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Did you give it legendaries, or was it a RAW death knight? I can see a RAW death knight getting murk'd by 6 PCs lvl9. 6 PCs is a lot.

"Make weapon attacks with your spellcasting stat" was one of the worst directions to head with 5e IMO. IIRC it started with Hexblade in Xanathar's, and spread from there throughout the design space.

For inspiration, you can always look at 3.Xe's creature types and subtypes... they had more creature types/subtypes than 5e has. I often look to 3e for inspiration and guidance when I look for stuff like that (deity domains for example- so many domains!).

The designers were on there often enough as well. I remember when Star Wars Saga Edition was alive and kicking, you could get some very interesting convos there with said designers, learn a lot of reasoning etc behind design choices. Shame it's all gone now :(

Mask of the Betrayer is widely renowned, you can google some reviews for it but it's very creative, has some stronghold stuff in it, great characters, etc.

Level 10 PCs... you're probably looking at, what, something CR 17-20? Maybe lower the numbers a tad on and reskin the A5E Solar Counselor? It has a lot of I COMMAND THEE powers. It also has some Legendaries and it's an Elite. Elites in A5E are supposed to count as two monsters of their CR. I'd...

Interesting, I wonder if this was carried forward to 5e. They did just copy+paste some stuff straight out of the 2e books, but they left a lot out as well. But I also remember there being Spelljammer ?magic?item? that preserve you in a wood-like substance in space, to keep you alive. I guess...

It's not saying "the standard encounter will be a party of 4 PCs, who will fight 1 monster." It's just explaining how CR works.

The question was whether there was a big shift on how available advantage was in 5e24 vs 14. Adding this every-attack to knockdown feature would qualify as a "Yes, it's even more available."

Well.. weapon masteries changed it a lot, right? Forcing a save vs knockdown as part of every hit with your attack is pretty big.

Obviously you'll get failures if you try, and one can hope that they'd have learned from failures... but WotC doesn't have a good track record in this. There was a good game inside of their attempt to make a Dark Alliance sequel, but it was shoved out of development too quickly. Half-baked as...

Maybe they're thinking of the old 3e "A monster of CR X should drain 1/4 of four PCs of level X's resources"? No idea otherwise.

I can see why you'd ask this question, because most of the official published adventures have the PCs saving the world/setting/multiverse. I have a couple thoughts on it: This is very much like the question of "why can't the king just send his knights and wizard to fix the problem?" These...

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I really dislike the "you can just throw more monsters at them!" reply to issues with PC power. 1. If your answer to "they took a big enemy out of the fight" is "so I added another big enemy to the fight!" that could seem cheap and fiat-ey to the players if it's happening frequently... and it's...

I think PF2'e degrees of success/failure isn't "too much" when it comes to Save or Suck spells. Just personal opinion ofc but I think it was a good answer.

Just start using the full-on zocchi dice chain and get all Dungeon Crawl Classics up in here! Seriously though, I don't see PB as an issue at my tables personally... usually my players' issues are keeping track of their character features. I think some of them really wouldn't done better with...

Yeah, I really wouldn't use the Knights of the Round as an example of bog-standard knights. That's like using the knights from the Song of Roland as bog-standard knights. They perform feats that others couldn't- that's why they're the big important knights!

To make lower level spells less effective I can think of two options off the top of my head: get rid of upcasting (doesn't really effect evergreen stuff like Shield), or make low-level spells less effective against higher-CR baddies. How to do the latter? Bonuses to saves/AC against low-level...

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