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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CRGreathouse" data-source="post: 2833010" data-attributes="member: 474">Death in my campaign is similar to what U_K would call an Elder One.  Powerwise, he/she/it is between Elder Ones and Old Ones; philosophically, she/he/it is a Greater God.From U_K's Superhero Relativity:Oddly, I was just working on something similar (not for D&D), so I actually have a good table here.  1e41 tons is hefty for a galaxy; I have 3e39 for the Milky Way.  1e52 is just out of the question for a supercluster; the 1e47 you have is closer, although I have yet smaller (2e43) for Virgo.  Likewise, the observable universe is probably around 1e50 tons.Since I'm "not a fan" of superheros and modern physics in my D&D, I'm not annoyed by this being off by a few orders of magnitude.  Still, I thought I'd point it out.  Here's the high end of the mass table I constructed (in metric tons):large stellar black hole    2E+28supergiant (Betelgeuse)    4E+28hypergiant (LBV 1806-20)    3E+29supermassive black hole    2E+33dwarf galaxy (Canis Major)    1E+37galaxy (Milky Way)    3E+39Virgo Supercluster    2E+43observable universe    3E+49(I was using this to put the Schwarzschild radius and Hawking radiation in perspective, if you're curious.)I'll see if I can do some number crunching on the multiplier for Transcendental and beyond abilities.</blockquote>