The Immortals Handbook

[Upper_Krust]

Hiya mate!

You know, that reminds me of something I read on a differrent board... at that time, it sounded a bit silly...

Basically, somene mentioned that he would ask the mods to ban him for some time so he had that time for his work.

I really don't know if that is possible, or if it would help you, it is just something that crossed my mind when I read that. Of course, you are also around on the EZBoards, the WotC boards and a few others, so I guess it wouldn't have the desired effect anyway.

I don't think message boards have been that much of a distraction (now and again they are of course but not that often), its more 'real life' stuff that just seems to get in the way.

 

[historian]

Howdy Krust!

Thanks a ton for answering my earlier questions. I should let you know that by no means am I a "roll player", but I am inclined to pontificate on comparitives (is x stronger than y and if so where - type questions) and I've never run across anyone who has as good a handle on questions of "scaling" as do you, particularly across genres, univserses, etc. I appreciate your answering my periodic barrages.


On that note:

CR 4000 for IG Thanos "feels" about right. I am guessing this would put him on par with roughly 10-15,000 skyfathers at one time, all on their own turf? I would pay mightily for a 'sneak peek' at the final write-up.

What did you think of Van Helsing (unfortunately I haven't had a chance to see)?

Is CR 50 about right for Drac? How about Van Helsing himself? Wolfman?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Howdy Krust!

Hiya mate!

Thanks a ton for answering my earlier questions.

Twas but a trifle.

I should let you know that by no means am I a "roll player", but I am inclined to pontificate on comparitives (is x stronger than y and if so where - type questions)

Me too I suppose.

and I've never run across anyone who has as good a handle on questions of "scaling" as do you, particularly across genres, univserses, etc. I appreciate your answering my periodic barrages.

Well at the risk of selling myself short if you apply a bit of basic logic its all fairly easy.

On that note:

CR 4000 for IG Thanos "feels" about right. I am guessing this would put him on par with roughly 10-15,000 skyfathers at one time, all on their own turf?

250 or so (at a glance)

Although I doubt the Skyfathers could seriously do anything to threaten him - maybe if they applied all their power to an epic spell they might just injure him.

Also it would be (almost*) impossible to face multiple Skyfathers on their home planes simultaneously.

*

I would pay mightily for a 'sneak peek' at the final write-up.

Of Thanos. Thats going to be one for the website at some point.

Though I will have Thanatos in the IH and I will also have something akin to the Infinity Gems.

What did you think of Van Helsing (unfortunately I haven't had a chance to see)?

Disappointing.

It had all the right ingredients; but it was far, FAR too over the top. Melodrama instead of drama.

I mean I really liked the Mummy and the Mummy Returns so I was especially looking forward to this effort from the same writer/director.

But it was just too 'wishy washy'. Far too light hearted. Dracula was just 'camp'. No one in the film seemed like a credible threat - I mean the bad guys must have had (literally) a dozen chances to easily kill the heroes, but then theres some contrived pause; escape; talking etc.

On the plus side there were some nice touches (mostly in the visuals department): Frankenstein; Werewolf and especially Dracula (in his demonic form) all looked great.

Is CR 50 about right for Drac? How about Van Helsing himself? Wolfman?

Dracula in the film was probably about CR 30 (including uber invulnerability* though).

*I don't want to spoil things for people but he didn't have standard vampire vulnerabilities.

Van Helsing was probably something like 20th-level Ranger.

Frankensteins Monster could be handled like an intelligent Flesh Golem...in fact it looks like it was actually based on the Monster Manual Flesh Golem.

The Werewolf was pretty ferocious but pretty much standard.

Dracula's wives also seemed quite powerful/fast and of course could fly.

 

[Anubis]

I'm waiting for this thread to get moved to the Rules forum. UK, when's the book getting published?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Anubis mate!

I'm waiting for this thread to get moved to the Rules forum.

I appreciate the support mate!

UK, when's the book getting published?

When its finished.


By the way I finished the easier Deity design parameters.

So once you know the Divine Status you want.

eg. Demigod, etc.

1. Roll (once) to determine Hit Dice/Levels...or just take the average.
2. Roll (twice) to determine Class Level Breakdown (once for how many classes; once for how many primary classes).
3. Look at one table to see overall Ability Scores (Minimum/Average/Maximum) by Divine Status.
4. Look at another table to see individual Ability Scores by Class Levels.

I also worked out loose stats for Thor and it turned out he could almost kill the WotC D&Dg (imposter) Thor with a single critical hit, even though they are both fairly similar in many areas.

 

[blackshirt5]

so, SERIOUSLY, when will it be done?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi blackshirt mate!

so, SERIOUSLY, when will it be done?

Given that I have got burned everytime I resign myself to a date I think its probably best to keep my mouth shut until its done. I WOULD really like to get it finished before the end of this month though. Whether I will depends on real life interuptions though. Best case scenario I could have it done within 2 weeks, but thats optimistic even for an optimist like me.

 

[CRGreathouse]

First, it would be great if we had interesting questions for the Krust... somethiong better than, "When will it be done?".

Second, we know he doesn't like to be pinned down on dates. Maybe we should just ask him for progress in terms of pages written (xxx/yyy) and pages typed (zzz/yyy)?
In any case, U_K, good luck finishing up the book. I'm likely to pick up the Apotheosis PDF (at least) and I'll surely buy the print book.

 

[Knight Otu]

First, it would be great if we had interesting questions for the Krust... somethiong better than, "When will it be done?".

Well, how about:
What about the Cosmocrats (I know you gave them a different name later on, but I don't seem to remember it)?

Second, we know he doesn't like to be pinned down on dates. Maybe we should just ask him for progress in terms of pages written (xxx/yyy) and pages typed (zzz/yyy)?

That's pretty much how I intended my earlier question.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, well, I hope he skips the PDFs and goes straight to print. Anything else and he's being like old TSR trying to get payment multiple times for the same piece of work.

So PLEASE go straight to print! I don't wanna have to wait another six months to get the damn book! I hate PDFs!