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<blockquote data-quote="Evhelm" data-source="post: 6476738" data-attributes="member: 6781294">Definitely! I don't know if I read this somewhere or if I've just always thought of it in these terms, but the Big Guns of the FR world seem to be in a sort of M.A.D. balance. The PCs are so &quot;powerful&quot; because they don't fit into that mold and can therefore act as free agents, actually enacting change in the world.The few big Realms events I know of seemed to have happened when the major players ignored the balance and struck against one another; the results are often horrifying, always world-changing, and lead to a period where the balance is &quot;restored&quot; at least temporarily.That's actually one of the things I like about the Tyranny of Dragons adventure path is that (so far as I've read--which is only through HotDQ) none of the &quot;Even Bigger Threat<s> Nobody Knows About (tm)&quot; have stepped in, and none of the heroes have either; the goal is lofty, but its not being done by the Big Guns: the plan (on both sides of the alignment spectrum) is being carried out by &quot;lesser&quot; heroes so that the Big Guns don't get involved and cause another catastrophe. As the big evil goals come closer to being achieved, I suspect that big good powers will start stepping in (because the risk of intervention becomes less than the risk of allowing the heroes/PCs to fail), causing big evil powers to step in as well. Of course, by then PCs should be well into the Rise of Tiamat section and should be on their way to being Big Guns themselves!</s></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Evhelm, post: 6476738, member: 6781294"] Definitely! I don't know if I read this somewhere or if I've just always thought of it in these terms, but the Big Guns of the FR world seem to be in a sort of M.A.D. balance. The PCs are so "powerful" [I]because[/I] they don't fit into that mold and can therefore act as free agents, actually enacting change in the world. The few big Realms events I know of seemed to have happened when the major players ignored the balance and struck against one another; the results are often horrifying, always world-changing, and lead to a period where the balance is "restored" at least temporarily. That's actually one of the things I like about the [I]Tyranny of Dragons[/I] adventure path is that (so far as I've read--which is only through HotDQ) none of the "Even Bigger Threat[s] Nobody Knows About (tm)" have stepped in, and none of the heroes have either; the goal is lofty, but its not being done by the Big Guns: the plan (on both sides of the alignment spectrum) is being carried out by "lesser" heroes so that the Big Guns [I]don't[/I] get involved and cause another catastrophe. As the big evil goals come closer to being achieved, I suspect that big good powers will start stepping in (because the risk of intervention becomes less than the risk of allowing the heroes/PCs to fail), causing big evil powers to step in as well. Of course, by then PCs should be well into the [I]Rise of Tiamat[/I] section and should be on their way to being Big Guns themselves![/s] [/QUOTE]

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