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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5283465" data-attributes="member: 463">I do think PoL has design advantages over PoD when it comes to long-term play.With Points of Darkness in a mostly civilised world, at very high level it becomes difficult to explain why the threats appropriate to Epic-level PCs have not already trashed the campaign setting.&nbsp; If the answer is &quot;Very High Level Good NPCs stop them&quot; - a la Forgotten Realms' Elminster &amp; co - this makes the PCs feel surplus to requirements.By contrast, with Points of Light, most of the campaign setting starts off already trashed!&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" />&nbsp; Powerful NPCs and monsters establish their own little realms/spheres of influence, which may count as PoLs or PoDs, but usually with lots of wilderness in-between.&nbsp; It's thus easy for PCs to start in a low level area, perhaps one at the fringes of a high-powered PoL/PoD like the City State, then seek out bigger challenges as they level up.&nbsp; And the Wilderlands includes areas (in 4e terms) from Level 1 up through high-Epic Levels, separated only by geography - no need for other planes, though they can certainly be used if desired.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5283465, member: 463"] I do think PoL has design advantages over PoD when it comes to long-term play. With Points of Darkness in a mostly civilised world, at very high level it becomes difficult to explain why the threats appropriate to Epic-level PCs have not already trashed the campaign setting. If the answer is "Very High Level Good NPCs stop them" - a la Forgotten Realms' Elminster & co - this makes the PCs feel surplus to requirements. By contrast, with Points of Light, most of the campaign setting starts off already trashed! :D Powerful NPCs and monsters establish their own little realms/spheres of influence, which may count as PoLs or PoDs, but usually with lots of wilderness in-between. It's thus easy for PCs to start in a low level area, perhaps one at the fringes of a high-powered PoL/PoD like the City State, then seek out bigger challenges as they level up. And the Wilderlands includes areas (in 4e terms) from Level 1 up through high-Epic Levels, separated only by geography - no need for other planes, though they can certainly be used if desired. [/QUOTE]

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