So I have been watching this forum for a while now, and finally decided to make an account.
Howdy LunarSquid!
You said earlier that you are planning on following BA
BA? My memory is foggy - remind me what that is again?
by capping the 30 AC and bonuses to +20,
That's my current thinking on the matter.
That said, there are ways you can tangentially circumnavigate those limits without necessarily breaking them - and that's something I will be exploring.
but reading the Ascension book, it would be impossible to imagine anything sidereal, or even greater deity to have anything less.
I disagree. 1st edition had similar caps* and still had greater gods (and in our campaign Overgods as well).
*We slightly broke the AC cap in our game, but I don't think it was a necessary facet of the combat.
I know its difficult visualizing crazy stuff like Time Lords without simply expanding the numbers (and at some point I 'may' still do that).
But looking at my stat-blocks at the moment and I don't think AC plays a big part...and as such there is no need to expand the numbers unnecessarily - if we do that we will end up in the quicksand of 3rd edition.
I know there is probably some formula or workaround you have found,
Its no big mystery, but I will sit on the details for now (in part because mechanics are 'malleable' and I may still tweak a few things before release).
but my excitement and curiosity for this product is just too much to hold!
I appreciate the excitement and curiosity.
I'm actually excited to be working on an epic D&D book again and see how much we can 'push the envelope'. Today I was working on the magic system and came up with a fun 473rd-level spell (and as a point of reference you can "Death Star Laser" a planet with a 53rd-level spell).
Now if only I had 100 more people such as yourself I might get this darn thing funded.
I have tried personally to convert your system to 5E, but no way I found worked fluently. (Multiplying dice, dividing stats, using bigger dice.)
I ran into the same problems myself - 5th Edition at times seemed designed by a crazy person. But eventually I decoded the Matrix and was able to make sense of it - everything fell into place when I solved how to do nukes in 5E. Once I had that, everything fit like a jigsaw...the tiers of divinity, a really simple epic spell system, mega monster damage.