Epic Spell: Origin of Species: Achaierai, DC Wrong?

[Crowe9107]

I was looking at the epic spell Origin of Species: Achaierai, to get a sense of how to use Origin of Species to create some Half-Dragon/Bullette siege beasts for another thread, and to me, the numbers don't add up. First, the achaierai gets a natural armor bonus, but the armor seed is not included. Next, using their numbers I come up with 151 base DC x 5 for permanency = 455 DC with 145 pts of mitigating factors = 310 DC by my books, not 38. If you apply the mitigating factors BEFORE permanency, 151 - 145 = 6 x 5 = 30. What's the deal here? Epic Spell Reflection, another permanent spell, has base DC 189 - 177 mitigating factors = 12 x5= 60, not 68. This seems to reinforce tha mitigating factors are applied BEFORE permanency, which seems to directly contradict point 3 of the Factors section on p. 89. Even given that you apply mitigating factors before permanency, where is the extra 8 to DC coming from (30vs38, 60vs68)?

Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Carl Rowe

 

[Xeriar]

Many of the DCs are wrong. Just about all of the permenant ones, in fact (IIRC, Create Living Vault is supposed to be around 2000. Speaking of wizards I have no desire to mess with...)

Considering that without items, a level 30 wizard could only really make a 70 it is just a little humbling.