Cthulhu vs. the Tarrasque

[SkidAce]

even sleeping dogs may lie...that thread eternal which never dies....












/sorrygrin

 

[Falkus]

When did my silly little thread about two really huge monsters with D20 stats fighting each other turn into a quasi-serious literary discussion/flame war?

Don't all threads do that?

 

[ValhallaGH]

When did my silly little thread about two really huge monsters with D20 stats fighting each other turn into a quasi-serious literary discussion/flame war?

Allen

Around the mid-20's.

I still say Cthulhu. He's smart enough to actually use strategy and tactics against the raging beast.

 

[EditorBFG]

I still say Cthulhu. He's smart enough to actually use strategy and tactics against the raging beast.

Hopefully, that "strategy" would be unpleasant nightmares about paintings of non-Euclidean geometry and cult orgies in the Tarrasque's hometown, and maybe driving the Tarrasque's kind uncle to alcoholism and insanity. And the Tarrasque just runs off and checks itself into an asylum, and writes paranoid monographs decrying science.

By the way, ValhallaGH, I tried to email you but says you prefer not to receive emails. Would you mind emailing me regarding a separate matter, so as not to hijack a thread? My address is hamlet3i@yahoo.com

 

[ValhallaGH]

Hopefully, that "strategy" would be unpleasant nightmares about paintings of non-Euclidean geometry and cult orgies in the Tarrasque's hometown, and maybe driving the Tarrasque's kind uncle to alcoholism and insanity. And the Tarrasque just runs off and checks itself into an asylum, and writes paranoid monographs decrying science.

I do love the internet sarcasm. So difficult to detect without the intonations of actual vocalization, thus requiring far more skill to present clearly.
Well played, sir, well played.

By the way, ValhallaGH, I tried to email you but says you prefer not to receive emails. Would you mind emailing me regarding a separate matter, so as not to hijack a thread? My address is hamlet3i@yahoo.com

Right. I'm not anti-social, just paranoid. But don't worry, derailment has been avoided.

 

[pallandrome]

Yeaaah. Cthulhu is something like a lvl40 cleric demigod. If memory serves, he also has hitpoints in the thousands. My favorite part of his write up is where it states that he kills something like 1d4+4 opponants a round. Outright. Just because. Cthulhu is hilarious.

 

[Jim Hague]

Yeaaah. Cthulhu is something like a lvl40 cleric demigod. If memory serves, he also has hitpoints in the thousands. My favorite part of his write up is where it states that he kills something like 1d4+4 opponants a round. Outright. Just because. Cthulhu is hilarious.

Ladies and gentlemen, fellow gamers, I present to you a prime example of 'not getting it'. Hilarious isn't a word I'd use for something so horrific and alien that it damages peoples' minds.

Pallandrome, go back and read The Call of Cthulhu. The Big C is a giant, immortal alien that pretty much treats being killed by a boat as a minor inconvenience. It's not Godzilla in a squid mask, for pete's sake. You may not agree with the central tenet of the Mythos' nihilism, but it's certainly not funny.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. Next up - shoggoth versus upgraded Gibbering Mouther.

 

[pallandrome]

No, no, a thousand times no. Cthulhu is not funny, when taken as a horror character. Cthulhu is hilarious when forced into the rigid structure of DnD. Non-Euclidian Horrors from The Great Beyond with The Shady Reputation simply don't translate well to DnD. I'm not the one who didn't "get it" here. I'm allowed to laugh at the presupposition that Cthulhu has a class, and levels, and other such silliness if I want. Hell, I'm even allowed to find Cthulhu itself as a literary creation humorous if it pleases me, such is the expansiveness of ones sense of humor, however that is a debate for another time. Needless to say, I find applying DnD rules to Cthulhu hilarious, and you can't stop me. *grin*

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Hopefully, that "strategy" would be unpleasant nightmares about paintings of non-Euclidean geometry and cult orgies in the Tarrasque's hometown, and maybe driving the Tarrasque's kind uncle to alcoholism and insanity. And the Tarrasque just runs off and checks itself into an asylum, and writes paranoid monographs decrying science.

This is just the "strategy" that comes into play due to his mere existence. If I know this correctly, Cthululu is still sleeping and no human (or Tarrasque) ever encountered it. What he would actually do himself, nobody knows. Maybe killing (1d4 x 1d20)-50 Tarrasques per round...

o, no, a thousand times no. Cthulhu is not funny, when taken as a horror character. Cthulhu is hilarious when forced into the rigid structure of DnD. Non-Euclidian Horrors from The Great Beyond with The Shady Reputation simply don't translate well to DnD.

Though non-Eucledian space isn't all that special - if I remember correctly from various readings on modern physics, Eucledian space might be approximation of the "real space" (or spacetime"), but there are a lot better - non-Eucledian- models in use today.

Though this doesn't really change your point.

 

[snikle]

Maybe killing (1d4 x 1d20)-50 Tarrasques per round...

Sounds about right to me. Then send the entire city of New York to the sanitarium just by smiling at the Statue of Liberty.