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Diablos ex Machina Nowhere will you find a greater hive of scum and villainy... Stats: 32 point buy, plus level and racial bonuses ECL: 20th LA: Limited to +5, but any LA will be adjusted via racial traits (see house rules) Alignment: Any non-good, but Lawful and Evil will have certain...

Nope. LA will be dealt with via racial bonuses; ie, you'll get less than a LA 0 race. The Ogre got 3 features, but no the ability bonuses of the standard races - not that he needs any more ability scores. I'll do something similar with the half-dragon. Which reminds me - what's the other...

Wrong Slot cost? Sheesh. I'm used to just doubling the cost of extra effects. It works out the same price, most of the time. I just don't like the idea of magic being 'harder' to work on specific body parts.

Yeah... I'm not sure what I'll put in ATM though. None as of such. However, it'd be your responsibility to run the cohort/followers, in general. I'll have enough to deal with without having to juggle umpteen mini-PCs. Of course. Would have to be a Huge creature, but that's all. 'Course...

The Scared Land setting had Tattoo magic. IIRC, Relics and Rituals I & II had the details, but it may have been in the main setting book.

Hrm. I'd give him a -2 to to spot & ranged attacks and give flankers a +1 bonus against him for 1 year (at the most) or one level, which ever comes first. The adventure types tend to high resilience, unless you are playing a very gritty game, that type of loss can be overcome easily enough.

I'd give a save, since the spell allows it. Plus, it's going to be doing enough damage as is, I'd think. In this case, you might think of the reflex save not as dodging the blast, but removing the necklace and tossing it aside just before it goes BOOOM. However, in this case, I'd be tempted...

Quite correct. PHB II is what I think you mean. Indeed, and don't forget the 18th level racial ability - only make one attack in a full round, but with a 2-hander, that'll make your str bonus to damage x4 (= +40), plus it doubles the damage of power attack.

Since the level bonus comes from class levels, he wouldn't get the points from 18 & 20, hence the 21 I'm getting. HOWEVER, Counting the HD as class levels would be a valid reading as well, and if you all think that is easier to work with, I'm fine doing it that way. Yup, I have all the...

For skill purposes, treat the Ogre HD as Fighter Levels, just with a different set of class skills. IE, just treat yourself as a 20th level fighter for figuring your total number of skill points. Net is, you get 21+(int mod) skill points.

Nac: While I'm not 100% sure of the progression I'll be using, you are correct in that there won't be any class level progression beyond 20th, much as in e6. As such, I'm certainly open to the equivalent of 'Capstone'/'Epic'/'Prestige' type feats that expand on class abilities.

OnlytheStrong: Beauty and the Beast, actually. Though I'm sure that's got some Greek Myth in it. Anyway, yeah, Ogres have 4 racial HD, so at ECL 20, he'll have 16 class levels. Or, in other words, he'll be an Ogre 4, Fighter 16. Douane: Hrm. The campaign only exists as an outline in my...

I usually aim for 6 or so PCs. I also presume that 2 will drop out after a short time, so 8 is the most I like to work with. Especially at this level, it gets hard to run things with more than that.

Zone of Truth. Offer it a deal - it tells you what you want to know or you feed it to the bear. If it does tell you, you agree to 'just' drop it down a ravine or other deep hole sufficient to keep it out of circulation for at least the rest of your lives. Remember, if you were able to smash...

Looks like I'll have to be dropping this idea, but I have another! D&D Epic 20 "Planar" setting 20th level Evil party. Looking for 6 or so to start with. Diablos ex Machina Remember, Evil has Milk AND Cookies. Because we stole them. From babies. EDIT: We now have 9 applicants, and I won't...

OnlytheStrong: Once there was a prince, a warrior of great abilities. Blessed with a strong arm, a quick mind and a statuesque contanance, he had everything. However, he was also terribly arrogant. While far from a monster, he held himself above the common man. His station was not to be...

Ok, posted racial progressions for the Ogre and Warforged. As for aging, I can't find it right now, but the basics of it was that at each age category you picked 1 stat and got skill points equal to your (non-magical) bonus in that stat that can only be spent on skills linked to that stat...

Shayuri: Sounds interesting. I can see a possible scenario - having sterilized your own world, you eventually discovered a means of planar travel only to be confronted with the shear scale of the planes. With your current configuration, you calculated that life could recolonize areas faster...

Warmage & Eclectic Learning is fine by me - I'm not terribly fond of Duskblades. I do like the 'living weapon idea'.

Ok, got the house rules posted. Some tweaking remains, but that should get you the general ideas. One of the original characters in the first DEM was a druid lich. Also had the priest of a nasty sun-god as well as a most excellent fiendish warforged (backstory was he started as a suit of...