Design a usable Epic Spell, please, for actual use in a game

[Neijin]

I looked at straight summoning for DC reduction and was disappointed. All I found that could cast spells were Lillends, Couatls, and Celestial Charger Unicorns. Did I miss a gem off either the summon monster or SNA spell lists?

Yeah, planar binding would be quite efficient.

 

[GDorn]

Level 1: Explosive Spell, Snowcasting, Scribe Scroll
Level 3: Energy Substitution (electricity)
Level 5: Craft Wondrous Item
Level 6: Empower Spell
Level 9: Born of the Three Thunders
Level 12: Alacritous Cogitation
Level 15: Extraordinary Spell Aim
Level 18: Arcane Thesis (Apocalypse from the Sky)

Key problems:

- Explosive Spell only works for spells allowing a reflex save, which AftS does not. I don't think the reflex save to avoid stunning due to BotTT counts, here.

- Errata on AftS says that the artifact requirement is a focus, not a material component.

But anyway, to kill an entire army, you don't even need the explosive spell part. You don't even really need the ability to cast it as a full-round action, though that's nicely twinkish. Just by itself, AftS kills whole cities, with the only survivors being those who can take the average 35 (or 53 empowered) damage.

 

[Quartz]

In Sepulchrave II's story hour, I believe that Nwm required little if no epic magic to obliterate an army.

 

[RigaMortus2]

Key problems:

- Explosive Spell only works for spells allowing a reflex save, which AftS does not. I don't think the reflex save to avoid stunning due to BotTT counts, here.

True... Good catch...

- Errata on AftS says that the artifact requirement is a focus, not a material component.

Can't seem to locate any errata on this. Have a link by chance? Or which errata is it in? AftS came from Book of Vile Darkness, and there isn't any errata on that that I can find.

 

[Neijin]

Does anyone have a link to relevant post from the Sepulchrave II story hour thread(s)? It seems he/she has more than one and one of them is 377 posts long.