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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 5722173" data-attributes="member: 40398">I got such great feedback from this thread the first time, I decided to bring another campaign plea here! This one also pertains to my apocalyptic Fading Earth campaign.Low-level settings have become a trend. Eberron revolves around low level characters and low level magic; 4e's latest [mini]setting is all about heroic level campaigns; and many forum DMs especially seem to extoll the virtues of low-level low-magic D&D. But that's not me.I don't want my campaigns to end at name-level. I want bloody-handed warrior kings ruling floating cities in the sky. I want high level PCs founding bloodlines, faiths and nations. I want epic-level characters wielding nations and cultures as weapons, like Bayaz of the First Law trilogy.At the same time, D&D is still about killing monsters and taking their stuff, so I don't want my high level campaigns to be all about the politics. Additionally I want to avoid the traditional Forgotten Realms syndrome where low-level players think "Why are we clearing out this demon cult dungeon if King Epic lives a week's ride down the road?"So my question is: what kind of world setup does this best? The 'small world' setup, where PCs and NPCs of all levels exist at progressively higher political levels. Paragon characters govern cities, and epic characters rule nations. These characters fight each other, and sometimes seek out high level dungeons in the sandbox. Duke Paragon and King Epic don't clear out low-level dungeons because they've got better things to do.Or the 'planar ladder' setup, where PCs and NPCs immigrate to other planes where the stakes are higher and the loot is shinier. At paragon levels, they go to plane Y where they help prevent really scary monsters from invading the mortal world. At epic levels, they go to plane Z, where they prevent even scarier monsters from ripping reality apart. After that, they become gods and...do whatever gods do. Duke Paragon and King Epic don't raid low-level dungeons because logistics prevent it; plane-hopping costs too much gold to return home every time some necromancer gets uppity, or maybe they can only plane-hop once a year. Maybe the other planes have slow time, like the traditional land of Faerie.Or something else?</blockquote>

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