Epic Destiny in 3.5/PF

[Kansaschaser]

Did anyone ever use the Epic Destinys in their 3.5 or PF games? I wonder if they are okay to introduce. I really like the Artifact Lord one.

If you don't know what an Epic Destiny is, they were supposed to be introduced in 4th edition, but when I bought the books they wern't listed (as far as I could tell).

You had to be 21st level to pick an Epic Destiny and they were things like...

Artifact Lord (various abilities surrounding items and equipment)
Blade of Ragnarok (damage reduction and weapon abilities)
Demigod (you start to become a god)
Eternal Hero (you cannot die and self-resurrection multiple times)
Force of Nature (nature-like abilities)
Mythic Shadow (rogue-like abilities)

[Bovine Colonel]

but when I bought the books they wern't listed (as far as I could tell).

Actually they were. In the PHB I believe there's Archmage, Eternal Seeker, Legendary Trickster (?), and Demigod.

[Kansaschaser]

Actually they were. In the PHB I believe there's Archmage, Eternal Seeker, Legendary Trickster (?), and Demigod.

So they didn't have Artifact Lord? That's the one I was really interested in.

I was really curious if someone has used the Epic Destinys in 3.5 or Pathfinder and if they worked out well or if it was a disaster.

[gkathellar]

Don't forget Demented One's Epic Destinies. They're practically canon.

[peacenlove]

In my sig (When competitor games finally is up) there is an epic destiny for Shadowcasters. I hear The Demented One created more (and he created high quality homebrew in general).

Used them but generally after 15th level the game loses any semblance of coherence, becomes too complicated. Epic destinies, at the level they are granted, won't make the game any better or worse.
However in flavor they are awesome and epic feats are crap so I would suggest them merely as a "fix" to epic feats alone.

[Mr.Bookworm]

If anyone doesn't know what this is, here (http://web.archive.org/web/20100916093852/http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/drfe/20080428) are the Epic Destinies in question, as they've disappeared off the WotC site. Also, here's (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7315805&postcount=52) TDO's homebrew signature, where you can find all of the Epic Destinies he did.

In my opinion, they were basically what the Epic Level Handbook should have been (maybe modified a bit so that they're the entirety of epic rules). They're not really about the old game of getting bigger numbers and more about actually being epic. If I was ever insane enough to run an Epic game, I would require them.