Aust Diamondew
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If I'm not too creative with gear it actually isn't too hard to do high level NPCs (paticuarly if you have a clculator).
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Kelleris
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Halcyon - I am almost positive that you shouldn't be benefiting from the addition of backlash damage to a long-duration spell. Unless I'm hallucinating, backlash damage is applied every round the spell is active. So unless you've got mad fast healing (and are sacing all of it for this spell), you should have a dead wizard on your hands.
Regarding the low-ACed characters that BastionPress_Creech posted, in my (admittedly limited) experience, it's the nonstandard, nonitem AC modifiers that make a difference at epic levels. My 30th-level PbP bardja, for instance, only has a so-so AC normally, but he uses Superior Expertise and 31 ranks in Tumble (with the fighting defensively maneuver) to get whatever AC he needs at the moment. Alternatively, his epic Bluff and Hide modifiers mean that he can just stab most opponents in the face and immediately hide (as a move action), taking whatever -20 penalties he needs to sufficiently accelerate the process.
My eponymous 40th-level mage, on the other hand, relies on moment of prescience and summoned creatures. With a ton of high-level slots and 5-6 spells/round (I went the Automatic Quicken route), he has no problems renewing his moment and using a summon monster IX or two every round to summon a clot of monsters to provide soft cover or use the aid another action.
I suspect that even Fighter-types need non-conventional defenses (bare minimum - a cloak of displacement, but that's nowhere near enough) to survive at the really high levels. So base AC isn't a huge deal when you're epic. In my experience, it should be both fairly high and pretty flexible. At the very least I would expect high-level fighter-types to use the fight defensively action to fine-tune their ACs and make sure it lies within the monster's number range, if that's at all possible.
Regarding the low-ACed characters that BastionPress_Creech posted, in my (admittedly limited) experience, it's the nonstandard, nonitem AC modifiers that make a difference at epic levels. My 30th-level PbP bardja, for instance, only has a so-so AC normally, but he uses Superior Expertise and 31 ranks in Tumble (with the fighting defensively maneuver) to get whatever AC he needs at the moment. Alternatively, his epic Bluff and Hide modifiers mean that he can just stab most opponents in the face and immediately hide (as a move action), taking whatever -20 penalties he needs to sufficiently accelerate the process.
My eponymous 40th-level mage, on the other hand, relies on moment of prescience and summoned creatures. With a ton of high-level slots and 5-6 spells/round (I went the Automatic Quicken route), he has no problems renewing his moment and using a summon monster IX or two every round to summon a clot of monsters to provide soft cover or use the aid another action.
I suspect that even Fighter-types need non-conventional defenses (bare minimum - a cloak of displacement, but that's nowhere near enough) to survive at the really high levels. So base AC isn't a huge deal when you're epic. In my experience, it should be both fairly high and pretty flexible. At the very least I would expect high-level fighter-types to use the fight defensively action to fine-tune their ACs and make sure it lies within the monster's number range, if that's at all possible.
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Lasher Dragon
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Kelleris said:
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure this wouldn't work. As far as I know you only get 1 quickened spell per round, so 2 spells per round max.
Rystil Arden
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And that's why, even though I consider myself to be the most permissive DM ever, I simply didn't allow monstrosities such as that item you mentioned. If your DM did, he shouldn't blame you for your crazy epic spells. And Kelleris is dead-on about the backlash happening every round.Halcyon said:
Rystil Arden
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Nope, there's a feat that lets you get more quickened spells up. I once built a level 40 Wizard who took Automatic Quicken 3 times and then Epic Spellcasting, Improved Metamagic, and 8 of the feat that gives more Quickened spells. So he got off ten spells every round.Lasher Dragon said:
Lasher Dragon
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Weird... because in one of the Complete books it goes into immediate actions and, what were they called now, sudden actions? Basically free actions, but they changed the name. Anyway in there (CAdv IIRC) it says you can have 1 immediate and/or 1 "free" action per round.
Rystil Arden
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And normally you are right. However, the epic feat Multispell lets you get around this rule.
Lasher Dragon
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Ahhh... nasty
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Rystil Arden
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Just another example of the Rock-Paper-Scissors Paradigm. He could shoot off ten spells per round, and all of his spells were quickened, but he couldn't cast anything above 9th-level and had trouble beating SR. So he was very very good at taking out groundlings, buffing up quickly, and escaping, but he would have a lot of trouble actually winning fights against same-level opponents (at least the ones in my campaign).Lasher Dragon said:Ahhh... nasty
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