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<blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 1676331" data-attributes="member: 537">Now come on, you're making an ex post facto handwave just as much as Flexor is, only in the opposite direction. While teleport may be nice to have, there's nothing about it that's intrinsically necessary for a high-level game. Exalted, for example, doesn't have any long-range teleportation AFAIK, and still manages to be OTT fantasy.What you have done is to integrate the benefits of teleport into your campaign, so that it makes sense for high-level characters to use it constantly. But there are many ways a campaign can develop; not everyone wants their 23rd level PC to be a political player or regional powerbroker. The concept of a lone character wandering the earth can fit a high-level guy just as well as a low-level one; they just tend to face bigger challenges, in the time-honoured D&amp;D way of scaling encounters. Nor does every challenge have to be met straight away. If an army is amassing on the border, or the demilich is plotting to blow up the world, then it doesn't really make much difference whether the PCs take it on now or in 2 months' time, in terms of potential for gameplay. Both situations can make for a good game, and it all comes down to which one is more to your taste.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hong, post: 1676331, member: 537"] Now come on, you're making an ex post facto handwave just as much as Flexor is, only in the opposite direction. While teleport may be nice to have, there's nothing about it that's intrinsically necessary for a high-level game. Exalted, for example, doesn't have any long-range teleportation AFAIK, and still manages to be OTT fantasy. What you have done is to integrate the benefits of teleport into your campaign, so that it makes sense for high-level characters to use it constantly. But there are many ways a campaign can develop; not everyone wants their 23rd level PC to be a political player or regional powerbroker. The concept of a lone character wandering the earth can fit a high-level guy just as well as a low-level one; they just tend to face bigger challenges, in the time-honoured D&D way of scaling encounters. Nor does every challenge have to be met straight away. If an army is amassing on the border, or the demilich is plotting to blow up the world, then it doesn't really make much difference whether the PCs take it on now or in 2 months' time, in terms of potential for gameplay. Both situations can make for a good game, and it all comes down to which one is more to your taste. [/QUOTE]

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