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<blockquote data-quote="Grainger" data-source="post: 6513555" data-attributes="member: 6779234">No, I would vary it up along the way. By level 15, they may be saving the world (or more likely, part of it), but they will more often be competing against other high-level characters - often just for power - not because the world is at stake.On a related note, I once played in a 2e campaign which was epic in scale. Everything we encountered was huge - the biggest fortress ever seen, we were fighting the mightiest enemies, etc. etc. For the players who had worked their way up from 1st level, and gradually increased in power, it must have been a great experience, because what they had been working up to was paying off. However, it meant absultely nothing to me. I had just parachuted into the campaign, and none of it was relate-able. So what if I was encountering galactic-scale threats? I was 20th-level (or whatever it was), and it may as well have been a 1st-level character against Kobolds - in fact that would have been more relate-able IMO.I realise the DM could (and should) maybe have put some hooks in to get me more involved, and make me care about The Epic that was happening around me, but putting that aside and looking purely at the power levels involved, it didn't really mean anything in itself - that scale has to be the culmination of the character's arc for it to meaningful. Personally, if it's a one-shot, or I'm dropping into a campaign, I'd rather be doing the prison rescue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grainger, post: 6513555, member: 6779234"] No, I would vary it up along the way. By level 15, they may be saving the world (or more likely, part of it), but they will more often be competing against other high-level characters - often just for power - not because the world is at stake. On a related note, I once played in a 2e campaign which was epic in scale. Everything we encountered was huge - the biggest fortress ever seen, we were fighting the mightiest enemies, etc. etc. For the players who had worked their way up from 1st level, and gradually increased in power, it must have been a great experience, because what they had been working up to was paying off. However, it meant absultely nothing to me. I had just parachuted into the campaign, and none of it was relate-able. So what if I was encountering galactic-scale threats? I was 20th-level (or whatever it was), and it may as well have been a 1st-level character against Kobolds - in fact that would have been more relate-able IMO. I realise the DM could (and should) maybe have put some hooks in to get me more involved, and make me care about The Epic that was happening around me, but putting that aside and looking purely at the power levels involved, it didn't really mean anything in itself - that scale has to be the culmination of the character's arc for it to meaningful. Personally, if it's a one-shot, or I'm dropping into a campaign, I'd rather be doing the prison rescue. [/QUOTE]

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