What is the most Cthuluesque adventure path?
Strange Aeons. It is literally about the Lovecraft mythos (although does not feature Cthulhu at all).
to feature cthulhu properly (as anend boss of book 6) it'd have to go to same power as WotR - lvl 20 MT10, end boss of that (+minions) is close to CR30 (about 60% of the way from CR29-30) and chtulhu is CR30
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to feature cthulhu properly (as anend boss of book 6) it'd have to go to same power as WotR - lvl 20 MT10, end boss of that (+minions) is close to CR30 (about 60% of the way from CR29-30) and chtulhu is CR30
"Cthulhuesque" campaigns should not necessarily about fighting and defeating Cthulhu as a boss monster. In fact, I'd argue that this would counter to the campaign being "Cthulhuesque".
This does not mean that I consider beating up Cthulhu as BadWrongFun. But that's a very different style of play.
Though combining the Cthulhu Mythos with Mythic Adventures could be fascinating in its own right - in that case, I would emphasize Mythic Ascension as a Transhuman or Posthuman experience.
"The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy."
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Cthulhu is arguably the Great Old One most appropriate for a head-to-head fight, given that he's one of the few defeated by violence in Lovecraft's own work. (For a given value of "defeated", of course.)
Better him than, say, Bokrug the great water-lizard. Do not challenge Bokrug, or there will be DOOM.
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to feature cthulhu properly (as anend boss of book 6) it'd have to go to same power as WotR - lvl 20 MT10, end boss of that (+minions) is close to CR30 (about 60% of the way from CR29-30) and chtulhu is CR30"Cthulhuesque" campaigns should not necessarily about fighting and defeating Cthulhu as a boss monster. In fact, I'd argue that this would counter to the campaign being "Cthulhuesque".
This does not mean that I consider beating up Cthulhu as BadWrongFun. But that's a very different style of play.
Though combining the Cthulhu Mythos with Mythic Adventures could be fascinating in its own right - in that case, I would emphasize Mythic Ascension as a Transhuman or Posthuman experience.
"The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy."
Tammy wants to revel in joy!
And killing and shouting and what not, you can't have joy without that. :-)
