The population will recover!
And you got some pretty angry people, with a pretty nice race out of the plague.
And they are determined!
I could be either a great ally or a great threat....
What can easily destroy an army?
Disease can cripple armies, and most don't make people's heads explode randomly!
As it so happens, you killed a quarter of the world's population. I would have made the Eladrin regardless, or something like them.
Oh, if you show penance and some kind of attempt at restitution, I'll be willing to pardon you. Show me some examples--or at least one--of each, then we'll talk.
...Mmm, Balrog-y goodness.
I was planning on joining as a devil(although not a "chaotic evil lol dead humans" kind.)
Glad to hear it. Want to help me by not being a jerk and such?
Fine, 5-10 regular humans per non-war imp. So, 5-10 times 120-180 is 600-1800 regular humans per non-war god.
15-20 regular humans per war imp means about 1200-3600 humans per god of war. Since I'm a god of war and i'm imparting a portion of my power (about a tenth total) to each of my 20 champions that means each champion and their base power can kill 1.2-2 imps. Damn.
One slight problem with your math...
A balrog is on par with a Fae Courtier. It probably takes more like 200 normal humans to kill a balrog, minimum. ((Assuming a D&D balor is about as strong as a LotR balrog, and that the "average humans" are roughly on par with 1st-level adventurers, the ratio is probably closer to several hundred or a thousand humans). Let's assume 300, for a nice round number. That's about 100 humans to an imp, or 75 to a lesser fae. Even if it only takes 100 humans to overpower a balrog, that's several thousand humans to kill a greater god.
What?! 200 humans for that one thing from LotR? No, that thing would take 15-20 warriors, 30 at the most.
Look at the size of the balrog, it is maybe 5-6 times the size of a human male. 15-20 warriors can defeat one albeit suffering casualties, 30 would definitely kill one. 200 warriors for just 1 balrog at the least? That shit is cray.
Balrogs have a lot more than size and strength on their side. They've got magic, they've got a flaming whip as thick as your arm, they've got unearthly levels of size and strength. They're not even really flesh and blood, IIRC. And it depends on skill. 15-30 warriors of masterful skill? Sure. 15-30 normal human warriors? Yeah, right. They'd be dead before they caused any significant harm. And Aragorns, Gimlis, and Legoli aren't a dime a dozen, especially with a world population of
10,000 maybe 8,000. Probably at least half are farmers and other peasants, while most of the rest are craftsmen and other experts. Probably not more than a thousand or maybe 1,500 soliders in the world. If the 20 best warriors in the world gathered to kill a balrog? Sure, it's doomed. 20 random footsmen? Not so much.
Don't forget. I am the GM. I'm here specifically to prevent things like Jebyg taking 'advantage' of the system. If he's going to imbue them with a portion of his power, that means he's going to pay higher upkeep. Also, it won't be a human anymore. Probably 'morph' into a angel or somesuch. Still useful though. Similarly, violence is not equal with battle or war, since it's more broad.
Alright, thanks.
You can have multiple angels and demons, guys. Only one prophet though, which is the real reason I killed off two of them. Laws of divine physics.
Wait, which two died again?
Can devils get prophets??
They can probably fake them.
Seriously, why are you guys soo good at ninjaing?
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