Cthulhu eats PCs!

[The Burned Man]

Monte Cook talks about that picuture here ...
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article....dnd/dx20020329x

Here's the quote:
Introducing Call of Cthulhu monsters is one thing. It's a little more challenging to add an Elder God to your campaign. This picture from the book's appendix was inspired by a playtest session in which Monte sic'ed Great Cthulhu against 20th-level versions of Mialee, Regdar, and the other iconic D&D characters. "There were six players, and if you died you got to bring in a new 20th-level character the following round," Monte said. "Even faced with those odds, Cthulhu killed 13 of them before they killed him. Actually, they didn't kill him, they imprisoned him with an imprisonment spell -- because they just couldn't kill him."

 

[Cthulhu]

Lidda is, of course, notable in her absence. Either she's already been eaten or she wisely chose to take a sick day.

*burp*

Excuse me!

 

[nsruf]

Title:Cthulhu eats PCs!

So what? Just a regular guy doing his job, no need to make a fuss about it

 

[drothgery]

Don't worry. By this point, she's probably catatonic.

She'd be too busy drooling and mumbling to care about much at all, be it spiders or Great Old Ones.

Depends which Mialee it is. If it's the 4th-level version, she's a snack. If it's the 20th-level version, she's about to cast teleport without error and take off to develop a new plan (because, well, 20th level wizards don't get eaten). If it's 40th-level Epic Mialee, well, Cthulu might start worrying.

 

[Cthulhu]

If it's 40th-level Epic Mialee, well, Cthulu might start worrying.

Nah.

 

[Moon_Goddess]

Depends which Mialee it is. If it's the 4th-level version, she's a snack. If it's the 20th-level version, she's about to cast teleport without error and take off to develop a new plan (because, well, 20th level wizards don't get eaten). If it's 40th-level Epic Mialee, well, Cthulu might start worrying.

She's 20th level, the article says that Cthulu took out 13 20th level Iconics before they stoped him, not killed but imprisoned by an imprisonment spell.

I figure casting Teleport isn't an option when she's been so sanity blasted she can't remember her own name.

 

[Lisa Nadazdy]

I think it was mentioned in the CoC Modern day that you could destroy Cthulhu the a nuclear weapon....

....but then he would reform in a few minutes, good as new, and radioactive to boot.

 

[Cthulhu]

I think it was mentioned in the CoC Modern day that you could destroy Cthulhu the a nuclear weapon....

....but then he would reform in a few minutes, good as new, and radioactive to boot.

And, I might add, a bit irritated as well.

It stings.

 

[Morrus]

Moved to d20 System Games.

 

[Horacio]

Poor iconics...
13 iconics dead by the giant stellar squid...

I would love to see what 40th level iconics by the Epic Level Handbook could do against the squid.