Epic Level Handbook

[bryant]

If you were wanting to do fantasy-genre Hong Kong action flicks in D20 for some reason, you'd be wanting to buy this plus probably Oriental Adventures. If you were wanting to maintain a relatively sedate campaign, you would be wanting to buy something else.

But man, you want to buy it a lot if you like Invincible Asia, you know? So very high end.

Or OK you could just use Feng Shui. Sigh.

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(t.rev)

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, have to disagree here. They COMPLETELY dropped the ball on epic-level skills. Spellcasters get a whole massive new system, combat characters get feats-a-poppin', rogues get the shaft.

Back when the ELH was first muttered about, I seem to recall reading how it would include rules for all kind of wuxia things like running up walls and balancing on clouds.

But what do we get? What, maybe six pages of apparently arbitrary DCs for various tricks, a large percentage of which could be accomplished with low-level spells. No general discussion, no principles for setting DCs.

It seems to me that rather than take any epic-level skills, a character's better off taking Epic Leadership and hiring a bunch of low-level spellcasters and letting THEM dimension door, detect alignment, detect magic...Fooey!

Re: (t.rev)

[bryant]

Well, in all fairness, the rogues get a couple of slick prestige classes (as do other types). Not so many feats, but Dexterous Fort/Will don't suck. Legendary Climber ought to be in any rogue's feat list. But I won't just recapitulate the bit in the Epic Rogue writeup.

I agree that the skill section is the weakest portion of the rules. It's GURPS rather than Hero, which is a shame.