History NighInvulnerability / TabletopGames

** [[UpToEleven If that's not enough]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=239961 Avacyn]] gives this power to ''all your creatures''.

** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193452 Emrakul]], while not actually possessing the "Indestructible" rule, can't be countered and is immune to coloured instant and sorceries (read: the vast majority of them). Creatures can harm her, but given high Power and Toughness, as well as the flying ability, she's ''very'' hard to put down. And if she does die, she'll go back into her owner's deck, potentially letting them recast her.

*** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193452 Emrakul]], while not actually possessing the "Indestructible" rule, does prevent itself from being countered and being affected by almost all spells (so only colorless artifacts can harm him). Given his insanely high Power and Toughness, as well as the flying ability, this makes him VERY hard to put down.

*** And the Decieved actually take this one step ''further'', dropping the "Nigh" from NighInvulnerability altogether. Even if you kill a Decieved, destroy every trace of its body so it has nothing to regrow from, and erase every record of its existence so it can't be called back, it will ''still'' spontaneously reincarnate after enough time passes. Even if Earth itself was destroyed, the Decieved would just start reincarnating on Mars.

** Of course, at the same time, it has some fairly major tactical weaknesses - it has an Intelligence of 3 (minimum for non-animal intelligence, human average being 10), is completely groundbound, and has no attacks beyond its reach (and no magical attacks). Thus, it is completely helpless against anything incorporeal (can only be hurt by magic weapons) or airborne. They might have some trouble hurting it, but it can't do anything to them, so doing 1 more damage than its regeneration (on average, per round) is enough to [[CherryTapping cherrytap]] it to death, assuming you can keep up if it flees. Also, its regeneration does not work against direct ability damage.

** There is a possible ShoutOut to this creature in ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'', in which one of the higher-level Zerg units is called a Torrasque. It is quite durable, regenerates quickly, and is presented as being continually reincarnated by a specific cerebrate. That may actually also be a reference to the original creature of actual legend, a dragon named "the tarrasque". It had a turtle-like shell, and proved invulnerable to everything - until blessed by a saint, at which point it became both vulnerable, and docile as a lamb. Too bad for it the local villagers weren't in a forgiving mood, despite the saint's pleading.

* The ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' setting has the Dragon of Tyr, the most powerful and feared being on the DeathWorld of Athas. Not only is it physically powerful, it possesses enormous psionic and defiling magic. It regenerates, can only be hit by magic items that are +2 or higher (which it only takes half damage from unless they're made of metal), has 80% magic resistance and is immune to most StatusEffects. It's outright stated in the book that stats the Dragon and its home that, if the encounter is run properly, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the party should not be able to kill it]]. Even the setting's god-like sorcerer-kings are terrified of the creature.

* Not only are ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'''s Necrons Franchise/{{Terminator}}-like metal skeletons with amazing damage resistance, they have the ability to teleport matter directly to their own system from their tombs for nanites to incorporate it into their forms as a self-repair mechanism powerful enough to rebuild them even if cut to pieces. And if you DO manage to get one to stay down, its various component parts will be teleported back to the tomb and rebuilt no matter what sort of damage has occurred. The Imperium doesn't even know if there exists weapons that can kill Necrons. And given the kind of weapons that exist in ''Warhammer 40000'', that's saying quite a lot.
** One Necron managed to directly regenerate from being melted into a puddle of metal. And this was not even a leader, just a Necron mook.
** There is technically a way to kill Necrons and possibly their C'Tan gods -- hitting them with weapons that expose them directly to [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the Warp]], since their existence is purely material, and they can't survive the Immaterium. That's the purpose of the Blackstone Fortresses aka Talismans of Vaul. The background tends to get retconned with every version release, so this may no longer be valid.
** Daemons aren't so easy to dispose of either. Powerful ones cannot actually be killed (at least with physical weapons), merely banished back into the Warp, and even doing stupendous amounts of damage only makes the banishment longer. Kill a daemon, and he'll probably be back in a couple centuries, which isn't much time in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Other supernatural entities share similar traits, such as the bodiless "walking armor" soldiers of the Thousand Sons legion of Chaos Space Marines, who have an annoying tendency to come back from the dead.
*** However, if a Daemon dies under [[TheSoulless a Blank's presence]] (which cuts off and suppresses the Warp), they are [[KilledOffForReal permanently dead.]]
** Space Marines almost constantly wear armour better than most tanks; underneath is a three-metre-tall SuperSoldier with a bullet-proof chest and multiple spare organs. Even severe damage near to the point of death doesn't stop them, as they are wired into a [[MiniMecha Dreadnought]] and continue fighting.
** [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Da Orks]] are already ridiculously tough, being hulking brutes with physical strength equal to or greater than a fully equipped Space Marine, but they are further resilient due to being [[PlantAliens animals with a symbiotic relationship to fungi]], almost completely devoid of vital organs and any injury short of missing limbs being superficial (it is thought that bolters, self-propelled explosive rounds, were invented originally to combat Orks). There are reports of Orks being decapitated, ''killing the person who decapitated them then '''reattaching their own severed head''''', with no problems whatsoever. Datz ''reel'' Orky.
*** Makari (a [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent grot]] who was Ghazghkull's standard bearer) had the supernatural luck version of this, effectively granting him a great saving throw against pretty much anything. In 8th edition Makari has a 2+ invulnerable save, the single best save in the whole game as only one in six attacks will harm him.
* The dwarves from the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' games. While still being mortal and technically still squishy on the inside (so no "Made of" rules) the ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' rule book comments on their "Stubborn Knack of refusing to Die".

** [[TabletopGame/MummyTheCurse Mummies]] were made to be immortal, implacable servants of dark gods, and it shows. Like Prometheans, they don't pass out or bleed out, though they do suffer wound penalties. On top of that, they can regenerate damage, and have a couple of methods to accelerate it. They can only be killed when their health meters are filled with aggravated damage and they're not already accelerating its healing. Even assuming you manage to kill one, they ''will'' come back - not may, ''will'', albeit still somewhat battered. Not even destroying their bodies can stop them, because they can be called back from death into a new body.

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' has the Supernatural Durability advantage that gives the ability to survive any amount of punishment unfazed until you reach -5xhp and even then only one form of damage can truly kill you. The rules do say that being blown to pieces by a single attack is still lethal.
** In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS Supers}}'', on the discussion of cosmic scale characters, buying enough Damage Reduction to divide an attack's damage by ''one billion'' is noted as being "alarmingly cheap" at just 1350 points. Consider that the destruction of Hiroshima required not even a hundred thousand points of damage.
* Several characters in ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' come with Invulnerability, though this almost always has one caveat - a character with higher Legend can damage them. There are some exceptions to even this, however.
* [[OurLichesAreDifferent Liches]] in most games that have them will regenerate from any sort of destruction unless their SoulJar is broken first.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', all Nobles know a simple rite that renders them immune to a certain level of mortal harm. Unusually, as the character gets more powerful, the rite will start to include ''less'' severe damage. So, a weak Noble will walk out of a (mundane) [[NukeEm nuclear explosion]] unharmed, but be completely vulnerable to bullets. True masters of this rite can't even be ''insulted'' by mortals.
** In spinoff game ''TabletopGame/ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine'', anyone on an Immortal arc can't be killed, shrugging off most anything that would harm them.

* In the ''TabletopGame/DresdenFiles'' RPG, this is the purview of the Physical Immunity power, which provides pretty much exactly what it says it does. There is a drawback -- like the lesser Toughness abilities, it requires a Catch, in the form of an attack that will completely bypass it. This can be very simple (one sample fire elemental had Physical Immunity to fire, with the Catch being, well, everything that ''wasn't'' fire) to incredibly obscure (see Nicodemus's entry in Literature, for instance).
* The adamantine golem in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', by far the most durable golem in existence. Its HP total isn't really impressive (205), but it has 33 AC, DR 15/epic (ignores the first 15 points of damage from weapons except those with magical enhancements equivalent in cost to a +6 weapon at least), is immune to all spells and spell-like abilities that allow spell resistance except for ''transmute metal to wood'' that slows it down and changes its damage reduction to 15/adamantine, recovers 10 hp per round and even below 0 HP (constructs are normally destroyed at this stage), it simply gets downed and keeps recovering and may return to the fight if brought back at 1 HP at least, and only a natural 20 followed by a successful critical hit confirmation with an adamantine vorpal weapon while the adamantine golem is downed can destroy it for good.

* The ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' setting has the Dragon of Tyr, the most powerful and feared being on the DeathWorld of Athas. Not only is it physically powerful, it possesses enormous psionic and defiling magic. It regenerates, can only be hit by magic items that are +2 or higher (which it only takes half damage from unless they're made of metal), has 80% magic resistance and is immune to most StandardStatusEffects. It's outright stated in the book that stats the Dragon and its home that, if the encounter is run properly, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the party should not be able to kill it]]. Even the setting's god-like sorcerer-kings are terrified of the creature.

* Liches in most games that have them will regenerate from any sort of destruction unless their SoulJar is broken first.

*** Makari (a [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent grot]] who was Ghazghkull's standard bearer) had the supernatural luck version of this, effectively granting him a great saving throw against pretty much anything. The most recent codex informs us that he "lived to the ripe old age of nine before finally being sat on by his master and subsequently fed to an ill-tempered Squiggoth."

* The Tarrasque, a monster from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', is not only incredibly tough but regenerates at a hideous rate and will not stay dead, and is immunized to 50% of the offensive spells. The only way to kill it is to bring it to -10 hit points (the normal point of death for living creatures in ''D&D'') and cast ''wish'' or ''miracle'', specifically wishing for/requesting that the Tarrasque remains dead.

** There is a ShoutOut to this creature in ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'', in which one of the higher-level Zerg units is called a Torrasque. It is quite durable, regenerates quickly, and is presented as being continually reincarnated by a specific cerebrate.
*** That may actually also be a reference to the original creature of actual legend, a dragon named "the tarrasque". It had a turtle-like shell, and proved invulnerable to everything - until blessed by a saint, at which point it became both vulnerable, and docile as a lamb. Too bad for it the local villagers weren't in a forgiving mood, despite the saint's pleading.

* Prior to 3rd edition, ''lots'' of D&D monsters had Nigh Invulnerability to weapons below a certain "plus" value, meaning that heroes without such equipment could only defeat them with spells, fire, or improvised alternative methods (e.g. holding a werewolf underwater until it drowns). This rule got the nickname "[[YouMustBeThisTallToRide You Must Be This Tall To Fight This Monster]]", and was fortunately replaced with damage resistance in 3E.

*** And the Decieved actually take this one step ''further''. Even if you kill a Decieved, destroy every trace of its body so it has nothing to regrow from, and erase every record of its existence so it can't be called back, it will ''still'' spontaneously reincarnate after enough time passes. Even if Earth itself was destroyed, the Decieved would just start reincarnating on Mars.