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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dog Moon" data-source="post: 1813359" data-attributes="member: 23023">The group I'm in doesn't like low-level campaigns.  Why?  It's because we can't do anything.  We fight a couple of creatures and need to rest.  A trap is sprung and we spend a large amount of resources on that simple potion of moderate wounds.  Although not necessarily true depending on the campaign/character, but I've found that my group likes to do more different things.  They like to have more options.  They like a variety.  It is simply not possible at low levels.I was once in a campaign that was a low-magic campaign and though the DM was good, it wasn't as interesting because we were limited in our options.  For us, it was our lack of options rather than lack of power which annoyed us.In my campaign, the battles are tough and the opponents use tactics and magical items to the fullest, as best as possible.  The group always groans when I look at a creature which is pummelling and go, 'Wow, I missed that ability.'  They dislike easy battles like in an arcade mode because they pose no threat.  They like lifethreatening battles.  I don't understand how people could like doing that.  One person told me of a friend who killed a Pit Fiend in one hit.  I was thinking 'Where's the fun in that?'Well, I guess the point I was trying to make was that low-powered campaigns are boring because you can't really do anything.  You're stuck doing one thing over and over again.  In high-powered campaigns, there is so much you can do and it makes it more fun.Maybe someone else's definition of high-powered is having an AC of 60, an AR of +50, and deals an average of 60 damage per hit, and in that case, I have no answer for you.  <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=":)" />  I personally tire of characters that are just those three things.Don't know if that helped...</blockquote>

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