Howdy historian matey!
Hello again!
Everything except the time taken to finish a book is going great at the moment.
We all have our strengths and weaknesses.
Hope you have been keeping well yourself?
Things are great except for the real world keeping me from my favorite hobby.
Cool. Never really seen MERP (although I know what it is).
It's like Rolemaster lite. What most impresses me about the system is the quality of research and products as well as the fact that the designers chose to tackle stats for the Vala and Maiar.
I'll try my best.
Good enough for me.
High Lord...40,000 Hit Points in AD&D.
Most powerful observed attack - creating a supernova (about 4000 damage).
Sweet. "He's" a tough one to pin down precisely but your estimate is as good as anything I could have come up with.
Demiurge (Stage 3)...6400 Hit Points in AD&D
That's exactly where I had him.
I actually bought COIE last year (to read on the holiday flight) and worked out the power of the Anti-monitor using my Punchometer system (comicbook battle calculator) for every different scene he's in. Converting that to AD&D...
Most powerful (Demiurge Stage 1)...3200 Hit Points in AD&D.
Least powerful (Greater God)...400 Hit Points in AD&D.
I thought he might have been a First One but Demiurge makes more sense in light of the multiversal scope of COIE.
Very difficult to calculate. The Hunger is probably something similar to an Umbral. The Hunger absorbed all attacks and they only managed to defeat it by unleashing an attack that overloaded its current form.
My guesstimate is that you would need to deal more than its maximum hit points in damage to kill it. Otherwise the attack deals no damage. The absorption process needs a bit more thought though. It would need to have an upper and lower threshold...off the top of my head...
Add damage from attacks to the monster's permanent hp total unless the damage is less than 25% of its current total.
e.g. So, if it had 100 hit points and you dealt 50 damage from one attack, then you add 50 hit points. But you wouldn't add any hp from attacks dealing 25% or less of the current hp.
Galactus would have 1200 hit points.
The attack of the planetary collision (+nukes) must have been in and around the 1200 hp mark (since Galactus was almost killed). Therefore we know that Hunger didn't have more than 1200 hp using the above method.
Gotcha.
Lesser God...approx. 200 Hit Points in AD&D
NB. The comic book Thor would only be a Demigod in AD&D terms (where Odin is still a Greater God).
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Hope the above helps as a start.
As a quick rule of thumb when working out damages, divide hp by 10 to get the base average...then add strength bonuses.
ie. the Living Tribunal has 40,000 hp so he could deal about 4000 damage from a single attack (on average).
