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<blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 3826199" data-attributes="member: 10177">I'm like the OP, never had the problems. I had plenty of uber plots for the uber NPC's to be dealing with. Nothing detailed, but obviously they had to have something to deal with.Plus, they know that the only way anyone is going to be able to replace them someday is to let others deal with the &quot;small problems&quot;.&quot;The Chosen&quot;? Cool idea, something envious PC's can aspire towards. Why don't they solve all the problems? Because they are tools of Mystra. They do what she wants them to.Plus, for every Elminster, every Khelben, every Symbul, there was an eqaully evil person out there. Not to mention Thay and their Lich Zulkir's and all the other evil dudes angling to take over the world.Plus what the beholders, Mindflayers, Aboleths, and other evil races were up to.Plenty of &quot;behind the scenes&quot; stuff going on to keep the big people busy while the &quot;little guys&quot; make their marks on the world. Usually with their grave stones.Anyway, I am not worried about Faerun and what WOTC does to it. I'll only do to &quot;my Faerun&quot; what I want done to it. Just like &quot;my Oerth&quot;.Campaign canon is only that which the DM decalres is canon. Not some company.As for the bad DM's who made these &quot;uber NPC's&quot; into a problem, you can't fix bad DM's. They'll be bad no matter what you try to fix. The only way to fix bad DM's is to call baloney on what they do badly and persuade them to learn better.So until WOTC sends out &quot;DM hand holders&quot; to teach people how to DM well, bad DM's are going to be around no matter how much you rewrite the rules and the setting.Presuming that they can fix such bad DM's by rewriting the setting, rules, etc... is nothing but a pipe dream. They'll just homebrew their own nightmares with which to torture people.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Treebore, post: 3826199, member: 10177"] I'm like the OP, never had the problems. I had plenty of uber plots for the uber NPC's to be dealing with. Nothing detailed, but obviously they had to have something to deal with. Plus, they know that the only way anyone is going to be able to replace them someday is to let others deal with the "small problems". "The Chosen"? Cool idea, something envious PC's can aspire towards. Why don't they solve all the problems? Because they are tools of Mystra. They do what she wants them to. Plus, for every Elminster, every Khelben, every Symbul, there was an eqaully evil person out there. Not to mention Thay and their Lich Zulkir's and all the other evil dudes angling to take over the world. Plus what the beholders, Mindflayers, Aboleths, and other evil races were up to. Plenty of "behind the scenes" stuff going on to keep the big people busy while the "little guys" make their marks on the world. Usually with their grave stones. Anyway, I am not worried about Faerun and what WOTC does to it. I'll only do to "my Faerun" what I want done to it. Just like "my Oerth". Campaign canon is only that which the DM decalres is canon. Not some company. As for the bad DM's who made these "uber NPC's" into a problem, you can't fix bad DM's. They'll be bad no matter what you try to fix. The only way to fix bad DM's is to call baloney on what they do badly and persuade them to learn better. So until WOTC sends out "DM hand holders" to teach people how to DM well, bad DM's are going to be around no matter how much you rewrite the rules and the setting. Presuming that they can fix such bad DM's by rewriting the setting, rules, etc... is nothing but a pipe dream. They'll just homebrew their own nightmares with which to torture people. [/QUOTE]

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