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I can picture a well-rested 20th level party of six beating her, but not without heavy casualties- and even then it's not a sure thing. Now, I haven't read the last episode yet, but I expect the characters to face some degree of opposition without a chance to rest before getting to fight Tiamat.

RoT has indeed a lengthy introduction and you can use it without HotDQ. That said, you'll have to make a few adjustments, but it's not absolutely required. The adventure does assume the characters did beat the baddies at Skyreach Castle -HotDQ's final-, though, so you'd have either to tell them...

Shield stacks but Mage Armor doesn't- I suspect Draconic Resilience was put in there so that Sorcerers didn't have to waste a Known Spell for MA.

Just read Tiamat stats. Damn, she's though! Totally harder than 5e's Tarrasque IMO.

IME, dragons go down relatively faster than in previous editions, but are usually very dangerous to face unless the party is well-rested and prepared to fight a dragon of a specific type. Difficulty will also depend on availability and power of magic items. The last dragon encounter (a young...

Well, the fact that the Tarrasque is either underpowered/overlabeled doesn't mean Tiamat has the same issue. I, for one, really don't care for power creep and over-the-top power level, so as long as adventurers don't go over level 20, CR 30 is not such a bad number to me.

Neat! I was somewhat concerned they downpowered her for a "balanced" final boss- it's good to know that, if the party fails to avert her return, they're as good as dead :cool:

The following springs to mind: with the best of intentions, a kingdom tried to get rid of slavery and menial labor by founding a crown-sponsored order of necromancer-priests to raise the bodies of the deceased in order to performe those tasks. The system worked well for a few generations, with...

Sorry, something I forgot to mention: my players found LMoP to be overwhelmingly easy, to the point of being bummed because the Black Spider fell so easily in combat. I often checked my notes after every session, thinking I must've been doing something wrong, but turns out the players were...

I'll be starting HotDQ in about two weeks with a group of three players (incompatible schedules shrinked our original group of five), whose characters are a Fighter, a Monk and a Warlock. Any advice on what to have in mind when running the adventure? Should I adjust encounters to be easier? If...

I love it, but mostly for fluff reasons.

I'm returning to D&D after a period of little gaming and other games. I dropped around late 3.5

For short rests? Sure. For long rests, I don't think so.

If I were to run a full-blown grimdark D&D campaign -though I'll probably never will- I'd use the following house rule: on a hit, you lose hit points and gain a level of exhaustion. Just bear in mind: most characters won't last long, and players will try to avoid combat at all cost.

I've ran an evil campaign exactly once, and it turned out ok because all of the players understood that the idea was to oppose the good guys, not kill each other for the lulz. PCs were the chosen of an assortment of evil deities who had united to mess with the good races of the world.

Here. :)

A guy who doesn't fight in any way- you know, a "face" type character. Granted, I couldn't do that in any edition of D&D...

I've been allowing proficient ability checks for very specific situations in which the character's Background is related to the check in question, such as a Sailor tying knots, predicting the weather at sea or having hearsay knowledge about sea gods. Mostly flavor stuff, though, not really...

When I ran Thundertree, the only enemies in the place were the dragon and the cultists- the rest of the monsters had been killed either by Reidoth or Venomfang. The rest of the encounters were IMO kinda boring, and we were short on time, so I rushed the party to the big challenge right away.

Haven't started playing yet, but here's my tentative character: Verena Darkeyes (aka The Gravedigger's Daughter), Paladin of Vengeance, Folk Hero Background. The Cult of the Dragon murdered her entire village as a dark sacrifice to Tiamat, and she swore upon the grave of her people their...