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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7637718" data-attributes="member: 29398">Levels ain't no straightjacket, laddie! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My current campaign is well over ten years in now, and the highest-level PCs are 10th.  There's a small chance one of 'em - maybe even two! - might make 11th by year's end.  It'll hit 800 sessions early next month unless something goes very much adrift.How's this possible?  Running multiple parties side-along in game-world time but sequentially in real-world time, players running multiple characters and cycling them in and out, an open-ended series of available storylines, and my own expectation that the game will run until either a) nobody wants to play in it any more or b) I and the players run out of story ideas or c) I die.What you see as wasted creative space others see as depth and breadth.Any competent author can tell a good story in one book, and not even a long one at that.  But that brevity comes at cost of fully exploring the author's setting and - to some extent - characters; and while further setting exploration is possible with new characters it's just as possible - but easier - with characters who are already familiar.Personally, I see this as a design mistake - it should be open-ended, but with the higher levels increasingly hard to achieve.And so they should, IMO! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Sounds like hard-line adventure paths are what you're after.  Pathfinder has a bunch of these (of varying quality, from really good to don't bother)  - you just have to either convert them to 5e or teach your crew PF; and then strip out anything non-essential.</blockquote>

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