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<blockquote data-quote="Wolfspider" data-source="post: 109664" data-attributes="member: 300">Well, to humans he is a god in terms of his power level.&nbsp; But he is not REALLY a god.He is an alien, a member of a race (the Starspawn) and the high priest of that race.Ummm...how can Cthulhu be a high priest if he is a god?&nbsp; Easy...he is the high priest of the other entities in the universe that are so powerful that they make Cthulhu look like an ameoba.As far as balancing encounters go, I do believe it is important to have an idea if an encounter is too much.&nbsp; How many cultists, for example, are needed to overwhelm a group vs. how many just to provide a challenge.&nbsp; As far as &quot;monsters&quot; in CoC go, they were hardly unstoppable.&nbsp; I remember reading about Mi-Go in one of Lovecraft's stories who died in a flood.&nbsp; They're certainly mortal in that respect.Of course, when you start getting to the level of Great Old One's like Cthulhu, there is no reason to try to balance out a party.&nbsp; They're just screwed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolfspider, post: 109664, member: 300"] Well, to humans he is a god in terms of his power level. But he is not REALLY a god. He is an alien, a member of a race (the Starspawn) and the high priest of that race. Ummm...how can Cthulhu be a high priest if he is a god? Easy...he is the high priest of the other entities in the universe that are so powerful that they make Cthulhu look like an ameoba. As far as balancing encounters go, I do believe it is important to have an idea if an encounter is too much. How many cultists, for example, are needed to overwhelm a group vs. how many just to provide a challenge. As far as "monsters" in CoC go, they were hardly unstoppable. I remember reading about Mi-Go in one of Lovecraft's stories who died in a flood. They're certainly mortal in that respect. Of course, when you start getting to the level of Great Old One's like Cthulhu, there is no reason to try to balance out a party. They're just screwed. :D [/QUOTE]

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