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<blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 9192148" data-attributes="member: 6807784">This is exactly what high level is about.Once you get to 13th/14th+, you can really start throwing insane situations at your players and it is so, so fun watching them just barely succeed. It's the closest D&amp;D gets to feeling like Dark Souls or Elden Ring, where you are able to beat a really hard challenge and get a huge high from it. I've run a very large number of high level games, a lot of them one-shots, specifically because I love building up and then executing insane battles where the players just barely win. I think the biggest reasons for high level not being popular is that people feel an implied pressure to start at 1st level and that it requires a lot of buy-in both mechanically (you have a lot of options) and fictionally (you have a lot of impact on the world), which is a big time commitment when it comes to reviewing notes, looking over you massive tome of features, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shardstone, post: 9192148, member: 6807784"] This is exactly what high level is about. Once you get to 13th/14th+, you can really start throwing insane situations at your players and it is so, so fun watching them just barely succeed. It's the closest D&D gets to feeling like Dark Souls or Elden Ring, where you are able to beat a really hard challenge and get a huge high from it. I've run a very large number of high level games, a lot of them one-shots, specifically because I love building up and then executing insane battles where the players just barely win. I think the biggest reasons for high level not being popular is that people feel an implied pressure to start at 1st level and that it requires a lot of buy-in both mechanically (you have a lot of options) and fictionally (you have a lot of impact on the world), which is a big time commitment when it comes to reviewing notes, looking over you massive tome of features, etc. [/QUOTE]

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