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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 3046712" data-attributes="member: 4303">Nor had I until this morning. IfMagnificat=> conjure, heal, life, summon [good] creatures only, call [good] creatures onlyDestroyer of Life => afflict, animate dead, harrow, slayThen that leaves Epic Thaumaturgy out of the loop: although, honestly, I think I'd prefer it if this were a feat that sor/wiz could take anyway.There is infinte room for more feats, I've barely touched them. And I'd like a mechanic which doesn't simply reduce the mitigating factor. One that  occurred to me isEXCELLENT MAGIC [EPIC]Prerequisites: Epic Spellcasting, Knowledge (Arcana) 30 ranks, Spellcraft 30 ranks, Spell Focus in three schools of magic.Benefit: Three times per day, when you cast any epic or nonepic spell with an XP component, you may ignore up to 2000XP in burn which the spell would normally require.Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Each time you take it, you may use Excellent Magic an additional three times per day.Obviously mirrored off of the rod of the same name, this equates to a -8 free mitigating factor to three epic spells per day - effectively at the cost of an epic spell slot - but with the added perk of being able to partially offset arcane penalties for [I[life[/I] and heal as well as costs for wish etc. Natural choice for an Archmage. Don't know if it's balanced, though. as opposed toSPIRITBURNER [EPIC]Prerequisites: Epic Spellcasting, Epic Skill Focus (Knowledge: Religion, Arcana or Nature), Spellcraft 30 ranks.Benefit: All of the XP costs which you would normally incur in any casting any Epic Spell are halved. The actual XP cap for a spell (500XP/level) is based on your normal limit, and is not affected.this one scales very differently. It's effectively worth 2 epic feats (or is it?). I like the idea of bringing Epic Skill Focus (relevant knowledge skill) into the mix, though. A 30th-level character gains an extra -30, a 40th-level character -40 etc. A double syneresis gives you a flat -20, but you only need to take the feat once, and you have the option of not preparing syneretic spells - which frees up epic slots. And you don't have to burn XP, which always stings.Epic Thaumaturgy might beEPIC THAUMATURGY [EPIC]Prerequisites: Epic Spellcasting, Spell Focus (Abjuration), Spell Focus (Conjuration), Knowledge (the planes) 27 ranks.Benefit: When you use an epic spell to summon any outsiders or elementals with the extraplanar subtype, the base duration of the summon seed is considered to be 10 minutes, instead of 20 rounds: subsequent increases in duration are based on this new duration. If you use a spell with the banish seed to target any outsiders or elementals with the extraplanar subtype, you gain a +10 bonus to defeat the targets' Spell Resistance and a +10 bonus to the Save DC of the spell which incorporates the banish seed.=>This equates to 20 free factors (plus a lot more, as the duration scales differently now) in the first instance, and 30 in the second - which might be a little much - but you see where I'm going with this.</blockquote>

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