Cthulhu vs. the Tarrasque

[MoogleEmpMog]

Just out of curiosity, anyone actually out the stats side by side and see who wins? Because I think that was the original poster's intention...

Who wins out of pulp literary monster versus French folk monster, that is hard to decide, and kind of silly. But the statistics do exist for who wins in D&D.

This was answered early in the thread. Like any credible threat for high level characters, Cthulhu crushes the tarrasque like a bug. It's fitting, since Cthulhu is CR 34 and the tarrasque is CR 21, but sadly I don't think Wizards has published a single CR 21 or higher creature that couldn't tear the tarrasque to pieces but for its wish restriction... :\

At that level, dumb melee bruiser monsters with no magic items fare no better than dumb melee bruiser PCs with no magic items.

 

[Moonstone Spider]

Just out of curiosity, anyone actually out the stats side by side and see who wins? Because I think that was the original poster's intention...

Who wins out of pulp literary monster versus French folk monster, that is hard to decide, and kind of silly. But the statistics do exist for who wins in D&D.

Hmm, the CoC game is sufficiently different from DnD that it'd be hard to compare the writeups of the two systems. The Genre differences are huge. DnD is about heroes taking on impossible odds and kicking evil's tail. CoC is about ordinary people taking on impossible odds, failing miserably, and spending the rest of their lives drawing arcane symbols on the inside of the asylum cells with their own feces.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

Hmm, the CoC game is sufficiently different from DnD that it'd be hard to compare the writeups of the two systems. The Genre differences are huge. DnD is about heroes taking on impossible odds and kicking evil's tail. CoC is about ordinary people taking on impossible odds, failing miserably, and spending the rest of their lives drawing arcane symbols on the inside of the asylum cells with their own feces.

However, the writeup of Cthulhu in CoC d20, which is what is being referenced here, is explicitly for use in D&D, not CoC d20 itself - Cthulhu is even depicted fighting the 3e iconics in the illustration headlining the section his stats appear in.

I don't recall offhand - did Cthulhu even have stats in the BRP version of Call of Cthulhu?

 

[Falkus]

I don't recall offhand - did Cthulhu even have stats in the BRP version of Call of Cthulhu?

I believe it did, and that it was the source of the infamous quote so often used in threads referencing it: Cthulhu kills 1d6+1 investigators each round.

 

[Moonstone Spider]

Hmm, sucks to pick the investigator class then. Does having just one level of investigator make you vulnerable or would a multiclass investigator/fighter be immune to that power?

 

[SkidAce]

/realizes

he has investigator levels and runs off gibbering into the night.

 

[EditorBFG]

Hmm, sucks to pick the investigator class then. Does having just one level of investigator make you vulnerable or would a multiclass investigator/fighter be immune to that power?

Heh. In both versions, I think an investigator is just any character who isn't a cultist. Although Cthulhu's probably pretty hard on cultists too-- he probably just kills 1d6+1 human beings per round, possibly a tiny bit less likely to kill chanting lunatics in robes.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

Cthulhu as written by Lovecraft is a much frailer, weaker creature than what's been created as a result of the mythos that other writers made. Cthulhu was so badly damaged by a steamboat doing far less than top speed in CoC that he was forced to return to hibernation for Azathoth-knows how many eons to recover. It's not at all unlikely in Lovecraft's own world for men to defeat, contain, or even destroy Cthulhu eventually. That Cthulhu would be so much meat against Tarrasque.

The versions made as fanfiction off of Lovecraft's work is a different matter.

That was the point I was trying to make the other night in a discussion with a friend. While I believe Cthulhu to be basically unkillable, he can be beaten and contained. So I think it's not necessarily silly or inappropriate to have Cthulhu fight the Tarrassque, or be stated up if a boat can put him down.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Cthulu wins, but only because the Tarrasque is French!

 

[SkidAce]

YAY...my favorite thread rises from the depths!