Is it still possible to challenge high level players with lower tier adversaries?
We are about to start our first Daggerheart campaign.
May players were the most excited by the Five Banners Burning campaign frame so that is what we are running.
The like the idea of the political intrigue and the potential for brewing wars between nations, as well as getting into some more "classic" adventures amidst that backdrop.
They would like to run a long campaign, something around 20-30 sessions.
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The issue is, If I allow them to level at a reasonable pace (the book suggests every 3 sessions or so) They will likely be reaching tier 4 eventually.
And I am struggling to see a way in which I can pivot the core of the campaign's climactic identity of wars, assassination plots, and coups to fallen gods and arch necromancers without changing the whole vibe.
But that's the only kinds of adversaries there are in tiers 3 & 4.
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So I am looking for advice on the best way to solve this problem.
- Have them fight larger and larger hordes of lower tier enemies?
- Accept that without using the tier 3/4 enemies, they will simply have a power fantasy in never really being challenged in combat directly and so find ways to challenge them narratively instead?
- State off the bat this is only a tier 1 & 2 campaign, so they will level slower and never reach their character's full power?
Open to any and all suggestions 😄