Upper Krust, where are you? [Immortal's Handbook]

[-Eä-]

Greetings all!

Nice to see that the thread is living again (-:

You all should see the movie "Army of Darkness" it's one of the funniest films of that genre I have seen!

Originally posted by Eä
At first glance I also thought that giving wizards spontaneous casting ability also was unbalancing, but as sorcerers have charisma as their primary ability, that's not so any longer.

Originally posted by Gez
I'm missing one step of the logic here...

The point is that with the SDA that gives Wizards spontaneous casting of every spell in the spell list, may seem overpowered, giving that Sorcerers only have access to some of them, while the now have all. However, many of the SDAs base the efficiency off charisma, which powers up the Sorcerer, which again does not make them obsolete.

UK, you should perhaps take a look on my example of abuse of the system in the rules forum to know what a character of Doomstars level potentially may do, giving him a narrow feat selection.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Greetings again!

Hello again mate!

Three posts in a day! I am improving upon myself (-;

Be careful...before you know it you will have over 1000 posts.

Yes, I am keeping well...

Glad to hear it!

I'm currently improving my mathematics skills,

You mean to say you don't know everything about math already!?

especially in probability theory and statistics, which actually is fun...

I'll take your word for it!

I have created some systems which are simpler to use when you are throwing an enormous amount of dice (although you need a calculator to use them (-; )

Maybe there will be an electronic version of 4th Edition on a datapad...with built in calculator.

I hope everyone here is keeping well, as well (-:

I am doing pretty good thanks for asking!

Ahh, yes, I have received the Epic Level Handbook now,

DOH!

I'm such a doofus, yet again I am going to be the last one here to pick up a product.

and to be frank, I think the book gives us exactly the information we need...

Glad to hear it!

There are some minor bugs in the book, like Psionics, which is overpowered currently (considering that if you use the Improved Metapsionic feat, you will be able to enhance psionics using only one power point extra, and thus scaling better than wizards' spells)

Okay.

Personally I like the Epic Spellcasting system.

I have to admit I am intrigued by this myself.

The only thing with that is that you need a magic item which gives you approximately the same bonus as your level to make sure that the saving throws are not left behind. This is a minor issue, which is easily fixed. And altogether I love this idea.

I'll have to check this out.

Epic Monsters: I don't care that much about monsters, but I like the templates, the force dragons and the mercanes. I think I will be playing one just to check it out sometime.

What do you mean you don't care about the monsters!?

One thing that bothers me, though, is that many of the SDA in D&Dg and the Epic Feats overlap, not even requiring them as prerequisites. This may lead to tons of "wasted" feats, but I guess it would be easy to free feat slots as well, using Wish or something similar. I'm thinking especially on Improved Spell Capacity and Divine Spellcasting.

I don't see why not.

Overall, I like the book very much, although it takes plenty of time creating "real" epic characters.

I'm looking forward to it even more.

One thing that bothers me is that skill points and intelligence isn't retroactive! The book keeping is terrible when creating high level characters, and I advocate house ruling when assigning skill points. Or else it takes too much time for the DM in my opinion...

Yes, that seems a bit confusing.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Greetings all!

Hello mate!

Nice to see that the thread is living again (-:

I'll be a bit more comfortable discussing the matter when I get the work released.

You all should see the movie "Army of Darkness" it's one of the funniest films of that genre I have seen!

Army of Darkness is very good; its prequel "Evil Dead 2" is also in the same vein.

I went to see the Resident Evil movie two weeks ago and I thought that was very well done. The zombies were excellent. Great atmpshere.

Last week I saw "Goldmember: Austin Powers 3". Very funny - certainly the best of that particular trilogy.

UK, you should perhaps take a look on my example of abuse of the system in the rules forum to know what a character of Doomstars level potentially may do, giving him a narrow feat selection.

I will mate...and if you find any problems/loopholes you think need sorting at high levels be sure and let me know.

 

[Gez]

You mean theres a deity-centric RPG out there I don't yet own!?

Well, I first thought it was a (french-speaking) swiss game; but after a quick investigation on 2d0's site, I found it was just a translation of a previous game in English.

Written by R.Sean Borgstrom, author in several White Wolf products, Nobilis has been published first in 1999 by Pharos Press before being sold to Hogshead Publishing.

Each Nobilis rules over an aspect of creation, more-or-less broad (death, freedom, cat, beer, time, animal, fridge...) and has the duty to make that aspect of creation flourish and to protect it against antagonistic Nobilis; and against sort of demons whose purpose is to destroy creation piece-by-piece; and I've used lots of "and" in that sentence.

This should give you enough clue to investigate on your own.

 

[Knight Otu]

Hi, all!

Ok, I admit that the Paragon thing was another of my silly ideas .

So your averages are on the low side.

Don't forget that I have not added the Outsider HD to the numbers, and that I have no Quasisdeity listed. Unless I lost all of my math skills, that should end up higher than your averages.

As I see it though 'personalities' are more individual than concept orientated.

ie. Thor is not the epitome of Thunder, but rather a larger than life character with his own agenda and goals.

Its not until Elder or Overdeity status that the concept begins to take over the individual and from that point on the goals and the concept are
interchangeable.

Of course it is more personality oriented. That is why I said "represent" instead of "embody".
Also, I'd argue that most greater gods from greek, norse and egyptian mythology (at least those statted in D&DG) don't actually represent Greater concepts, but Intermediate concepts at best, as they are not really focused on one thing. Greater Gods like Boccob or Taiia, however, do embody one (Magic for Boccob) or two (Creation and Destruction for Taiia) Greater concepts. Two Greater concepts should propably be the maximum for greater gods (and the same would go for Elder concepts and Elder gods, etc.).

This reminds me somewhat of what I've heard of a strange RPG, called "Nobilis", in which you play "low-level deities" under the order of broader, more
powerful ones. I havn't read it, but it seemed a bit weird.

The name sounds familiar, but I haven't actually read it.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Gez mate!

Well, I first thought it was a (french-speaking) swiss game; but after a quick investigation on 2d0's site, I found it was just a translation of a previous game in English.

Written by R.Sean Borgstrom, author in several White Wolf products, Nobilis has been published first in 1999 by Pharos Press before being sold to Hogshead Publishing.

Each Nobilis rules over an aspect of creation, more-or-less broad (death, freedom, cat, beer, time, animal, fridge...) and has the duty to make that aspect of creation and protect it against antagonistic Nobilis; and against sort of demons whose purpose is to destroy creation piece-by-piece.

This should give you enough clue to investigate on your own.

I checked out a few things (I must say I do like the covers) including some reviews and it looks interesting. Certainly more useful than 'Amber'.

 

[Gez]

Hi Gez mate!

Hello !

(I must say I do like the covers)

That one ?

Me too. Clean, sober. Pretty statue.


Oh well, I guess the emptiness of this "bump" is badly hidden.

 

[-Eä-]

CR modifier for Divine Templates

Greetings people!


The week that is coming I and a couple of friends of mine are running a duel scenario. 1 on 1, 2 on 2, a group entering a God's stronghold and such, just for fun.

For that I need the CR modifiers for for divine templates, so that the CR of the God is approximately correct and such. I know you had a system for this. Can you direct me or copy the text into this thread, Craig?

 

[Blacksad]

In Asgard 6

DR 0 = +8 ECL
per additional DR: +4 ECL

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi all!

Thanks Blacksad for jumping in.

Ea mate did you ever get to see my Challenge Ratings article in Asgard Magazine #6?

http://www.d20reviews.com/Natural20/asgard.html

...oh and Gez mate; yep that one.