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<blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 7887611" data-attributes="member: 944">There is a lot of truth to that and there are a lot of reasons too.&nbsp;DMing high level D&amp;D is hard and its even harder to relate to whatever is going on there. Crazy monsters,. immensely powerful magic, world wrecking plots that undue all the efforts at world building can take away fun from a DM even when the challenge can be mastered.This isn't unique to the D&amp;D genre either. Lots of people avoid Supers because its too hard to run anything above street level&nbsp; Not only&nbsp; do player's not follow genre rules but even when they do making regular&nbsp; adventures for the X-Men much less the JLA is really difficult.&nbsp;Now personally I prefer my fantasy to be low magic and usually try to run systems that suit that style but it does strike me as a bit unfair to dangle all the cosmic power of a high level play out there and basically never allow any players to use it. This suggests that most groups&nbsp; would be better served by Low Fantasy RPG , BRP,&nbsp; GURPS&nbsp; or something that is not D&amp;D. Its just overcoming first mover advantage is not easy.On a personal level , I have allowed very high powered play. Destroyed an entire world, made friends with a God , blew up an enchanted wood with a magic UFO and more. Its was pretty fun. The problem was that when I did , most of my normal low powered &quot;sane&quot; games get&nbsp; forgotten and I&nbsp; get a rep as bat guano crazy DM.&nbsp;People come to expect that play and so this means a lot of people stay far away&nbsp; so often its best for me to level cap may games and power cap them so as I'm not pushed into being &quot;that guy&quot; There isn't an incentive for me to allow high level play. Not only is harder work but the gonzo nature of it hurts my rep too. So&nbsp; I don't and I suspect between difficulty and player impatience , most high level play is not a thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ace, post: 7887611, member: 944"] There is a lot of truth to that and there are a lot of reasons too. DMing high level D&D is hard and its even harder to relate to whatever is going on there. Crazy monsters,. immensely powerful magic, world wrecking plots that undue all the efforts at world building can take away fun from a DM even when the challenge can be mastered. This isn't unique to the D&D genre either. Lots of people avoid Supers because its too hard to run anything above street level Not only do player's not follow genre rules but even when they do making regular adventures for the X-Men much less the JLA is really difficult. Now personally I prefer my fantasy to be low magic and usually try to run systems that suit that style but it does strike me as a bit unfair to dangle all the cosmic power of a high level play out there and basically never allow any players to use it. This suggests that most groups would be better served by Low Fantasy RPG , BRP, GURPS or something that is not D&D. Its just overcoming first mover advantage is not easy. On a personal level , I have allowed very high powered play. Destroyed an entire world, made friends with a God , blew up an enchanted wood with a magic UFO and more. Its was pretty fun. The problem was that when I did , most of my normal low powered "sane" games get forgotten and I get a rep as bat guano crazy DM. People come to expect that play and so this means a lot of people stay far away so often its best for me to level cap may games and power cap them so as I'm not pushed into being "that guy" There isn't an incentive for me to allow high level play. Not only is harder work but the gonzo nature of it hurts my rep too. So I don't and I suspect between difficulty and player impatience , most high level play is not a thing. [/QUOTE]

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