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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Akira Whitlock" data-source="post: 8526138" data-attributes="member: 6897828">A couple common methods of "hiding" away powerful enemies is by either having them sleeping, trapped, or inactive in any form or by having them in a far away place or plane. This could also include both potential allies and villains and by having them distracted by something bigger or have it so they are in a place that benefits them personally for their interactions with their environment it will remove the common question plaguing many high power fantasy or even superpower settings "If strong being X exists, and the setting is in danger why did they not help our heroes?" basic reasoning is they are occupied with something more important or in the villains case, they do not care about conquering a petty setting like yours. A primordial demon would not waste his time conquering a backwoods planet with only goblins on it.For "narrative jump" for 20 to 20+ i would go with the idea of a title bestowed by some higher being due to some monumental achievement of the party that benefits the being. This can an excellent excuse to introduce them to divinity as a concept and to start growing in power. Traditional dungeons can still have a meaning at higher levels, depending on the abilities of the party members you can still create functional environments that challenges the party in an entertaining fashion. Wooden doors being smashed through by a barbarian? start using iron doors. Wizard disintegrating walls and tunneling? start magically treating your stone. As you go up in tiers you need to create new barriers to bar the players from just "winning" for that gets boring after a while.Creating compelling non-combat encounters for players could be as simple as "cranking the dial" with regular environmental effects. Some examples of this include Wind, Cold, Heat, Precipitation, Aridity, Ash, Fog and Fallout. Traps become magical in nature and environmental effects become increasingly dangerous as the scale of the party increases. The players travel to a planet that rains molten iron or another one that is so cold and the wind is so strong the falling ice is like blades.While many of these methods work after a certain point the beings simply become so powerful they can destroy stars, planets and rework the universe as they please. At this point cosmic beings and the dungeons become more abstract/sci-fi and the traps and environment does so as well. Black holes, pocket realm dungeons, metaphysical beings, cosmic horrors, space/time eating diseases and more. For me this is a very fun and imaginative tier of gameplay but unfortunately bit more difficult to run things at this tier because of the lack of references and understand in all mediums. I hope this helps.</blockquote>

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