User:Eiji-kun/CompleteEpic

Monsters

Monster Statistics by CR

CR	Hit Points	Armor Class	High Attack	Low Attack	High Average Damage	Low Average Damage	Primary Ability DC	Secondary Ability DC	Good Save	Poor Save
1/2	10	11	1	0	4	3	11	8	3	0
1	15	12	2	1	7	5	12	9	4	1
2	20	14	4	3	10	7	13	9	5	1
3	30	15	6	4	13	9	14	10	6	2
4	40	17	8	6	16	12	15	10	7	3
5	55	18	10	7	20	15	15	11	8	4
6	70	19	12	8	25	18	16	11	9	5
7	85	20	13	10	30	22	17	12	10	6
8	100	21	15	11	35	26	18	12	11	7
9	115	23	17	12	40	30	19	13	12	8
10	130	24	18	13	45	33	20	13	13	9
11	145	25	19	14	50	37	21	14	14	10
12	160	27	21	15	55	41	22	15	15	11
13	180	28	22	16	60	45	22	15	16	12
14	200	29	23	17	65	48	23	16	17	12
15	220	30	24	18	70	52	24	16	18	13
16	240	31	26	19	80	60	25	17	19	14
17	270	32	27	20	90	67	26	18	20	15
18	300	33	28	21	100	75	27	18	20	16
19	330	34	29	22	110	82	28	19	21	16
20	370	36	30	23	120	90	29	20	22	17
21	400	37	31	24	130	98	31	20	23	18
22	440	39	32	25	140	105	32	21	23	18
23	480	40	33	26	150	113	33	22	24	19
24	520	42	35	27	165	124	34	22	25	20
25	560	43	36	28	180	135	35	23	26	21
26	610	44	37	29	195	146	36	24	26	21
27	670	45	38	30	210	157	37	24	27	22
28	720	46	39	31	225	168	38	25	28	23
29	870	49	40	32	240	181	39	26	29	24
30	920	51	41	33	255	194	40	26	30	24
31	980	52	42	34	270	207	41	27	31	25
32	1040	53	44	35	295	220	42	28	32	26
33	1100	54	45	36	315	233	43	28	33	27
34	1160	55	46	37	335	246	44	29	34	27
35	1220	57	47	38	355	261	45	30	35	28
36	1290	58	48	39	375	266	46	30	36	29
37	1360	59	49	40	395	271	47	31	37	30
38	1430	60	50	41	415	276	48	32	38	31
39	1500	61	51	42	435	281	49	32	39	32
40	1570	63	53	43	455	286	50	33	40	33

Need to rebuild the ENTIRE Epic Monster selection. High level monsters (Balors, Pit Fiends, etc) are the new Goblins, Kobolds, and Bugbears. You fight tons of them and actively reshape major things such as the Blood War, becoming equal to an entire army of mooks.

Estimatated requests for 10 CR21s, 9 CR22s, 9 CR23s, 9 CR24s, 8 CR25s, 8 CR26s, 8 CR27s, 7 CR28s, 7 CR29s, 7 CR30s, 6 CR31s, 6 CR32s, 6 CR33s, 5 CR34s, 5 CR35s, 5 CR36s, 4 CR37s, 4 CR38s, 4 CR39s, 3 CR40s, 3 CR41s, 3 CR42s, 2 CR43s, 2 CR44s, 2 CR45s.

20-Behemoth Eagle, Behemoth Gorilla
21-Divine Wolf^, Divine Horse^, Divine Shark^, Hulk types^, Doomspeaker^, Toxic Waste Monster^, Pseudonatural Troll, Mu Spore, Mithral Golem*, Chichimec, 1st sign of Quasi-Dieties/Abominations
22-Aberration World Fey^, Nephwracks the Bodaks of Divine Sparks^, Living Bulletstorm Cannon^, Dhole^, Thorciasid, Ha-Naga, Anaxim, Sound of Silence Abomination^
23-Sentient Disease^, Ancient Baatorians^, Jabberwocky^, Comet Dyrad^, Winterwight, Ruin Swarm, Lavawight, Adamantine Golem*, Brachyurus
24-X-77 Wyvern Flying Golem^, Demilich, Quirk*, Vemiurge, Sarap*, Sirrush, Tayella, Stone Colossus, Manifestation of Natural Disasters^, 1st sign of Demigods
25-Elder Trent, Hunefer, Hoary Hunter and Steed, Uranium Golem*, Lesser Neutronium Golem*, Gloom, Phane, True Tarrasque
26-Truths True Angel^, Hecatonoculus (Beholder)^, Shadow Of The Void, Shape Of Fire, Neh-Thalggu (Brain Collector), Infernal, Worm That Walks, That Which Eats Everything^
27-Cthulhu^, Katamari Ooze^, Dr. Who Angels^, Godforged^, God Maggots eat God Corpses^, Aboleth Overmind^, Uvuudaum, Gibbering Orb
28-Swords True Angel^, The Unshaped Fey^, Excellithid (Illithid)^, Prismasaurus, leShay, Three-Headed Sirrush, Flesh Colossus
29-Erythreon the Vampire Blood God/Ultimate^, Evolution Fey^, Shub-Niggurath^, 2D Animated Sword^, Grails True Angel^, Lesser Godslayer Tyranid^, Hagunemnon (Protean), 1st sign of Lesser Deities
30-Singing LCL Ooze^, FF's Warmachine^, Fleshing Experimenters from the "Outside"^, Death Reaper^, Elder Titan, Genius Loci, Atropal
31-Strangelet Ooze^, Planar Tapeworm^, 1D Cosmic String^, Wraths True Angel^, Hands True Angel^, Dream Larva
32-Negalich the Bodiless Lich^, Weapons of Fire/Water/Air/Earth^, Umbral Blot (Blackball)
33-0D Point of Fire-Starting/Gravity Crushing of Animal Int, Rust Monster for Matter^, Weapons of Life/Death^, Living Vault, Iron Colossus
34-Spirit of a Death World Fey^, Missing No.^, Glories True Angel^, Godslayer Tyranid^, Phaethon
35-Mysteries True Angel^, Four Horsemen War/Pestilence/Famine/Death^
36-All Primal Elementals, Xixecal, 1st sign of Intermediate Dieties
37-Cogent the World Flayer Elder Brain^, Slaadi Lords, Inevitable Lords, Throne True Angel^
38-King of Fire/Water/Air/Earth^
39-Greater Godslayer Tyranid^, King of Life/Death^, Devastation Spider
40-Starchild^, Semilir the Volcano Turtle/Lavos Mini^, Devastation Centipede
41-Cosmic Servitors/Elementals^, Crown True Angel^, Devastation Scorpion
42-Fateweavers who force fate on track^, Universal Macrobe/Galactus^, Devastation Beetle
43-Stareater^, Yog-Sothoth^
44-Neverborn aka Primordial^, Hecatoncheires
45-The Uber Tarrasque Thing^, 1st sign of Greater Dieties

Dragons-Force Dragon, Prismatic Dragon, Olympus Dragons, Lethus Dragons

Templates-True Legendary +20, Demilich, Quasi-Diety, Demigod, Lesser Diety, Intermediate Diety, Greater Diety, Overdiety, Perfected (law), Proteus (chaos), Exalted (good), Vileborn (evil), Worm That Walks, N-Dimensional

Subtypes-Avatar (nature), Abomination, Epic, Diety, Cosmic

Monsters will mostly follow MLET, but I'll relax it a bit for epic, up to 150%.

Introduce the d20, d30, d50, and d100 HDs. These are mainly for monsters. Also make the Extraordinary Health a glossary term as many will need max hp.

PC Alterations

Minimum saving throw is 1/2 your level, so at 21st you have a +10. Your base save is unchanged and you can't count for feats without the save to back it up. With this you have a roughly 50% success rate on low DCs and a 5% success on high DCs. Though some may be encouraged to "forget your Will save, I'm covered" or the like, it's a bad idea as any compitent caster will own you, and the minimum merely saves you from being destroyed by poor DCs. Sometimes.

BAB is gained as normal, number of attacks are capped at four regardless.

Saves are as normal. As above, you have a minimum save regardless how low your saving throws go.

Pseudo-divine ranks are gained, actual divine ranks are based on the divine templates. In terms of rank vs rank power, 1 real divine rank = 4 fake divine ranks and you start with 1, so level 40 characters have 6 ranks, aka they are Lesser Gods. Its possible through items, artifacts, feats, and the like, to gain a higher rank, which may work in play when having god vs god battles and activating or using certain items.

Class Alterations

Epic classes are completely rejiggered and BAB and saves are applied.

Spellcasters automatically gain Improved Spell Capacity. Initiators automatically gain Dynamic Potential. Fighters and mundanes get, well, see below.

EITHER: You gain a bonus based on the number of mundane levels + spellcasting levels + initiating levels... OR: The epic levels of base classes gain bonuses appropriate for rebalancing. Wizards get Improved Spell Capacity, ya. Fighters get +20 to deathkill checks, laser eyes, nuclear breath, and quantum distortion armor. The fighters get rewarded for slogging through it all, and in the end, it should end up rogue universally, ideally.

Item Alterations

The x10 cost is removed. Epic items are instead only able to be used by epic creatures or a sufficient divine rank, or a really high UMD to employ pre-epic. Realistically speaking the only pre-epic use of epic items you can afford will be in stupidly high UMD checks. And I may remove that aspect, making it impossible pre-epic. This restriction is not applied for artifacts, which are DM Fiat anyway.

Probably going to be repricing or replacing a lot of things in general.

Adventuers

21-25: Oh no, goblins balors have stolen the caravan phantom train full of gold petitioners, and the mayor seraphims have called in adventurers to go recover it and stop the evil.

26-30: The princess of the kingdom Goddess of Plot Devices has been kidnapped by the evil dragon Demogorgon. Go save her and save the kingdom upper plane.

31-35: You've uncovered a plot to summon the World of Nightmares into the world the multiverse, which will surely end with disaster. Stop them while figuring out who the spy is in the ranks of the kingdom Gods. In the end you have to kill a balor Asmodeus.

36-40: Godzilla appears H'lysh't the Ender of Worlds appears and is consuming everything. Save the world multiverse or everyone will die.

Fluff and Other

Becoming epic is a process, much like going super saiyan. You don't merely level up, you earn it. Part of the earning is linking yourself up to something that gives you your epic. A god gives it to you. A plane. The will of the people. Sheer willpower. Etc. Part of this also introduces the Divine Pact, which basically states why gods don't go mucking around in human affairs like they used to. Mucking around gets you attention of Things-Bigger-Than-You, and there's always something bigger. Gods are, after all, the nukes of the world. This does not prevent them from living on the material, but adventures no longer really take place there.

On that note, related factions. The forces of heaven, the forces of hell, the forces of the abyss, the forces of chaos, the forces of order, nature itself, the concept of balance, the far realm forces, the elemental forces (split into 6 groups), the feywild forces (related to the forces of chaos, but... different), and the Universal forces of the Astral and Shadow.

The God-Material, an alternate plane of the material which gods jaunt around. The cities are often nothing compared to the things you find on the God Material. The "material" for epic games. Only gods and epics can access it, and can do so via gates or at higher levels naturally.

God levels are templates, much in the way of Immortals Handbook, but I rejigger it. Actual quasidiety will start off as LA 1 but only able to be taken by epic creatures, with epic based on ECL rather than HD to prevent cheesey use of high RHD creatures, as well as to be fair to those with LA. These "epic templates" might not even run off LA, maybe I'll do it by XP loss like necropoliton. The higher levels are probably expodential... demigod at LA 2, then LA 4, then LA 8, and so forth. Thinking more on the subject later.

Skill modification- DC 50 to UMD things for artifacts, like race.

Epic Spells

The fate of spells and epic spells to make...

Epic Spell Descriptions

• Animus Blast- This is just Fell Animate Fireball. Revamp or remove.
• Animus Blizzard- Same thing, but as an aura. Revamp or remove.
• Contingent Resurrection- Make the restoration instant. Autolife is a fine epic spell.
• Create Living Vault (Ritual)- Living vaults should be crafted as normal. Remove.
• Crown Of Vermin- This was always an interesting if unbalanced effect. Revamp.
• Damnation- The effect is nonepic but the idea is. Maybe if it was more like Familicide in its effect... Revamp.
• Demise Unseen- Nonepic crunch, epic fluff. Make it a living being under control hosting a dead spirit so they can go "I'll show you my REAL form" and flip out and kill things. Also, make it stronger. Revamp.
• Dire Winter- This needs to cause a global catastrophe, not Control Weather. Revamp.
• Dragon Knight (Ritual)- Redundant with Dragon Strike. Remove.
• Dragon Strike (Ritual)- Always thought the names were mixed up. Can be good, in the sense of summoning an ARMY of dragons. This is a ritual spell if any though. Revamp.
• Dreamscape- This is psionic shadow walk. Why is this an epic spell? Remove.
• Eclipse-Good fluff, bad crunch. I can do better. Revamp.
• Eidolon-Ripe for abuse. Just use Simulacrum. Remove.
• Enslave (Ritual)-This is just slow dominate. This should enslave the (weak) minds of nations. Revamp.
• Epic Counterspell- Pitiful. This should make some auto-counterspelling ward. Revamp.
• Epic Mage Armor- As much as I like numbers, we can do better than this, and casters don't need more AC. Remove.
• Epic Repulsion- Name is unfitting, this should blast your opponents X distance away, and keep them there. My inspiration is Deus from Asura's Wrath giving Olga the Divine Backhand of God. Revamp.
• Epic Spell Reflection- Not bad, needs polish. Revamp.
• Eternal Freedom-Make nonpermenant and then apply to many more effects. Play up the unable to stop moving juggernaut thing. Revamp.
• Greater Spell Resistance- You got to be kidding me. Remove.
• Greater Ruin- Its just disintegrate. Remove.
• Hellball- This isn't much of a "hell"ball, and not very interesting either. Remove.
• Kinetic Control-Somehow this seems non-epic, but the idea of physical damage immunity is appealing. Still, probably more trouble to balance than its worth. Consider some sort of DR/resistance granting ability which only applies to things much weaker than you. Remove.
• Let Go Of Me- Not a bad effect but needs more applications and flash bang beyond just damage. How about blowing the enemy away? Revamp.
• Living Lightning-Living spells are cool, but this needs help. Revamp.
• Lord Of Nightmares-Interesting but needs monsters completed first to see its viability. Pending.
• Mass Frog- Epic casters are far beyond parlor tricks. How about cursing an entire race instead? I'll make that, and kill this. Remove.
• Momento Mori- Just a SoD. Remove.
• Mummy Dust- Not enough interesting fluff to maintain. Remove.
• Nailed To The Sky- This was always awesome. Just needs some better revamping and expanding to all sorts of binding-esque opportunities. Revamp.
• Origin Of Species: Achaierai- I need to redo the entire origin of species concept, but it will remain. Revamp.
• Peripety- Good concept, bad execution. Revamp.
• Pestilence- Another good concept, bad execution. Consider diseases worsening as the casting time continues, ala the approach of some elder evil. Revamp.
• Rain Of Fire- Terrible. Well, the slow-damage-over-time can be done, but it needs to be done better than this. Turn into some wasteland-creating spell with more malificient effects. Revamp.
• Raise Island- Terraforming is awesome. This spell is not awesome. I will make it awesome. Revamp.
• Ruin-A bad disintegrate. Remove.
• Safe Time-I prefer "character shunted, covered in smoke for 1 round before revealing he survived". Revamp.
• Soul Dominion-ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL. Acceptable, just polish. Revamp.
• Soul Scry-It's just Greater Scry. Remove.
• Spell Worm-Seems to work better as a longer lasting curse with tweaked crunch. Revamp.
• Summon Behemoth-No, though "Summon Specific X" including Summon Tarrasque should be considered. Remove.
• Superb Dispelling- Really, Greater Dispel Magic should be uncapped instead, rendering this needless. Remove.
• Time Duplicate-Too confusing. Remove.
• Vengeful Gaze Of God-A really strong disintegrate, but still needs more, like a huge area or something of note. This is a orbital death ray after all. Revamp.
• Verdigris-As a city destroyer, it's ok, but seems more like Druid 9. Revamp or remove.
• Verdigris Tsunami-As before, but more. Still needs something beyond damage. Keep only this or the former. Revamp or remove.

In addition I'm making my own which include...

• Mass Interplanetary Travel Options
• Minor Time Travel, largely for purposes of plot device.
• Planet Movement. Always knew World Dominators were overpowered bullshit.
• Summon Elder Evil. For the suicidal.
• Fatal Supersaiyan. Gain superpowers, die and die for good.
• Familicide.
• Always Reincarnate and be impossible to bind for good. You're like Ganon now.
• Alter Reality, a sort of Mass Wish. Restricted to mostly fluff purposes, as the focus is on wide effect.
• Animate Land into Genius Loci type thing.
• Cut the planet in half. For really high level.
• Cut canyons into the earth. For less high level.
• Major but more general terraforming. Turn Mars into a garden.
• Save crystal. Pull off a saved game state. Pricy to keep doing over and over.
• Summon Specific X, like the Tarrasque.
• Cursing entire races. Because Mass Frog blows my balls.
• Crash two planes together, generate mal'X effect.
• Make a black hole.
• Make a nuke for a huge explosion (Megaton).
• Make antimatter for a huger explosion.
• Destroy a planetary object with a Death Star laser.
• Voltron Fusion.
• Infinite Bear Cannon. Just.... infinite bear cannon.

Salient Abilities

The god archetypes I wish to cover are: Aberrant, Air, Animal, Artifice, Chaos, Charm/Beauty, Civilization/Government, Creation, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Dragon, Earth, Evil, Fire, Freedom, Good, Health/Healing, Knowledge, Law, Life, Light, Luck, Madness, Magic, Moon, Mountains, Ocean, Ooze, Pestilence, Plant, Protection, Psionics, Racial, Secrets, Space, Speed, Strength/Fitness, Sun, Time, Travel, Trickery/Lies, Tyranny, Undeath, Underdark/Caves, Vermin, War, Water, Weather

• Alter Form- Ignore Alter Size, make it into a mini-wildshape of sorts and synergize with actual wildshape if you have it.
• Alter Reality- Limit to stupid high level (greater deities), limit to divine realm with a much lesser version for outside. Really, if you want Wish at will, pick up a domain with Wish or Miracle and suck up the xp cost, cause I ain't giving it free.
• Alter Size- Break into two feats, one for typical tactical size changing, and one for impressive size changes that actually transform you into mobile terrain (a subject for another day) and can pull off some impressive looking but not actually all that powerful stuff. The second feat will have to wait until I flesh out fighting terrains better.
• Annihilating Strike- Limit to auto-destroying only weak things. Tough things instead get a disintegration effect on death. This is a mook-clearer, and is super-effective on mobs.
• Arcane Mastery-Acceptable. Needs some tweaking, but "all spells are in your (nonexistant) spellbook" just puts you up to what clerics already had. Needs something for sorcerers though. Perhaps the power to switch out your spells each day, ala Spirit Shaman.
• Automatic Metamagic-This may be redundant with the Automatic Metamagic feats, so I'm inclined to remove them.
• Avatar-Redundant now. Remove.
• Banestrike- Good idea, poor execution. Figure out some sort of epic favored enemy thing going on. Apply it to everything, attacks and spells.
• Battlesense- This actually seems worth it with no changes needed.
• Call Creatures-Good idea, bad execution, needs details. Probably act like Summon from a list of beings no more than your CR -5 or something.
• Clearsight- Weaker than true seeing. At this level, it should GIVE constant true seeing.
• Command Plants- Weak. The idea of making it several powers in one works, sort of like several domain abilities that are plant-themed. 3 feels right.
• Control Creatures- And then too strong. ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL has its purpose, but it needs to be curtailed to prevent abuse.
• Craft Artifact- Redundant. Instead, this is some kind of "Greater Crafting" catch-all ability which allows crafting of anything (with bonuses if you have the feat) and crafting greater amounts of minor/major artifacts, and/or crafting them early.
• Create Object- Major Creation at will and quickly needs to be bug tested for combat abuse, but the concept is sound.
• Create Greater Object- Change to make it able to make low-level non-consumable magic items (non-unique/custom). Balance carefully.
• Divine Air Mastery- This is pretty good, but consider a bonus of half Divine Rank.
• Divine Archery- Not bad.
• Divine Armor Mastery- Change to make it where it's like you're wearing no armor, so armored monks are go. Also, your armor auto-magic vestments.
• Divine Bard- This is... good. Like, really good. Like, several epic feats good. I am thinking I need to break it up, but I kind of don't want to. I need thoughts on this, readers. Comments?
• Divine Battle Mastery-Choked with pre-reqs, and the effects are done by feats. Revamp somehow.
• Divine Blast- The classic god-smite. Good, but needs something than d12s. Straight 10s or 5s? 2d6? Figure it out. In essence this is a warlock blast.
• Divine Blessing- This is dumb. Turning it into Super Animal's Affinity at will can work, but really, at this point everyone will have items of X on anyway. Unsure what to do with it. Maybe "creature has minimum score equal to half your own, aka Cha 40 for you means the blessed mook has cha 20 base if its not higher?"

Epic Feats

• Distant Shot-Ok, also funny
• Epic Fortitude-Ok, but don't forget to make Tarrasque's Fortitude to make your base Fort your CR +2.
• Epic Leadership-Remove, fuse with normal Leadership.
• Epic Reflexes-Ok, but don't forget to make X's Reflexes to make your base Reflex your CR +2.
• Epic Spellcasting-Transformed into Epic Rituals and Epic Incantations.
• Epic Toughness-This is actually... ok.
• Epic Will-Ok, but don't forget to make X's Will to make your base Will your CR +2.
• Improved Combat Reflexes-Ok
• Improved Heighten Spell-Fuse into Heighten Spell.
• Improved Manyshot-Ok.
• Improved Spell Capacity-Given for free, removed.
• Incite Rage-This is circumstantial, but ok.
• Infinite Deflection-Ok.
• Legendary Commander-Needs a better effect, revamp or remove.
• Mobile Defense-Remove, fused into Bulwark of Defense.
• Multispell-Probably too broken, consider removing. If not, limit it to be taken once, and make it any swift action, not just quickened spells. Change to high, non-magic specific requirements, change the name to something like Ultimate Alacrity.
• Perfect Multiweapon Fighting-Ok
• Perfect Two-Weapon Fighting-Ok
• Permanent Emanation-Probably broken. Remove.
• Sneak Attack Of Opportunity-Ok
• Spell Knowledge-Ok.
• Spell Opportunity-Ok
• Spell Stowaway-Ok
• Spellcasting Harrier-Ok
• Spontaneous Spell-Ok
• Tenacious Magic-Ok
• Terrifying Rage-Ok
• Undead Mastery-Ok?
• Craft Epic Magic Arms And Armor-Removed, since the normal feats do fine.
• Craft Epic Rod-Removed, since the normal feats do fine.
• Craft Epic Staff-Removed, since the normal feats do fine.
• Craft Epic Wondrous Item-Removed, since the normal feats do fine.
• Forge Epic Ring-Removed, since the normal feats do fine.
• Scribe Epic Scroll-Removed, since the normal feats do fine.
• Epic Expanded Knowledge-Ok
• Epic Psionic Focus-Ok
• Improved Manifestation-Ok
• Power Knowledge-Ok
• Intensify Spell-Ok.
• Diminutive Wild Shape-Ok
• Fine Wild Shape-Ok
• Dragon Wild Shape-Ok
• Gargantuan Wild Shape-Ok
• Colossal Wild Shape-Ok
• Improved Elemental Wild Shape-Ok
• Plant Wild Shape-Ok
• Vermin Wild Shape-Ok