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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM-Rocco" data-source="post: 2556790" data-attributes="member: 14451">Hmm, in a sense, yes.  But if you review the outline again, The Lady of Pain and the Energons are really the only over powering elements in the outline.  The rest of it are challenges for 100th level characters, hopefully anyway.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The Lady of Pain, while powerful, is only really a minor part of the story, even though I scheduled a fight for the PCs.  There is a reason that the encounter with The Lady of Pain is in chapter 7, it is because by then the PCs will be getting to feel very cocky and comfortable in their capacity as 100th level engines of Destruction.  She is there to mainly put things back in place and keep the PCs inline.As to the Energons, I picture them also as a plot advancement.  Yes, they are more powerful than the PCs, but they are not meant to be fought but guided.  Their power level is there for those brash PCs who like to play hack-n-slash games.  Think of the Energons more like the Beyonderer from the Marvel Comics Secret Wars II series.  He is made up of a whole universe, he is a universe in human form.  He is seeking the meaning of life, mortality, death.  He, at one point, killed Death with the flick of a finger, which in D&D terms would be a being with 5,000 hit points and DR 5,000 damage reduction and immunities to just about everything, just so you get an idea of how powerful Death is in The Marvel universe.  The Energons don't have the unlimited power of the Beyonderer, but they do have a lot of power as they are now beings of raw power and are tied to the magical event at the top of the Spire.  While the Energons are more powerful than the PCs, the trouble, whether intentionally or not, they cause in the mutli-verse due to their curiosity are encounters that would be appropriate for 100th level characters, or close to it anyway.Does that make more sense? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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