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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5396537" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, it depends on the setting. The PCs could be the only epic heroes the world has ever known. They could be the most powerful amongst some nominal number of such heroes. There could be a long tradition of such heroes too. I always thought of those mentioned in fluff as figures of myth and legend that may have lived far in the past, like the Greek heroes to us. I think in terms of either NPC or PC I don't know how Aulerophile thinks even an epic character is going to get his dragon within range of his powers, certainly not while he has his 1000 peasants around. Not that it is impossible but it would be a worthwhile adventure goal. Of course any really worthy epic threat is going to have more depth than one creature. Even an epic dragon is likely to have epic mooks of some sort too. I don't really see how most of these kinds of threats are going to be dealt with at all WITHOUT an epic hero or two around. I think that was my point at the beginning. Either epic threats are latent, already operative and mostly likely in control of things, only appearing when the PCs manifest themselves, or growing to epic proportions during the PCs career. Or of course they can simply be located in far remote locations.</blockquote>