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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 3045782" data-attributes="member: 4303">[Edited in case comment misinterpreted as snarkiness rather than irony.]So let's take two CR 15 undead (say 2 x 13th-level wizard vampires).Challenge = 450=> USP = (sq. rt.) 1800=> USP = 42 (rounded down)Or two CR 22 undead (say 2 x 20th level wizard vampires)Challenge = 968=> USP = (sq. rt.) 3872=> USP = 62 (rounded down)My resistance...is....failing...Or ten dire wraithsChallenge = 1210=> USP = (sq. rt.) 4840=> USP = 69 (rounded down)Or 1000 vampire spawnChallenge = 16,000=> USP = (sq. rt.) 64,000=> USP = 252This is achievable at 30th level: Sor 30 (Cha 36; Ritual Adept, Cabal Leader, Epic Leadership): (-116 SP from cabal; -30 SP casting time; -20 Power Component; -40 xp burn; -13 backlash). It'll cost him 100K materials, burn 10,000 xp and take one month. Note that the cabal conrribution is speculative - I'm thinking about modifying the input from other casters so that there is not a linear relationship between spell levels contributed and mitigating factors, but rather it accounts for the size of the cabal informed by the Epic Leadership feat.Edit: I dunno. You burn 3 epic feats to get the cabal benefits. Mitigating factors should be pretty hefty.You know, the thing that I think is saddest about the community's rejection of epic magic is just how easy it is to some up with some amazingly cool spells just by fiddling with numbers. I mean, what's not to love about an epic spell which creates an army of vampire spawn?BTW, Some kind of epic [divine] feat which focuses on animate dead and slay would be nice, but it trespasses on Destroyer of Life. Maybe roll animate dead into the existing feat and reduce mitigation to -10? Thing is, slay and destroy are potent: hence the 2 seeds vs Magnificat's 3.I think that if we go CHI/RHO with animate dead (and summon, I guess), then some quick reference tables on various USPs would be in order.</blockquote>

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