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Star Wars without Skywalkers (except Vader). Start 1 year before Yavin and go. Loose continuity except for how the Empire acts.

I like this a lot.

Also, "horror franchise"? Really?

Modern day adventurers call themselves just that, along with "explorer" etc. As I pointed out in the OP, this thread was inspired by The Lost City of Z, which follows both a turn of the 20th century adventurer as well as many who followed him, including the author of the book.

The IGN review is pretty good too, and sets realistic expectations I think. I'm in.

Ok. Are you interested in talking about the actual topic, though?

I totally forgot about that book. I assume it references the M&M2024 for monsters, etc? I have not seen it. It is interesting that the video did not mention it, even though it mentioned the new starter and ST sets.

I think maybe a core stress mechanic may be the right way to go, especially if there are interesting ways to alleviate and/or explore that stress.

This video from The Character Sheet is all doomy and gloomy, but that isn't why I am bringing it up. it points out that up until the new FR books, there has not been a D&D book that requires the 2024 rules. SO, what does a big adventure campaign look like that REQUIRES the 2024 rules. Yes, the...

Again, my point of inspiration is how actual real world adventurers experience their adventures. It is almost never about combat; it is about hardship and overcoming hardship. What I am after is not a simulation, but a way to capture that in play.

I think if you can do it successfully in other media, there is probably a way to do it successfully in TTRPGs.

Descent caps at at 13th level. It really isn't a high level adventure.

I might back. I have been meaning to give running AW a try, and this seems like as good an excuse as any.

While I agree with most of your points, I am not sure this one is axiomatic. It can be true, of course, but it can also be true that players dictate story in earlier tiers, as well as that story in tier 4 is still driven by the GM.

Those are all good. Also just the idea that PCs of that power level, the first in an age, perhaps, attract the attention of long slumbering wyrms, fae princes just on the other side of the veil, or the gods themselves. Just because those powers aren't ever present in this more "grounded" world...

I love the superhero genre in RPGs, and I often use the tropes from there as the foundation on which to do "the PCs and their villains are the most powerful things." My current Daggerheart campaign is explicitly a fantasy supers game, but even as far back as AD&D 2E we folded in supers tropes...

This goes right back to the question of demographics you were responding to. What if the PCs and a few NPCs and powerful entitites are the only high level things in the world? What if the best wizards in the setting top off at 5th level and the PCs are 20th level? Settings designed around...

Just because some element was not part of a public playtest, does not mean it was not playtested. WotC public playtesting is little more than marketing anyway, and I think it is better to trust the designers rather than capitulate to the loudest slice of the fanbase.

The most recent episode of Our Fake History (a great podcast) talks about elephants as beasts of war in medieval Thailand (I know it was not called that then). It got me thinking that borrowing that would be a pretty cool way to use dragons in a setting: intelligent, powerful, somewhat...

In my con games, given time constraints, I usually design the encounters assuming a near or complete nova from the party. This means I use waves of enemies and build a double deadly encounter with a phased or multi-part boss. My current regular campaign does not really have that constraint...