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<blockquote data-quote="le grand fromage" data-source="post: 6960239" data-attributes="member: 75493"><p>I was always struck, when reading Perdido Street Station, by the description of the combat between these two entities and how they strove to damage each other on several different dimensional planes at the same time (or similar) I forget the exact wording... I was (and still am) keen to reflect this &quot;epic&quot; combat with some of my own epic level creatures in 4E. I was thinking of stating (or rather describing) the creature concerned as existing in more than one dimension at once and thus (as a game effect) having a proportion of its hit point total resting on the &quot;astral&quot; or other plane and that these &quot;special&quot; hit points can only be damaged by force effects. Thus to kill it the party will have to understand this and use force damage, say, to finish off the last &quot;healing surge&quot; worth of hps or else it rests &quot;unkillable&quot; by normal means. I'm not sure however if there are better ways of reflecting the uniqueness of China Mieville's wondrous creations or, on the other hand, whether I risk unforeseen consequences by adding such a mechanism to 4E....?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="le grand fromage, post: 6960239, member: 75493"] I was always struck, when reading Perdido Street Station, by the description of the combat between these two entities and how they strove to damage each other on several different dimensional planes at the same time (or similar) I forget the exact wording... I was (and still am) keen to reflect this "epic" combat with some of my own epic level creatures in 4E. I was thinking of stating (or rather describing) the creature concerned as existing in more than one dimension at once and thus (as a game effect) having a proportion of its hit point total resting on the "astral" or other plane and that these "special" hit points can only be damaged by force effects. Thus to kill it the party will have to understand this and use force damage, say, to finish off the last "healing surge" worth of hps or else it rests "unkillable" by normal means. I'm not sure however if there are better ways of reflecting the uniqueness of China Mieville's wondrous creations or, on the other hand, whether I risk unforeseen consequences by adding such a mechanism to 4E....? [/QUOTE]

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