Most powerful character/monster/creature in cRPGs?

[ColCol]

Lady of Pain

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Bluntly put, as far as a PLANESCAPE campaign's concerned, the Lady of Pain's little more than an icon that crystallizes the mood of the campaign setting. Player characters should never deal with her. She doesn't give out missions, she never grants powers to anyone, and they can't rob her temples because she hasn't got any. If she ever does make an appearance, it should simply be simply to reinforce the wonder and mystery of the whole place.

 

[ghostdog]

 

[Dux]

Kangaxx the demilich.

 

[octavius]

Mega Dragon in MM2 and World of Xeen?

 

[buffalo bill]

save file corruption, the only truly dangerous enemy in non-roguelikes

 

[vonAchdorf]

Beren in Ultima 8 is pretty powerful and without cheesing insta death for the char.

 

[Lazing Dirk]

Lord British.

Pfft, you only need a fire field scroll to kill him.

 

[abnaxus]

Elminster

 

[Damned Registrations]

Elminster would be a good candidate if your including lore/background info, but I'm gonna go with straight up mechanics, exclude unwinnable fights, and go with Andor Drakon from ADOM. Just getting to him means doing some insanely difficult shit, and as an opponent he's about as difficult as they come. Just standing in the plane he exists in rapidly corrupts you to death, he has multiple ways of instantly killing people that aren't prepared, and he's just generally got excellent stats.

Spoiler

• Immune to death rays, paralysis, stunning, confusion, and poison
• Sometimes shrugs off bolts and other resistible magic
• Corrupting melee attack
• Penetrating melee attack
• Paralyzing melee attack
• Strength and toughness draining melee attack
• Casts Death ray, Energy blast, Stat drain, Confusion, Invisibility, Darkness, Cone of cold, Shock bolt, Glowing balls, Teleport other, and Curse
• Drains PP
• Gains speed from PC spellcasting
• Summons chaos creatures
• Can pass through walls and doors
• Teleporting
• Ignores water
• Ignores traps
• Unique monster abilities
  • Immune to polymorphing, petrification, and djinni strangling
  • Unaffected by Calm Monster
  • Cannot be swapped with

Though a PC with a wish engine in any game that allows such things far outstrips this, of course.

 

[Arvennios]

Gedna Relvel, the insanely overpowered lich in Tribunal : Morrowind. I had to cheat to beat her, and even then, it was a very long fight.

 

[Karwelas]

Bluntly put, as far as a PLANESCAPE campaign's concerned, the Lady of Pain's little more than an icon that crystallizes the mood of the campaign setting. Player characters should never deal with her. She doesn't give out missions, she never grants powers to anyone, and they can't rob her temples because she hasn't got any. If she ever does make an appearance, it should simply be simply to reinforce the wonder and mystery of the whole place.

Fuck, even in "Die, Vecna, Die!" She doesn't even turn to you, just use Dabus to grant you few rewards.

 

[Delterius]

the player

Or is it?

The protagonist of an RPG is an undying abomination whose true consciousness stems from outside time itself. A true lovecraftian horror, incomprehensible to mortal minds and whose only purpose is to steal lives in order to grow ever more powerful. They are legion and have no interest in social conventions or norms. A scourge upon the omniverse.

 

[Iznaliu]

The player. I don't mean the player character; I mean the actual guy sitting in the basement.