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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 2320654" data-attributes="member: 326">Hi historian matey! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I sort of had initial reservations myself. But remember the BoVD Orcus could survive a 128 KT Blast in a low physical factor setting. Well this is a 100th-level spellcaster who is completely min/maxed pouring every feat into this endeavour. Defeat the 100th-level spellcaster. Then cast deus ex machina to reverse the destruction the wizard just caused.I just like the idea that the Rain of Colourless Fire, Invoked Devastation and that sort of epic magic are feasible, because quite frankly under the official epic spellcasting rules they are not. Not by a long shot either.Stuff like creating a planet should probably be just about feasible for a Greater Deity.I know a lot of people will mention 40th-level characters in a 'ho-hum' way, like they are 'two-a-penny'. But actually getting to 40th-level fairly under the 3rd Ed. rules is not going to be easy! Its not like 1st Edition. But by the same token, the characters are 'pound for pound' far, far tougher. However, I think a lot of people are stuck in the 1st/2nd Ed. mindset of power to an extent myself included.Immortal gaming has to mean something different, and I think the worship points system is that something.But in a similar way epic gaming has to mean something different also. You certainly don't get a sense of this from the epic spell system because its all just so feeble. You want to be able to do 'epic' things. Teleport a Fortress (I need to watch Krull again), Kill and raise a whole country as Undead, Make a City a dead magic zone, Create a new Ice Age, Divorce a god from their divinity, Create an Earthquake thats 10.0 on the Richter Scale (the one in the PHB is 5.0 by the way), Summon all Dragons of the world, Place an entire continent of people in stasis, maybe Blow up a planet or two even. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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