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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 2790761" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>I agree with you totally that just DM fiating away any choice of the PCs becoming serious movers or shakers seems very unimaginative and unlikely to improve the game. That being said, I think you're underestimating the power levels of Eberron. The city of Sharn, for example, contains an elite military battalion (the Redcloaks) where the rank and file are 9th lvl, and which has a 16th lvl leader, with 14th lvl and 12th lvl lieutenants. And that's just one among the various legal forces in the city, not to mention the illegal ones and the individual NPCs. If I had a bunch of PCs trying to take over Sharn by force, playing the NPCs as intelligently as should be would mean a TPK unless it was a 20th lvl party, and possibly even then.  Now Sharn is admittedly an unusual case, but any time a PC group tries to throw their weight around on a broad scale, that's the kind of opposition they're likely to run into at some point.</p></blockquote><p></p>