[Full] Epic game!

[Zack2216]

I am under the impression that I might be in the game (please please please), as I am one of the early posters.
It will take a little while to post a character, I have been getting a lot of homework and papers lately. I will try to get it done as soon as possible.

here are my roles:
16
17
15
17
15
11

I don't really know what to play. Hey, I have this homebrew class that I've never had a chance to take into epic. I was wondering if you could go over it, in hopes of allowing me to play with it.
My email is zack2216@hotmail.com, and I have sent the class to a couple others on the board. Sollir has had a look at it, aswell as GMWolf.

 

[electric-ant]

Go ahead and e-mail it to me (address posted above), but I'd really rather you try to simulate your concept with core classes and/or prestige classes, though I certainly understand difficulty, as I ran into that problem myself with my character in Arknath's game.

 

[Arknath]

*blink* my game? What problem?

Anyway, just letting you know, Ant, that I'm running behind on my character...I am creating the one for Jemal's game (most of it anyways) first. Fewer books + fewer choices = easier and quicker. I should have something for you by tomorrow night (at least a skeleton) or Saturday afternoon.

 

[Chauzu]

Here's my character with his items worn. This was a pain in the butt, and I'm sure there are mess-ups somewhere. Let me know if you notice something is goofed.


Ah Vonsea
Barbarian 5 / Fighter 21 (Level 26) Male Half-Orc
Neutral Good, 6'0, 250 lbs.

STR 31
DEX 15
CON 24
INT 5
WIS 15
CHA 13

HP 250
AC 45
ACP: -4
Initiative: 6
BAB: 23/18/13/8
Speed: 40

Fort: 26
Reflex: 8
Will: 8

MAB: 29/24/19/14
RAB: 25/20/15/10

Main Weapon:
Vorpal Greatxe +5
TAB: 37/32/27/22
Damage: 1d12 + 16
Critical: 19-20/x3+2d6

Armor:
Breastplate +10
Armor Bonus: +15
Check Penalty: -4
Max Dex: +3

Skills:
Climb: 24
Handle Animal: 3
Intuit Direction: 4
Jump: 29
Swim: 17

Feats:
Power Attack
Cleave
Great Cleave
Improved Bull Rush
Sunder
Weapon Focus: Greatxe
Weapon Specialization: Greataxe
Quick Draw
Great Fortitude
Improved Critical: Greataxe
Spring Attack
Dodge
Mobility
Combat Reflexes
Epic Weapon Focus: Greataxe
Epic Weapon Specialization: Greataxe
Overwhelming Critical: Greataxe
Epic Fortitude
Endurance

Languages: Common, Orc

Class Features:
Rage 2/day
Uncanny Dodge (Dex to AC)
Uncanny Dodge (Can't be flanked)
Bonus Feats
Simple, Martial Weapon Proficiency
Light, Medium, Heavy Armor Proficiency
Shield Proficiency

Racial Features:
+2 STR, -2 INT & CHA
Darkvision
Orc Blood

XP: 345000

Equipment:
Vorpal Greataxe +5
Breastplate +10
Bag Of Holding (1500 lbs)
2 Rings Of Protection
Ring Of Three Wishes
Amulet Of Health +6
Belt Of Giant Strength +6
Boots Of Striding
Bracers Of Armor +8
Gauntlets Of Ogre Power
100 Potions Of Cure Serious Wounds
Backpack
Flint & Steel
Silk Rope (50 feet)
4 Trail Rations
2 Waterskins
Whetstone
Explorer's Outfit
Loaf Of Bread
Hunk Of Cheese
Chunk Of Meat
746000 gp

 

[electric-ant]

Hmm, your character is really focused on one thing. That's OK, but just a request - I know you have a 5 intelligence, but either boost it up (a +6 item will be cheap at your level) or please DON'T play him as a "Me Ah. How is you? Me very happy," stupid big, dumb brute-stereotype.

[Edit: just noticed how much extra gold you have. Spend it! I don't think a great hero of anothe era would have been buried with piles of useless gold, so to keep things consistent, I'm going to request that you try and use up as much of your starting cash as you can.]

Also, if anyone is interested, there's another epic game being started on the boards here. If any of you are feeling the game is getting crowded, go ahead and swtich over - I won't mind at all or feel insulted. I'm not telling you to get lost , far from it, just offering an option.

 

[Sulli]

in my opinion we can't ware bracers of armour and an armour at the same time. inother words, can we do like what Chauzu did for his armour or do we have to have either bracers of armour or armour. also do ROP stack?.

also can we have armour that has a bonus hight then +5???.

 

[Zack2216]

unfortunately, bonuses of the same type don't stack, unless its dodge boni. Therefore, because bracers of armor give an armor bonus to AC, they don't stack with fullplate and stuff. Also, 2 rop don't stack. But what interests me is whether you can use shields with bracers, since they don't have the same boni type (armor vs. sheild). Well, I've never seen the tactic used before, but I'm sure they would stack.

 

[Victim]

Actually, shields provide an armor bonus to AC that specifically stats with physical armor. They don't work with bracers or mage armor.

If you buy +10 armor, you spent way too much. It's far cheaper to gain another 10 points of miscellaneous AC from Animated Shields, luck bonuses, natural armor, etc than by increasing something to an Epic type bonus. Not only do higher bonuses cost much more than adding a new type (even at 2x for no space usually) because price is function of bonus squared, but also anything above +5 costs 1o times as much.

Gauntlets of Ogre Power don't stack with Belts of Giant Strength.

 

[electric-ant]

Yes, you are all correct. So now that I've gotten sleep (it's Friday! no deadlines for the rest of the week!) and am thinking clearly:

• Belts of Giant Strength and Gauntlets of Ogre Power both provide enhancement bonuses, and therefore do not stack, as Victim said.
• Bracers of Armor and regular armor also do not stack for the same reason - they both provide an armor enhancement bonus - as Zack said.
• Damage for the vorpal greataxe +5 should be 1d12 + 20 (1.5 Strength bonus for 15 strength, +5 enhancement) if I'm not mistaken.
• You should have 18 feats (7 from progression, 11 from fighter class) and 2 epic feats (2 from progression). [Edit: Oops, just consulted the FAQ. Apparently, you don't get epic bonus feats until you have epic class levels.]
• Also, this is for everyone: please break down all of your numbers (saves, attacks, etc.) so it's easy to see whether a mistake has been made.

Also some suggestions:

• You don't need to list all the insignificant objects like 'loaf of bread' - unless you're traveling in odd situations, and since you'll know before you start traveling, you won't need to know whether you have enough bread and water until then.
• Please include a list of actions your character performs if you don't post before I update. This includes combat with a single enemy, combat with multiple enemies, surprise attacks, delicate diplomatic situations, following the party into dangerous areas, reacting to unforeseen events [since you won't have foreseen them, you obviously won't know what they are, but think of some general thing to do - cast shield or fight defensively or take cover or whatnot], and a multitude of other situations. List at least these, plus as many more as you can think of.
• If you want mondo AC, take armor up to a reasonable (cost-wise) amount, boost your Dex, take appropriate feats (Dodge and Epic Dodge [which doesn't actually give an AC bonus, but is just as good]), take feats like Armor Skin, and buy items with bonuses other than enhancement - just assume price times 2.5 for other types of bonuses, except deflection (like your rings of protection) and natural armor, which are twice as much, and dodge, which can't be put on magic items. Remember that the same type of bonus doesn't stack with itself, except dodge.
• You have a potential 20k XP that could be two epic feats, unless you'd rather save it and hope you'll get XP to push you over to 27th.
• You have heaps of gold, and all the items you have are just from the DMG or extrapoloted thereof. There are plenty of epic items waiting to suck up that gold.
• You shouldn't focus so much on one save - your other two aren't even into 'epic' levels (12+). You compounded the problem by taking Epic Fortitude - that's really not that useful when your base save is already so high.

Everyone who's asking, I'm doing everything by the printed rules, except for Int retroactively increasing skill-points.

["Boni"? It's 'bonuses,' according to dictionary.com.

You'll soon begin to understand how much grammatical errors annoy me. ]

 

[Howling Coyote]

I finally got my rulebooks back from my friend who was out-of-town last week. Imagine my rage when I couldn't find my rulebooks last week, and finally remembered that I borrowed them to this guy. Oh well, now I can finally start making a character from my sketches.

Since everyone did it here's my stat rolls too:

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17
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16
12
17

Btw. I decided not to make that assassin, it's potentially too difficult concept for this game. Instead I'm making an old elven diplomat (a bard/wizard). I hope the change is not too much trouble. I should have the stats ready tonight.