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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8630104" data-attributes="member: 19857">What's funny is you never hear stories of the opposite - level 10 PCs wandering into a kobold lair and just slaughtering everything in their path or having the kobolds worship them as gods or something.In fact when I hear stories like that I tend to hear &quot;Tucker's Kobolds&quot; type stories where the CR 1/4 creatures turn out to be a threat to the 10th level party despite what anyone might think.Now it may just be that those stories are boring and make the players look bad - the PCs showed up and indiscriminately slaughtered the kobolds with a fireball and then danced in the ashes sort of thing.&nbsp; But any open world game I've played in has definitely had &quot;guide bars&quot; to point us at interesting things to explore - you might hear rumors of a dragon that is far beyond your power to fight at 1st level, but I can't recall the rumor table ever showing up with &quot;and there's a nest of goblins outside of town that's causing trouble&quot; at 6th level.&nbsp; A goblin army ready to invade maybe, but not the nest of bandits that might be interesting for a group of 3rd level characters to go off and fight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8630104, member: 19857"] What's funny is you never hear stories of the opposite - level 10 PCs wandering into a kobold lair and just slaughtering everything in their path or having the kobolds worship them as gods or something. In fact when I hear stories like that I tend to hear "Tucker's Kobolds" type stories where the CR 1/4 creatures turn out to be a threat to the 10th level party despite what anyone might think. Now it may just be that those stories are boring and make the players look bad - the PCs showed up and indiscriminately slaughtered the kobolds with a fireball and then danced in the ashes sort of thing. But any open world game I've played in has definitely had "guide bars" to point us at interesting things to explore - you might hear rumors of a dragon that is far beyond your power to fight at 1st level, but I can't recall the rumor table ever showing up with "and there's a nest of goblins outside of town that's causing trouble" at 6th level. A goblin army ready to invade maybe, but not the nest of bandits that might be interesting for a group of 3rd level characters to go off and fight. [/QUOTE]

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