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<blockquote data-quote="Wyrmshadows" data-source="post: 4449373" data-attributes="member: 56166">Some of the thinking on this subject would actually make a setting full of weak doddering old wizards, weak doddering old kings, weak doddering old high priests, etc. that populate a world that:&nbsp;1. Quails endlessly in fear while hopelessly waiting for the PCs to arrive on the scene.&nbsp;2. Has villians of absolute incompetance who can't muster credible threats anywhere in the world until just as the PCs get there.&nbsp;3. Is like Elder Scrolls: Oblivion that scales everyone and everything to the PC's current level of ability. Weak, weak, weak. There must be pre-existant people and places in a setting both beyond and beneath the PCs current level or power.&nbsp;Being the hero in the current campaign so long as it doesn't involve the entire world being subject to a invasion from the far realms means that the PCs may be the best heroes locally, or the best heroes available at the time, the best heroes not currently slaughtered by the villains, the least best hope, etc. &nbsp;Being a great hero isn't usually about being the best in regards to objective power from the outset, it is developing into a great hero via heroic actions. Every hero has to start somewhere. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Wyrmshadows</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wyrmshadows, post: 4449373, member: 56166"] Some of the thinking on this subject would actually make a setting full of weak doddering old wizards, weak doddering old kings, weak doddering old high priests, etc. that populate a world that: [B]1.[/B] Quails endlessly in fear while hopelessly waiting for the PCs to arrive on the scene. [B]2.[/B] Has villians of absolute incompetance who can't muster credible threats anywhere in the world until just as the PCs get there. [B]3.[/B] Is like Elder Scrolls: Oblivion that scales everyone and everything to the PC's current level of ability. Weak, weak, weak. There must be pre-existant people and places in a setting both beyond and beneath the PCs current level or power. Being the hero in the current campaign so long as it doesn't involve the entire world being subject to a invasion from the far realms means that the PCs may be the best heroes locally, or the best heroes available at the time, the best heroes not currently slaughtered by the villains, the least best hope, etc. Being a great hero isn't usually about being the best in regards to objective power from the outset, it is developing into a great hero via heroic actions. Every hero has to start somewhere. Wyrmshadows [/QUOTE]

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