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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 1793904" data-attributes="member: 2804">I have fairly extensive experience with the ELH and have found that if you keep several things in mind, the rules work great.1) Prep time - Preparing for Epic level adventures can take a significantly longer time than normal adventures. Because NPCs and monsters usually have a laundry list of special powers and spells available and its best to assume that any good spells with long durations will have been cast before any battle even starts. I would make a list of spells with significant durations and the bonuses they provide and assume any NPC spellcaster or monsters has already cast them. You also need to be familiar with all the cool special abilities your bad guys may have so that you can use them on the PCs without having to stop the game to look them up.2) Epic Spells - I found the Epic spell rules somewhat unbalancing and dumped them.3) NPC level demographics - I find that epic level PCs running around a world of 1st level warriors and commoners to be terribly unbalancing. I have rescaled NPC level demographics so that 1st level effectively represents a child. A new recruit in the kings army is already around level 3 or 4. A veteran soldier would be level 10 to 15. NPCs above 20th level are fairly common. Likewise monsters are tougher too and most intelligent monsters have class levels. I found that this keeps the game gritty and brutal even at high levels yet the players are happy because they get to use all their cool high level abilities and spells to full effect. It also helps the PCs respect the NPCs more. A party is much less likely to roll into town like they own the place when the captain of the guard is 30th level.</blockquote>

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