Immortals Handbook Epic Bestiary (now available)

[Fieari]

He still needs to undergo apotheosis, regardless. If he's got the quintessence, and meets the other optional requirements the GM has in play, then why not?

 

[dante58701]

This is a cosmic ability I made for a devil. Is it appropriately balanced being a cosmic ability or is it underpowered?


Cosmic Form (Ex): Sarkonas possesses the ability to assume any form desired, as a free action, as per shapechange, at will. Furthermore, he retains his full power regardless of the size of his assumed form, acquires enough virtual size categories to compensate him for any actual loss in size, and is treated, for all intents and purposes, as being in his true form, regardless of the form he assumes. Additionally, he acquires the shapechanger subtype and is impervious to critical hits, dismemberment, and wounding. Finally, Sarkonas can also assume any unique and/or divine form, provided the form in question is not the form of a divinity with a higher divine rank than Sarkonas.

 

[thundershot]

Got it. Started reading it. Just into chapter two....

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey Danted dude!

I don't have the time to go over the megasaur in deatail but it looks okay, from the quick read through I gave it.

Hey Ltheb matey!

U_K!
You win at life. Flawless Victory. Fatality. The first feat in the book did me in.

Glad you like it...although the Divine and Cosmic stuff is much better.

The rest was simply Forward, Forward, Forward, High-kick.

Street Fighter 2 was always more my game than Mortal Kombat but are you refering to Baraka's Babality?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey sukael!

A few thoughts on the epic feats...

Thanks - I appreciate the feedback mate.

Improved Toughness is already around, non-OGL, and non-epic--I think it's in Complete Warrior.

And I think I saw a Weapon Mastery feat around... there's already a nonepic feat of the same name (if not the same effect) in the PHB2, and another feat that has a similar effect.

Well, in fairness, I don't own either of the above books, nor have I read one page of either. Also while Ascension is only being released now, I decided upon a lot of these feats years ago. So its more an indigtment against my sloth in releasing the book than any plagiarism.

That said, I don't know what to do for the best...I'll have a think on it. I may change Weapon Mastery to Epic Weapon Mastery.

 

[Pssthpok]

Will there be Divine/Cosmic/etc abilities that allow entities to bypass the minimum size category limitations?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey Pssthpok mate!

I'm kinda worried about Superior Sunder. Seems... disgustingly nasty to me, even for an epic feat.

I was considering changing it to Perfect Sunder and then having another Superior Sunder feat inbetween. But I can't think what I would do for another Sunder feat.

One other point of note - you can't sunder artifacts.

Otherwise, this is some top-notch stuff, here. I'm stoked to see the rest of the text and get busy building my setting's pantheon.

I almost think, given dense population figures, the Event system leads very very quickly to a lot of quintessence, but hey: we have a huge (7,000,000 pop.) elven city IMC and just recently saved it from invasion.

Thats one heck of a big city though. What was the invading force? Remember the population affected is limited by the Event Rating.

Doing the math gives the elven archmage of an enemy kingdom who opted into helping out roughly 500 QP, while his human meatshield from the same kingdom gleans about 250 QP. Not too severe, but I can't imagine how well-off some of the local heroes came out. Nonetheless, the Event system is quite possibly the finest machine you have in the whole book (thus far), UK. Good show.

Thanks - I am pretty proud of it. I am curious to hear what everyone thinks about the Event System in particular. Is it user friendly enough?

I mean you only need use it at the end of an adventure (so perhaps 1/month on average) and even then it shouldn't take even a novice more than 5-10 minutes per character to work out the results.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hello again, UK.

Hi Eversius mate!

Where can I find more information about your CR system?

Well I am planning on including Version 6 of my Challenge Rating System at the back of the Epic Bestiary Volume 3.

I'd be happy to email you Version 5 of the CR system - however, it doesn't really mesh with a lot of my current thinking.

Also, how do Time Lords visit lower dimensions?

Well Time Lords are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside. So their manifestations can easily enter another universe.

The specifics are only limited by your imagination, although I'll be sure and include a few ideas in the final version of Ascension.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hy Upper Crust!

Hello there Dragonmoon...and welcome to the boards!

A great work! I'm an old player of the Wrath of Immortals at D&D time and your books have the same unforgettable flavour.

Thanks! I am a big fan of that book myself.

I've some question for you about some game rules and avatars/aspects.

Fire away!

- An immortal of lesser god status or above with outsider HD and class levels has only the firsts changed to d20 or also the seconds?

Both.

Initially I was planning to have characters take a feat called Superior Toughness (which was a feat I removed the night before release) which increased your Hit Dice to the next die type. But I didn't think it made much sense because it did much the same as Improved Toughness, albeit in a different way.

Also it sorted of complicated matters, because you couldn't take Divine Toughness until you had d12 dice (Which is of course far more balanced for Barbarians).

But I wanted Divine Toughness to be much easier to access, so I made it a standard ability of the Immortal Templates.

- How many avatars and aspects can support a god?

Well I would suggest one Avatar per God and one Aspect per Religion/Faith setup in the gods name.

Mechanically of course you could have far more than that. I think the limit would be 9 Avatars. I'm not sure about the maximum number of Aspects, possibly 999.

- For an immortal with outsider hit dies the spell-like abilities of an avatar/aspect are the same of the manifestation with a different casting level?

Yes, although make sure the Casting Level of the Avatar/Aspect is high enough to cast those spells.

- An immortal can spend an amount of quintessence that can make its quintessence total under the minimum for its divine rank?

Yes. Then you would drop down a rank, which isn't something any god would willingly want to do.

The lack of an author like you for players like me that love adventures at divine level was felt. I and my friends have taken your two first works and we do not see the hour of being able to taste the successive ones. It continues therefore!

Well I'll try and keep these books coming a bit more regularly in the future. Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate the interest.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey guys!

He still needs to undergo apotheosis, regardless. If he's got the quintessence, and meets the other optional requirements the GM has in play, then why not?

What he said.