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Message: <blockquote data-quote="A'koss" data-source="post: 3965053" data-attributes="member: 840">This is an opinion I've always held as well. HLers hold all the cards in the campaign - they are literally the best at everything. A saying I like to use when 2 nations are in "dispute" - You get your HLers to win the war... then send in the army.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> When you boil it down, HLers really have just 2 capabilities which can make them a problem on a campaign level. First is divinations - to be able to glean information at a moment's notice, instantly/near-instantly communicate over long distances and see pretty well whereever you wanted, whenever you wanted. The second is long-range teleportation and similar high-speed/instaneous magical travel. Together they allow HL groups to deal with 99.9% problems anywhere at anytime. Before breakfast. But take those two abilities away (or curb them *significantly*)... and you greatly reduce the impact they can have on your game. This is something I've always done in my 3e games. If HLers have to rely on traditional spy networks, runners, various outpost reports and so on it greatly limits what they can reliably know is happening in the world around them. Further, if they have cross the intervening distance between points A & B, they will make damn certain it is worth their time to do so (they will be especially wary of traveling long distances which leaves their homes defenseless for extended periods of time). LL-ML adventurers are all of a sudden a far greater necessity to deal with the myriad "little" problems HLers simply can't put on their plates. They can't deal with what they don't know about and can easily be too far away or too busy to deal with the problem in a timely manner even if they did know about it. This allows you to have a relatively high number of powerful NPCs without fear that they'll steal the PCs thunder.</blockquote>

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