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Honestly, the only thing I would do is....boost its burrow speed to 20. With that...the ankheg already has everything it needs, because burrow is awesome. Remember the tunnler feature only is needed for solid rock, otherwise the Ankheg can just burrow under the ground with no trail left as...

I’d be up for a magic item compendium at this point to bring me the bling

Number 1 thing about high level play....a sense of urgency. At 5th level, its about saving a town. At 10th level, its about saving the world. At 16th level, its about saving the world....in an hour. Time pressure should be constant in any situation that matters.

Just binged the latest season. My off the cuff thoughts: The Liam verdict: Pass or Fail? PASS. Ultimately Liam does a good job in the role. The action scenes still feel powerful and visceral. His voice carries a good deep weight to it. I think if Liam had been initially cast as Gerult no one...

I think we can make this a little more generic and apply it to a few other cases as well. "Leesh": A body part has a leesh distance to the central part. This has the following effects: 1) A body part cannot move further away than the leesh distance, and any movement or teleportation effect can...

I do like the idea of thematically some of the parts can "block" the AOEs, to limit the amount of AOE damage that is inflicted. The idea of the dragon for example (if it was lets say a left side, right side, head kind of split). Wings: When the dragon takes an area effect, it can cover itself...

Yeah this is my thought. You really don't need a LOT of parts to make the concept work. I would also keep things pretty consistent between parts most of the time: Same AC, same saving throws, same resistances, etc. But overall I do think this is probably the "best" version of the boss monster...

Well again, the idea that boss monsters have to be designed to withstand these powerful control spells would have to remain. Whether its LR or some better system is of course the debate. I do like A5e's take on it, where LRs work as they do, but it usually results in the monster getting weaker...

I know this is 20 pages back but I wanted to address it. As noted several times in this thread, control spells are not innately OP, they just tend to be OP against single monster encounters. So from a design perspective, it makes all the sense in the world to target the boss monster for chance...

i recently ran an ambush where a wizard group used a few of them to hit the party as they were coming out of a dungeon the group knew they had gone in. Had to include an npc with some anti-magic to avoid a tpk. Party was all too happy to nerf that spell into the ground after that

Probably the best summary of A24 right here. I'm a big supporter of theirs, as in a world of remakes they are one of the few studios that are actually pushing the craft of movie making imo. Sometimes you get a breakout, and sometimes its a swing and a miss....but I like that they keep swinging.

Maybe like edition skirmish:) The edition war back in the day was pretty nasty, arguments got really really REALLY heated. In comparison most of these arguments are fairly calm.

I understand that its not a topic that is pertinent to everyone, but there are people that geninuely want to know "is dnd healthy business wise?".... "is Dnd growing or shrinking?", etc etc. The issue is because there of the lack of hard numbers, a lot of the discussion moves into speculation...

It is a discussion of sales numbers, and so has come to include a discussion of 2024. The question was really around, ok we see this huge growth between 2013 and 2019....does that trend continue with our new half edition or have things slowed down? That was the debate, and a perfectly reasonable...

Right, so until we see those numbers I think stating 5e has peaked is incorrect. I know from quotes that 2024 has outsold 2014, but that is still vague on details (is that for the year 2014, is that for the best the 2014 edition ever did, etc).