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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8505822" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Part of it for me is trying to picture what that 20th level BBEG is doing while the PCs head that way in level.  If they're a spell caster, what can one do with teleportation and dominate person and all of the scrying spells...   The concentration and attunement rules in 5e feel like they do a lot to help this.  If the powerful bad NPCs and monsters are around without powerful good guys, then I wonder about why there are castles and armies.  If there are powerful good guys, then I wonder about why they're sitting around waiting for the PCs.  (I guess this is something the comic books deal with.  If there is a silver-age Superman around, then your street level heroes are redundant.  If it's a less omniscient superfast Thor at the top of the food chain, then there is a lot more for the street levle heroes). No good answer here. I have a whole list of changes I can picture in a game -- and I should probably make a list and try that RPG.  Part of it is familiarity with how everything works I guess and the comfort of knowing the spells and monsters and what dice to roll.I sometimes think I want grittier.  But then I picture the extra dice rolls and the things that wouldn't happen in D&D games I've loved if it was grittier... and I'm not sure...   So I'm trying to think about what I can keep in D&D that deals with my world building power-range angst.</blockquote>