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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toras" data-source="post: 1291750" data-attributes="member: 13626">Three ways to look and at a high level campaign1.Scale the world.  Its a classic.  Maybe you spent most of your life in a small area, valley what ever.  Now that you are tougher, you move into the world proper, perhaps bringing the valley with you. When your kingdom is a little small, teleport opens up places you could never travel in time to do anything about.  The World itself is yours.  And after this the planes, ala.Planescape.  Big fish need a big pond to grow.  And honestly that raises the bar on the teleportation (inner planes none functional, outer is screwy, and if the mystery happens to span multiple plans you need at least a Planeshift or portal to get there. I play in a High (almost epic) Planescape game.  The Bar for wandering through the planes is damn near infinite, depending on where you are, and if you want teleport-screwing, divination-wigging, and generally rough and tumble place to base a campaign in, you can't beat Sigil for its mysteries.2.Great power equals Great Responsibility or Great Opporunity.For those who run good or neutral with good leanings campaigns.  Your players now possess incredible abilities, ones that make them head and shoulders above anyone else. What are they doing with them?  Who are they helping?  If you don't go adventuring that day, your cleric has many healing spells and other such things that are going unused.  Is she/he going to let that going to waste or walk to the local village and cure the sick and injured before bed.  For a better example, you spend low to mid level fighting Red Wizards.  When you reach high level you start to think, we should do something about Thay.Evil Kingdoms, Sects, and Cults are what you fight at high levels, especially if you go proactive.  Its an interesting twist when they are the invading force, the plotters, or the Inquistion plotting to remove threats that exist rather then the other way around.For the evil, it is indeed time for you to be proactive as well. Why aren't you ruling this place, this world, everything.  Or at least setting it all on fire. 3.You have my full and complete attention.  This is most of what most of your enemies are thinking.  In fact, many of them are quite possible teaming up to kill you in your sleep.  If you have made it to high level, there are people who hate you for it.  Perhaps the orcs have declared you an enemy of their race, and any where that keeps you must be burned and sacked.  Perhaps those villians whose plots you have foiled start taking their displeasure out on your friends and relatives.  Can you protect your family and wander the road looking for bad guys to fight? And for every enemy you had before, their is a new person or groups that only now considers you a threat.  You have become that magic "job" to either retire on or set them for life, for every assassin you can think off.  These are all things to think about.Those are the serious thoughts, now for some silliness.  Only in a high level game can the monk and samurai turn to the rest of the party and say " You go kill the command staff, we are going to stop the army."  Only in a high level game can look a God like he is small and say "Bring it.". And Only in a high level game can you turn a Dark Lord of Lightnin into your own personal bug zapper.</blockquote>

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