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<blockquote data-quote="Johno" data-source="post: 380473" data-attributes="member: 4388">I have many &quot;bones of contention&quot; with the ELH.Clerics gain bonus feats every third level, while Druids are relegated to every fourth.THe Fighters gain bonus feats every second level, quickly eclipsing the Barbarian, in his forté (raging, DR), if the fighter so chooses. The slower gain in bonus feats is supposed to be weighed up by the ever-increasing number of wild-shaping/day or rages/day respectively? Hardly. How many times is the per day limit of these abilities going to affect play at the epic level? Especially as there are NON-Epic feats allowing the character to increase the times/day of these abilities.The ill-thought non-epic +30 skill item cap. (too high, but that little discussion was elsewhere)This goes hand in hand with the huge jump in costs for Epic items. It would have been&nbsp; better to have thought out a proper system to &quot;smooth the curve&quot; from the beginning. (bonus)^3*1000gp, for instance.The Epic Spell Casting; too loose, and arbitrary, especially considering the amount of errata needed to get this section off the ground.Many Epic feats not requiring what should be obvious prerequisite feats. For instance: Epic Skill Focus should require Skill Focus as a prerequisite.The total lack of focus, proof reading or any intelligent thought behind the Psionics included in the book. They could have been just as easily left out and included in a Dragon magizine, or on the website.The lack of imagination when it comes to the magic items presented. Basically there is nothing really new or fresh there, at all.IMO, the ELH was the weakest of the hardbound 3e books released by WoTC to date. DDG may recieve less use, but that is hardly the fault of the book itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Johno, post: 380473, member: 4388"] I have many "bones of contention" with the ELH. Clerics gain bonus feats every third level, while Druids are relegated to every fourth. THe Fighters gain bonus feats every second level, quickly eclipsing the Barbarian, in his forté (raging, DR), if the fighter so chooses. The slower gain in bonus feats is supposed to be weighed up by the ever-increasing number of wild-shaping/day or rages/day respectively? Hardly. How many times is the per day limit of these abilities going to affect play at the epic level? Especially as there are NON-Epic feats allowing the character to increase the times/day of these abilities. The ill-thought non-epic +30 skill item cap. (too high, but that little discussion was elsewhere) This goes hand in hand with the huge jump in costs for Epic items. It would have been better to have thought out a proper system to "smooth the curve" from the beginning. (bonus)^3*1000gp, for instance. The Epic Spell Casting; too loose, and arbitrary, especially considering the amount of errata needed to get this section off the ground. Many Epic feats not requiring what should be obvious prerequisite feats. For instance: Epic Skill Focus should require Skill Focus as a prerequisite. The total lack of focus, proof reading or any intelligent thought behind the Psionics included in the book. They could have been just as easily left out and included in a Dragon magizine, or on the website. The lack of imagination when it comes to the magic items presented. Basically there is nothing really new or fresh there, at all. IMO, the ELH was the weakest of the hardbound 3e books released by WoTC to date. DDG may recieve less use, but that is hardly the fault of the book itself. [/QUOTE]

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