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Not sure how I missed that...I'll play the "I was just out of bed" card. 🙈 It can still Banish 1 character per round with what seems to be an auto success (unless its against a Bard, Paladin, Sorcerer or Warlock...who have around a 25-40% chance of success). If everything lands it deals: 3...

You could still have the Alert feat, but I agree its a crazy high Initiative. But all that pales by comparison with Banish. Now that I have seen the full stat-block, all it needs is to use Banish each Legendary Action and it probably wins. Even an upcast Healing Word will undo the damage...

Okay so now we have seen the entire stat-block what does everyone think? I think now that we have seen Banish is 3-4 times per round with a DC 24 Charisma save the dragon has went from vastly under-powered to probably overpowered and broken. Unless your group features a Bard, a Paladin a...

We don't necessarily know exactly where all the new abilities are yet. For Lair Actions I really like a choice of 3, then roll the first randomly and take them in order from there (that way you never get the same one twice in a row). I like the Advantage idea, not so keen on Banish for...

The Blob of Annihilation and Haunting Revenant Art look great, hopefully both are full page art in the book.

These things are easy to miss. Its still one helluva'n initiative bonus for a Gargantuan creature, but it has that eel-like appearance than makes it appropriate. If I was always going into a fight where Initiative Order was important I'd typically use Inspiration on the roll. If there is a...

Well, you will be able to see my Divine Ranks soon enough and you can decide whether they fit or not and if so whereabouts you would peg your version of Tiamat.

Certainly Wizards are perhaps more dependent on prep than other classes, but is this Ancient Gold Dragon likely to be a random encounter or something they can prep for? It seems to me the bigger the challenge the greater the likelihood the party will get to prep for it (and I'm not even saying...

Well the problem I have with people who say the Gods should be nebulous forces with no stats is that those people have no interest in epic tier play where battling the Gods makes for fun adventures. Likewise if you are going to go to the trouble of making the stats then they need to have some...

Its clearly a saving throw problem in the case of the Banishment spell which highlights the issue perfectly. The main issue is Saves with Low Ability Scores with no Proficiency vs. DC's with High Ability Scores + Proficiency. The gap is too big. At the same time I think anything that allows a...

Well even if the PCs... A: Don't know they are facing a dragon B: All lose initiative C: Are bunched up tight enough so they all get hit by the breath weapon D. None have fire resistance as standard or Absorb Elements E. All fail their saves ...I still don't see 71 damage a big deal...

I think because core D&D peaks at Level 20, the consensus among most people is that all monsters designed should be beatable by Level 20 characters. However, when we start to consider Hero-deities, Quasi-deities, Demigods and so forth as potential Player Characters we need monstrous threats for...

Its not so much that they are all of a sudden increasing focus on high CR epic monsters; its that the 2014 rules basically abandoned high CR epic monsters altogether and the 2025 Monster Manual is trying to redress that glaring mistake.

5th Edition isn't the worst for Epic Tier play, but the saving throw problem needs plugged right away. I also dislike the way Magic Weapon damage is handled. But both those are extremely easy fixes. Hopefully I can get you to trust me on it. ;) Would be interested in hearing about them. I...

Apologies for originally missing this reply UngeheuerLich. What if we compare it to the Claws of a Medium Size Ghast which deal 2d6? Does the 200 foot long, 100 ton dragon with a massive claw far bigger than an entire ghast itself dealing only 2d8 seem appropriate if the ghast's claws deal...

I wasn't. I was taking the average for four 18th level characters including a Wizard, Rogue, Cleric and Fighter. Approx. 600 HP between them. If we swap one for a Barbarian then the HP skews upwards. NB. The Dragon XP makes it a Highly Difficult threat for FIVE Level 17 PCs, 4 Level 18 PCs...

Some combination of Inspiration, Indomitable and Luck. 🤞 Though its still a very tricky save, so I'd probably hope to just kill the dragon in the first round (which would require 8 hits; one of which needs to be a crit). In fairness my character has been unbalanced since it picked up the...

In a roundabout way, yes. 2024 Encounter building rules are much better than 2014's. But, all that falls apart if the monsters don't pack the required punch. All things being equal DM/monster ingenuity likely to be equalized by Player/PC ingenuity and prep. There are ways to mitigate all...

Harsh but fair. Even unoptimized Epic PC's have ways to negate death. The solo enemy needs to have a decent chance of dropping the average PC each round. Otherwise the monster loses everytime. Well that's what average damage totals are listed for...Although it should have been d6, my mistake...

Yes my apologies, that would be for an Epic Tier game using 'God Rules' which has slightly higher than average damage due to a change in magic weapon damage needed to balance martial classes from epic tier and above. Converted back to standard 5e and the damage would be 3/4ths...ie. 9d4 claw...