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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 2763840" data-attributes="member: 12388">For my campaign, 'Epic' has come to mean great, awe-inducing power.  It also has come to mean the ability and resources to put down troubles that would (and in my game have) defeated or nearly destroyed iconic Epic Realms NPCs like Kelben Blackstaff.It also has come to mean 'transition' and ‘story’, in the sense that the PCs position relative to powerful beings in the Realms that they've interacted with in the past has shifted.  For example, about 2 1/2 years ago (in RL time) when the PCs in my Realms Campaign were 10th-12th level, Khelben broke in to their villa in Suzail and stole many Shadow-Weave powered magic items that they’d recovered after a run in with the Shadovar at an ancient Netherese ruin in the Anouroch Desert.  When  questioned, Blackstaff made no secret that it was him, and his ‘I’m smarter and wiser than you and you just aren’t capable of using these items wisely’ explanation to the PCs really twisted the knife and ticked them off, too.Fast forward to now, where the PCs are putting down semi=divine Hellspawned fiends with the power to trap Laeral Arunsun in Blackstaff’s tower and mind control the Blackstaff into a fit of randomly-casting-spells-all-over=Waterdeep lunacy. In game, Khelben’s attitude towards the PCs has changed considerably because of their successful efforts on his and his wife’s behalf.I think the key to balancing such powerful characters is by always establishing a strong, multi-layered story line early on in the campaign, so that the players are guided by and focus on that as much as they focus on the power of their characters.J. Grenemyer</blockquote>

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