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Hi Krusty, My players are finally 4e epic, having earned every inch of it from level 1 over the past year. Which means I'm starting to use some IH stuff, and converting it to 4e. I figured starting a thread on converting old stuff would be helpful. But in general, how do you think strength...

I thought a thread describing, not stats, but the IDEAS for Epic Level Encounters might be fun. I don't mean overall plots, but individual encounters with a particular challenge. Not just the monster in question, but what makes the tactical encounter with that monster INTERESTING. Let me...

AKA, How do you kill the very concept of death itself? How do you end the idea of ending? Krusty, I've been playing up the Umbrals in my 4e campaign right now. I introduced one during the heroic tier as something to run away from, and in the paragon tier, they're dealing with the fallout of...

Upper Krust, in his infinitely tardy manner, has discussed a number of fascinating concepts regarding monster usage. Basically, he has proposed that any creature can be taken and modified +/- 5 levels by changing its status, say, from standard to minion, or from elite to solo. Furthermore, a...

So, Krusty previewed his supersolo rules, basically building off of Lolth from MM3. As cool as Lolth is, I'm not sure it's appropriate for every being. Furthermore, I like Krust's idea of using the Minion/Normal/Elite/Solo/Supersolo rules to move creatures up and down levels, enabling players...

I'm posting this here because I thought I'd get an idea of how you guys think this creature is balanced, considering that it is in fact a level 39 solo. Please make comparisons with other similarly high level beings, as well as consider how difficult he'd be to a party of sufficiently high...

I was having a discussion about the various depictions of kobolds over the years, and it came up that the AD&D Kobold from the Monstrous Compendium was significantly different from either the dog-like image or the lizard-like image. Does anyone have this picture available so I can see it...

In a PbP I'm DMing, there's a rogue who's trying to use Tornado Strike to move someone immobilized by some Black Tentacles. Is this possible? Page 285 doesn't seem to offer any help. The closest thing that hints at a ruling is that a slide is "Not a Move", not counting against a target's...

I've been thinking about statting up some more religious/philosophical concepts, but I'm a little shaky as to where to put them. What I'm focusing on right now is the Judaic concept of WISDOM, as seen in Proverbs, and then Platonic Forms. Now, my confusion comes from this... abstract concepts...

So I had a playtest of the rules today. Started on Alabaster's Tournament, just as an excuse to pit the guys against some foes and see how it turned out. Only went through three combats, two as Hero-Deities (20 HD), one as Quasi-Deities (30 HD). Three players. The first was a Bard 20(/Rogue...

Months back, I remember ENWorld has a number of interesting "Collaborative Setting" threads that worked out quite well, creating some fascinating gems (anyone remember the half-orc nobility setting?)... and I thought it might be interesting to try this again. The way it works is this: each...

It's up! Belkar does have a good point.

Just for fun, I thought I'd calculate Pun Pun's CR according to Ascension. OMNIFIC ABILITIES Arbitrary [Ability Score] x6 Indissoluble Omniparity TRANSCENDANT ABILITIES Transilient [Saving Throw] x3 Transversal Superluminal COSMIC ABILITIES Cosmic Consciousness DIVINE ABILITIES Alter Reality...

I'm not looking to start up the "can monks take Improved Natural Attack" thread again. Assuming that the ruling in your group is that they can, does that also mean you can take BOTH Holy Ki Strike AND Sanctify Natural Attack from the Book of Exalted Deeds, and have the two effects stack (for...

One of the greatest boons towards making high level characters in Ascension was the addition of feat packages. Instead of having to remember feat chains and having to think of individual feats to give my 200th HD abberation or whatever, I can just plop in these feat packages... and surprisingly...

Say I have a strength of 3 and a BAB of +6. If I'm making a touch attack, is it at +3 or +6?

My Divine Phoenix gets a +51 to Bardic Knowledge checks. Here are the DCs for Bardic Knowledge: 10 - Common, known by at least a substantial minority drinking; common legends of the local population. 20 - Uncommon but available, known by only a few people legends. 25 - Obscure, known by few...

From this thread, it seems like there may be interest in another Collaborative Setting. For those of you just joining the series, here are the basic rules. #1) In each post, you add an additional fact about the campaign setting that we are designing. Such facts should be fairly terse to allow...

I think this older thread was one of the casualties to the messageboard crash. I know some people have a trick for recovering those old threads... the thread was on the subject of designing a Living Epic Spell template, based on the Living Spell template from WotC. Can anyone find it? I have...

Mage's Distant Garment Transmutation Level: Sor/Wiz ??? Components: V, S, F Casting Time: 1 standard action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Target: One creature Duration: One round per level (D) Saving Throw: Will negates Spell Resistance: Yes The focus for this spell is any object...