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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 3005815" data-attributes="member: 30709">Well, now I've skimmed Ascension a few times, I've not terribly much to add on what others have said.* The templates are great, and the breakdown of CR and ECL is really useful.  The way in which it is assumed previous critters of certain sizes effectively already have it is a nice touch IMHO.* The re-jigging of the Divine Rank scale to suit your universal take is something I like: it offers a lot more room for fine adjustment on bigger beasties.* The rules for Worship Points are cool.  I like the fact that there are three different ways of earning them, since it helps people who want gods in their campaign to work one way or another to have different examples of how it might work.  I'm tempted to do a campaign with worship ditched entirely, and all points coming through quintessence: so only god-slaying makes new gods.* The feats, as others have noted, have some issues: but in the case of the "duplicated" feats. this is inevitable.  When you're trying to patch all the feat holes you're bound to do the same thing someone else has done.  In the case of your improved toughness, perhaps upping it's powerlevel to make an epic version is in order?  As for the Wish feat, I say just chuck it: it looks like a lot more heartache than it's worth, and with your alternate magic rules might not really matter anyway.* The idea of metamartial feats is great: I'm going to try and drop these into my normal game as soon as, even for my non-epic PCs, as a new trick for fighters to spice up combat a bit.* The cosmic EGG?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />All in all, I'm quite impressed.  I've still not given every feat a proper examination, but there's clearly a lot here, and the addition of the bigger feats ought to offer a lot more fun.  Very chuffed so far, and the promises inside of the contents of future books have me all the more excited.  ;-)</blockquote>

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