Greetings!
Just a quick note on this topic. It is more difficult to design
challenging adventures for the RL PCs, but there is a potential for
correspondingly greater rewards too.
There have been campaigns I've run where getting to rune level was
the price of admission for the ``real'' action. One of the items that
came up on the RQ Daily a couple of years ago (prompted by comments at
RQ CON) was that every campaign should have some ``secret'' at its
heart. The players may discover it, or they might not. (One of the
examples of such a ``secret'' is Greg's secret of the God Learners.
Supposedly besides Greg only Sandy and Nick know it --- it is a pretty
well kept secret.) Along those same lines, once admitted to RL, the
PCs would have access to the ``secret'' knowledge at the heart of the
cult. That is a great place to start springing the really difficult
assignments on them...
``Halwulf, you've recently been admitted to the ranks of the
Boulder Lords. You have special skills in questing, and your name has
come up in discussions with the cult high leadership. It's time we
told you something. You know that tribe of Slith . . .'' ;-)
I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go! ;-)
In service,
Rich
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