How Broken Is It to Just Advance Characters Past 20th w/o Epic Rules?

[Ry]

I _really_ like gestalting as an alternative to epic levels (i.e. broaden, not deepen), although I like AE's approach of going to 25.

 

[Kerrick]

(2) The core classes stop at 20th level. The PrCs stop at 10th. (Or, with the current rules, whatever level the class stops with.) To continue, you have to multiclass. (I never enforced the multiclass XP penalty.)

This is what we use, and it works out quite well. 0-9th level spell progression is capped at 20th level, but you can gain 10th+ level spells through the legendary spell system.

I rather agree on the BAB point - attacks should be capped at 4, otherwise it just bogs down in pointless die rolling. There should also be a medium save (from 1st level on) - it would help alleviate the broad disparity.

 

[RFisher]

IMHO, the only real issue with using the core rules to model characters of 21+ level is that there are no published class abilities for such characters.

I just don't see how that's an issue. Don't you have plenty of class abilities by the time you reach 20th level?

 

[ruleslawyer]

Yes. I meant *new* class abilities. Just advancing via BAB, saves, hp, feats and skills is boring, IMHO.

 

[lukelightning]

I just don't see how that's an issue. Don't you have plenty of class abilities by the time you reach 20th level?

Depends on the class. Some classes, like cleric, are kind of boring. I think they should get planar turning abilities automatically, or something like that.