What is the toughest printed creature?

[snarfoogle]

Sweet Moradin! O_O That...that...can't...be...a...real...monster? What CR is it?

About Cthulhu -- the d20 Azathoth is CR50 and seems really tough. He has a +102 attack bonus, damage resistance 54/+4 (which isn't that great, seeing as most 50th level characters will have +10 items.) and of course, Fast Healing 200.

EDIT: CR 36? That's a disgrace to something with Huge White Dragons fluttering about its head, and a tribute to how woefully underpowered the CoC d20 gods are. (Cthulhu is CR 34)

 

[Voadam]

a HECATONCHEIRES has a cr of 57

A base great wyrm prismatic dragon has a cr of 66.

Paragon creature template can be added to any creature and adds +15 to CR.

All three are in the epic monsters section of the srd and are derived from the epic level handbook.

 

[Alzrius]

The strongest 3E/3.5E printed WotC creature is, undoubtedly, the Sphinx, from Dragon #297, page 50.

This (3E, not 3.5E) bad boy is CR 100, and he's earned it, with immunity to all spells, spell-like abilities, and supernatural effects, as well as DR 300/+30. He has AC 120, and he attacks with two slam attacks, at +326 to hit, each doing 24d10+140 damage (probably so high due to his Strength score of 290). He has several other abilities and immunities as well, which I haven't mentioned here.

Think that'd make your party scared?

 

[Bodah]

a HECATONCHEIRES has a cr of 57

A base great wyrm prismatic dragon has a cr of 66.

Paragon creature template can be added to any creature and adds +15 to CR.

All three are in the epic monsters section of the srd and are derived from the epic level handbook.

I'm going to have to go with Hecatoncheires and Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon as well, insanely powerful. If either were paragon on top of that.. yikes, scary to think about.

 

[GreyShadow]

You could always scare them with something from one of Blackdirge's threads.

I like The God Eater for scare factor.

hmm.. only a CR of 85.

 

[snarfoogle]

a HECATONCHEIRES has a cr of 57

A base great wyrm prismatic dragon has a cr of 66.

Paragon creature template can be added to any creature and adds +15 to CR.

All three are in the epic monsters section of the srd and are derived from the epic level handbook.

That truely shows how weak the Cthulhu d20 gods are. Azathoth is supposed to be the most powerful being in existance, and yet he is weaker than a 100 armed freak. It is my opinion that Azathoth should have natural ability enabling him to destroy the universe at will.

 

[Ghostwind]

Why not Orcus himself? Run properly with his wand, the survival odds are in the single digits. The dude is just plain nasty. Doubt it? Ask him. Oh, Clark....

 

[Pants]

That truely shows how weak the Cthulhu d20 gods are. Azathoth is supposed to be the most powerful being in existance, and yet he is weaker than a 100 armed freak. It is my opinion that Azathoth should have natural ability enabling him to destroy the universe at will.

Actually it just shows the massive power difference between CoC and D&D. Take a CoC investigator and throw him into a D&D campaign, he'll likely be driven insane by a couple of kobolds.
Now take the D&D heros and stick them in a CoC game. Cthulhu is dead and the unknown horrors of the universe have been known and they aren't really that horrible.

 

[Nightfall]

Why not Orcus himself? Run properly with his wand, the survival odds are in the single digits. The dude is just plain nasty. Doubt it? Ask him. Oh, Clark....

Yeah but I prefer to save Orcus for something more fun. Like an evil campaign with him helming away the merger of Thanatos to the Realms.

 

[Doctor Futurity]

Actually it just shows the massive power difference between CoC and D&D. Take a CoC investigator and throw him into a D&D campaign, he'll likely be driven insane by a couple of kobolds.
Now take the D&D heros and stick them in a CoC game. Cthulhu is dead and the unknown horrors of the universe have been known and they aren't really that horrible.

But this is like Apples and Oranges. CoC D20 is (while D20) still a different game system with different scaling assumptions. The Cthulhu mythos in an Epic Level Handbook campaign would all be about double their present challenge rating and stats, simple as that. And they'd eat dead fetus gods like popcorn snacks.

Likewise, a D&D PC ported in to CoC D20 would suddently have a sanity score, discover that a lot of his feats and special abilities no longer work, and that magic drives you mad; he'd earn a new respect for kobolds, and start fearing deep ones like he never looked at Locathah and Kuo Toa before!