Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Do you Enjoy running high level games?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 2177346" data-attributes="member: 939"><p>I think it is just a case of adjusting the campaign as the levels rise. It shifts from life and death battles with a few goblins to disputes between kingdoms. </p><p></p><p>What I enjoyed most, as a player, about high level play was getting to start to do things that impacted the world - building strongholds, clearing territory, dealing with neighboring territories, etc. Things that can't be solved with a single big combat. Things that take the game to a different level. </p><p></p><p>I think the reason many don't like higher level play is they are trying to ram a square peg into a round hole - the sorts of plots that work for low level characters just don't work and are not appropriate for higher level characters. </p><p></p><p>PCs don't need to be legendary heroes - just rich landowners - if you like the roleplaying and such, think of all of the juicy possibilities if the PCs found their own city, or are on a city council, or are dealing with border tensions. No matter how powerful they are, they can't be in every place at once, and economic prosperity requires stability that is based on more than the personal presence of the PCs. </p><p></p><p>Ah, I miss the days of running my own little country as a PC in 1E - I had lots of characters generated out of that - after a while, I started running the followers / apprentices of some of those characters. Then I got the best of both worlds - and we could then go back to some lower level adventures sometimes, without giving up the higher level characters or the connection to that world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Altalazar, post: 2177346, member: 939"] I think it is just a case of adjusting the campaign as the levels rise. It shifts from life and death battles with a few goblins to disputes between kingdoms. What I enjoyed most, as a player, about high level play was getting to start to do things that impacted the world - building strongholds, clearing territory, dealing with neighboring territories, etc. Things that can't be solved with a single big combat. Things that take the game to a different level. I think the reason many don't like higher level play is they are trying to ram a square peg into a round hole - the sorts of plots that work for low level characters just don't work and are not appropriate for higher level characters. PCs don't need to be legendary heroes - just rich landowners - if you like the roleplaying and such, think of all of the juicy possibilities if the PCs found their own city, or are on a city council, or are dealing with border tensions. No matter how powerful they are, they can't be in every place at once, and economic prosperity requires stability that is based on more than the personal presence of the PCs. Ah, I miss the days of running my own little country as a PC in 1E - I had lots of characters generated out of that - after a while, I started running the followers / apprentices of some of those characters. Then I got the best of both worlds - and we could then go back to some lower level adventures sometimes, without giving up the higher level characters or the connection to that world. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Do you Enjoy running high level games?
Top