Tiers of Play

Campaign Design and Levels

Below are the examples of how I design my campaigns, please give your input below on what level of difficulty you all want for your campaign.
As a reminder, these difficulties can change depending on your actions on the campaign, and howthe world reacts to it.
EX: if you're playing a regular campaign with a B combat and a C social but you kill the lord of the region, the combat and social increases to S or SSS.

Exploration and Survival

• C: Little to no travel
• B: Some traveling around
• A: Traveling is essential and dangerous in the material plane
• S: Possibility to travel to other planes
• SSS: the warp brother, have you heard of it

Combat

• C: Little to no combat
• B: Regular amount of combat
• A: challenging dungeon crawl
• S: you're literally behind enemy lines
• SSS: behind enemy lines and you're surrounded

Social

• C: Little to no social events
• B: Some level of events that can be important to the campaign
• A: Social discussion that may impact the whole campaign
• S: Possible campaign changing dialog
• SSS: imagine convincing your parents that bitcoin was good in 2010
  

Mechanics

• C: Entry level to learn the general mechanics of my DM style
• B: Moderate level of complexity of the campaign
• A: Challenging mechanics of bosses and dialogues of NPCs
• S: Testing your ability to big brain in difficult situations
• SSS: You're going to have to be lucky in your rolls and even more skillful against unfair situations

World Impact

• C: No impact
• B: Local impact
• A: City Impact
• S: Region/Continent impact
• SSS: World impact