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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 6125845" data-attributes="member: 4303">I‘ve played a lot of epic level 3.5, and the advice I’m about to give might not be what you are looking for, but for what it’s worth:1)    Embrace the gonzo with all your heart.2)    Encourage player agency in every area of the game.3)    Embrace the notion of DM-Player collaboration completely, in terms of how both the immediate game (PC responses to a particular set of circumstances) and the campaign itself (the strategic shape of politics, the world etc.) are shaped.4)    Understand that balance in epic 3.x is a negotiated process which requires continual intervention in order to maintain. With this particular use of “balance,” I am referring specifically to approximate parity between PC effectiveness.5)    Epic level play works best with characters who have grown organically from the pre-epic game. They are more grounded in the game world, and the DM’s familiarity with them and their abilities allows a proactive intervention in order keep them balanced.6)    If you have any notions of preserving the traditional points of game balance, throw them to the wind. Allow new points of balance to emerge through playing the game. These will also change as the epic campaign unfolds. These points will be unique to your particular game, so I can’t offer any specific advice in this regard.7)    Consider playing the following non-D&D games: Exalted, Vampire, Ars Magica, various superhero games – any other games where you play immortal or near-godlike characters with inconceivable power. Allow your experience of them to inform the way in which you approach the 3.x epic game without prejudice.8)    Do not abandon the mundane. The juxtaposition of the superheroic PCs upon the world of the hapless mortals – as either their protectors or their tyrannical oppressors – is what it’s all about for me.9)    Develop NPCs. Get inside the heads of your NPCs, and respond to the actions of the players logically. Allow the game to unfold according to the interaction of their vast egos.10)    Use mythic logic to enable the actions of PCs; encourage them to project their desires, dreams and wishes onto the structure of the campaign world and reshape it in their own image.FWIW.</blockquote>

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