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<blockquote data-quote="Mort" data-source="post: 4042599" data-attributes="member: 762">I've noticed (and I doubt I'm alone) that players like to feel they're in a living breathing world. Part of this is knowing that there are things out there that they are not now dealing with or that are out of their league.Also it allows the sense of a building threat. For example, the dragon in the neighboring hills raids the town of the 1st level characters. The goal of the characters at this point is survival. Encounters center around them finding a safe hiding place, evacuating townspeople, helping put out the fires the dragon set etc. As the characters power grows they can eventually conceive of directly dealing with the dragon, but it's an interesting set piece that constantly makes the PC's think &quot;are we big enough?&quot;, &quot;are we good enough?&quot; Just because th answer may be &quot;no&quot; doesn't mean the placement of the dragon is not worthwhile.But the encounter (or potential encounter) doesn't necessarily have to have meaning &quot;right now.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mort, post: 4042599, member: 762"] I've noticed (and I doubt I'm alone) that players like to feel they're in a living breathing world. Part of this is knowing that there are things out there that they are not now dealing with or that are out of their league. Also it allows the sense of a building threat. For example, the dragon in the neighboring hills raids the town of the 1st level characters. The goal of the characters at this point is survival. Encounters center around them finding a safe hiding place, evacuating townspeople, helping put out the fires the dragon set etc. As the characters power grows they can eventually conceive of directly dealing with the dragon, but it's an interesting set piece that constantly makes the PC's think "are we big enough?", "are we good enough?" Just because th answer may be "no" doesn't mean the placement of the dragon is not worthwhile. But the encounter (or potential encounter) doesn't necessarily have to have meaning "right now." [/QUOTE]

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