Epic Level Handbook
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The Epic Level Handbook is a rulebook by Wizards of the Coast containing rules for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition characters to attain levels above 20, the limit in the core rulebooks. It provides epic-level progression information for all the core classes in the Player's Handbook and the prestige classes listed Dungeon Master's Guide, as well as the classes from the Psionics Handbook. It also provides epic-level prestige classes, magical items, and artifacts designed to be used by epic-level characters, and monsters that provide epic-level challenges. It also provides information on "Epic Spells", spells that must be researched and developed, and may only be cast by one particular spellcaster.
While the book has been updated for the 3.5th edition via an update document available from the Wizards of the Coast website, there is a clamoring amongst players for a version specifically designed for 3.5, stating that the epic-level rules, particularly the epic spell rules, are unbalanced and can be easily abused.
In addition, the monster entries are rather poorly written, such as the Hecatoncheires, a creature that is supposedly capable of defeating the gods. But due to a lack of thoroughness in the entry, even though it has 100 attacks and 50 strength, it is barely capable of damaging anything with damage reduction of 40 or higher, which many epic monsters and most epic PCs of a Challenge Rating lower than the Hecatoncheires possess. Edition 3.5 rectifies this somewhat, as even epic-level characters and gods wouldn't have DR higher than 25 in the revised rules.
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