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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hashmalum" data-source="post: 791935" data-attributes="member: 9450"><p>The character with a +4 Spellcraft check bonus obviously just wasn't planning on being an epic spellcaster. The character with the +90 bonus almost certainly achieved it through some sick +skill items which no sane DM would have allowed into the game had that DM known that they were going to be using the epic spellcasting rules. In both cases, it seems very likely that the characters were created before the ELH came out. Therefore, they will not be well-balanced characters to play at epic levels. This is unfortunate, but it is not just casters of epic spells that have this problem. Consider the epic fighter/wizard vs. wizard/fighter thing. I'd rather have had a system that didn't require specific planning before entering epic levels, but I'm not even sure if that's possible and it certainly isn't what we have. Rather than tweaking the rules in this case, it might just be better to tweak the existing characters--and make sure that your players know how to plan for epic levels in advance next time.</p></blockquote><p></p>