Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1426909" data-attributes="member: 463">No idea who Dark Phoenix is, and Merlin was a background advice-giver in Arthurian legend, his fireballing abilities were non existent or irrelevant.  Samson and Hercules were 'the strongest', the biggest meat shields on the block, and Samson at least had a neat Great Cleave thing, but both were vulnerable to magic, poison, ranged attacks etc.  Conan might have been the greatest all-round warrior of his age, though Marvel seem to have fetishised this, I don't recall REH ever saying that Conan was unbeatable by mortal opponents the way I've seen Marvel editors do in SSOC.  I think it'd be fairer to say that in d20 terms Conan had the best stat-array of any character, with nary a low score.  That didn't make it invincible but it made him a great survivor.Not sure about Duncan Macleod - his power in the tv eps I've seen looks trivial when compared to The Kurgan, say.  My impression of Highlander (ignoring 2nd movie, natch) was that The Kurgan was by far 'the best', and he still lost.IMC 'the best' fighter was the CR21 cambion Harecules - and last night, after two years of trying, the PCs and their allies finally kicked his butt.</blockquote>