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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 763074" data-attributes="member: 2238">I see it like this:Epic the literary term means: a continuous story covering the achievements of one or more heroic personages. NOTE: They may or may not cover the formation of a nation, and are oftentimes connected to history.  That definition actually works quite well with the ELH.  The ELH is for the people who have characters that reflect this trait and whose experience gain is still at the standard rate.   Seasong and Psion to an extent have the right idea of the true meaning of epic.Then there is the EPIC meaning huge, exceeding in volume, to borrow from moorcock- Multiversal.  The ELH is multiversal.  So it breaks down like this:Levels 1-10 - Terrestrial.  That is the characters are pretty much as far as thier own abilities are concerned bound to the world and travel within it.  They may take some excursions to other planes, but overall they are confined to one world.  They are typically  concerned with nations and the well being of the world.Levels 11-20 - Universal. The characters freely roam the universe.  They explore the planes.  They may visit various aspects of the prime, etc.  Here the players are generally directly involved with gods and powerful outsiders.  Levels 21+ - Metaversal.  The characters are involved with the factors that covern how things are run in the universe.  This means that they are now almost the equivalent of gods.  They deal with the forces in the universe that determine how the universe works.  Be it Law and Chaos, Good and Evil, Elemental and Conceptual.  Their struggles at these levels are universe defining based in the manipulation of gods, planes, and conceptual elements.  A good example of a very powerful metaversal character would be the Lady of Pain from Planescape.All of which, by strict definintion, can be epic.Aaron.</blockquote>

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