Converting Epic Level Beings

[Shade]

I got ya covered on sorcerer up above. His bro is a cleric/wizard, so let's make him a druid/sorcerer.

Spells: Epimetheus can cast divine spells as a 10th-level druid. The save DCs are Wisdom-based.

Typical Druid Spells Prepared (6/8/7/6/6/5; save DC 23 + spell level): 0 – create water, detect magic, detect poison, know direction, mending, purify food and drink; 1st – detect animals or plants, entangle, faerie fire, goodberry, longstrider, pass without trace, produce flame, speak with animals; 2nd – barkskin, gust of wind, heat metal, soften earth and stone, spider climb, summon swarm, warp wood; 3rd – 6; 4th – 6; 5th – 5.

More to come.

 

[Filby]

As far as spells go, I'd just like to suggest that under his sorcerer list he get polymorph, shapechange, some kind of size-reduction spell, or anything to allow him to assume human form and/or size, since I recall seeing a Greek myth "family tree" of sorts noting that he had children with Pandora. Presumably he'd have to be a little smaller than titan-size to father children with a human woman, eh?

 

[BOZ]

Yes, his wife is Pandora – in fact, IIRC he is the one that let her open her infamous Box. I agree that he should have some kind of polymorph or change shape ability that lets him change size, as either a sorcerer spell or spell-like ability (don’t all the Titans we worked on have that in one shape or form?)

Weird thing about the Greek myths though – people could do seemingly impossible things all the time that would thoroughly violate the D&D rules. so a human and a giant could copulate with no explanation required – but for practicality’s sake, we’ll make sure he has a “shrinky-dink” type of power.

 

[Shade]

All greater titans have:

Spell-Like Abilities: At will – chain lightning (DC 27), charm monster (DC 25), cure critical wounds (DC 25), fire storm (DC 28), greater dispel magic, hold monster (DC 26), invisibility, invisibility purge, levitate, persistent image (DC 26), polymorph (humanoid forms only, duration 1 hour), protection from energy, read magic; 3/day – etherealness, freedom of movement, greater teleport, summon nature’s ally IX, word of chaos (DC 26); 1/day – gate, maze, meteor swarm (DC 30), plane shift, wind walk. Caster level 25th. The save DCs are Charisma-based.

 

[BOZ]

right, that's what i meant. and at least a couple of them have something even better - cronus does for example.

 

[Shade]

I finished up my spells suggestions and compiled 'em.

Spells: Epimetheus can cast divine spells as a 10th-level druid. The save DCs are Wisdom-based.

Typical Druid Spells Prepared (6/8/7/6/6/5; save DC 23 + spell level): 0 – create water, detect magic, detect poison, know direction, mending, purify food and drink; 1st – detect animals or plants, entangle, faerie fire, goodberry, longstrider, pass without trace, produce flame, speak with animals; 2nd – barkskin, gust of wind, heat metal, soften earth and stone, spider climb, summon swarm, warp wood; 3rd – call lightning, meld into stone, quench, remove disease, water breathing, wind wall; 4th – air walk, flame strike, freedom of movement, ice storm, rusting grasp, scrying; 5th – awaken, commune with nature, control winds, death ward, transmute mud to rock.

Epimetheus can also cast arcane spells as a 15th-level sorcerer (6/9/9/8/8/8/8/5; save DC 20 + spell level). He has access to the following spells: 0 – arcane mark, dancing lights, ghost sound, mage hand, mending, message, open/close, prestidigitation, resistance; 1st – expeditious retreat, floating disk, grease, jump, true strike; 2nd – cat's grace, fog cloud, fox's cunning, mirror image, touch of idiocy; 3rd – displacement, fly, haste, slow; 4th – arcane eye, confusion, scrying, stone shape; 5th – baleful polymorph, fabricate, major creation, transmute rock to mud; 6th – flesh to stone, greater heroism, true seeing; 7th – banishment, mass hold person, statue. The save DCs are Charisma-based.

 

[BOZ]

I definitely want to make finishing Epi a priority.

first off before i get to working on his powers, i want to show you the flavor text i wrote for him. i used the same site i had been using for all the titans to add some real mythology to the text:

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Epimetheus-(mythology)

Epimetheus is a clumsy titan, though he is friendly and means well. His name means “afterthought,” or “hindsight,” and was given to him to suggest that he does not always think before he acts. He is the son of the Titan Iapetus and the nymph Clymene, and is the brother of the Titans Prometheus and Atlas. Though often seen as a bumbling fool, Epimetheus has an equal fondness for humans as his brother Prometheus’, and he always means well.

Epimetheus was charged with the responsibility of giving a positive trait to every animal. But when it was time to give one to humans, he had already used up all the traits, so his brother Prometheus (who wanted to be sure that humans deserved to have something that no animal possessed) stole fire from Zeus to give as a gift to humankind. As a punishment for Epimetheus’ poor planning he created Pandora, the first woman, and gave her to the foolish Titan as a wife. Though Prometheus, who had his own punishment to serve for stealing the fire, warned his brother not to trust any gift from the Olympian gods, Epimetheus fell in love with and accepted Pandora despite the warnings. Epimetheus took Pandora as his wife, and they had a daughter Pyrrha, who married her cousin Deucalion. These two humans were the only survivors of the Great Deluge that Zeus sent to destroy the Golden Age.

When the Olympians were finished creating Pandora, the trickster god Hermes presented her with a special box and warned her not to open it. Pandora was made to be curious however, and eventually Epimetheus foolishly allowed her to open the box. The opening of this box released all kinds of misfortunes upon mankind, ruining their idyllic existence, though Pandora was able to close the box just in time to leave humans with a sense of hope in times of evil.

 

[BOZ]

i've glanced over Shade's list of spells, and that all seems OK to me. i'm going to have a look at the list of spell-likes, and also the clay of creation power.

Here is the standard list of spell-like abilities, plus those for good alignment. For additional abilities, looking at the above writeup I’d suggest anything having to do with animals, and to a lesser extent anything that creates, gives, or restores life and health.

Spell-Like Abilities: At will – chain lightning (DC X), charm monster (DC X), cure critical wounds (DC X), daylight, fire storm (DC X), greater dispel magic, hold monster (DC X), holy smite (DC X), invisibility, invisibility purge, levitate, persistent image (DC X), polymorph (humanoid forms only, duration 1 hour), protection from energy, read magic, remove curse (DC X); 3/day – etherealness, freedom of movement, greater teleport, summon nature’s ally IX, word of chaos (DC X); 1/day – gate, greater restoration, maze, meteor swarm (DC X), plane shift, wind walk. Caster level 25th. The save DCs are Charisma-based.

 

[Shade]

Excellent description. Much more thorough than D&DG.

 

[BOZ]

is he actually mentioned in the DDG?

comments on the spell-likes?