false. the strongest and most dangerous monster is a jaded, pissed off DM

I love that the strongest thing in D&D history is basically just a Fighter with 100 Attacks per round lol.

please upvote so DMs can have quick access around after watching the full thing Genius Loci - 1:40 Elder Titans - 3:25 Dream Larva - 5:18 Umbral Blot - 6:45 Iron Colossus - 7:43 Phaethon - 9:30 Primal Elementals - 10:45 Xixecal - 11:47 Devastation Vermin - 13:29 Cronus - 16:55 Hecatoncheires - 19:55

"The Hecatoncheires can only attack a a small creature up to 10 times" Dongo the Gnome Fighter: Pathetic

Chronus: Darkvision 60' So the god ravager, scourge of the cosmos, a deities nightmare... can't see past his shins in the dark?

"Lets put greatest threat to Gods into ultimate God killing simulator and give him a eons of practice" For infinitely wise and powerful creatures that was rather stupid plan.

I love the idea of Genius Loci, it could make for some really cool horror stories where you slowly uncover that the villian is not someone but ~somewhere~

Cronus: "DC 69 fort save on attack or die." Me: "Nice."

A god of fertility isn’t a good chalenge Laughs in shubniggurat.

>go to fight fertility god >every party member is suddenly very pregnant

college debt? heartbreak? homelessness? THAT is what Dream Larva become?

The Umbral Blot feels like you could do a big surprise long term campaign where the Blot just uses wizards for the goal of a bunch of chaotic evil destruction and use it as the final boss with some set up to make damn sure the party can actually fight it.

DMPCs: allow me to introduce myself

Lady of Pain CR Level: *D O N T*

Jokes on the Hecaton and the gods, Kronus has spent his time basically training in the dragonball time chamber.

Daurgothoth (CR 50): I am God! Time dragon (CR 90): Keep on dreaming, boy.

Dm: ok, so the Goddess of Fertility uses a legendary action to use its *Burgeoning Birth* on Kranthrax. Kranthrax, you are now 9 months pregnant; in 2 rounds you will give birth to a champion of the goddess. Kranthrax: ...but my character is male..!? Dm: and your point is?

"In Greek Mythology, the Hecatoncheires was born from Uranus..." That must have been one hell of a burrito

it's heartwarming to know that the strongest known creatures in dnd are good aligned

I'm so happy to see the Epic Tome from 3.5 still getting reviewed in 2020. I loved reading through the monsters in that book, even knowing that I'd never get to run them. They're just so unbelievably dope. Sentient spheres of annihilation? The undead stillborn fetal remnants of Gods? The oldest fey who are to the High Elves what the High Elves are to humans? Yes, yes yes please more of these!

Chronus: I literally kill gods for sport Level 400 fighter mutant: Hehe everything get *S L A S H*

I love how the god that came up with the plan to defeat Cronus was the kobold god. XD

The Epic Level Handbook was one of the best 3rd edition books written.

If Titans are extremely smart and close themselves off to contemplate existence, can you confront them with the realization that all moments of happiness only distract them from and magnify the immeasurable loneliness of life and win by induced depression?

A tarrasque with a ballon strapped to its back seems pretty unstoppable

"A god of fertility probably wouldn't be a good fighter" *Freya glares, sword in hand, from her chariot pulled by giant cats*

I'm surprised I never learned that about Kurtulmak before, considering I'm somewhat of a kobold fanatic.

Zeitgeist is the single most overlooked adventure path I've ever seen and the best I've ever done. So glad to see artwork from that masterful campaign (4:00)!

I couldn't stop laughing at the idea of the Hecatonkeries being made and the gods just going: "NOPE. PUT THAT IN A CAGE AND BURY IT. WE FUCKED UP."

Love how the "appear only some thousand >>AEONS

The interesting thing about this is that CR does not always help define strength. Asmodeus for instance is listed as CR32 in the BoVD, but on his own 9th layer of hell, he is all powerful. Many beings have a home plane/place of existence where they control the very fabric of reality. Against such power there are few who could survive. The infinite planes of Pandemonium are stated to react to the divine nature of beings and change their reality based on the strongest being that lives there. In those kinds of places, the list of those who can make a difference is very few.

Chronus: A Created God that seeks to hunt all other Gods out of hatred Handy Boi: I'm about to end this whole man's career.

DM: Well you all failed your saving throw, so you all die upon seeing the Dream Larvae The party: aw man we just became lvl 27... Me: Wait I'm not dead then DM: What do you mean? It's an instant kill. Me: I'm Blind 😎

I feel that if these monsters came to 5e they would be nerfed to all hell like the demon lords or the arch devils

the CR50's in 3e which you seem to be using, had the gods looking at high 90's CR. The gods from that deities book were pretty well overpowered.

Always thought that the Terrasque was the be all end all most terrifying monster ... Needing so many things and having someone that needs 'Wish' When I learned about playing DnD ...back in the day...I became terrified of this thing. Then I learned aboot the 'Lady of Pain'

Gods: makes titans Titans: makes giants Gods: Wait that's illegal

If Cronos and Hecatoncheires are THAT powerful in D&D, I would hate to see what TYPHON would be like.

7:47 that's the Magic The Gathering art for the card Damnation. A board wipe

You just KNOW that someone's tried to lewd a prismatic dragon...at least on the internet.

That huge skeleton with the sword is just legendary

A footnote from my DM logs for my current campaign: "When you absolutely have to kill the party: Eldritch Vampiric Hydra-Headed Ancient Draconic Tarrasque Krakenlich"

I'm SOOOO happy you added the Hecatoncheires to this list. So many people have never heard of it and a DM of mine in the past ended one of our campaigns utilizing it. It was epic and unforgettable! Thing is an absolute monster and I always default to that when it comes to scariest beast. I'm less afraid of a Tarrasque than that thing!

Everyone: 2020 can't get any worse! December: *Cronus escapes*

8:08 One thing that drives me a little bonkers about playing D&D is how poorly weights and sizes are understood and handled by the creators. 350,000 pounds! That's only 175 short tons. That's less than the combined weight of three M1 Abrams tanks. We see objects of that weight all the time in our every day lives. Add an extra zero, and now you're up to the weight of a submarine, which feels more right for something animated by god tier magic. Just a mini rant of mine not directed at you, MrR. It shows up all the time in D&D gameplay where the game tries to make you care about actual weights and sizes but then it scales things in the most bizarre and unrealistic ways. As an engineer trying to balance fantasy with the numbers said fantasy wants me to actually care about, it's easy to get sucked out of the immersion.

There is actually one monster in 3.5e that has a higher CR. Time Dragons from issue 359 of Dragon Magazine. No need to talk about them, but they do hit CR 90 as a Great Wyrm

7:17 Iggy, get out of here, he's still alive

The strongest named entity in D&D - at least, as far as Realmspace is concerned - would be Ao. For those physically present in Realmspace on the Material plane, it's The Atropal.

The Kobold god of traps deserves more recognition, damn

Hmm, iron colossus.... sounds like something a large high level party could be hired to hunt down for a guild of blacksmith that don't want to worry about getting iron for a few generations.

all this reminds me of is that i had a DM who had a CR 74 monster in their homebrew campaign. we actually managed to kill it with a bomb that completely destroyed everything within a 10 mile sphere of the initial blast. i was flying above it in a plane (artificer DMPC made it) and just barely was safe from the blast.

If you want an actual idea as to the power of a deity in D&D, look at the "Demigid's and Dieties" rulebook. It's for third edition, like Cronus and Hecatoncheires

CR 90 Great Wyrm Time Dragon: *These guys are cute* For anyone curious, you can find this bad boy in the Dragon Magazine #359 p. 36

An interesting case is the Lady of Pain from Planescape- a being so powerful (at least, within Sigil) that they refused to ever print any stat sheets for her, since opposing her isn't even HYPOTHETICALLY possible, even for the gods. She even slew the god Aoskar- but not in single combat, simply AT WILL.

Love how most of these have roots in mythology and history. Greek specifically.

I've seen this video a bunch of times and I always love it! You really nailed it,👍

Can we take a moment of appreciation for the lack of ads from our benefactor 👌🙌

The Immortals Handbook Epic Bestiary Volume One (sadly, the only volume ever written) has some absolutely insane entries, topping out at the CR 9721 (not a typo) neutronium golem.

26:34 AJ Pickett's video about force and prismatic dragons describes the prismatic dragon as a draconic version of Zaphod Beeblebrox from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a prismatic dragon that lives near a humanoid settlement would be like a fraggle from Fraggle Rock, with the inhabitants of the town or city being like the Doozers. EDIT: I recommend looking up the Time Dragon from 3.5e... It'll blow your mind.

Honestly, one of the coolest parts of this video is learning that Kerafyrm had its origins--both in design and power--in Dungeons and Dragons.

"The CR 33 Iron Colossus is similar to an Iron Golem except that its body is sculpted from 150,000 pounds of pure iron. It weighs around 350,000 pounds." Huh? Where does the other 200,000 pounds come from?

2:20. It's latin and literally means something like "Spirit of the place" (And the c gets pronounced as a k)

Your enthusiasm for the monsters is inspiring ❤

Imagine rolling an attack against the Devastation Beetle: "71? That's a miss"

"Imagine if Mother Earth could attack you with trees and dominate humans in order to speak." *Captain Planet*

Zeus: Bro, I need a hand! Hecatoncheires: I GOT YOU HOMIE!

Hecatoncheires! One of my favorite monsters, even if I've never been able to fight one!

I remember GM'ing a heck of a long campaign (was almost 2 years long and the 5th campaign of mine) where the players had to face a CR62 "Invisible Wind" at the end (my own creation!) It was a Stellar-Wind Elemental with a world-sized aura of death. Immune to non-magical physical attacks, could become invisible and untargetable at will (the aura of death was impossible to hide, tho), and could slice planets in two by materialising as a "plate" within the planet bisecting it at the moment of materialisation. The players were super dismayed, but they still came up with a plan after 2 months of plotting and scheming on how to defeat it. They failed 😆 They were always supposed to fail, as then they transitioned to the Astral Realm for the next installment of the campaign. The looks on their faces when they couldn't find any reference to this enemy (and no clues how to defeat it) was priceless - a GM's greatest asset is their imagination. 🙂

I tossed a Hecatoncheires in one one of my epic level campaigns as a final boss fight pf the campaign, there is one blaring weakness they have that most people likely wouldn't think about but one of my players did, the stat bloc in the epic level handbook for one doesn't say anything about them not needing to breathe, so one of my players tricked it into a force wall cage they setup and then drowned it by opening a gate to the elemental plain of water, the uber epic god killing monster that is the Hecatoncheires can be drowned

Cronus: I crush Sneaky Kobold god: I have a different plan for you.

I've always heard loci pronounced "low kai" which makes sense as it is a root term for words like locate and locus, other words that have to do with place. Having said that I'm aware there's not a ton of consensus on how c is pronounced in ancient Latin, but "lossy" just sounds wrong.

I haven't seen this guy in my recommended for years. Nice to see he's still uploading.

"Genius lossy" This pronunciation kills me

Who would win in a fight: A perfect child of the Gods, made in their image with power to rival, if not outright trump, their own... Or a tree with a buncha swords?

DM: So I wrote an adventure to fight Chronus. Adventuring party: NOPE....NOPE....NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

Next campaign we're going into epic levels. This helped me as a DM. Thank you.

This is why I love 3.5 edition, the imagination there was so over the top that afterwards Wizard didn't had the choice to categorized them as ''non-canon''. MrRhexx are you gonna do videos about Gods? Even if many monsters are bigger and stronger than them, it could be quite fun to know more about them and to classified them.

So.. basically just the generic monsters from the Epic Handbook. In the same Edition, the true D&D deities listed in the book Deities and Demigods have a 'minimum' CR of around ~66 for the lesser deities such as Bahamut. It does not specify their CR but it gives the statement that, 'if forced to use a CR for a deity, a good starting baseline guide would be to take their total HD + divine rank, as a minimum." It also lists the stats for not only the "standard" (I believe Greyhawk, the one with Bahamut, Cuthbert, Pelor and such), but also 3 others for comparisons: the Asgardian, Pharaonic, and Olympian pantheons. In actual gameplay the deities' realistic CRs would be likely significantly higher than this gives you, but the range it does give is something around CR66 to CR87 or so for someone like Moradin or Corellon. However, there are several abilities the deities have which outstrip literally anything normal monsters can throw at them. I can tell you up front that the stats given for Cronus here would not suffice to actually *defeat* one of the actual deities listed in this book, aside from maybe one of the weaker demigods such as Hercules. A true martial deity such as Heironeus would not lose to him, though Cronus is capable of at least damage the deities with his massive weapon strength. The problem more likely is that Cronus simply would not be able to keep up with the Deities' other abilities and would lose by default. But honestly this is not new. Several other sources have claimed to have god-equal or god-killing power monsters and then I look at their stats against the actual deity stats and laugh. Cronus is definitely up there near it, though. The Hecatoncheires ultimately falls into the same trap... their lore says they can, but the actual stats do not bear this out. In particular, the entry for Thor indicates that he could literally one-round a Hecatoncheires, from up to *18 miles* away, by boomerang-throwing Mjolnir at it 4 times, because Thor with Mjolnir is absolutely ridiculous, dealing *64d8+116 = 628* raw physical damage per hit. Not per round, per *hit.* Also, Thor as a Greater Deity always rolls a 20 on attack rolls and always gets the maximum result of any die roll. He still rolls to check if he crits, but other than that everything is counted as a 20. So, he automatically hits the monster 4 times in a row without any special feats, only raw stats, and without using any of his activated deific powers aside from using Alter Size to grow to be 1600 feet tall because why wouldn't he if he were fighting one of these things? Of course, Thor with Mjolnir is an extreme example and even the other martial deities do not come close to his raw output with this weapon unless they were to create similarly-powerful artifact weapons for themselves... but they can certainly do so, especially with the help of someone like Boccob, who can, and I quote: "Create Magic Items: As a deity of magic, Boccob can create any type of magic item." With no GP limitation or stat limitation because he is a Greater Deity. So Boccob can literally clap his hands and create Mjolnir-level artifact weapons as if he were Edward Elric transmuting his arm-blade, and distribute them to all of the deities, if he wants to do so. With such a weapon, Boccob himself could literally slap down a Hecaton with nigh-impunity. The dragons, though, are awesome. I *love* Prismatic and Force dragons. Prismatics are potentially capable of getting to "Beyond Great Wyrm" and truly competing with some deities..... somewhat.

Why you gotta do that to me with the dream larva coming at me man? Freaking me out with the transition dude.

"over 80 feet tall or higher" has redundancy

She's not a monster but she is the most powerful thing in all of D&D she's from 1st edition, the lady of pain

You know every time I see these lists the only thing that pops into my mind is "How do normal people survive in these realms?"

Been consuming your contents lately after playing Baldursgate3. I love the lores and your videos!

Me reading the tittle: BOBLIN THE GOBLIN

Id rather like to see a" Scariest" or " Most weird/unique" version of this.

*my CR 30 lvl 6 character stares at you menacingly*

Azatoth : *LAUGHS IN CR 56900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000009999877665543211223345567788900098765322123445667889009876543321234556678890098654322111233334445556778383827363635252511617717374848858595959493838373635252424241414152637733848848438383737363636363535352627272828282828283837474746463636262727182819199101020292933873737446467327271818281811991922838383847473773828282829292929292929838*

“What if a god were to put everything they had into making *the best thing?* “ I kinda like the thought of something as powerful as a god trying really hard to make something cool.

I really liked the idea of the Hecatonchiries, but didn't want to throw a totally unreasonable challenge into my game, so I played around with the concept in my personal campaign setting. The gods of my world had a chained Hecatonchiries, leftover from the conflicts that created the universe. They carved off a piece of it and molded it into an assassin to send against a mad war god that had grown too powerful and was fixing to end the world in a massive magical war. The assassin killed the war god, but instead of returning the God's portfolio to the pantheon to be redistributed, it ripped it apart and cast it into the mortal world. A century later, new godlings are rising up from the places where the war god's power fell, and the assassin has manipulated my players into helping it break into the prison where the rest of the Hecatonchiries' body is, and carve off the rest of the arms and heads. Now there's a small army of Hecatonchirion spawn rolling across the country slaying gods, new and old alike. With the combined post-magical-nuclear-war setting and the literal Ragnarok happening, I've got my party playing apocalypse bingo.

"The first time a creature sees a dream larva for the first time" I don't think there's a second time to see something for the first time.

I genuinely forgot I was watching a DnD video and thought I was watching a video about SCPs instead

Genius Loci is actually pronounced “Loh-kee” not “Lossy”, latin doesn’t have soft C sounds. Also the singular form would probably be “Genius Locus.”

In the forgotten volumes of the Dragon magazine there exists an even more powerful Dragon - The Time Dragon. Great Wyrm Time Dragon has a CR higher than Prismatic or Force Dragons.

I live in Oklahoma and the sirens in your video made me think there was a tornado.

Great vid! You could also mention the Time Dragon, which is the strongest dragon period. I think they are CR 70 or 80. INSANE!

Cronus defeats all the gods to realize it was just an illusion. Cronus : ah shit, here we go again.

Monsters as I see them Genius Loci: Ego from Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Elder Titans: Giant Fallen Angels Dream Larva: Birdbox Monster Umbral Blot: A Fucking self aware Black Hole Iron Colossus: TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGAAN Phaethon: The Magma Titan from Hercules on PCP Primal Elemental: ELEMENTAL GODS Xixecal: Regice of Steroids Devastation Vermin: If the 4 Horsemen of the apocalypse where Giant Kaiju Bugs. Cronus: THE DND DOOMSLAYER Hecatoncheires: Read Berserk up to the point where we first see the abyss, basically that. Force/Prismatic Dragons: Dragon Gods

"A god of fertility is obviously not going to be a great fighter" *laughs in Norse*

The hecatoncheires is from greek mythology, and the most correct pronunciation I believe at least that would be Eka-ton-eeiries

So you're saying that if I need to end the world with dragons because my level 10 party pisses me off, I should use an Ancient Force dragon?! :O