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<blockquote data-quote="molonel" data-source="post: 3435830" data-attributes="member: 10412">It goes deeper than that. We have a guy in our gaming group who is a software tester by profession. His mind searches out weaknesses and breakpoints, whether in software or gaming systems or whatever, almost intuitively. Another of the many, MANY problems with Epic Spells is that you can, with enough spellcasters, reduce the spellcraft DC to 1. The mitigations are far, FAR too good. Epic attack spells are silly, but epic buffs? We had +40 enhancements to all six stats, spells that protected us from Anti-Magic shells and immune to Mord's Disjunction and all sorts of goodies for pathetically small costs. Epic Leadership and a cadre of spellcasting followers on a demiplane, and a group full of high-level spellcasting broke Epic Spells like a Ming vase with a sledgehammer.Epic Spellcasting is borked worse than the Hulking Hurler.You might think that, but you need to talk to some ACTUAL freeform roleplayers to see what I mean. There are some folks who talk with the same disdain about 1st Edition AD&amp;D being &quot;rules driven&quot; and &quot;too constricting&quot; in the same way some folks speak with equal or greater dislike about 3rd Edition D&amp;D.Some things truly are relative. It's a spectrum of preferences.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="molonel, post: 3435830, member: 10412"] It goes deeper than that. We have a guy in our gaming group who is a software tester by profession. His mind searches out weaknesses and breakpoints, whether in software or gaming systems or whatever, almost intuitively. Another of the many, MANY problems with Epic Spells is that you can, with enough spellcasters, reduce the spellcraft DC to 1. The mitigations are far, FAR too good. Epic attack spells are silly, but epic buffs? We had +40 enhancements to all six stats, spells that protected us from Anti-Magic shells and immune to Mord's Disjunction and all sorts of goodies for pathetically small costs. Epic Leadership and a cadre of spellcasting followers on a demiplane, and a group full of high-level spellcasting broke Epic Spells like a Ming vase with a sledgehammer. Epic Spellcasting is borked worse than the Hulking Hurler. You might think that, but you need to talk to some ACTUAL freeform roleplayers to see what I mean. There are some folks who talk with the same disdain about 1st Edition AD&D being "rules driven" and "too constricting" in the same way some folks speak with equal or greater dislike about 3rd Edition D&D. Some things truly are relative. It's a spectrum of preferences. [/QUOTE]

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