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Nicolai Withander
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
1093 Posts |
 Posted - 30 Apr 2010 : 21:40:19
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Hello all..
Some might know me and my way of playing due to the powergaming spell and artifact and statements I have posted here; and that leads me to my post. It a question about what all of you out there are doing when you play.
My question is: What is the highest CR monster/character you guys have ever faces.
Personally it was character wise a female sun elf lich lvl 28. Monster wise Dendar!
What was yours?????
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2010 : 08:47:53
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| I think there was an old green dragon once years ago, that's probably the most powerful monster I've used. I seem to remmember a 16th level mage and a couple of clerics of more or less the same strength, but the details escape me at the moment. |
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Sian
Senior Scribe
Denmark
596 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2010 : 14:27:59
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| Larloch using a group of his liches to push us in a certain direction which never really got explained why :p |
what happened to the queen? she's much more hysterical than usual
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Elfinblade
Senior Scribe
Norway
377 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2010 : 14:50:54
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| We encountered an adult black dragon once, and barely emerged victorious. Just barely :) |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36904 Posts |
Posted - 01 May 2010 : 15:44:11
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Not having the amount of game experience that some folks here have, the most powerful critter I've faced while gaming was a dragon. And it was a TPK, all because one of the other characters had to go an open his mouth... I did not think that was a good bit of DM'ing, since a single comment doomed the entire party.
The most powerful critter I've defeated was when my minotaur and a bard fought two T-Rexes. The DM (a different one from above) only planned on throwing one of them at us, but then I got clever and lucky and killed it with one shot. In a prior adventure, the DM had given us vials of what she described as a very powerful poison. When the first T-Rex stepped into the clearing we were in, my minotaur remembered the poison, tied a vial to an arrow, made a called shot to the T-Rex's mouth, and then got a critical hit. Our poor DM wasn't experienced enough to fudge things on the fly, so that was enough to kill the dinosaur. Since that encounter didn't go the way she planned, it's mate then attacked us.  |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
Posted - 02 May 2010 : 21:07:48
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| Ha! Sounds like something I would have done in that situation. And the called shot in the mouth sounds kinda familiar, too, except that in my case it was an arrow down the throat of an aurumvorax. Got a nice haul off that critter's hide and stuff. the most powerful "monster I ever faced personally was old Soth. And that was back when my nasty be-otch PC Morganna was still only lvl 7. She got out of it with a little divine intervention, and the skin of her teeth. The nastiest I've ever USED was Tiamat herself. A fun little encounter, and one I'd like to re-do someday. |
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Nicolai Withander
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
1093 Posts |
Posted - 02 May 2010 : 23:54:47
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Tiamat... WOOP WOOP |
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Sill Alias
Senior Scribe
Kazakhstan
588 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2010 : 07:04:15
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| By the way, I forgot how much difference in impossible level. |
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Darkmeer
Senior Scribe
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2010 : 15:02:38
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As a DM I've given a party in the Realms a CR 17 "avatar" of Dead Moander. Wonderfully fun, huge Fleshy giant, looking very much like a fomorian with more nastiiness.
As a Player... A nightwalker (I believe CR 18). That was mean... and it worked within the story, which made it possible.
As a Single PC: I think There was a level 9 or 10 Netherese Arcanist that one of my characters took down in one shot. Mind you, he had an artifact that made it happen, and the guy exploded when it happened... nearly killing everyone... good times.
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2010 : 15:08:22
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| Wow, ummm I think I faced a Dragon back in 3E which was somewhat difficult....actually I think I DMed that one. In 4E we massacred a dragon...we almost died by orcs cause there was a pit trap, we scattered and the terrain tactics almost caused a TPK...level 2 I think we were...worse than any super monster lol |
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Dracons
Learned Scribe
USA
299 Posts |
Posted - 11 May 2010 : 11:27:16
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DM Wise: A CR 32 Outsider Sorcerer/Monk type creature. It took all the players everything they got to beat it. I was very proud of them. They were half that CR, but clever planning/tactics/numbers prevailed.
Playerwise: Hm. Well, I've had numerous different DM's, so i'll go in order from lowest to highest.
TOM game: A young Black Dragon in an acid swamp. At level ECL 3. With two players. We won. Barely.
VINCE: ...Unsure. He was a ... bad DM. Well, great if you like nonstop action games. But we survived a tornado, took on an army, stopped a plague, hired for an assassination attempt on evil emperor, beaten bandits, saved kids from kidnappers, all in one game, all in two hours. It was non..stop.... But I guess the Tornado was the toughest I guess.
JOHN: (Main DM if I don't DM, which is pretty often sadily). A God. John is bad at making his own monsters, so it was a /scripted/ battle. Didn't matter what we did, if god wanted you dead or hurt, you were hurt. We had to beat god in order. Which was all dead but the hero with sword, then hero must hit god at same time at being killed too. Highest offical CR? A Nightwalker Fighter. Fun times at level 10. |
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Cleric Generic
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
565 Posts |
Posted - 11 May 2010 : 12:35:41
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As a player, I think we crossed Swords with a high end avatar of Cyric at one point, but it was just messing with us and teleported us half way across the continent when it got bored, so I don't know if it qualifies as a proper punch-up.
The biggest nasty I've thrown at the PCs as DM was a Tarrasque that the Zhentarim had strapped a castle to the back of, naturally. They climbed/flew up to said castle and took out the 'pilot'... blood drenched hilarity ensued... |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 11 May 2010 : 12:59:13
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| It was I, Loyal Follower of Karsus, who in the year of the Fall of Netheril had slain and retrieved body parts of a Gold Dragon and the Tarrasque to be used as components for his greatest spell. For this will I be rewarded a thousandfold when he returns. Those creatures were difficult to defeat, but my wits and my arcane might prevailed!!! |
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Laerrigan
Learned Scribe
USA
195 Posts |
Posted - 08 Aug 2010 : 05:31:07
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A wyrm blue dragon with 20 or so levels as a fighter/wizard. Good thing he and the party ended up having a common enemy---he made a cool patron for a little while, wrapped up in his own affairs in his elven persona but willing to lend certain resources and info.
And then there was the Ravenloft darklord (egad, don't ask for the CR on that one), which started out as a courteous diplomatic encounter but degenerated abruptly because he had other goals in mind. As DM, it sure proved fun for plot manipulation and pulling off a thing or two I'd been wanting to accomplish  . The party didn't like it so much, though. Buncha whiners, just because they're the one's getting horrified and almost-killed....
As for actual fighting to the death? I'd say the psycho half-fiend evil demigod....I dunno, 30-something levels, and I have no idea of technical CR. And there were dire wolves and a nasty vampire involved in the scene too. And a giant machine getting ready to explode. Jeez, it sounds insane when I type it here, but it all made sense and held together and had a lot of significance for the characters beyond "Hey, let's not die here." Awesome RP in the midst of probably the heaviest combat, chaos, and tension I've ever had in a game. Hard choices, self-sacrifice, hollow victory, and then creepiness and angst leading up to unexpected joy . Ok, I'm a sap. |
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Darsson Spellmaker
Seeker
56 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2010 : 07:33:37
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| As a player, my party faced and defeated Miska the Wolf-Spider in 3.5 D&D. We faced the Queen of Chaos too, but the DM had made her the equivalent of a goddess, so it was mainly a roleplaying encounter, as there are just some things that can't be fought with. ;) |
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Ionik Knight
Learned Scribe
USA
222 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2010 : 13:43:23
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| As a player my party survived Lloth in the old first edition modules. As DM my players defeated an old blue dragon in second edition. |
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Xevo
Acolyte
USA
35 Posts |
Posted - 17 Sep 2010 : 15:00:32
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Lord Soth on Krynn. Needless to say, we...um...failed. I think my Knight of the Sword is still serving him lol.
As a DM, I have sent many countless uber-baddies at my players. My favorite was Belagos, the Flying Flame. Four seperate adventures have seen my players either fried or fleeing. To this day, they still get nervous when they have to travel in his territory. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7989 Posts |
Posted - 11 Oct 2010 : 07:45:39
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Tyranthraxus (possessing an adult silver), plus his fire giant henchmen and a small horde of mooks.
We were one of two groups playing a 2e Ruins of Adventure (PnP version of Pool of Radiance) - long term campaign over about 4 months, systematically building power and progressing to the final confrontation. Final session involved all players from both groups making a very large party - 3 DMs, 17 PCs, and 6 NPCs, I think! We (players and characters alike) were all well rested, well prepared, fully buffed, and we'd planned a good solid strategy (away from the DMs).
Complete TPK within 5 rounds.
All 9 wizards (and multi-wizards) got pasted in the first two volleys of breath weapon. The warriors and priests just got chewed apart one at a time, one or two dying each round. Only two characters (including mine) managed to escape, but both were killed within minutes. Epic fail. |
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Synthalus
Learned Scribe
USA
170 Posts |
Posted - 16 Dec 2010 : 21:42:53
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| The most powerful monster ive encountered by far was a rogue Marid on the astral plane. He was an astral pirate captain. He and his crew encountered us as we were trying to find a means to escape the astral plane. we accidentally got sent there body and soul by a demon that put a bag of holding into another bag of holding that created a tare that sucked us into the astral plane. This marid was built as a NPC fighter/Mage of 20/20 lvl. He had a hoard of treasure which sadly we never got a chance to plunder becuase he wipped our entire party out of existance. but it was and epic battle and me and my friends still talk about it fro time to time. |
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ChieftainTwilight
Learned Scribe
171 Posts |
Posted - 19 Mar 2011 : 07:37:45
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um... in a solo game I played with my borther, his character physically tried to slay Ao. he never got that far, though his antics did lea to something unheard of in the Realms since the Time of Troubles... direct intervention by Ao himself... on more than one occaision. ^_^;
this, by the way, is why my Homebrew Setting is post-apocalyptic Dark Age with extremely overpriced modern Firearms. and by overpriced, I mean literally unaffordable to characters who are not at least 6th level, and not economic for those of at least 10th. NPCs have them in spades. PCs not so much. =w= |
and a heart can only break so many times
and I've been to hell and back so many times
and I've seen folks walk away so many times
but just like anyone else I gotta stand up by myself
and a heart can only break so many times
a heart can only break so many times
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