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<blockquote data-quote="sircaren" data-source="post: 708016" data-attributes="member: 2391">I really have to agree with Dagger75 here.&nbsp; My group tried playing an Epic campaign over the last two months.&nbsp; (they were epic gladiators - that part was a really good time at least)&nbsp; It ended up being rather dismal. &nbsp; &nbsp; First off, as the DM the prep time was totally unacceptable.&nbsp; A typical combat encounter took 10 hours or so to prep for, and if you like electronic aids - forget it; none of them scale to epic properly.&nbsp; &nbsp; Second, I must say that the d20 rules really don't scale well at higher levels (this is IMO, I don't want to start a debate&nbsp; here heh).&nbsp; We had to change a lot of spells and skills.&nbsp; Any skill check or save is pretty much going to be a given at epic levels.&nbsp; Any spell that can be saved against, will be; even if it is the wrong save for the class (fort for wizard for example).&nbsp; &nbsp; A single combat encounter would typically take most of the night, so it was either combat tonight, or just plot.&nbsp; We could never do both, wasn't very fun to run.So we just switched to a new campaign where the characters are starting off at 0th level, quite the change.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="sircaren, post: 708016, member: 2391"] I really have to agree with Dagger75 here. My group tried playing an Epic campaign over the last two months. (they were epic gladiators - that part was a really good time at least) It ended up being rather dismal. First off, as the DM the prep time was totally unacceptable. A typical combat encounter took 10 hours or so to prep for, and if you like electronic aids - forget it; none of them scale to epic properly. Second, I must say that the d20 rules really don't scale well at higher levels (this is IMO, I don't want to start a debate here heh). We had to change a lot of spells and skills. Any skill check or save is pretty much going to be a given at epic levels. Any spell that can be saved against, will be; even if it is the wrong save for the class (fort for wizard for example). A single combat encounter would typically take most of the night, so it was either combat tonight, or just plot. We could never do both, wasn't very fun to run. So we just switched to a new campaign where the characters are starting off at 0th level, quite the change. :D [/QUOTE]

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