I hope this is the right place to ask this, I don't normally post here.I've been listening to Lovecraft audio books on YouTube recently and the algorithm sent me a video titled "The top 5 most powerful Elder Gods from the Cthulhu mythos" and it got me wondering: How do you power scale entities from different levels of existence? With super heros you just scale how much they can lift or whatever but how do you scale gods or beings that embody concepts?
>>96536568If they're killable you stat them. If not they do whatever is convenient for the game or plot.
>>96536568You really can't powerscale things like that, for every world-eater there's a reality annihilator, and for everyone who cannot be slain by a snake, divine prince, deity, or devil there's someone who will go out of their way to create a human to exploit that tiny opening (literally the plot of a Hindu myth). Even pic-related claimed that she has crushed beings that could fit entire planets on a fingernail.At that point, everything just breaks down to "My infinity is bigger than yours".
>>96536568>how do you scale gods or beings that embody concepts?If you mean Outer Gods, you don't. The first and most important thing you learn outside the universe is that there is no scale, no stat system, no rules of reality. Which in an infinite world means that no matter how big/small, fast, clever or competent you are, there can (and probably does) exist some being that surpasses you by orders of magnitude. "Nuh-uh, I'm infinity+1 times stronger" kindergarten-tier fights are a relatively common and deadly thing in there.Here's your extremely valuable warning given out for free, feel free to ignore. Extradimensional entities need food and entertainment too, after all :::^)
You do what other people above have said, or you get metaphysical with it. An entity can die but not be killed, because it's some sort of thought-construct or because it exists outside of reality and time, so even if you were to kill it, it would come back. The most obvious way to have it work would be to do something like what Hades (the video game) did, but I only mention it as a good example of gods that die but come back and then laugh about it. This happens often, even in real life mythologies: the devil keeps being killed but keeps coming back, various deities sacrifice themselves for various purposes of saving the world or creating it...If you're ready for esoteric bullshit and can get a few other people around your table that have the same mindset, you can look into the system Nobilis.The whole premise there is that you're playing metaphysical concepts or "Powers." At least I think that's what the system called it...
>>96536568>How do you power scale entities from different levels of existence?If you're smart, you don't, and you don't even try. You're the coughing baby, not the atomic bomb; it doesn't matter to you if one of them has a cobalt jacket.
>>96536653Oh neat, someone else gets it. Thanks for explaining it to the locals better than I did.
>>96536568Think of how much power you have over a 2-dimensional stick figure. It is on such a lower plane that it could never ever affect your level of reality. That is how severely abstract gods should eclipse you and each other.
>>96536568Maybe you just watch too much YT bullshit, anon.
