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The increase in stats a PC (or npc/monster) gain for every 4 Hit dice. (First appears PHB pg 10; progression continues ad-infinitum in epic, ELH pg 7)

34 Strength: 18 base, +5 from stat-ups, +5 Inherit, +6 Stat-boost item. Can get 36 if your race gets +2. Also, keep in mind the MM1 was written at the beginning of 3.5, before the power creep. Compare any MM1 monster of CR X to any MM5 monster of CR X and the MM5 monster will likely be hideously...

Well, I am pretty certain even 47 AC can be hit at level 20. Consider, for AC, all of the things PCs get that add to their bonus to hit: BAB: 1/1 BAB goes a long way Stats: Either Dex or Strength come from Stat ups (~+1 to hit every 8 levels, if thats all that matters to the character) Item...

My only issue with the 'wait it out' strategy is that it isn't always an option; think about an opponent with interdimentional quality or unbridled rage/transmogrify powers, where waiting it out would be the worst possible option. There should probably be a clause where some divine ability beats...

It might be that (in your example) that the cleric has probably too many metamagic capacity feats. IIRC, a 'resonable' amount of them is 1 per 4 HD over 20th. (Plus or minus one or so) So said 25th level cleric should only have 2-3. Also, unless said monster has an ability tied to it's HD, the...

True :). To be honest, I'd say they min-max at a 7/10. (heck, I helped them make their characters, so I am partly to blame for this. :P) However, I don't think there is anything their characters can do right now that is beyond what I am prepared to handle. I am just not sure of how they will...

Thanks for the reply For some reason I can't post my original reply. The post ends up being completely blank! I have no clue what causes it.

U_K! I actually have a couple of possibly tricky questions, most of them based on planning encounters. In planning for an upcomming immortal's game ('Prolly will run about the time 4E kicks off) I have hit a couple of snags with creating encounters. I want to include more foes in combats, and...

On DCs/Daze: Mindblank should block dazing. (It lists blocking mind affecting, and you could argue daze from a divine aura falls in there) An epic spell could render you immune. I am sure there are other spells from various sourcebooks and class features that would also likewise protect you...

Given that Truestrike, Trueseeing, Mindblank, Ironbody, and Shapechange are all spells that are also equal to a divine ability, I don't see why you couldn't just give an immortal a divine ability that lets it fly without the need for wings. Also, some creatures, like an Umbral Blot, really only...

It does what 3 different spells do, without the need to cast 3 spells. (3 turns in combat). It is more vulnerable to dispel (since only one successful check negates the whole shebang, but with the three separate spells 3 checks need to be rolled with the possibility that all the parts might not...

It says Will Negates (Harmless), but it has some tactical use; Cast it on a mobile enemy while on land (like standing in a puddle or where you can easily retreat to land but the foe cannot hide in the watter). Then walk 20 feet away and throw rocks at them until they die. Perhaps changing the...

'Tis a good point, but, as you noted, since the 'extra levels' came from equipment, their ECL modifier has already been added in to the equation, so they wouldn't get artifact spillover. Artifacts containing Divine/Cosmic/Transient powers are cool; Indeed, we need grimoire. :) (Although, as my...

Thanks for the info. I like that interpretation: (Most potent option at the time automatically fails). On Farealmer's Questions on abrogate: I think it could nullify spellcasting. (since it can bring their spellcasting score to '10') (This seems a bit harsh, but given its easy to get a 'zillion...

Paradox, I am curious as to how you played the Abrogate. I have a PC in an upcoming game who makes use of it (and the end-villain likely will have it), so I wonder how you were adjudicating it. Said character is a Monk (Travel/Wisdom), so it only seems appropriate that he use his cosmic...

I noted that in the 2E->3E conversion, some spells didn't change AT ALL. They still used 'old school' concepts like D% rolls; special skill or ability checks that can fail on ones in this one instance of the rules, and spells hit things of certain HD or less and suck otherwise. (Has anyone ever...

On no, not the Timestop debate again. I love the spell to death, but man does it raise problems. :) Maybe adding an addendum to ascension to fix a short list of spells would be ok if you have the space, but any fix to timestop would require a whole new wording. I toyed with the idea of reworking...

Yes, I do believe that deity can easily overpopulate the planes. :) (I am willing to bet said deity would not be well received in most pantheons...) I would think a Fighter could trade his fighter-feats for divine slots as long as said slots were fighter-related. (Since Fighter bonus feats have...

The Worship Point system is there to help DMs track a rather abstract topic of power-through-worship, so your conversion is pretty simple if you don't need something like that - Ditch the Worship Points, keep Power Points and Resonance. Worship just happens to be a combat-free way of gaining...

Some of those questions are interpretation based = Automatic Metamagic Capacity - Nothing really prevents you from loading up, but your DM may slap YOU for doing it. Besides, in epic, you get so many feats you can afford to take feats 'just for fun'. And remember, spellcasting is something that...