What do you feel about the part in italics?God_of_Awesome wrote:Useable only if the DM is willing to use discretion.
Ressurection Of The Dead
Level: Sor/Wiz 9, Drd 9, Clr 9
Components: M, L
Casting Time: 1 round
Range: Touch
Target: Sacrifice
Cleric
Material: A sacrifice acceptable to your god, a piece of the dead creature
Location: A place holy to your god
You must barter with your god with a living sentient sacrifice (Good: Willing, Evil: Unwilling and preferably virgin, Neutral: Willing but mind control is cool) in exchange for the dead creature. The god may not have access to the creature (Unwilling, belongs to another god, is on the other side of the Planescape).
There's a story where Hercules basically fights all night long against death.
(some epic level stuff here, which is a big step up from wrestling to death a creature with DR 10/Magic in a almost non-magical campaign setting.
Hmm... maybe that gives me an idea, on how to run a game, where people can Just be characters with really high stats for their level, but who also have pretty average stats in almost all of their other stats.
So, like, Hercules, is a level 1 Fighter with abilities that let him do weird things.
I'm thinking that every time that a character gets a 'level', they get abilities, instead of levels. And their total amount of abilities counts as their level-based pre-requisites.
So, Imagine having like say.... a Level one Barbarian, with:
30 strength
12 Dexterity
16 Constitution
10 Intelligence
10 Wisdom
12 Charisma
So, he could, with his stats kill a big monster after several rounds of grappling; but a bunch of guys could actually give him a hard time.
So, you'd see Hercules, or Perseus, or Odyesseuss could take on say, a boss monster. However they all needed to travel in groups or with armies of 'tiny men' to be able to travel or fight large amounts of enemies easily on his own easily.