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Yup. Just doing some quick maths based on the DMG guidelines of random treasure, there is almost no chance of finding AC pushing magic amour of any kind before 11CR encounter treasure, about a 10% (over the course of the entire level range) chance of finding something like +2 splint, +1 plate...

Your quick formula of party level/4 works out as what the DMG refers to as a hard combat. That includes as it says a slim chance that a party member might die. The trouble is that is very unlikely, so hard combats often don't actually feel very hard, unless you have several one after the other...

I'll just add a couple of examples of how this plays out for us at level 20. My character has a legendary set of plate mail made from the scales of an enormous dragon turtle that we slew, crafted into armour by the best priests of Gond and enchanted by named devil (actually our party member but...

Sure but that particular fight presents its own paralyzing difficulties :) Having played quite a bit of high level 5e now I think that creatures seem about as easy/hard to hit as at lower levels in general - especially in the important encounters that really matter. Having magical plussed...

I just had a quick scan of monsters in the MM from CR10 upwards. I can't really find one with less than AC17 and many have 18 and 19. A 10th level PC has about +8/+9 to hit. It seems to scale just fine to me. Seems pretty similar to the AC of an average PC, except for a shield user (and many of...

As others have said be a little careful with magical armour and protections. The random item tables in the DMG give a bit further insight into the intentional rarity of magic armour. For example, there is as more chance of finding a vorpal sword as there is a set of +2 studded armour or a +2...

In Dwarves Deep (2e), Ed Greenwood describes mithril as pure silvery, blue shinning metal which is smelted from a silvery black ore. Its very resistant to corrosion and rust Adamantine is described as a hard jet-black ferrous ore. It is occasionally found naturally but the dwarves have...

I agree that is important. Having seen a rogue in our party miss fairly often with his first attack and rely on the follow up second weapon to get the sneak damage in that round, its a risk to cast this cantrip assuming it will always be better. Without the second opponent being adjacent i'm not...

Taking 5 levels of fighter probably reduces your damage rather then increases it. You lose at least 2d6 of sneak attack and gain an extra attack that can't be used with sneak attack since you can only do it once per turn. This spell simply adds more damage to your existing attack. Its great...

Yup, I'm playing a high level multiclass fighter wizard and I didn't go eldritch knight. I actually went champion (improved crit, bonus to initiative and skills, +1 AC from fighting style). Battlemaster works too. Eldritch knight is probably best for when you don't multiclass As for Orcus, he's...

All the other advice is good. I'll just add one thing. From my experience during combat you will actually have very little time to cast spells unless you take it all the way to 18th level fighter and improved war magic. Most rounds, being a fighter you are simply better off attacking with your...

I'd say the CR reflects the difficulty in killing a well played vampire rather than its straight combat ability. Its not really a straight combat type of monster. Put a vampire in its lair/castle/mansion with a well hidden coffin (no non magical access, gaseous only). The vampire will hunt at...

We track encumbrance (using the variant rule), food, water and loot. My current campaign is a pure exploration campaign. I detail an ancient dungeon somewhere in Faerun and the party plans the rest. Travel requirements (foot, horse, wagon, ship), food and drink, henchmen (local scouts, guards...

Here are some examples from my last game including the DMG difficulty calculation. Three PC's at 4th level - goliath barbarian, half elf cleric, tiefling wizard 1 grell (easy) - yeah this was pretty easy although if the barbarian had been paralyzed on the first round it might have been a bit...

Very nice. So you have full stats in for all of the monsters? Doesn't the book version refer to the monster manual? Also, what software do you use to create the tunnel maps. They look great

If I was playing this I'd definitely want to play a monk 'way of the shadow' ninja

Yeah I can see that they were kind of playing for the vorpal weapon but without the head being lopped off. I'd just add that back in. I don't see the PCs as legendary, especially since this thread is discussing the fact that low level characters can take on the Balor. I'd still allow a vorpal...

Well if you buy the monthly pass its only a subscription, so you can only use it as long as you keep paying. I used the monthly pass for three months to see if FG was right for us as at the time we had been using Roll20. After the three months I bought the one off license instead and dropped the...

You can either buy the ultimate license as a one off or pay monthly. That lets you run the game using 5e rules and provides a character sheet plus sections you can use to create 5e monsters, a combat tracker, lists of 5e conditions, a mechanism for applying advantage etc. When the players want...

I only rolled that list of an example of how the expectations of magic items gained are often different than what we place in our campaigns, and therefore CR and combat in general kind be harder to balance by using a formula. I'm sure many DMs hand out more useful combat focused items to the...