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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5012802" data-attributes="member: 8461">This (the emboldened area) is where you lost me; no Stage II Demiurge should be able to have that many transcendental abilities.One transcendental ability is worth six cosmic abilities, while one cosmic ability is worth six divine abilities; hence, one transcendental ability is worth thirty-six divine abilities.Now, there are fifty-four transcendental abilities in Ascension, meaning that Khorvanis has at least twenty-eight.A Stage II Demiurge has ninety-six divine abilities from its template (and no others, since divinity templates do not stack), which is equal to 2.667 transcendental abilities.Now, Khorvanis would have four artifacts that he could give up to gain more abilities instead. Each artifact sacrificed would be worth a number of divine abilities equal to his divine bonus (+96). So if he sacrificed all four, he'd have three hundred eighty-four divine abilities. Adding that to the ninety-six from his template, and that's a grand total of four hundred eighty.Four hundred eighty divided by thirty-six comes out to 13.334, or very nearly one-quarter of all listed transcendental powers.Now, he could gain more if he sacrificed feats also (since six feats equals one divine ability), but that'd mean that he'd need to give up two hundred sixteen feats per transcendental ability. If he has the minimum number of Hit Dice for a Stage II Demiurge (480) then he'd have one hundred sixty-one feats, which isn't enough. If he had the maximum that a Stage II Demiurge can have before hitting Stage III (639), then he'd have two hundred fourteen feats total...two shy of being able to buy even one more transcendental ability.It should be noted that this doesn't take into account a Stage II Demiurge's Dimensional Mastery abilities it gets automatically from its template (which are transcendental-level powers), but even so, that'd be just three of the six abilities listed.Hence, even though no other aspects of his build have been taken into account, it seems to me that Khorvanis is overpowered.</blockquote>

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