Real world myths and legends: Who's Epic Level?

[ascendance]

EPIC:

The Green Man (immune to decapitation)

Gozer the Carpathian (serious undead control and shapechanging)

The Green Man is an Avatar of a Pagan nature god of your choice. Gozer the Carpathian is a demon, who may or may not have epic levels. I doubt it, though, since the Ghostbusters are definitely not Epic-level characters.

 

[ascendance]

Didn't Odysseus have a bow no one else could string? Maybe it was magical; maybe it was an epic ability.

Maybe Achilles was a 20th level monk. As a native outsider with 20/+1 damage reduction, he could probably seem invulnerable to almost any nonmagical attack. The one guy who shot him in the heel must've done a critical, or had a magic arrow, or both.

Odysseus' bow can be simulated with a Strength Bow. If he was a high level character with a Str of 19 or 20, I wouldn't be surprised if nobody else in Greece could have strung it.

As for Achilles, he had DR, but that was a special property of the well he was dipped into.

Rob

 

[hong]

Stupid stupid orcs, ripping up those ironwoods! WHY? That just was not cool!

Being "not cool" is a good definition of orcishness, IMO.

 

[Squire James]

IMO, it was a moth. Hummingbirds dont usually have antenna, and hang out near places that HAVE NO FLOWERS BECAUSE THE STUPID ORCS KILLED THEM ALL! Stupid stupid orcs, ripping up those ironwoods! WHY? That just was not cool!

OK, not a hummingbird. Consider that nit picked.

As for the trees, I've heard the Middle Earth Sierra Club is pretty fierce once they solve their minor communications problem!