The Immortals Handbook

[Upper_Krust]

Almighty One (UK),

Hey there Orlic!

How goes the effort with the web site,

Its going okay. I have the webspace now (thanks to sonofapreachermans wrangling) and I should hopefully have the domain name within a week. Its just a bloody nightmare trying to operate on the web without a credit card, and of course with no money you can't get a card to begin with so the catch 22 strikes again. But I'll get it all sorted soon enough.

I have some previews (inc. that list of epic feats), reviews, monsters, and some other stuff on the website up to this point.

Not tons of content, but that sort of stuff snowballs given time.

and have you thought about taking pre-orders?

To be honest I haven't. What is the major significance of pre-ordering?

 

[Sledge]

You get money now. People that want the book get it as soon as it is available.

 

[Fieari]

There's that, and also that it might provide another spur to get you working faster, what with the legal obligation and all.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey guys!

You get money now. People that want the book get it as soon as it is available.

That sounds interesting, I'll give it some thought. Though (not to tempt fate or anything) what would happen if I were to get run over by a bus or something...? Wouldn't those people be out of pocket. Maybe its just best to wait.

There's that, and also that it might provide another spur to get you working faster, what with the legal obligation and all.

By the way Fieari you might be interested in this:

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=90553

Some stuff about Phoenixes.

 

[Knight Otu]

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=90553

Some stuff about Phoenixes.

I guess that technically, that is true.
Well, it should be something for those interested in epic spells, anyway.

(Thanks for linking, UK!)

 

[Upper_Krust]

Great Smiting

Hi all!

Returning briefly to the question of Great Smiting.

I saw this thread:

http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=258489

Going over the numbers that would seem to permit Great Smiting to stack. However, you could never proffer a feat* which then permitted multiple uses of smite in the same round.

*as suggested in the thread.

So that gives us two options.

#1 Great Smiting epic feat allowed to stack, smite can only be used once/round.

#2 Great Smiting epic feat does not stack. Smite can be used any number of times/round. Smiting can be further increased with Divine and Cosmic abilities.

Do people here have a preference?

 

[Kavon]

Hi all!

Hey U_K

#1 Great Smiting epic feat allowed to stack, smite can only be used once/round.

I think I'll vote for this one
It would allow for further improvement, without it getting out of whack.
Additional times per round would probably be a nice 'more powerful' ability to offer as well, though.. Just so that you have the freedom to achieve it.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Stacking Feats

Hey all!

...and thanks for the reply Kavon mate.

While I am here, does anyone have the Complete Warrior or Complete Divine yet? Just curious about creating a full list of feats that stack. With any that are OGL going into the IH as feat packages and those that are not OGL will probably get a mention on the website at some stage.

 

[tauton_ikhnos]

Nothing in either book is OGL. However, the Divine section of the SRD includes quite a few feats that are also in Complete Divine.

 

[CRGreathouse]

I suppose you could try to do both at once: "If this is your first smite this round, you deal double (triple, quad, etc.) damage."

That way the core rules of smiting aren't changed, but the character has a strong incentive to limit it to 1/round (since with, say, 3 Great Smitings the damage would be +120 for the first each round but only +30 for each other -- wasting 90 damage for each smite you do beyond the first in a round).