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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4017989" data-attributes="member: 22779">Why?  What reason is there for the PC's to have this level of power?  So much power that they can single handedly bring civilization to an entire world?  When has D&D EVER given you that much power?  Look at it like this:Campaign 1 - PC's rise up and establish a large, strong, stable nation by 30th level.Campaign 2  PC's start out in that new stable nation and begin extending its borders.  By 30th level, they've doubled the size of that nation.Campaign 3 - TPK - The nation, bereft of its heroes, shrinks in size due to the barbarians at the gate.Campaign 4 - PC's regain the losses from the last campaign, and begin to push further outward.  However, a larger mass of darkness sweeps in from an unexpected direction.  Campaign ends in stalemate.Campaign 5 - on and on and onHell, there's 5 campaigns, which for me would be about 8 years of gaming, just based on the orginal PoL setting.  What more do you want?  A setting that lasted me for 10 years would be fuggin' fantastic.Heck, take the Scarred Lands (a perfect PoL setting).Campaign 1 - PC's start in Mithril and manage to clean up the surrounding area, creating a strong nation in the north east of the continent.Campaign 2 - Calastia finally breaks out of its siege of the dwarves and sweeps up from the north.  The campaign is designed to foil this invasion from the south.Campaign 3 - Depending on how Camp 2 went, it could take a couple of directions, but, we'll assume the PC's were successful in Camp 2.  The PC's begin extended the influence of Mithril in to the heartland of Ghelspad, taming the destruction wrought by the Titanswar.There you go, three solid campaigns from an old setting.  Would work perfectly from 1st to 30th level.  Six years of gaming.  Go forth and play.</blockquote>

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