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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6132716" data-attributes="member: 1465">You're taking the PoD concept to an extreme that doesn't exist, if you assume things such as that the PCs are the only lv10 around (which they aren't), that the mechanics makes them safe against a mob of 1000 angry peasants armed with stones (which it doesn't), that there is no one who can or want to stop them (which is nonsense)... There is no problem with players wanting to play the bullies, this is basically one &quot;evil campaign&quot; option. The problem which you are trying to create by raising all possible objections, is to prove that in this type of settings there is no way to stop them. This is utterly ridiculous... But on a general level, you are forgetting the simple fact that if you play in a PoD setting, it is because the players want to play in such a setting. A PoD setting is supposed to have PCs looking for those dark areas, e.g. following a treasure map or going investigate an old dungeon. If the players at some point change their mind and want to play an evil campaign because it will be so easy now that they're lv20 to go back and rule the world, and you don't have any idea on how to make that challenging, you should better fold the campaign and start another, with a more suitable setting. But this isn't really needed just because it's PoD, you can easily design challenges that still makes sense within the setting.I am in no way theorizing a supposed superiority of a PoD against others, I merely asked if others use the same type of setting, because I noticed that this &quot;automatically&quot; happens in my games when I start a campaign from scattered adventures (i.e. when I actually don't explicitly used a pre-defined setting).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6132716, member: 1465"] You're taking the PoD concept to an extreme that doesn't exist, if you assume things such as that the PCs are the only lv10 around (which they aren't), that the mechanics makes them safe against a mob of 1000 angry peasants armed with stones (which it doesn't), that there is no one who can or want to stop them (which is nonsense)... There is no problem with players wanting to play the bullies, this is basically one "evil campaign" option. The problem which you are trying to create by raising all possible objections, is to prove that in this type of settings there is no way to stop them. This is utterly ridiculous... But on a general level, you are forgetting the simple fact that if you play in a PoD setting, it is because the players [I]want[/I] to play in such a setting. A PoD setting is supposed to have PCs looking for those dark areas, e.g. following a treasure map or going investigate an old dungeon. If the players at some point change their mind and want to play an evil campaign because it will be so easy now that they're lv20 to go back and rule the world, and you don't have any idea on how to make that challenging, you should better fold the campaign and start another, with a more suitable setting. But this isn't really needed just because it's PoD, you can easily design challenges that still makes sense within the setting. I am in no way theorizing a supposed superiority of a PoD against others, I merely asked if others use the same type of setting, because I noticed that this "automatically" happens in my games when I start a campaign from scattered adventures (i.e. when I actually don't explicitly used a pre-defined setting). [/QUOTE]

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