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A really interesting model for dnd magic would be a shift in permanent effects. New Duration: Long - 1 year and a Day. Change all permanent durations to Long duration. New Cantrip Refortify Magic Target: One magical effect with a long duration Benefit: The duration is reset. So what that...

there are two principal ideas when we think of high magic worlds. There is high magic as "labor". This more what the OP noted for this discussion, that there are a lot of high level casters around so high level magic is continuously being used and generated. Then there is high magic as...

huge difference between the environment (which people have a spotty record of caring about) and the people in your family or your neighbors etc. Or heck...yourself..... people are going to want some real assurances they aren't being abused or exploited at a time when they literally can't...

You can argue that, but the designers have made it quite clear they intended the DMG to help new DMs learn to DM. and so asking the question if its teaching new DMS "the right things" is a reasonable question.

aka what 4e did. The issue is simply that good saves continue to progress over time and bad saves do not... and so what starts out as a 20% difference between the saves can be like a 55-60% difference by the end. 4e solved that by ensuring the saving throw bonuses all scaled together (or to...

There's a lot to cover I would imagine. Then spend less of Greyhawk, but greyhawk is just one campaign world, whereas the planes are something a lot of people would use in other campaigns and even homebrew ones.

Finishing Season 1. I've enjoyed it a lot, its had a fun "LOST" feeling when LOST was actually good, and Hella's reveal as an Outside was awesome. I will say that the Lumon management is COMICALLY inept at security...but I think that is a callout of corporate management in general, which yes...

I did a campaign where reality was starting to break, and so the players at one point fall into a fragment of discarded reality (aka a place the gods made way back in the day, but discarded from the true reality once they firmed everything up....kind of like a half finished painting you decide...

in that case, MAXIMUM HARDNESS!!!!

Agreed, I say go for deadly, and lets see if a "deadly" encounter at high levels now lives up to its name sake. I looked at the Metallic peacekeepers. Its a fine compliment to the gold I agree (even though they are very low CR that gas is still quite a threat to PCs due to it being a charisma...

Advice Wise: Use your banish early and often (and make sure you are targeting PCs properly in initiative order so they always lose a turn, if you pick the wrong one they come back too early and then they still get their turn. Use the weakening breath right off the bat, and reapply as needed...

Unless your group is some secret special forces team that intentionally goes around in stealth and anonymity, I would have serious trouble believing 20th level PCs would not be world famous (and probably at least well known in certain planar realms if they do planar travel). Hell your team...

Yeah I think people are forgetting the new fighter ability when they talk about banishing him. The fighter is the WORST target for banish at this point, its practically a waste of a use of the ability in most circumstances.

So one thing we do have to keep in mind is, there is a difference between a party having access to something, and ALL party members having access to that thing. Would I expect a 20th level party to have some access to let a party member fly? 150% yes. But would every single member of the party...

I am a big fan of things like the Bullette pup, for several reasons: 1) Sometimes you want to have a bullete like encounter at lower CRs, and so having the option is nice. 2) Its a great way to augment a traditional bullete encounter in a way that makes thematic sense. While you can always add...

This always comes back to the covenant between the DM and the players. A DM can always TPK the party, that is not hard (gods come down and just bitch clap the party). The hard part is crafting a fight that feels epic and tough, and either the players leave it going "we won but it was so close"...

@Morrus could you update the OP now that we have the full statblock, just for convenience?

This conversation is starting to remind me of the Vecna one when that new statblock hit the interwebs many months ago. We actually did a fun little test online, got 4 people to make 20th level characters and just ran a fight online with Vecna to see how it went. And...Vecna actually did very...

I mean all defenses only delay death. the key is to delay death long enough to kill the dragon....same as every fight a party ever engages in. fights are only 3ish rounds most of the time, if my character gets to stay in another round because of a death evading effect, well thats a big win...

I do agree there is a level here. Dropping someone in the air or even into lava I think is fair game at those levels. But dropping them completely away from the fight trapped in a death box is one step too far for many games. Not all of them mind you, there are games that are absolutely up for...