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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7138643" data-attributes="member: 22779">By the same token, one of the bigger criticisms I saw of CA:TWS, is, where is Tony Stark or Thor?  I mean, they drop a bloody Helicarrier into the bay and Tony's what, having cocktails?  The Netflix stuff handles this really well actually.  None of the plotlines of the stories (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist) are global.  They're all very, very local.  It's entirely plausible that Thor doesn't show up to handle, say, The Hand.  They're just not high enough on the radar (compared to say, dropping a Helicarrier out of the sky, or a giant floating structure hanging over London - a la Thor) to register.  Fair enough.  I can buy that Thor isn't concerned with The Kingpin.But, there's the rub isn't it?  In the 5e modules, we're not talking about local threats.  We have flying bloody castles and dragons threatening the Sword Coast with releasing Tiamat.  That's pretty high on the radar.  So, it's not really that unreasonable to wonder just where Elminister et al are during all of this.  Particularly in a setting where high double digit level NPC's are not particularly rare.  I mean, Waterdeep has how many high level NPC's in it?  I don't actually know beyond, more than 2.  And Waterdeep is directly being threatened here.  Yet, there's no mobilization.  I'm not sure why this is seen as such a completely unreasonable criticism.</blockquote>