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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 5539131" data-attributes="member: 326">Hey there Barastrondo! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />A world is a big place, can the PCs be everywhere at once though...its very unlikely.As you yourself note, you mostly play Heroic Tier.Or maybe we lend an extra layer of angst for those who hail from [insert place] who were out of the country when it got blew up. Exactly, its a tried and tested trope for establishing the threat posed by a villains and monsters.Then you pinpoint the key cities areas you least want to see bad things happen to and start the wars in neighbouring countries and so forth.Epic is primarily about scale. While that can certainly mean the scale of destruction (and often does since combat is one of the focuses of the game), it can also mean the scale of creation, be that natural creation, like the great world tree Yggdrasil, or something forged like a Flying Fortress carved from a mountain.Of course scale can be inverted, such as a city in a bottle (Kandor reference) or perhaps having the PCs shrunk and injected into someone (Fantastic Voyage, Inner Space) to cure them of infection.So to answer your question, you can have epic without epic destruction just as much as you can have D&D without combat.The ideas mentioned seem better expressed in the Heroic and Paragon Tiers. Some stories or themes are better handled in the lower tiers.Think in terms of local news, national news and world news. Would the events headline world news? If not, then they are not epic.The epic tier can have its own variety. This returns us to something I mention in the article itself. Keep something unique for each tier of play. Each tier should have its own new wonders to reveal.Something akin to Italian-themed Urban-intrigue at the Epic tier might revolve around a plot to assassinate the Lady of Pain in Sigil. You could still do it, but those of lower tiers would simply have to accept the potential changes which might occur from the fall-out of the epic events...which from what I can glean from you, might cause a bit of a mutiny, so it may not be worth the hassle - especially when you have already 'set out your stall' to be a certain way over the past number of years. It might be too much of a paradigm shift. Though I suppose you could always start slow, give the PCs slightly more responsibility over the next year or so, then gradually introduce a few potential epic elements.I think you may just want to stick to Heroic and Paragon tier affairs and assume that any epic 'world-shaking' business is happening 'off-stage' and being taken care of by a group of epic NPCs working behind the scenes.</blockquote>

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