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=====Table: Epic Spell Mitigating Factors=====
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! !! [[SRD:Spellcraft Skill|Spellcraft]] [[SRD:DC|DC]] Modifier
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| style="text-align: left;" | Delayed manifestation of spell effect by 1 round || &minus;1
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| style="text-align: left;" | Delayed manifestation of spell effect by 1 minute || &minus;3
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| style="text-align: left;" | Delayed manifestation of spell effect by 10 minutes || &minus;6
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| style="text-align: left;" | Delayed manifestation of spell effect by 1 hour || &minus;9
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| style="text-align: left;" | Delayed manifestation of spell effect by 1 day || &minus;12
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| style="text-align: left;" | Delayed manifestation of spell effect by 1 month || &minus;15
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| style="text-align: left;" | Delayed manifestation of spell effect by 1 year || &minus;18
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| style="text-align: left;" | Duration shortened (hours/level become 10 minutes/level, becomes 1 minute/level, becomes 1 round/level, becomes 1 round) || &minus;8
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| style="text-align: left;" | Expensive Focus 5,000g value (max value 1,000,000g) || &minus;1
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| style="text-align: left;" | Expensive Material Component 2,500 value (max value 500,000g) || &minus;1
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| style="text-align: left;" | Caster takes &minus;1 [[SRD:Ability Score Loss|penalty to ability score]] lasting 24 hours || &minus;5
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| style="text-align: left;" | Caster takes 1 point of [[SRD:Ability Damaged|ability damage]] || &minus;10
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| style="text-align: left;" | Caster takes 1 point of [[SRD:Ability Burn|ability burn]] || &minus;15
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| style="text-align: left;" | Caster takes 1 point of [[SRD:Ability Drained|ability drain]] || &minus;20
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| style="text-align: left;" | Limited Circumstances in which spell is applied || &minus;10
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| style="text-align: left;" | Summoned creature not under caster's control || &minus;20
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| class="foot" colspan="2" |Note: Mitigating factors are always applied after all epic spell factors (see above) are accounted for in the development of an epic spell.

# The caster cannot somehow avoid or make him or her self immune to backlash damage. For [[SRD:Casting Spells|spells]] with durations longer than instantaneous, the backlash damage is per [[SRD:Round|round]]. If backlash damage kills a caster, no spell or method exists that will return life to the caster’s body without costing the caster a level &minus; not even ''[[SRD:Wish|wish]], [[SRD:True Resurrection|true resurrection]], [[SRD:Miracle|miracle]],'' or Epic spells that return life to the deceased. [[SRD:Casting Spells|Spells]] that normally penalize the recipient one level when they return him or her to life penalize a caster killed by backlash two levels.  
# When increasing the casting time of a spell in order to reduce the [[SRD:Spellcraft Skill|Spellcraft]] [[SRD:DC|DC]], a character must first “use up” the maximum of 10 minutes (for a total [[SRD:DC|DC]] modifier of &minus;20). After that, a character can continue to add days to the casting time, with a further modifier of &minus;2 per day, up to the maximum of 100 days.
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