AFTER the experience and treasure: Your PCs' goals?

[Driddle]

What are the general goals of the PCs in your campaigns about now? After they've attained the experience levels and goodies in the random monster treasure troves, what do they set their sights on?

-- Landowners, managing a castle or kingdom.
-- More power, but without a particular application in mind.
-- Retirement as an NPC, someone wise and worldly to mentor others.
-- The personal vendetta continues against a great foe.
-- Stuff. Lots and lots of stuff. Magic stuff.

Just a few examples, of course. What's at play in your campaign?

And do your PCs ultimately rise in power ABOVE the local kings and potentates, or do the authority figures always gain experience in scale with the heroes?

 

[kigmatzomat]

Here's the PC goals as I understaind them IMC:

cleric
completed: find & bring lost gods to world
in progress: build home temple, construct elevated bridge over allies' swamp

fighter
in progress: become landed noble before getting too old to adventure
(owns some land, has military rank and a thaneship but no hereditary title or estate)

rogue
completed: determine source of greed/feeling of incompletion
in progress: become feeeeelthy rich, progress as dragon disciple, find draconic ancestor (and not be eaten)

ogre paladin
completed: proved his people should work with "races of man," not against them
in progress: establish himself in a position of authority in both societies to complete social change

monk
in progress: see the world

bard
in progress: become a legend

wizard
completed: find the lost arts of magic
in progress: understand it all

 

[JoeGKushner]

One of the characters comes from a barbaric background. His people hail from the Unapproachable East and were driven out by the Rashemai. They lived peacefully among the mountains for a while until the coming of evil and returned to their demon worshipping ways. Those that didn't, were sold to the drow for magic and money.

Now he's just about killed all of the renegades from his tribe, and wants to go free his people. While he's at it, he's slowly been empowering his sword, "White Woe", with the Item Familiar Feat.

Another player is a Paladin-Fighter. His whole town, "Thar's End", was destoryed by a transmutter whose working on building the perfect creature. Now he seeks to hunt him down, while gaining a full set of items from Materia Magica.

Others are pretty much just in it for the loot and will go on until they die.