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<blockquote data-quote="Terramotus" data-source="post: 3925154" data-attributes="member: 7220">Eh, Elminster is a problem, but Drizzt isn't.&nbsp; At least not in anything remotely close to the way that the Chosen are - he just annoys the hell out of some people.&nbsp; He's just a 16th level warrior (and not a very well optimized one in 3E, at that).&nbsp; In fact, if your players have an attachment to him, he's one of the &quot;good&quot; type of NPCs.&nbsp; He can show up, help them maybe, and give everyone a warm fuzzy feeling, but he doesn't have anywhere close to the power to just solve a region's problems for them.&nbsp; He still has to kill those orcs one at a time.In my extremely long running FR game, when things got into epic levels, though, and I wanted to run a final apocalyptic &quot;save the world&quot; adventure line, I felt compelled to address why the hell they were doing this instead of Elminster and his buddies.&nbsp; It was Shadovar related, and I just had a day where all the heavy-hitters went missing as a first strike from them invading.&nbsp; The players went unnoticed because they were newly risen powers, and weren't well known outside of Cormyr and some places on the Sea of Fallen Stars.It worked, but it was extremely annoying to have to account for where not only the first string world defenders went, but also the second, the third...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Terramotus, post: 3925154, member: 7220"] Eh, Elminster is a problem, but Drizzt isn't. At least not in anything remotely close to the way that the Chosen are - he just annoys the hell out of some people. He's just a 16th level warrior (and not a very well optimized one in 3E, at that). In fact, if your players have an attachment to him, he's one of the "good" type of NPCs. He can show up, help them maybe, and give everyone a warm fuzzy feeling, but he doesn't have anywhere close to the power to just solve a region's problems for them. He still has to kill those orcs one at a time. In my extremely long running FR game, when things got into epic levels, though, and I wanted to run a final apocalyptic "save the world" adventure line, I felt compelled to address why the hell they were doing this instead of Elminster and his buddies. It was Shadovar related, and I just had a day where all the heavy-hitters went missing as a first strike from them invading. The players went unnoticed because they were newly risen powers, and weren't well known outside of Cormyr and some places on the Sea of Fallen Stars. It worked, but it was extremely annoying to have to account for where not only the first string world defenders went, but also the second, the third... [/QUOTE]

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