innerdude
Legend
10 levels. If that.
As a teenager, my answer would have been vastly different. Looking through the old softcover Masters and Companion rulebooks as a kid, the idea that you could reach LEVEL 36!!!!! was somehow this thing to aspire to. And of course, it was fuel for the imagination--- "Wouldn't it be cool if we could take over THE WORLD???? Wouldn't it be cool if we could DEFEAT ZEUS IN ONE-ON-ONE COMBAT???!!!"
The longer I've gamed, the more I've realized that I play RPGs for the compelling human elements, not the fantastical, "epic" ones. "Can you defeat THE ULTIMATE EVIL???????" is a vastly less interesting question to me than, "Can you find the spark of humanity within you that will drive you to become something meaningful?"
As a teenager, my answer would have been vastly different. Looking through the old softcover Masters and Companion rulebooks as a kid, the idea that you could reach LEVEL 36!!!!! was somehow this thing to aspire to. And of course, it was fuel for the imagination--- "Wouldn't it be cool if we could take over THE WORLD???? Wouldn't it be cool if we could DEFEAT ZEUS IN ONE-ON-ONE COMBAT???!!!"
The longer I've gamed, the more I've realized that I play RPGs for the compelling human elements, not the fantastical, "epic" ones. "Can you defeat THE ULTIMATE EVIL???????" is a vastly less interesting question to me than, "Can you find the spark of humanity within you that will drive you to become something meaningful?"