Jefe Bergenstein
Legend
Cue the "just grind through 6-8 encounters with demi-demiliches earlier" crowd. I just add 50hp per level of the party to make fights remotely challenging.
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Cue the "just grind through 6-8 encounters with demi-demiliches earlier" crowd. I just add 50hp per level of the party to make fights remotely challenging.
Bacon Bits
Hero
Would not surprise me. I've got a level 15 Fighter, and he can easily deal 75 damage in one round by himself, or double that with Action Surge. Then again, most of the demon lords from Out of the Abyss were not particularly terrifying by the time we were level 15, either. Even dragons don't really impress me.
"High CR creatures seem very weak," has been on of the most common criticisms I've heard about 5e.
zaratan
First Post
Where did you get that? There is no word saying it is magical, none counter magic mesure work agaist divine smite (I'm not talking about smite spells), same thing with any monk ki feature that doesn't have the word "magic", "magical" or "spell". The antimagic field don't affect the demilitch actions too, they aren't "magical".
While he only has 80 hp is immune to non magical weapons and resistant to magical ones. Added on he near certain to get a surprise round on the party. And kill one of them.[/QUOTE]
yeah, will be 90% of chance to trap the soul of the worst saver in the party. Now your antimagic field was gone, there isn't any other good lair action and he'll take a nova from at least 3 level 13 players, hard to get another action with that. you know how much damage a character at that level can do, right? Yeah, IF he get all party (4 players) surprise, than this start to look a threatening encounter. Basicly the perfect conditions.
We need at least to remove the "party can rest freely" to do that.
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It might be fun to see just how LOW level a party can beat ToH as presented in TotYP.
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JonnyP71
Explorer
Probably the closest 1E module in terms of it being a mad funhouse was Ghost Tower of Inverness.
For general insanity, both Dungeonland and its sister module Land Beyond the Magic Mirror are also very weird - they're not without their problems, but they both manage to include a lot of bizarre encounters.
Sword of Spirit
Legend
This has inspired me to perhaps justify special rules (no HD on short rests, reduced healing on long rests) by invoking some sort of "Acererak's Curse" that affects the dungeon. Basically, it's a Regional Effect. You can get a lot mileage out of those regional effects as an excuse to temporarily shake things up in a believable manner in an ongoing campaign.
Charles Rampant
Explorer
You... don't think that a Paladin drawing on divine power and smiting his enemies by burning a spell slot is magical? That's the most intensely precise definition of 'magical' that I've ever seen.
zaratan
First Post
yeah, not me or one of game developers: http://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/03/11...ted-by-antimagic-field-or-counterspell-magic/
and here is JC saying about to be "explicitly magical" http://www.sageadvice.eu/2014/11/06/ki-vs-antimagic/
But you can be in the table of DM could decide that they're all magical.
maybe DM decide that All demilitch abilities are magical too, so when he activate antimagic field, he'll stop to fly and you can kick it as ball, in fact, this make more magical sense to me than divine smite. By RAW, Divine Smite doesn't fit in any supression description of antimagic field. But this is always a DM choice.
Flamestrike
Legend
It happens on initiative count 20. It renders him totally immune to all spellcasting and magical abilities. In addition it renders magical weapons non-magical.... which the Lich is immune to.
It is debatable whether or not divine smite is magical in nature. Seeing as it requires the expenditure of a spell slot to function, I would rule it is that it is magical and does not function in an anti-magic field. I'm also assuming the Lich is hovering from between 15 and 20 feet in the air, out of range of anyone trying to grab him or similar shenanigans.
From there the Lich is almost certainly immune to anything the party can throw at him, has his turn, and 3 legendary actions.
Howl, life drain, flight, and Energy drain can all be used in an anti-magic field. I would have it howl on its turn, then use energy drain and fly up to the roof out of reach of any melee combatants.
On turn two I would use the lair action knocking everyone prone, followed by the trap soul ability, followed by the cloud of dust and energy drain legendary actions.
I would then on turn three re-established the anti-magic field as my lair action, and use my life drain ability to heal any hit points I lost in the previous turn.
Flamestrike
Legend
The right solution is for WotC to dare present monsters and traps that deal damage and have effects that actually challenge level-appropriate characters.
The lack of actual challenge is endemic to 5th edition (once off the first few levels where the threat is real and the game works as you want it to)
Just to pick one bugbear: the One and Single Important Die Roll.
And the multitude of rerolls and bonus dice PCs routinely get.
Whether it's about wooing the princess, opening a magical prison or finding the hidden lever that opens the Tomb, the normal procedure is for the DM to ask the chosen character to make a roll.
Except that Bardic Inspiration, Dark One's Own Luck, Lucky, or any other such ability makes this single roll utterly trivial. (Beyond trivial if the Help rules are anything to go by, since you gain advantage on practically everything you do)
Adding a d10 to some roll is balanced on the assumption it's only one roll out of many. You made that save, great, here's another spell cast at'ya. You made that attack, good enough, but you make four a round, so no big deal.
But the excitement and uncertaintly of any social, exploratory or simply story roll is reduces to rubble. Or ashes. No, vaporized into atoms...
It's time WotC is made to answer for their savagely carebearian focus.
Must you really continue to pollute every thread with this same complaint over and over?
It really really annoying to read all the time.
You've done it in dozens of threads and even created threads of your own about it. You refuse to listen to any solutions or suggestions for how to address this problem, and just whine and stink up threads with the same complaint over and over and over again.
Please stop. We get we get it. You can't balance encounters in fifth edition D&D. Good for you.
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