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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 5510938" data-attributes="member: 1129">I agree with you to a point.Let's take the old classic Secret Wars.The Beyonder isn't a standard hero or villain. He's probably not expected to make any other apperances at this time.Galactus has been fought before, but usually not with as much get out and go as he was this time nor with the same time of minions he brought around this time.Or Infinite Crisis.Anti-Monitor has the same role going on, but he's also got Shadow Demons and well, destroying universes thing going on for him.In super hero stories not based firmly in the big two mainline settings, anything can happen, such as Kingdom Come or JLA/Avengers (although the former did use elements of the later several times).As independent comics become more sustained on their own, like Invicnible or Savage Dragon, they tend to develop their own problems, but usually aren't that afraid of offing the cast so it provides some interesting alternatives to the standards. I agree with you about the timing though. One of the biggest problems I had with some of the Adventure Paths in Dragon was that they literally ran right into each other sometimes and I was left going, "when are the players supposed to have downtimes to invesgiate all of this background material or hunt donw some of this cool supplemental material in Dragon."But once AGAIN, I place the blame of this firmly on WoTC for not realizing the vast differences in game scale where a computer game can do a flash over of a civilization being destroyed in a rain of fire and you moving to a new land (ala Guild Wars), and telling the players, "Uh... yeah, six months have passed."Without putting the other parts of high level paly into the game, it makes it difficult for newer GMs to know what to do when the Super Friends aren't beating the crap out of the Legion of Doom.</blockquote>

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