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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 3055915" data-attributes="member: 4303">I know  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> . But I really want to limit mitigating factors at this stage. The alternative is to reduce the cap on xp (say 250 xp/level): this is a logical progression from an inferred wish cap (5000xp at 20th level); or limit xp at a hard cap of 10,000/-40). If power components run at 5000gp/-1, a cap of 50,000gp/-10 is in order.Ooh, good find. Some kind of precedent is always nice. That said, if you treat it as a 5th level spell and factor in the difference at 250xp/-1, then the arcane cost becomes 1250xp, which seems okay. I don't know that applying a flexibility rationale to wish is useful - it would be extreme. An arcane resurrection has an SP of 42 (at 250xp/SP) vs a divine resurrection with an SP of 26 (at 5000gp/-1 and 10 mins = -6). To bring the SP down to 26 for a wizard would still require 4000xp. True res then goes to +7 (at +2 levels and +15k). A 23rd level cleric could cast resurrection as a 1-action spell with no mitigation; a 30th-level cleric a 1-action true resurrection with no mitigation, which seems okay.It sucks. I think the awaken seed should be SP24 (lvl + casting time), and should include a provision of 250xp/awakened creature - this xp cannot be mitigated. Mass awaken costs the caster 250xp/creature. Basing an arcane version off of wish (SP 32) and then reimbursing the differerence would make it an SP24 spell with a 3000xp arcane surcharge, which seems way over-the-top. I'm inclined to simply treat it as a sor/wiz 5 spell for all purposes, and drop the arcane surcharge: the ELH system required the caster to have 24 ranks in Knowledge (nature), and that might be worth retaining. I'm reluctant to reintroduce it into the mix, though.Btw, Awaken construct is sor/wiz 9 and costs 5k xp: I'm not sure how this spell works. Are the targets treated as sentient animated objects with the construct type, or what? Can an awakened colossal statue take levels in barbarian? Is it some kind of Eberron thing?That was my intention, and I see no pretense.</blockquote>

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