I'm hoping we can all chime in to come up with some simple yet interesting ways to give an epic or at least very interesting feel to lower level play, and anything rat bastardly in the workings would be nifty too.
A couple of different types of examples might be like these:
1> a group of 1st/2nd level characters pursues someone (that later turns out to be a doppleganger) across several hundred miles of wilderness, discovers a massive goblin war council comprising nine tribes, sneaks past the 1500+ goblins to encounter the goblin king and kill him, sneaks back out, gets ambushed by the doppleganger that had infiltrated them while in the caves, has to go back in to rescue their missing party member and escape with an evil mage's troll thrall and bunches of goblins chasing them.
2> a party of 4th level characters is passing through a misty area of the dungeon/street/etc, when the enemy mage casts area dispel causing his gaseous form low CR minions to solidify to attack and to drop some party defensive spells.
So ... what say ye esteemed and learned DMs?
A couple of different types of examples might be like these:
1> a group of 1st/2nd level characters pursues someone (that later turns out to be a doppleganger) across several hundred miles of wilderness, discovers a massive goblin war council comprising nine tribes, sneaks past the 1500+ goblins to encounter the goblin king and kill him, sneaks back out, gets ambushed by the doppleganger that had infiltrated them while in the caves, has to go back in to rescue their missing party member and escape with an evil mage's troll thrall and bunches of goblins chasing them.
2> a party of 4th level characters is passing through a misty area of the dungeon/street/etc, when the enemy mage casts area dispel causing his gaseous form low CR minions to solidify to attack and to drop some party defensive spells.
So ... what say ye esteemed and learned DMs?
