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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9047450" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>You are making a lot of assumptions about what has to happen at higher levels.</p><p></p><p>Story logic is this: if you charge 50 guards, unless you have an amazing plan, that is not going to work out for you. I am not interested in a story of pointless combat against masses of weaklings; neither are my players. So if you are level 7 then those guards are going to be tough enough to make them an appropriate threat. In this case, probably a deadly one if you do something stupid. Why would I use guards with 11 HP against high level characters? That's not interesting.</p><p></p><p>We are not interested in power fantasy stories.</p><p></p><p>So your latter examples don't happen. And while extra-planar setting are not generally my bag, I would certainly not be interested in a game where the players were able to dethrone Graz'zt or whatever. If I was running some sort of adventure along those lines, the story would be that it was a lesser-powered avatar or something.</p><p></p><p>This is not to judge those who enjoy such stories - more power to them. But it is not the case that D&D requires them. It is perfectly possible to run campaigns where even at high levels characters are not superheroes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9047450, member: 7035894"] You are making a lot of assumptions about what has to happen at higher levels. Story logic is this: if you charge 50 guards, unless you have an amazing plan, that is not going to work out for you. I am not interested in a story of pointless combat against masses of weaklings; neither are my players. So if you are level 7 then those guards are going to be tough enough to make them an appropriate threat. In this case, probably a deadly one if you do something stupid. Why would I use guards with 11 HP against high level characters? That's not interesting. We are not interested in power fantasy stories. So your latter examples don't happen. And while extra-planar setting are not generally my bag, I would certainly not be interested in a game where the players were able to dethrone Graz'zt or whatever. If I was running some sort of adventure along those lines, the story would be that it was a lesser-powered avatar or something. This is not to judge those who enjoy such stories - more power to them. But it is not the case that D&D requires them. It is perfectly possible to run campaigns where even at high levels characters are not superheroes. [/QUOTE]
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