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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 4500685" data-attributes="member: 29252">That isn't nearly as bad as it gets.A single Wizard-21 (generalist), working alone, uninterrupted....1) Get your first set of ritualists.Every day for 20 days...a) Prepare four copies each of: Magic Circle Against Law (3rd), Dimensional Anchor (4th), Dismissal (5th), Planar Binding (6th), Quickened Dispel Magic (7th), Moment of Prescience (8th); this leaves you with your 1st, 2nd, 9th, and bonus spell slots for personal defence.b) Planar Bind 4 Couatls (with their saves, you've got a 95% chance of Calling and trapping them; applying Moment of Prescience to the opposed charisma check to negotiate, and you've got a 95% of binding them to your service) to aid you in all the spells you cast over the next 20 days.  You get approximately 90% success rate on these Callings.c) Rest up to recover spellsNow, statistically, at the 20-day mark, you'll have 20*4*0.90=72 Couatls in your service.  If we want a margin of safety, we say 80% of them stick around, for 64 Couatls.We maintain this for a while, to keep the supply of Couatls up.  After all, each one casts as a Sorcerer-9 (4th level spell slots, for -7 to a Spellcraft DC for an Epic spell; we have a -448 spellcraft modifier this way).2) Get your permanent set of ritualistsa) Craft a DC 0 Epic spell (no gp, xp, or time cost to research) to Permanently (*5) Summon (base DC 14 for CR 2 Outsider) Planetars (CR 16, so +14 CR over 2, so +28 DC); one Planetar, Permanently Summoned, is thus a base Spellcraft DC of 5*(14+28)=210 - we can be Summoning Two of them initially (or can start summoning them after a ten-day warmup).  If you max out Spellcraft and Kn(Arcana), You have two Epic spell slots at this level - and Couatl's have more than two 4th level spell slots each day, so this is fine.  You are now picking up four Planetars each day - and each Planetar casts as a Cleric-17 - which means two 9th level spell slots (-17 mitigation per Planetar, twice per day).  After three days of this (day 23), you now have 12 Planetars (9th level spells) and 64 Couatls (4th level spells) for -652 mitigation... Permanently Summoning three Planetars at a time is DC 630.  We now research another DC 0 Epic spell to do so (requiring 12 9th level spell slots, and 64 4th level spell slots).  This takes no time, no xp, and no gp.  So on day 24, you're Permanently Summoning 3 Planetars at a time, twice per day, for six planetars per day.  At the end of day 25, you now have 24 Planetars and 64 Couatls, for 856 in mitigation... which is good for four Planetars per casting, so research another spell, and get 8 Planetars a day.  At the end of day 27, you now have 40 Planetars and 64 Couatls, for -1,128 in mitigation - enough for five planetars a casting, for 10 a day.  At the end of day 28, you have 50 Planetars and 64 Couatls, for -1,298 in mitigation - enough for 6 Planetars/casting, and 12/day.  At the end of day 29, you have 62 Planetars and 64 Couatls, for -1,502 in mitigation - enough for 7 Planetars per casting, and 14 per day.  At the end of day 30, you have 76 Planetars and 64 Couatls, for 1,740 in mitigation - enough for 8 Planetars per casting and thus 16 per day.This is exponential growth.  Every 12 (and 1/3rd, roughly) Planetars gives you space for another planetar per casting, for two more planetars per day.  You can use this method to get arbitrarily high DC's in surprisingly short timeframes.  A little fun with spreadsheets, and at day 60, you've got 8668 Permanently Summoned Planetars (and 64 Called Couatls, but that's change at this point - still, my calculations include them) for more than 147,804 in mitigation by spell slots.  At day 90, that's 783,338 Permanently Summoned Planetars, and 13,317,194 in Mitigation.  At day 120, that's 70,644,176 Permanently Summoned Planetars, and 1,200,951,440 in Mitigation.  At day 365, you're looking at approximately 6.54*10^23 Permanently Summoned Planetars, and approximately 1.11*10^25 in mitigation.    And that's just a generalist wizard-20, with Quicken Spell and Epic Spellcasting.Yeah, it needs a lot of DM oversight.</blockquote>

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