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The following five feats are from the Bestiary. However, two in particular Automatic Metamagic Capacity and Metamagic Freedom are important because they give a tantalising glimpse of the new magic system within the Grimoire section of the Immortals Handbook. While I had hoped to introduce these at the proper time, I found statting some of the monsters within the Bestiary next to impossible using the current method of Improved Spell Capacity feats which just led to far too much complexity for much too little pay off. So I was forced to inject this prematurely. The benefits of this system are simplicity, brevity and they preserve the worth of 0th-9th-level spells regardless of how high powered your campaign ascends. Whats presented here are the bare bones of the system. The final work adds new types of dimensional magic (and how to combine dimensional magics) and dozens of powerful spells that cannot be accomplished by 9th-level magic and not merely extensions of existing spells that have just been powered up (such as annihilation, commandment, divine blast etc.). Automatic Metamagic Capacity [Epic] eg. A 26th-level Wizard with x3 Automatic Metamagic Capacity feats could cast all their spells as if they were maximised, without increasing the level of the spell slots required. It also stacks with existing metamagic deployment. eg. A 26th-level Wizard with x3 Automatic Metamagic Capacity feats could maximise an empowered delayed blast fireball (9th-level spell slot). Special: This feat stacks, each time it is taken you gain an additional +1 free spell level of metamagic. This feat is suggested as the replacement
for the following list of existing epic feats: eg. A 30th-level wizard with Automatic Quicken Spell (x2) and Improved Spell Capacity (x3) should have them replaced by Automatic Metamagic Capacity (x5). Heavy Armor Mastery
[Epic] Light Armor Mastery
[Epic] Medium Armor Mastery
[Epic] Metamagic Freedom
[Epic] eg. With this feat you could use a 9th-level spell slot to triple empower a fireball spell (for +150% damage). Normal: Without this feat you can only apply the same metamagic feat once to a single spell. In the wake of this feat the following feats become
redundant: eg. A 30th-level Wizard has Improved Heighten Spell, Intensify Spell and Multispell. These should be replaced by Metamagic Freedom and Automatic Metamagic Capacity (x2). It is also suggested that the following epic
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