| EL_Kabong |
And by needs more epic I do directly mean 21+ content adventure wise, so far all the adventure paths have been great, the only problem is that there are a gazillion adventures for people wanting to play lvl 1-15 in a prebuilt environment.
Quicksilver Hourglass (Dungeon magazine 123) for a lvl 30 party is fantastic, but short of that the area is pretty lacking.
The epic(21+) setting in D&D has always been a touchy issue, some people are under the strict and unwavering belief that nothing good can come of it, and that epic levels in D&D are an irredeemably terrible idea due to the much faster pace at which characters power levels start to ramp up compared with the 1-20 range.
Others I've talked to claim that it's just WAAAAAY to much work (though to be fair, the one's i've talked with don't really make anything of their own for the most part relating to D&D).
A big question that always comes up is "Well at that stage in the game, players are just so powerful that they can do anything they can imagine" Which is true and false at the same time, because they can really only do anything that the DM allows (which is one of the key deciding factors to running an epic game with a party globe trotting around the cosmos).
Wizards release of the old ELH was a start, but aside from that and a few articles from the epic insights column that ended back in 2006 they really gave that whole realm of play almost no support at all, leaving the epic development to 3rd parties like players and DM's on Dicefreaks and the Immortals handbook series(I know there are others, but this is one of the higher quality sources I've come across).
Paizo's 17th starting lvl adventure is a step in the right direction, and hopefully they'll continue on moving upwards and onwards developing higher end content (perhaps continuations of the 1-15 adventure paths from 15/16-30 would be an idea to start with).
Anyway, here's hoping, mainly because putting these higher end adventures out there will help more people get their feet wet(without having to spend all the effort creating an epic campaign themselves if they're overwhelmed initially by the prospect) with hopefully the same high quality adventures we've seen thus far from the pathfinder series.
Cheers!