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To borrow from other games: Book of Ebon Bindings: covers demon summoning, true names of demons, sacrificial rituals

My favorite 5e character is my drow Rog 9/Wiz 2/Brd 3, Soveliss Xiloscient. On our Spelljammer, he's the crew's intelligence/security officer, and I've placed a premium on avoiding magical detection with him. My goals are to have a character who can contribute meaningfully to all three pillars...

Sunday is game day, and even if it's just the DM and one player, we'll find something to do - flashback, side trek, one-shot, test battles - something.

Don't listen to the naysayers; do what you think will be fun for your game. In our group, we made the item attunement limit equal to proficiency bonus and it worked out great. Monsters will definitely need a boost though, so be ready to adjust hp, AC, to hit, and any resistances/immunities as...

The idea is that the dragon would spend most of his time in humanoid form as a 20th level Dragon Sorcerer. This is purely an RP-based decision.

I'm currently preparing to run Storm King's Thunder for a couple members of my core group as a "spin-off" campaign to our main game. The players involved really want to continue to play their characters from OotA, and given that we love high-level DnD, I've decided to try and adapt the adventure...

Too few hit points was an issue, but not the only one. In a way, the short fight was a result of excellent planning on the part of the players and their allies. Thematically and from an RP-perspective the fight was epic, but it was boring and short from a game mechanics perspective. Details...

The page and a half of epic level options in the DMG barely counts as support, and there are very few monsters in the MM that can stand up to even a halfway optimized party that uses feats/MCing/artifacts/epic boons/UA material. At 20th level my group took out Orcus (from OotA) in 2 rounds -...

This is an amazing thread! My campaign hit 20th level back in August and since then my group has been chewing through the anemic threats in the monster manual. I've been using some custom monsters, but mostly I've had to resort to unwieldy amounts of monsters in an encounter to threaten the...

I can see adding a size-based damage boost for Large+ creatures so that BA isn't broken. One of this issues I have with giants and other Huge+ creatures is that I find it hard to see how mundane attacks from medium or smaller opponents can even hurt them. Superficial wounds, sure, but attacks...

Because I find some fidelity to real-world physics enhances the fantastical nature of the game. The "it's magic" explanation doesn't always cut it for me, especially when it comes to things on the edge of plausibility (a humanoid in plate armor, for instance). I'm afraid I don't have a...

I hate to be that guy, but basically everything CapnZapp said. As for why I want official support for high-level play? I no longer have the time in my life to devote the energy needed to make all of my own campaign/adventure material. It bugs me to no end because I'm otherwise a DIY DM, but...

I can't speak for Celebrim, but I do share the same sentiment. I don't like the fact that based on the depiction, it looks like the giant would be crushed beneath the weight of all that metal armor. For me, "it's magic" doesn't cut it as an answer for why the giant isn't straining under all that...

Signed up my group to try out the Bellerophon's scenario. Word on their forums is that it might take awhile to get the playtest materials sent out.

What's its strength score to support all that armor?!

That hadn't stopped WotC, or TSR, in the past from at least trying to produce high-level adventures/supplements. Some of those efforts have been lackluster, some very fun, and even the ones that weren't very good at least showed a willingness to experiment with high-level play, show DMs what the...

I'll second the shambling mound suggestion. If you're worried out it being over-powered just reduce its AC and/or hp to make for a more manageable fight.

It's especially nice for MC characters as it allows them to get signature class abilities they missed out on at earlier levels.

Are characters (PCs/NPCs) aware of the dice rolls? How do the mechanics of the game translate into the in-game world? Are magical buffs in your game always visible to an observers? I think once you've answered these questions for your game, you'll have a better idea of how NPCs will react to...

I allow PCs at 20+ level to take additional class features, either from their subclass or another within their base class, as epic boons.