Sounds awfully boring. I much prefer playing characters at relatively low levels. The challenges are more interesting. I like problems that can't be solved with a bigger assault weapon.
See, the rest of the book is full of advice about how to make things challenging for epic-level characters in spite of the vast array of tools at their command. One might still prefer a lower-level game - I think the last time I ran anything d20ish, characters were about 3rd level - but the authors have done their best to help DMs not just let the PCs steamroller everything.
... until, again, we get to the chapter on Union and conclude the person who wrote it really hated the rest of the book. The first NPC presented is a burglar. A really amazing one, obviously, with 34 levels in sneaky classes, who could pick any ordinary lock by coughing at it, but otherwise their writeup could really just as well be given to the 5th-level rogue who's wanted for a series of unexplained blaggings in a normal city.
... except that we're told that they have stolen thirty-four unique objects, and that the Union Sentinels suspect a pattern but have no definite proof that the robberies are linked, let alone any leads. How is that possible? It's not just the case that epic characters have access to a vast array of divination magic, but the book correctly points this out as a specific problem that the DM must think about!
Your 34th level thief can prevent being scryed on when they're robbing, and perhaps even block a programme of preemptive scrying of likely targets for theft - but you'd have to be a 34th-level spellcaster to stop divinations of the form "who stole the Orb of Zot?" from fingering you, and it's not clear _anyone_ can stop ones of the form "were these robberies committed by the same person?"
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... until, again, we get to the chapter on Union and conclude the person who wrote it really hated the rest of the book. The first NPC presented is a burglar. A really amazing one, obviously, with 34 levels in sneaky classes, who could pick any ordinary lock by coughing at it, but otherwise their writeup could really just as well be given to the 5th-level rogue who's wanted for a series of unexplained blaggings in a normal city.
... except that we're told that they have stolen thirty-four unique objects, and that the Union Sentinels suspect a pattern but have no definite proof that the robberies are linked, let alone any leads. How is that possible? It's not just the case that epic characters have access to a vast array of divination magic, but the book correctly points this out as a specific problem that the DM must think about!
Your 34th level thief can prevent being scryed on when they're robbing, and perhaps even block a programme of preemptive scrying of likely targets for theft - but you'd have to be a 34th-level spellcaster to stop divinations of the form "who stole the Orb of Zot?" from fingering you, and it's not clear _anyone_ can stop ones of the form "were these robberies committed by the same person?"
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