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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1330955" data-attributes="member: 1210">I'd recommend Piratecat's story hour, Sepulchrave's story hours and my To War Against Felenga SH for a feel of high-level (edging into Epic-level) campaigns.  Two basic pieces of advice- no, let's make it three:1. Pull no punches.  After all, the pcs can true rez or true reincarnate, they can find a way around any obstacle, and they can overcome any adversary given a little preparation.  Heck, the party in my campaign fought a CR 47 bad guy and beat him with the proper preparation (involving, of course, finding an artifact tailored to beat him, but hey, y'know... that's what high-level prep is.)2. Make the pcs use their abilities.  Instead of worrying about how you'll challenge them when they can scry-buff-port and how you can make a mystery when they can contact other plane, make a mystery with no clues where they must divine the answers.  Make obstacles that require odd combos of high-level spells and powers to overcome.  Make them spend some of those spell slots and PSPs outside of combat.3. Plan ahead!  From npc stats to plots, it's soo much easier to wing it at low levels that there just isn't a good way to compare.  A 1st-level party can fight a party of four 1st-level warriors straight from the dm's head, but a 20th-level party cannot fight a group of 20th-level npcs without serious dm prep.  Anything that's a challenge for high-level pcs has been alive long enough to know its abilities, strengths and weaknesses and how to apply them- or hide them.Good luck, and don't let the game end a predetermined ending just because you're intimidated by ultra-high-level play; my campaign has reached as high as 21st level and it just keeps getting more fun.  And, of course, more lethal...</blockquote>

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