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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 1017995" data-attributes="member: 2292">I did this once, a long time ago, throwing a party of 17th level characters against an army of ogres, manticores and Hydra's that they could easily handle.  Before the fight, the PC's got to deal with a town guard of fifty that was freaking out over the approaching force, trying to urge the townsfolk to take cover in the nearby hills.  THe PC's got to laugh off the danger, tell the town guard to take cover, and strode out on the field of battle where they decimated the force withing seconds.A couple of months ago, I was talking to one of the players from that game.  He credits it as one of his favorite parts of any campaign he's played in, because it truly let him understand exactly how far above the common man his PC had come.There will always be orcs in my games, and when there are no longer orcs there will be ogres and giants that truly give some inidication of how far beyond 1st level the party has come <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    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>