Comments on: The Top 5 Ways Orcus Will Destroy You http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/the-top-5-ways-orcus-will-destroy-you The D&D Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ukret The God Slayer http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/the-top-5-ways-orcus-will-destroy-you#comment-12930 Ukret The God Slayer Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:57:16 +0000 http://www.dungeonmastering.com/?p=705#comment-12930 Funny, because I just built a bugbear barbarian and had him fight against Orcus by himself. I massively overkilled him, and finished with completely full hit points. I still had 17 out of 18 healing surges left, and I could have theoretically used them all as soon as he used touch of death on me. He couldn't deal enough damage to me to get past my 37 regeneration per round from Demigod, even with all of the other ridiculous self-healing abilities I had. Orcus is a total pushover. I'm planning on having Ukret the God Slayer fight against Lolth relatively soon, she might actually put up some challenge. Funny, because I just built a bugbear barbarian and had him fight against Orcus by himself. I massively overkilled him, and finished with completely full hit points. I still had 17 out of 18 healing surges left, and I could have theoretically used them all as soon as he used touch of death on me.

He couldn’t deal enough damage to me to get past my 37 regeneration per round from Demigod, even with all of the other ridiculous self-healing abilities I had.

Orcus is a total pushover.

I’m planning on having Ukret the God Slayer fight against Lolth relatively soon, she might actually put up some challenge.

]]> By: Darren http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/the-top-5-ways-orcus-will-destroy-you#comment-12695 Darren Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:53:58 +0000 http://www.dungeonmastering.com/?p=705#comment-12695 @Drygn The Supreme Lizard Deity That honestly sounds like you've simply created an undefeatable creature. I can do the same. The thing about creating statistics for a foe is so that the foe IS defeatable. Orcus can be beaten. Otherwise there's no point making a full character sheet of combat stats for him. @Drygn The Supreme Lizard Deity

That honestly sounds like you’ve simply created an undefeatable creature.
I can do the same. The thing about creating statistics for a foe is so that the foe IS defeatable. Orcus can be beaten. Otherwise there’s no point making a full character sheet of combat stats for him.

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Drygn has 8,000HP and cannot be hurt by anything other than Radiant Damage and is immune to all effects. His Tyrannosaurus skull can be turned into a flail or a mace and deals 20d100+529 damage with a maximum damage of 2529 but cannot crit. He can also transform the skull into a weapon similar to a gun that shoots a fireball 25 squares. Plus he has his own undead army that is nothing but zombies. In my game this creature killed many Deities so far including all humanoid gods and Tiamat. Bahamut is to strong because he deals radiant damage and cannot be killed by mass damage. And as if that wasn’t bad enough the only why to perminatly kill the zombies is to vaporize them. This guy is amazing.

]]> By: Wasted http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/the-top-5-ways-orcus-will-destroy-you#comment-12212 Wasted Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:33:50 +0000 http://www.dungeonmastering.com/?p=705#comment-12212 Anyone remember 3.0/3.5 Orcus? When he was actually scary and you needed more than a level ten character with a bow on a horse to kill him? Yeah, those were good days... For anyone who is struggling/plotting to kill him in 4.0, let me give you some advice. Use mounted archery...... Seriously, that's all you need to do. The horse means you can keep out of his auras and away from his nasty spells and such. Just plink him, over and over, for tiny amounts of damage until he is dead. This gets really easy if you have multiple people on horses, or even (GASP) flying mounts of some kind. A party of 4 lvl 14 characters killed him in playtest using some flying carpets and longbows. If they can, you can too! Anyone remember 3.0/3.5 Orcus? When he was actually scary and you needed more than a level ten character with a bow on a horse to kill him? Yeah, those were good days…

For anyone who is struggling/plotting to kill him in 4.0, let me give you some advice. Use mounted archery…… Seriously, that’s all you need to do. The horse means you can keep out of his auras and away from his nasty spells and such. Just plink him, over and over, for tiny amounts of damage until he is dead. This gets really easy if you have multiple people on horses, or even (GASP) flying mounts of some kind. A party of 4 lvl 14 characters killed him in playtest using some flying carpets and longbows. If they can, you can too!

]]> By: Ameena Leffeld http://www.dungeonmastering.com/gaming-life/the-top-5-ways-orcus-will-destroy-you#comment-12106 Ameena Leffeld Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:33:16 +0000 http://www.dungeonmastering.com/?p=705#comment-12106 My group is going up against Orcus and his minions tomorrow. Thursday September 17th, 2010. Some time around 7 or 8 pm. He's already sent 2 waves of DM-built minions after us, and there will be more of the same to come with him in the third wave. May all the gods have mercy on our souls. Luckily we're level 26, but equipped with custom magic items and VERY powerful arms and armor. If anyone has any suggestions, now would be a good time! My group is going up against Orcus and his minions tomorrow. Thursday September 17th, 2010. Some time around 7 or 8 pm. He’s already sent 2 waves of DM-built minions after us, and there will be more of the same to come with him in the third wave. May all the gods have mercy on our souls. Luckily we’re level 26, but equipped with custom magic items and VERY powerful arms and armor. If anyone has any suggestions, now would be a good time!

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