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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piston Honda" data-source="post: 6234665" data-attributes="member: 6699122">This is one reason, I don’t like doing anything over E6. Everything being superpowered and requiring tons of effort to prepare and it amounts to nothing, but even at low levels what’s supposed to be a major battle can be run over in a round. The golden rule for running an epic battle is to realize that the dice are just sound effects. Having had a ton of DM burn-out myself, the best thing I ever did to fix that mid-campaign was getting better at improvisation and not worrying about the rules. My PCs tended to prefer to do what they want rather than pursue certain things I had worked on anyway. As it went, the less I prepared, the less frustrated I was, then I had more time to work on ideas that would sometimes flesh out in game rather than paths. Sometimes it’d be a dungeon, the party could be in it for weeks, sometimes it was possibly a new hook that enticed them, sometimes nothing came of it, but it’s still something for the vault.</blockquote>