents.
Statistics: AL le; WAL any evil; AoC sinister ambition; SY sickle.

Cronus’ Avatar (fighter 20)
Cronus’ avatar is an evil looking fighter with a gleam in his otherwise dark eyes. He often passes himself off as a human warrior with no claim to his divine status.

(stats omitted)

Special Att/Def: Although it is not magic, Cronus’ adamant sickle cuts through any material it touches, effectively lowering his opponents’ AC to a maximum of 5 (unless due strictly to Dexterity). Beings hit by the sickle must save versus death or lose whatever appendage it hits (DMs should determine this randomly or by decree based on the situation).
 

Check out the Phane from the ELH for some inspiration for this guy.

Suggested Spell-Like Abilities: time stop, temporal stasis, haste, slow, true strike, displacement, blur, safe time (epic spell), time duplicate (epic spell).

Weight: 750,000 lbs.? (See my thoughts on Atlas' weight above to see where I'm coming from).
 

well now, before we get too bogged down in the similarity between his name and "chrono", any greek scholars out there know the root of the name kronos/cronus/cronos? does his name have to do with time, or does it mean something else? going to do some of my own research on that as well...
 


I just noticed that all the titans in the .doc file have "Psionic Ability: V". Perhaps we'll need the psionic folks' help on these as well?

Or should we just wait until the Psionics Handbook 3.5 comes out before adding psionic abilities to the new conversions?
 

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