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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 9793868" data-attributes="member: 326">You could well be right Kevenpaladin, lets look at the current breakdown:Opening stuff (Contents, Credits, Intro, How to, Quick Start etc.) = 21 pages.Chapter 1 Epic = 24 pagesChapter 2  Beyond (What happens after Level 20, New Races, Ability Scores over 30, etc.) = 42 pages.Chapter 3 Immortality (What is Immortality, Methods of Gaining Divine Power, Divine Realms, Divine Laws, Creating Pantheons, etc.) = 56 pagesChapter 4 Divinity (Divine Ranks, Divinity Templates, Higher Dimensional Beings etc.) = 48 pages Chapter 5 Purviews (self explanatory)  = 62 pagesChapter 6 Powers (Divine Boons) = 140 pagesChapter 7 Magic (epic spells and other stuff) = 54 pages Chapter 8 Artifacts (self explanatory) = 60 pages but likely 90 when I add the Dimensional Forging)Appendices (The Omniverse, New Planes, NPCs, glossary, Index) = 47 pagesSo 21 + 24 + 42 + 56 + 48 + 62 + 140 + 54 + 90 + 47 =  584 pagesWell just to clarify, the Epic Boons are only about 10% of the total Boons in the Powers chapter.If I have 50-60 features and about 6-10 Boons per feature then each feature (Time Manipulation, Crystalline Forms, Regeneration, Force Fields, Creation, etc.) takes up 2 pages.  The average boon takes up 17 lines of text which means 3 per column, 6 per page, add in brief intro, a table and that's another column. If there is art (not on every Boon double page spread but a good few) then that is the double page filled.So the question is what to cut, I don't think people necessarily need 400 Boons, but I am not sure what to leave out. I don't want to have things simply be a sterile number...You gain Regeneration 40 at Tier 2 and Regeneration 600 at Tier 5 and Regeneration 200,000 at Tier 10 (or whatever it is). I'm trying to answer what does [insert power] look like at Tier 5 or Tier 10. I'm trying to make each Boon interesting and exciting. So yes you might get a Passive benefit, but there will also be a Reactive benefit and Lore and some opening Flavour text.I'll have a 2 page Preview of one of the Chapter 6 Features tomorrow in the next Update.I agree, I think 320 pages is the perfect size for an RPG Book. 480 is something more akin to a Campaign setting book (in my eyes).I'd rather now the Book was two 300-page books - though off the top of my head not sure I could split it evenly (especially given the size of the Powers/Boons chapter).I think you have it right. Either way no worries my friend. I appreciate the comment and interest. Thank you.</blockquote>

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