Master D&D very much feels like "we tacked this on", as does the Companion setting of Norwold, Alphatis and Thyatis. And at Master level you only just become aware of the powers of the Immortals, rather than them being an inherent part of the setting from the start. Of course, BECMI has significant problems because of how it splits things up: Companion level adventures just happen in the north of the continent, where all the big threats live. The first Heroic/Paragon/Epic split in D&D comes from the BECMI line, where Heroic maps to the Basic/Expert sets, Paragon to the Companion set, and Epic to the Master set. It's a place where paragon characters should do well, with a paragon character venturing into the Astral Sea should feel very much out of his or her depth. This structure also informs my dislike of the creation of epic Feywild or Shadowfell threats: perhaps in the deepest pockets of such, but if there are too many such threats, then only epic characters really should venture into the Feywild or the Shadowfell. However, Iuz is constrained in his powers compared to the deities in their home planes in the Astral Sea. (To quite an extent, the tiers give the levels at which the PCs should feel comfortable adventuring in those locales.)Ĭan an epic threat live on the Prime Material plane? Certainly - consider Iuz in the World of Greyhawk. There's some bleed between the tiers, of course, but enforcing those strictures does give a lot more structure to how the campaign evolves.
You start off exploring the world you know, you move to the near cousins of your world, and finally come to the lands of the gods and great powers of the cosmos. Paragon - adventures in the feywild & shadowfell If I consider the structure of 4E D&D, the game - certainly as expressed through the HPE adventures - works as follows: Epic hasn't quite had that kick, as the epic destinies often take quite a while to come fully online. Paragon tier was a revelation for us, as it really felt like a step up from heroic: the addition of triggered powers based on action point use was significant, as were the paragon paths.
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So, combats have been enjoyable.Ĭonceptually the HPE series from Wizards works for me, and despite some of the action of E2 taking place in Sigil (one of the elements of Planescape that I despise), the overall structure of the epic tier adventures feels suitably epic. It helped that some of the more egregious Warlock and Cleric powers have been nerfed just recently, and I'm also using the updated damage codes for monsters.
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