Epic feats, age... and Marut threats ?

[JiCi]

In the Epic Level Handbook, you have the Extended Life Span feat that allows you to live longer. In the Epic Feats & Familiars (found at your ENWorld shop), you have the Eternal Youth feat which renders you immortal.

Doesn't that might get the attention of a marut and start a wild goose chase because you've officially cheated death by aging ?

How would you deal with this ?

 

[Nifft]

Reincarnation gives you a young adult body. It's cheaper than Epic level feats, and it's infinitely repeatable. Well, so long as you have a Druid, Warlock, Chameleon or Artificer on your side.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Jack99]

Reincarnation gives you a young adult body. It's cheaper than Epic level feats, and it's infinitely repeatable. Well, so long as you have a Druid, Warlock, Chameleon or Artificer on your side.

Cheers, -- N

Sucks to lose a level though

 

[Nifft]

Sucks to lose a level though

True. Was there a true reincarnate in some splatbook?

But even if not, you'll have bought time to earn back that level.

I wonder how Maruts feel about Warforged, who don't age.

Hmm, -- N

 

[darthkilmor]

In the Epic Level Handbook, you have the Extended Life Span feat that allows you to live longer. In the Epic Feats & Familiars (found at your ENWorld shop), you have the Eternal Youth feat which renders you immortal.

Doesn't that might get the attention of a marut and start a wild goose chase because you've officially cheated death by aging ?

How would you deal with this ?

But would that really be unnatural?

Any who use unnatural means to extend their life span could be targeted by a marut. Those who take extraordinary measures to cheat death in some other way might be labeled transgressors as well. Those who use magic to reverse death aren’t worthy of a marut’s attention unless they do so repeatedly or on a massive scale.

 

[JiCi]

That's what I'm asking...

 

[Zurai]

I would rule that the epic feats won't draw Marut attention. Feats that don't require any special preparation like those are essentially "I'm so powerful that through no fault of my own the power extends my lifespan". Maruts are only interested in those that intentionally and willfully cheat death - liches, necromancers, and people that get Resurrected hundreds of times.

 

[frankthedm]

Marut probably won't come knocking until the Human out lives the max life span of an elf.

 

[Tiberius]

True. Was there a true reincarnate in some splatbook?

Yes, Masters of the Wild. Drd 9. IIRC, it allowed the recipient to roll twice on the table and choose between the rolls, as well as lacking the level loss normally associated with returning from death.

 

[Quartz]

There's also the old Life Force Transfer method - 9th level Wizard spell (q.v. Fistandantilus and Ravenloft and many others) - where you capture some strapping young man or comely lass and swap life forces, then use your new young body to kill the old cripple.