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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 1259105" data-attributes="member: 7737">Well, there's always the old standby for eeeevil people: take over the world. Now, buffing up and smashing the pathetic non-epic good guys of this world might be no challenge to your PCs and their flying, plane-shifting ship o' doom. But taking over the world requires more than just some random slaughter. How will you rule the areas you've conquered? Directly, through fear? Indirectly, through quislings? What will you do about people unhappy with your rule - crush them ruthlessly, or co-opt them? Or try to make reforms to please them? How will you handle the shifting balances of power across the planet as you successively conquer country after country? What will you do when the remaining good-guy nations ally together to stop you? What if the good guys, thanks to their more motivated and happy populaces, end up having superior resources at their disposal? Your PCs, although awesomely powerful, are still contrained by time and space. They can only be in one place at one time. How will they react to multiple counter-attacks in multiple areas? They go to take care of something at point A, and face problems at points B through H. Suppose the PCs call on their githyanki ally/patron for help. I'm sure he'd be only too happy to add the PCs' homeworld to the githyanki empire... with him as undisputed master, of course, and the PCs as his lackeys. How is that going to sit with your epic level PCs? What will they do about the hoards of gith, red dragons, and summoned/bound demons? You can make your players' lives interesting by creating problems for them, problems that reflect their activities. If they are bent on taking over the world, make them realize how hard it is (and how it has never been achieved in real human history - at least, not the ENTIRE world). If they are ignoring or forgetting about past agreements and promises, have people show up to collect on those debts. Think of something crazy, dramatic, and BIG and unleash it upon the PCs. They will undoubtedly surprise you with their response, and then you build from there.</blockquote>

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