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Message: <blockquote data-quote="toberane" data-source="post: 2200042" data-attributes="member: 4968">But for those of us who both enjoy playing higher level campaigns AND who like having the rounded character that you get from playing from low levels on up, you have 2 choices:1: Allow faster level progression so that the players can grow their characters but still be able to reach the higher levels before their hair turns gray and falls out, or (more likely) before the next DM who has a great idea for a campaign convinces everyone to let him run his campaign and the PCs stagnate eternally at 6th level, or2: Pick one or the other and have disgruntled players who are never really happy with their characters.This illustrates another problem I have with lower level, slow advancing games, and that is that this approach (the PCs are nothing special, etc.) leads to one of the big problems of campaign settings like the Forgotten Realms, where there are a ton of insanely high level NPCs who are constantly using your characters as pawns in their schemes.  Don't get me wrong, I love the FRCS, but if your PCs are leveling slowly in a world like this, you end up spending the whole time feeling like nothing but a lackey to ultra-powerful NPCs.I know this is only my opinion, but, while there is a larger world outside your PCs current quest, they should feel like the heroes of their story.  And being heroic requires that they grow into something that they were not when they started.Now, as to your "I'll run it as I see fit" statement, you are completely right.  As long as your players enjoy it, then there is no problem.  And if they aren't enjoying it, I assume that they would leave and find another group that fit more into their tastes.  So it's all good.</blockquote>

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