Epic BAB

[Xeoble]

According to the ELH FAQ, your BAB is frozen when you hit CHARACTER level 20. So a level 17 monk with a template that gives ECL +3 is stuck at BAB +12 forever and gains only "Epic Attack Bonus" from then on and can never get a fifth attack?

 

[Crothian]

That would be correct. Many people don't like that though.

 

[Xeoble]

I would be one of those people who doesn't like it

I can see capping normal attacks at 4, but I think everyone should have the opportunity to reach 4 attacks, even wizards and sorcs, albeit at level 39

 

[Crothian]

I would be one of those people who doesn't like it

I can see capping normal attacks at 4, but I think everyone should have the opportunity to reach 4 attacks, even wizards and sorcs, albeit at level 39

The real arguemnet cam when you take 20 levels of Wizard followed by 20 levels of fighter, and compare that to a character who did that in reverse. One has 4 attacks, the other 2 even though their levels and classes are perfectly equal.

 

[Xeoble]

Which, in my opinion, doesn't make very much sense...

 

[James McMurray]

Lets say it takes you, on average, 6 months to gain each level. That seems a bit fast to me at epic levels, but not too terribly so in a ast-paced campaign of catastrophic proportions.

If that is the case, then you have been a fighter for ten more years than you've been a wizard. It sounds quite plausible to me that you would be a better fighter than the guy who spent the first ten years of his career studying books.

YMMV

 

[Xeoble]

You've still been a fighter for 10 years and should get 4 attacks

 

[Crothian]

The time spent as each class is irrelavent. It's you have two characters who sheets say Wizard 20/Fighter 20, yet they are very much not the same.

 

[Xeoble]

Now that i think about it, i'm not sure i like the epic advancement rules very much. I'd rather have it that you increase in the same manner that you have for the previous 20 levels, so a 40th level fighter is still twice as good at hitting things as is a 40th level wizard, instead of a third better.

 

[hammymchamham]

hmmmm, another reason not to play ECL races. Poor svirfneblin, always someone out to get them.

:me shakes his hands at WotC: