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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1861012" data-attributes="member: 707">You're comparing apples and oranges.  LotR is a series of novels that is Epic in scope.  The D&D Epic Level Handbook is a manual for PCs that have become Epic in power.  They're two different things.  You can certainly have a game of Epic-scope in the course of 1-20.  To have, as D&D defines it, a game of Epic-power, you play a 21+ game.In Tolkien's case, The Silmarillion would be the story of Epic-power.  LotR is about low-level characters in a story of Epic-scope.And of that said, I think it's easy to pattern the Trojan War in either Epic or non-Epic terms.  You simply need to provide enough of a level gap between the common heroes and the great heroes.  The only thing to keep in mind is, if you decide to go low-power and make the great heroes merely 10th-level fighters, you'll either have to slow PC advancement or prepare for the PCs becoming great heroes in the epic-scope sense fairly soon. <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=":)" /></blockquote>