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PoIsOn 01-03-05, 10:03 PM	Well, Buddies and i were scanning through books, and some of us made up a few Mean monsters. Among the some i made out, my favorite had to be a Half-Celestial Solar/Titan. Can anyone help me out on Unfolding this bad boy's stats and things, if possible?
Melpomene 01-03-05, 10:08 PM	---
Edymnion 01-03-05, 10:17 PM	The ultimate critter I've actually statted up would be the Kaiju Half-Black Dragon T-Rex. That mo-fo could take down GODS. In fact, I ended up giving it a couple Divine Ranks and put him in charge of destroying the world at the end of time he was so powerful.
obrysii 01-03-05, 10:23 PM	Besides that Great 29-Headed Pyro-lernearn Half-Gold Silver Wyrm.... This: One Big Monster (http://boards.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=321765) is the largest (re: biggest) monster around, I think.
The Vorpal Tribble 01-04-05, 10:10 AM	What about the giant mutant Space-Goat from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Slavering jaws thousands of miles across, fire leaping from its throat! Eater of worlds!
Gez 01-04-05, 11:21 AM	The biggest monster is this one: http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/unglued/bfm_left.jpghttp://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/unglued/bfm_right.jpg
Triel 01-04-05, 12:42 PM	~LOL~ Gez, I've waited years to see the other half of that freakin' card :) always kept getting the left half of the card w/o knowing the power of the card.
HomebrewedMonster 01-04-05, 12:54 PM	Maralith with the palm throw ability. Yay 12 large unholy darts.
Ogre4Hire 01-04-05, 02:33 PM	Animated planet.
Minister_for_Moral_Truth 01-04-05, 06:05 PM	Dyson Sphere Golem. CR: n
Korone 01-04-05, 07:30 PM	The ultimate critter I've actually statted up would be the Kaiju Half-Black Dragon T-Rex. That mo-fo could take down GODS. In fact, I ended up giving it a couple Divine Ranks and put him in charge of destroying the world at the end of time he was so powerful. What's that? The template to make godzila-ish creature? If yes, where can I find it?
obrysii 01-04-05, 08:28 PM	The Kaiju template makes Godzilla-like creatures, yes. It was found in a Dragon magazine.
Vorel-Aurixsveargith 01-05-05, 02:33 AM	Dyson Sphere Golem. CR: n I'm sorry, but I don't think many people are going to get that one. I, however, think that is Genius... :D
JasperDm 01-05-05, 03:21 AM	I'm sorry, but I don't think many people are going to get that one. I, however, think that is Genius... :D I get it. And want one! Or would that just be Unicron? Or a golem made of a PILE of Dysson spheres? OMFG. Oh, and biggest monster in d20: Azathoth(Call of Cthulhu d20) BTW, for the sci-fi uninitiated, a Dysson sphere is a artificial world made as a hollow shell surrounding a star. Life exists on the inside, therefore the radius of the Sphere has to be so vast as to make the distance between the star and the inner surface survivable...like 1 AU(astronomical unit, distance between Earth and the sun) or more. The old Hollow World setting connected to Mystara was like a tiny, natural Dysson sphere. Sigil(Planescape) and Halo on XBox lean on the idea a bit as well. Here's the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Gazza555 01-05-05, 05:00 AM	The old Hollow World setting connected to Mystara was like a tiny, natural Dysson sphere. Not that natural. IIRC it was a large cavern that was modifed by the immortals and given a portal to the Plane of Fire for the 'sun'. ;) Regards, Gary
JasperDm 01-05-05, 05:44 AM	Ah, so that's why they didn't get cooked off by being within long-range spell distance of a sun...it was just a big fireball. That clears some things up. But then, define "natural" in D&D. :D I also seem to recall a Dysson sphereworld coming up in Star Trek. Might have been in one of the earlier movies. Not sure.
digoraccoon 01-05-05, 08:52 AM	Greed. :D Large, insubstantial, and infectious. ^_^
Ogre4Hire 01-05-05, 01:35 PM	How about Infinity from Marvel Comics. Living Embodyment of the Multiverse. Literally everything in existance.:D
kliate 01-05-05, 03:08 PM	Ah, so that's why they didn't get cooked off by being within long-range spell distance of a sun...it was just a big fireball. That clears some things up. But then, define "natural" in D&D. :D I also seem to recall a Dysson sphereworld coming up in Star Trek. Might have been in one of the earlier movies. Not sure. Star Trek: The Next Generation http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/episode/68566.html
Minister_for_Moral_Truth 01-05-05, 09:33 PM	I get it. And want one! Or would that just be Unicron? Unicron would be closer to an animated moon. Remember, he was a bit smaller than Cybertron, and cybertron was a rather small planet (likley somewhere between our moon and Mars) Or a golem made of a PILE of Dysson spheres? OMFG.I only thought of that half way through, but it would indeed be... big. No, sorry. BIG
Loren Pechtel 01-06-05, 01:35 AM	BTW, for the sci-fi uninitiated, a Dysson sphere is a artificial world made as a hollow shell surrounding a star. Life exists on the inside, therefore the radius of the Sphere has to be so vast as to make the distance between the star and the inner surface survivable...like 1 AU(astronomical unit, distance between Earth and the sun) or more. It would have to be more. That 1AU is a standard mistake made by sci-fi authors. However, it doesn't work, you would roast inside such a sphere. Consider: Earth. It's at 1AU. It's illuminated by the sun. Consider a point inside the sphere. It's got the same sun illuminating it. However, it's also picking up the IR of the inside of the rest of the sphere. Half the sky is at it's temperature. Thus the ability to radiate away heat is only half what it is on Earth. You'll have to raise the temperature by 18% in order to radiate away the heat. The current temperature isn't far from 300 Kelvin. Increase that by 18% and you're at 354K. That's 81C or 178F. *HOT*. Incidently, I've also seen it suggested to live on the outside of the sphere. That gives you gravity, admittedly weak, pointing in the right direction. Things will stay put without having to box them in. Of course you have no sunlight but you line the inside of the sphere with solar collectors and you have tons of electricity. Now, to get even bigger, I've seen it suggested to build a Dyson sphere around a collection of stars--a structure light years across.
Loren Pechtel 01-06-05, 01:35 AM	Ah, so that's why they didn't get cooked off by being within long-range spell distance of a sun...it was just a big fireball. That clears some things up. But then, define "natural" in D&D. :D I also seem to recall a Dysson sphereworld coming up in Star Trek. Might have been in one of the earlier movies. Not sure. One of the books. P.S. There's also that episode mentioned above. A different plot.
Minister_for_Moral_Truth 01-06-05, 06:02 AM	And another book, a TNG one, based on that episode.
Gazza555 01-06-05, 06:48 AM	Also in a Doctor Who Book, see link. http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na44.htm
Hammerhead 01-06-05, 11:23 PM	THe slayers guide to giants has land giants which are CR 90 at are 10 MILES tall, at the shortest! A fully advanced one is several hundred miles tall. thats the biggest dnd creature ive seen in a book
Gazza555 01-07-05, 05:09 AM	There are a couple more rather large creatures in the old D&D Immortals set. Namely the draeden and the megalith. For a 3E version of the megalith try http://www.mystaranet.jamm.com/vaults/html/urt.html Regards, Gary
Gez 01-07-05, 09:31 AM	It would have to be more. That 1AU is a standard mistake made by sci-fi authors. However, it doesn't work, you would roast inside such a sphere. Consider: Earth. It's at 1AU. It's illuminated by the sun. Consider a point inside the sphere. It's got the same sun illuminating it. However, it's also picking up the IR of the inside of the rest of the sphere. More importantly, you wouldn't have a cycle of nights and days... Stop the Earth's rotation (or rather, lock it tidally with Sol, so that Earth always show the same side to the Sun, the same way our moon always show its same side to us), and you'd get an inhospitable planet. One side burning, one frozen, and between them, a land of eternal dusk and continual stormwinds. Well, in the Dyson sphere, you'd not have the frozen side, just the burning one. Of course, you can always be even more silly (a Dyson sphere is a silly concept) and say the superadvanced civilization that had the science and technology and resources to build a DS also have discovered a way to reduce temperature somewhere without increasing it elsewhere, by converting it directly into some other form of energy. Like "hyperconductive" materials (conductive material conducts electricity but lose a bit of it as it turns into heat; superconductive do not lose electricity nor produce heat; and "hyperconductive" materials, who have no reasons whatsoever to be even remotely theoretically plausible, would turn ambiant heat into yet more electricity).
Ogre4Hire 01-07-05, 02:30 PM	THe slayers guide to giants has land giants which are CR 90 at are 10 MILES tall, at the shortest! A fully advanced one is several hundred miles tall. thats the biggest dnd creature ive seen in a book And that single entry was enough to convinse me to NEVER buy one of that publisher's D20 books under any circumstance.
Lusiphur 01-07-05, 02:54 PM	IMO the biggest beast that is WoTC created and sanctioned is the Hecatonchieries. The "Hundred Handed Ones" created by the Gods before the laws of structure and reason existed. They are massive piles of hands and faces,that wield +5 greatswords (maybe vorpal, cant remember) in EACH hand!! It is a CR 56 and is said that whenever one is let loose, entire panthions fall. They have spell resistance and DR somewhere around 60-75 each fast healing,regeneration,both of which are huge, lots of other things i cant remember. Oh yeah, they can sommon another one too :D
turalisj 01-07-05, 05:21 PM	biggest monster? an animated moon! :P
LordVyreth 01-09-05, 12:04 AM	What about the Astral Dreadnought? The relevant part is only Gargantuan, but its tails streches into infinity.
Scarlet Knight 01-09-05, 01:29 AM	I liked the Zartan from my second edition Monstrous Manual. They were immense sea turtles that slept for hundreds of years floating in the oceans, and were typically mistaken for small islands that mysteriously moved about.
zenos_paradox 01-09-05, 02:35 PM	zartens in 3E arms & equipment guide
Scarlet Knight 01-09-05, 05:17 PM	zartens in 3E arms & equipment guide Neat!
JasperDm 01-09-05, 05:24 PM	And that single entry was enough to convinse me to NEVER buy one of that publisher's D20 books under any circumstance. I download them and read them for misinformation. Like telling a party everything in a Slayer's Guide, when they botch a Gather Info. God I hate Mongoose.