Henadic Theologian
Legend
Ok.
I find THAT very hard to believe... especially when more than enough people keep exploring E6, E10, E12 and other lower power game options.
You weren't meant to fight them (the gods, etc.), you know. At least, that never happened in ANY single AD&D game I participated in or heard of.
Now, you want to talk BECMI then fine, the "I" (Immortals) was meant to get to that level. I got there once after about four years of playing a game, and frankly it was pretty lame. It just doesn't work with the D&D mind-set IMO.
It is totally applicable! It is a vicious cycle. You have powerful monsters who can actually kick the PCs' collective butts and then PCs are made stronger, so you need stronger monsters, and so on. IT NEVER ENDS.
Part of the beauty of 5E and the bounded accuracy system is large numbers can, and will, eventually win (or defeat anyway) over powerful creatures (including PCs).
CR 3+ creatures, given sufficient numbers, are still viable foes well into tiers 3 and 4.
Titans are the Gods, they are more like the next thing down from Gods, with the potential to become Gods.
I do wonder if they will also have stats for Demigods and Vestiages just so folks have an example of that.