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2010-01-02, 04:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Epic Spellcasting
Can someone tell me exactly why a level 21 wizard can "win the game" with epic spellcasting? The d20 srd is not very specific when it comes to epic spellcasting.
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Re: Epic Spellcasting
You answered your own question. Its because its not very specific. There are loopholes that allowed any spell imaginable to exist and have no casting cost.
The search function is your friend by the way.
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2010-01-02, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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The epic wizard gates in a bunch of Solars (9th level casting angels)
He Mindrapes them (kinda like Dominate, only more serious)
He creates a spell with billions of effects for a HUGE spellcraft DC. (smt like Immune to Everything and NI bonus to all stats)
He then makes all the Solars donate 9th level slots to the ritual, for -17 DC per solar. With sufficient Solars, DC is now 0
Time and price is based on DC - 0 DC means no price nor XP cost.
Good Game.
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2010-01-02, 04:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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So you're saying that the only way epic spellcasting is viable is if the spellcaster gates in a lot of solars then.
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2010-01-02, 04:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Epic Spellcasting
So what other ways can you drop the dc's then?
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emulating a level 5 spell with epic magic is impossible until about level 60, unless you use mitigation. The mitigation system allows you to mitigate any spell down to DC0 and development cost of: 0gp, 0xp, and 1 day
There are multiple methods of mitigation that are easily and infinitely stackable.
and the example spells include creating your own outsiders, creating your own planes of existence, prolonging your life, and giving yourself arbitrarily high inherent bonuses (the stuff you normally need a wish or a tome to do) at no cost.
EDIT: also, invisibility only pierced by epic magic / gods, anti magic field where only epic magic works, etc etc.
A level 21 wizard has as much strength, constitution, dexterity, wisdom, intelligence, and charisma as it cares to have...
you can also give yourself over 30 different types of stacking AC bonuses, again, arbitrarily high, and so on and so forth.
If you are in a rush, it takes a minimum of 2 days to get yourself a permanent non dispellable +4 per type of AC... so in two months you have already gotten +120 to AC.
and these are just the tip of the iceberg. You can use example spells to make a clone of a divinity 21+ god and have said clone maintain its divinity and be under your power... sure its got half the HP and its got some weaknesses, but so what? it just uses its 21+ divinity to raise you up to its own divinity rank.
It also doesn't matter if you are a cleric, wizard, whatever, as long as you are a full caster (gains 9th level casting before level 20), you get the exact same epic casting mechanic at level 21.
there are many others methods... the epic handbook book is incompatible with the books describing deities, no deity possess epic casting (or epic levels in any single class; example deities have things like fighter 20/wizard 20/cleric 20), and a level 21 caster who has undergone the things described above can kill all the deities as described with ease. (even without making himself an over deity).
quite frankly, it is the worst thought out POS ever published by WOTC.
They say of course that the DM should "keep things in check", but the system they came up with is beyond useless... it is better for the DM to literally pull out spells out of his nether regions then to have anything to do with epic casting.Last edited by taltamir; 2010-01-02 at 04:26 PM.
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2010-01-02, 04:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Okay so what seed is "clone" in under exactly?
Also, adding AC increases the spellcraft DC, which would require extra mitigating factors, which would...inevitably need more solars, wouldn't it.
Also, under the seed "fortify", it states that a permanent inherent bonus caps at +5, unless your wizard is willing to keep recasting this epic spell with his 9001 solars.Last edited by mesharmour; 2010-01-02 at 04:36 PM.
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2010-01-02, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cast Genesis first (suck up the 5k XP cost, as long as it keeps you at 21th level XP, you're OK. If not, go kill tarrasque with immense amounts of spells while flying for the XP) - 2160000x time trait.
For the spell, go 100 days (1 round in 'real world') which is like -220 DC. You can now develop & cast any epic spell of upto 220 DC for free in mere rounds.
Can you not think an application for that?
Edit: Permanent +19 to Armor and +19 to Natural Armor is 2 spells at DC220, so are +4 to Deflection, Insight, Sacred, Luck, Morale and any other bonus type you can think of.Last edited by Eloel; 2010-01-02 at 04:45 PM.
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That is why I said you are limited (at first, before you really start to break the system) to a +4 per type per 2 days (1 day to research, 1 day to cast).
Also, under the seed "fortify", it states that a permanent inherent bonus caps at +5, unless your wizard is willing to keep recasting this epic spell with his 9001 solars.Last edited by taltamir; 2010-01-02 at 04:42 PM.
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the glass is always 100% full. Approximately 50% of its volume is full of dihydrogen monoxide and some dissolved solutes, and approx 50% a mixture of gasses known as "air" which contains roughly (by volume) 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases.
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2010-01-02, 04:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, but if you cast the spell in your demiplane, then it'll only affect your demiplane, unless you're casting that spell that gives you that armour class bonus or something of the sort.
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Are you going to bundle all of these stat bonuses into one spell or several, because there is still a spell limit per day.
Also, if time passes so fast in your demiplane, then the spell would already faded by the time you finish casting it.Last edited by mesharmour; 2010-01-02 at 04:56 PM.
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Another good one is to use the summon seed on a CR NI creature and then increase the duration to permanent. Make it immune to dispelling and antimagic and then mitigate it into oblivion. Instant super-strong monster under your absolute control. Great Wyrm Force Dragon, anyone?
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so you make them permenant. And it doesn't matter what plane you cast the buff in, it goes with you when you leave.
With mitigation Epic Spells break the game in any way imaginable. without mitigation there's no point whatsoever in the feat, it's not that it isn't worth the epic feat slot it's that it isn't worth anything... at all... the mechanics as written are sucktastic in the extreme.
Epic casting with time extras in a fast demiplane can make minions to back up your casting, which can fuel a bigger casting which makes more minions... who then all work together to create uberminions who etc etc etc etc....
If you don't fancy creating minions just use planer bindings, you know, that spell that's been breaking the game for many levels before you get epic castings... or else gate in great wyrms and solars and order them to accept the mindrape to obey you forever, let them go and then they planeshift back to serve you forever...Last edited by mostlyharmful; 2010-01-02 at 05:08 PM.
Give them bread and circusses and the plebs wont rise against you. Give adventurers dungeons and trapped chests and they won't waste time looking to ransack your home and kill your wife.
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Just perma-Summon some Sylphs to your plane. It's smt like DC70 for perma-sylph. Cast it over and over again, and make them contribute. Now you don't even have to persuade them - they HAVE TO serve.
When you have enough of them to mitigate the casting to 1 round, you're golden - rapid-produce Sylphs. Get any spell of any DC you wish afterwards.
If Epic Spellcasting itself makes the cheesy spells easier, it breaks itself...Last edited by Eloel; 2010-01-02 at 05:14 PM.
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I thought I was clear about this... lemme explain.
the only thing limiting you to a +4 is the fact that you just hit level 21, and have yet to get anything truely abusive. So your first act is to spend a day researching a DC0 spell that gives a permanent +4 and requires several helpers to cast as part of its mitigation, you use summon monster to summon monsters that cast spells, and have them contribute. You are limited to +4 because at the moment, you still have a limited amount of summons per day.
Assuming it is the first thing you do as an epic caster... after taking those 2 months to get a +120 to AC you go ahead and start working on getting yourself an infinite amount of permanent helpers to get arbitrarily high bonuses...
although, why you are casting perma +4 to AC spells instead of getting to work on getting yourself permanent helpers is beyond me. But for the sake of his example that is what it works out as.
get it now?
so yes, if you first get yourself an army of solars the +AC bonus isn't +4, its +infinity
BTW, other mitigations factors that are temp HP spells + backlash requiring spells, time increases (so it takes 100 days to cast, big whoop. You are in your fast time demiplane and wearing a ring of sustenance)Last edited by taltamir; 2010-01-02 at 05:18 PM.
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the glass is always 100% full. Approximately 50% of its volume is full of dihydrogen monoxide and some dissolved solutes, and approx 50% a mixture of gasses known as "air" which contains roughly (by volume) 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases.
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you can't make inherent bonuses above +5... you can however give your wizard a +938884893020 competence bonus with a permenant epic spell, you just need a little mitigation. Likewise with sacred, profane, luck, enhancement, anybullcrap bonuses.
you can do all kinds of things without minions it just takes time (or Genisis), it's just the over the top crazy that comes with minions, also you can make minions that last more than long enough without making them permenant, or you can make true breeding minions, or you can bind minions, or you can mindgank minions or or or or or.......
Worst. Feat. In. The. Game.
Either it's broken because it's useless or it's broken because it makes you an overdeity which isn't much fun.Give them bread and circusses and the plebs wont rise against you. Give adventurers dungeons and trapped chests and they won't waste time looking to ransack your home and kill your wife.
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2010-01-02, 05:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Alright, I see what we're dealing with now. Thanks for your help guys.