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<blockquote data-quote="DNH" data-source="post: 5443119" data-attributes="member: 63615">Thanks to everyone for your thoughts on this thing.&nbsp; Lots of good ideas and approaches.&nbsp; I should say that I specifically avoided posing this as a problem requiring an answer, because I don't think it is one.&nbsp; But I do think it is an interesting issue and I am enjoying hearing everyone's thoughts.I particularly like this one ...That balance thing sits well with my own thoughts and the way I run my game.&nbsp; There *is* a wider campaign world out there with lots of things going on in it (Jester, I am talking to you!).&nbsp; I play in Mystara and anyone who has ever read any of the Poor Wizard's/Joshuan's Almanacs (and the ongoing community-authored editions) will know that that world keeps turning.&nbsp; Mystara also offers me another explanation for how things play out as it has a rich (too rich?) pantheon of gods and Immortals who constantly vie with one another, individually and across their various factions, for power and influence.&nbsp; These Immortals meddle in the affairs of the mortals on the surface of the Known World at least as much as the ancient Greek gods were supposed to have done, and that allows for just about anything to happen.&nbsp; There are two words that I almost included in my original post but purposely did not: they are &quot;sweet&quot; and &quot;spot&quot;.&nbsp; We all have our favourites, I suppose, and I guess any DM will look to keep his players in that sweet spot for as long as possible.&nbsp; That may mean constructing a campaign that does not advance beyond the Paragon tier, or even earlier than that.&nbsp; Or adopting E6/E10.As it happens, I have planned a (sort of) campaign (I say &quot;sort of&quot; because it is not really much more than a string of adventures only loosely connected) that will take the characters up to about level 24, at which point we will most likely leave it.&nbsp; My brother may not enjoy the later levels so much but he will play through them, all the same.On a parting note, Korjik, your wondering &quot;why a game with magic and monsters is believable at low level but not high&quot; is a valid point.&nbsp; More personal but very similar is the fact that my brother routinely berates me for poking fun at the believability of some movie or other, saying things like &quot;It's a movie!&nbsp; Just sit back for two hours and be entertained!&quot;&nbsp; There's an argument in there, I suppose, but we have enough of them over rules interpretations! <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Thanks again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DNH, post: 5443119, member: 63615"] Thanks to everyone for your thoughts on this thing. Lots of good ideas and approaches. I should say that I specifically avoided posing this as a problem requiring an answer, because I don't think it is one. But I do think it is an interesting issue and I am enjoying hearing everyone's thoughts. I particularly like this one ... That balance thing sits well with my own thoughts and the way I run my game. There *is* a wider campaign world out there with lots of things going on in it (Jester, I am talking to you!). I play in Mystara and anyone who has ever read any of the Poor Wizard's/Joshuan's Almanacs (and the ongoing community-authored editions) will know that that world keeps turning. Mystara also offers me another explanation for how things play out as it has a rich (too rich?) pantheon of gods and Immortals who constantly vie with one another, individually and across their various factions, for power and influence. These Immortals meddle in the affairs of the mortals on the surface of the Known World at least as much as the ancient Greek gods were supposed to have done, and that allows for just about anything to happen. There are two words that I almost included in my original post but purposely did not: they are "sweet" and "spot". We all have our favourites, I suppose, and I guess any DM will look to keep his players in that sweet spot for as long as possible. That may mean constructing a campaign that does not advance beyond the Paragon tier, or even earlier than that. Or adopting E6/E10. As it happens, I have planned a (sort of) campaign (I say "sort of" because it is not really much more than a string of adventures only loosely connected) that will take the characters up to about level 24, at which point we will most likely leave it. My brother may not enjoy the later levels so much but he will play through them, all the same. On a parting note, Korjik, your wondering "why a game with magic and monsters is believable at low level but not high" is a valid point. More personal but very similar is the fact that my brother routinely berates me for poking fun at the believability of some movie or other, saying things like "It's a movie! Just sit back for two hours and be entertained!" There's an argument in there, I suppose, but we have enough of them over rules interpretations! ;) Thanks again. [/QUOTE]

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