immortals handbook

[Anubis]

You guys think Mordenkainen's Disjunction is overpowered???



Um, no, it's perfectly in line with other spells of the same level, if not UNDERPOWERED. All items get a save. That is the balance. Wail of the Banshee can cause FAR more damage.

 

[Anabstercorian]

Anubis, I...


...Never mind.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi S'mon!

Hm, I can see a good case for lengthening the casting time, maybe to a full minute. Or make it a full round to cast, making it possibly castable in battle but very dangerous to do so. I like the spell and I don't see why weak items would protect powerful ones the way you suggest.

It wasn't that the weak items would protect powerful ones but rather the first succussful save would establish the 'limit' of that particular spell.

Personally I would like to see the game less reliant on wealth-per-level. I think wealth-per-level is good as a guideline when writing scenarios for the default power level, but it causes major problems such as NPCs having much less wealth than PCs of the same level even though they're supposedly the same CR.

What I would suggest is to give NPCs 1/4 the wealth (of a PC of the same level), but remove the suggested limitations for single item value.

So an NPC would have fewer items but they would still be comparable in power to the PC.

If the PCs wealth is greatly out of line with anyone else of their power, logically lots of NPCs are going to make a beeline for them to steal their stuff (as Gygax noted in 1e DMG).
3.5e seems to mark a move away from reliance on buffs and particular amounts of magic-by-level (eg the change to DR bypassing), which I think is a good thing.

Have you picked 3.5 up yet then as I suggested?

 

[S'mon]

Hi S'mon!

Have you picked 3.5 up yet then as I suggested?

Hi Craig - I have the 3.5 PHB, my players picked up the DMG & MM.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi all!

I tried to post this yesterday with no success.

I got talking to WotC and they mentioned that the SRD should be updated in about four weeks - although that time frame (as ever) wasn't set in stone.

So fingers crossed.

Incidently I am taking steps to ensure I only need the ELH, and not D&Dg entered into the SRD - of course my work will still be 90% compatible with D&Dg.

 

[Cheiromancer]

Lets see where we are at the end of August. If WotC still haven't given us the SRD update I will make preparations to 'go it alone'; something I would have done a year ago if I had known they were going to stall so darn much.

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I got talking to WotC and they mentioned that the SRD should be updated in about four weeks - although that time frame (as ever) wasn't set in stone.

So fingers crossed.

So are you going to wait until the end of August, or "about four weeks"?

I think they are still stalling- I'm curious whether you have set a firm deadline or not.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Cheiromancer mate!

So are you going to wait until the end of August, or "about four weeks"?

I'll see where I am, come the end of August.

I think they are still stalling- I'm curious whether you have set a firm deadline or not.

I will plan to have things all ready within 4 weeks, but I really can't operate without the ELH in the SRD. I can get away with the D&Dg not being there but not the ELH.

I don't want to have to grind out 100+ epic feats most of which do the exact same thing as the ones in the ELH. Its just going to confuse too many people.

 

[Necropolis]

Hi Upper_Krust

So we didn't talk to you for a long time now , so any new updates about the immortal handbook ?
About the new website ?
Release dates ?
Previews ?
Something ?

Hope to hear from you soon

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Upper_Krust

Hi Necropolis mate!

So we didn't talk to you for a long time now ,

You always know where to find me mate.

so any new updates about the immortal handbook ?

Ummm, not just yet - let me get v4 finished and then I can concentrate on the IH (rather than switching my attention betwee the two as I am at the minute).

About the new website ?

I am torn between wanting to do it all myself or enlisting some outside help (at least in the short term).

Release dates ?

Hopefully the end of September for the first pdf. *fingers crossed*

Previews ?

I think I will worry more about previews when I have everything finished, I don't want to put the cart before the horse.

Something ?

The new magic system is finished.

...but the new Metamagic Feats are not.

 

[Impeesa]

Question: What support is there in the system for a being who goes from mortal to immortal (and continues to gain power) by drawing directly on cosmic energy as an overdeity does (without having worshippers)? I thought of this specifically while trying to come up with a suitable analogue for the Planeswalkers in Magic: The Gathering, but it could cover a variety of other things as well (abominations who grow closer to their divine origins, things like that).

--Impeesa--