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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 8581239" data-attributes="member: 326">Howdy LunarSquid!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> BA? My memory is foggy - remind me what that is again?That's my current thinking on the matter.That said, there are ways you can tangentially circumnavigate those limits without necessarily breaking them - and that's something I will be exploring.I disagree. 1st edition had similar caps* and still had greater gods (and in our campaign Overgods as well). *We slightly broke the AC cap in our game, but I don't think it was a necessary facet of the combat.I know its difficult visualizing crazy stuff like Time Lords without simply expanding the numbers (and at some point I 'may' still do that). But looking at my stat-blocks at the moment and I don't think AC plays a big part...and as such there is no need to expand the numbers unnecessarily - if we do that we will end up in the quicksand of 3rd edition.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Its no big mystery, but I will sit on the details for now (in part because mechanics are 'malleable' and I may still tweak a few things before release).I appreciate the excitement and curiosity. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":giggle:" title="Giggle    :giggle:"  data-smilie="27"data-shortname=":giggle:" />I'm actually excited to be working on an epic D&D book again and see how much we can 'push the envelope'. Today I was working on the magic system and came up with a fun 473rd-level spell (and as a point of reference you can "Death Star Laser" a planet with a 53rd-level spell).Now if only I had 100 more people such as yourself I might get this darn thing funded. I ran into the same problems myself - 5th Edition at times seemed designed by a crazy person. But eventually I decoded the Matrix and was able to make sense of it - everything fell into place when I solved how to do nukes in 5E. Once I had that, everything fit like a jigsaw...the tiers of divinity, a really simple epic spell system, mega monster damage.</blockquote>

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