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<blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5299280" data-attributes="member: 46713">If you're trying to think about your first adventure, why do you even worry about what might happen in Paragon and Epic tier? It's likely your players will never get there and if they do, the situation may be completely different from you think it might be right now.In my current 3e campaign, which is currently one adventure short of being concluded (and the first campaign, ever, which we might actually finish), I thought about a setting and a theme but not about anything beyond that.The first couple of adventures were basically just means to draw the pcs into the setting and get them to know the most important npcs in the area. I never planned more than one adventure ahead. At about the mid-point of the campaign I inserted an adventure involving conflicting factions, and by choosing to side with one of them, I finally knew, who they were going to oppose in the end.Before the adventure I had introduced them to an ambigous prophesy, btw., and their interpretation of its meaning influenced their actions in interesting ways. The cool thing with this approach is, that no matter how the players interpret the prophesy, they interpreted it correctly <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jhaelen, post: 5299280, member: 46713"] If you're trying to think about your first adventure, why do you even worry about what might happen in Paragon and Epic tier? It's likely your players will never get there and if they do, the situation may be completely different from you think it might be right now. In my current 3e campaign, which is currently one adventure short of being concluded (and the first campaign, ever, which we might actually finish), I thought about a setting and a theme but not about anything beyond that. The first couple of adventures were basically just means to draw the pcs into the setting and get them to know the most important npcs in the area. I never planned more than one adventure ahead. At about the mid-point of the campaign I inserted an adventure involving conflicting factions, and by choosing to side with one of them, I finally knew, who they were going to oppose in the end. Before the adventure I had introduced them to an ambigous prophesy, btw., and their interpretation of its meaning influenced their actions in interesting ways. The cool thing with this approach is, that no matter how the players interpret the prophesy, they interpreted it correctly :) [/QUOTE]

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