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Message: <blockquote data-quote="muffin_of_chaos" data-source="post: 4219229" data-attributes="member: 65007">In my last game, our characters started out as noobs and slowly became influential in a modern/magical setting over the span of 6 years.  We started a new campaign and our old characters are still alive as the primary superpowers of the world, though we don't run into them.  Actually, halfway through the current campaign my new character was taken over by a demon/god, and through clever plot manipulation the DM let me play my old mage, with his magical powers stripped (slowly he's gaining them back as he re-levels).  The shock on the faces of my teammates when they realize I'm playing my old, epic character with their (admittedly now fairly high-level) noob characters was priceless.Pretty fun to have my nerfed-but-extremely-inventive old character duke it out with my now-very-powerful-NPC new character.For this reason, I actually think the "Epic tier" won't work out very well with my group.  Most of the major character development in this game happens by chance, and the DM will end the campaign before we reach the maximum level.  Takes some of the fun out of it to think that there's a steady, measured progression towards greatness.</blockquote>