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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4223088" data-attributes="member: 710">I applaud your ability to run high level campaigns, and in fact I even envy you.That said, I think the Adventure Path we ran worked pretty well, even at high levels. (Well, at least I think Banewarrens and Shackled City were pretty successful. Age of Worms was a disaster for us, due to continual high lethality, and the DM seemingly incapable of using the adventure path correctly.)Problems begin if someone has (or at least: If I have) to create a long-running campaign. 1) Ability to create a continous, compelling storyline to entertain both the players and myself. I had some high level ideas for D&D, Dragonstar and Arcana Evolved, but somehow I never managed to see it through the end. I think it might be a multitude of other factors, but I think one problem of me is that I try to have an idea where a campaign will lead up to, but somehow don't manage it well to convey this to the players. It's not that they are disrupting my railroad attempts <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />, it's more like what I have in my mind doesn't come out as good in real play. Though I am not seeing this change much with a different game system...2) Preperation for high levels. Creating NPCs takes a lot of time, at least it used to, when I was still trying to do it all "by the books", optimizing skill points to model my idea of the NPC perfectly to the game rules (going all simulationist), even though I knew the PCs would see the NPC only once, during a violent meeting (some refer to it as combat). Stupid me. 3) General gameplay at high levels. I don't enjoy the "instant death" effects that come as Save or Dice or just massive damage in surprise rounds. I just don't like the Save or Die/Ressourection Cycle at higher levels. As a DM, it's not so bad. I can pull the punches if it appears as if the PCs are close to death. But as a player, I don't have this control. The Death & Life Cycle ensures that my hard earned XP and GP are for nothing, and the likelyhood of my next death has just increased, but its meaning has been diminished greatly.I think it is a good strategy to run published modules and just adjust them as you see fit. It is less work, and usually, the important stuff is taking care of you.</blockquote>

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