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When I "recovered" your lost post that time by quoting it directly, I noticed that the error was due to faulty quote tags.

Divine Handicap: ANATHEMA (EX) The concentrated faith of others can prove especially harmful or fatal to you. Penalty: Any enemy capable of turning or rebuking undead can now make turning checks against you, as if you were an undead creature. Your turn resistance is ineffective against this kind...

Since an immortal's built-in "immortality" is basically just a combination of six epic feats (Haleness, Hibernate, Incorruptible Body, Inedia, Insomnious, and Terrene Body), you could probably say it's worth a single divine ability, and an immortal without that immortality would have a divine...

To sum up my previous post, how many "lives" should this cosmic ability give an immortal each time it's taken? A number of "lives" equal to the immortal's divine rank, 1/2 the immortal's divine rank, 1/3rd the immortal's divine rank, or 1/4th the immortal's divine rank? Keep in mind that the...

Page 27 explains that +2 to all six ability scores is worth +1 ECL, and a single divine ability is worth +1 ECL, so 1/6 of a divine ability (an [epic] feat) should give a +2 bonus to a single abilitty score. Furthermore, in the example handicap given in page 97, a divine ability can increase a...

Very quick question: should the Great [Ability Score] epic feats increase the ability score by only 1, or by 2?

In the process of statting up a character from a particular game, I decided that I needed to create a new cosmic ability just to simulate said character's signature ability, a cosmic version of Transmortality with a fatal flaw. You see, at one point in the game, the main characters went out to...

I just noticed that in the Epic Level Handbook, the atropal has Weapon Focus (eye ray) and Weapon Focus (touch). Could a fighter deity with, say, Uncanny Cosmic Mastery take Weapon Focus (Uncanny Cosmic Mastery) and then build up the feat/ability chain to take Perfect Weapon Specialization...

Right, right, but the Perfect Body divine ability gives you a +5 inherent bonus to all of your physical ability scores and the Perfect Mind divine ability gives you a +5 inherent bonus to all of your mental ability scores. Also, a +5 inherent bonus isn't exactly a petty bonus for demi-deities...

I've noticed that in the book, there are two different kinds of DCs that are arbitrarily set for different abilities: (DC 10 + 1/2 Hit Dice + relevant ability score modifier + divine rank), and (DC 20 + relevant ability score modifier + divine rank). Negative Energy [Effect], for example, uses...

Wait, wait, wait, doesn't that push it straight to the other end of the extreme spectrum, making immortals succeed at saving throws 95% of the time? A lesser deity with 55 HD (ECL 95) and 35 in all of his ability scores will have a save bonus of +47, but save DCs of only DC 40. Something's wrong...

Then it should be stated that the divine aura effects that force Will saves are mind-affecting effects I'm trying to avoid custom epic spells for the IHB, because it always ends up in a situation where the mage makes a spell to counteract everything and applies lots and lots of...

I just noticed that there's a huge problem with save DCs: there's too big a gap between save DCs and save bonuses once you bring in greater deities. Let's take a lesser deity with 55 outsider HD (ECL 955) and 35 in all of his ability scores, and a greater deity with 80 outsider HD (ECL 160) and...

That's good to know. It'll help when I get around to restatting the Epic Bestiary's angels to be more compliant with Ascension, after all my other plans with Ascension, of course. Would this be the official rule on how "permanent" Divine Immensity works, by the way? Wait, so an immortal with...

So basically, an immortal starts off as Medium, and then he can spend X divine ability slots to permanently increase his size by X size categories (though he must meet the minimum HD to "naturally" be of a given size category), thus indirectly using "Divine Immensity". For example, a 100 HD...

I see. That makes sense. By the way, I noticed a little discrepancy in the adventure ideas: The double Death portfolio gives you super-Rectify in the sense that it doesn't require you to kill your enemy with Astro [Effect]. I'd say that that's on the level of an omnific ability.

Then how do you determine the base size category of an immortal before any Divine Immensities are taken into account? I'm looking for some clear-cut rules on this, because the base size category of an immortal seems to be arbitrarily eyeballed off whatever seems right. No, I'm asking how the...

That's what the minimum HD for each size category would be for. Going by the rules for the Epic Bestiary, for example, an immortal with 100 outsider HD would qualify for only Titanic size as his base size category. If, for whatever reason, he wants to be bigger than that, he would have to take...

Even if there are no such things as immortals of unique races, there are cases where the base race of an immortal is a complete guess, or where the base race is something that hasn't been statted up before. Take Atropus, for example; you could make a case for a genius loci being the base, but a...

Also, I've noticed that at around the 70 HD intermediate deity mark (ECL 130), the scythe becomes the absolutely greatest two-handed weapon ever due to the Perfect Critical, Perfect Critical Multiplier, and Uncanny Weapon Specialization cosmic abilities working especially well for weapons with...