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I would say that's where D&D fun lies. In it's core, dnd is about tactical level skirmishes. Be it against lowly goblins or demon lords, it's still mostly revolves around combats. Mechanics and character abilities are 90% combat oriented. I have. It's called Houses of the Blooded. If my...

They pay other people to go out, risk their life and health to acquire more riches for them while they live comfortable life on semi passive income? Cause any adventurer with enough common sense would do just that. Or retire after few good hauls. No point in risking your neck when you can live...

Agree. They could have those tiers, but it should be strictly optional. And to be honest, personally, if high levels shifted to more of a domain management and faction power dynamics, i would rather play Houses of the Bloodied that is designed for that kind of games. D&D just isn't good at that...

What was response from your players? My group didn't particularly like it. It took too much time. I rolled individual initiative for every monster so some of the monsters, due to shear number of them, could act before players, cause when i ran one or two high level ones, if players won...

I once used 25 cr 1 creatures as a encounter for level 17 party. They came in waves of 5 round after round, but in xenomorph style ( from different directions in all 3 dimensions). Some spells that are AoE don't have description of area effect in all 3 dimensions, or it's kind of vague (30 feet...

As an option, that would be cool. But not everyone want's to play fantasy simcity. Some people still want to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And they want to do it at grand scale. Domain management fundamentally changes game play unless it's something that is done via few rolls between sessions...

This is pure anecdotal and just based on feeling. But i think that high levels were always meant to be endgame content. You hit them few session before the big epic finale of campaign, you enjoy your moment of glory, epilogue rolls, campaign ends and that's it. Avengers assembled, fought...

Well, WoTC had 10 years to do it during 5e run, so it's not likely that they'll do it with 5.5.

High level play requires decent amount of system mastery on both DM and player side. On the player side, people need to know what their characters are capable and what tools are at their disposal, otherwise, turns can take forever. Classes in 5e generally have more stuff they can do compared to...

Did WoTC ever give official stats for Elminster, Simbul and characters like that? Cause if i'm not mistaken, PC and NPC/Monsters aren't following same creation rules in 5e. And while they did cap levels at 20 by not having concrete rules for epic level games and advancement, beside epic boons...

You play in person or online? Cause, in person, over work week, with relatively young kids, it's out of the question, at least on regular basis, at least for our group. I personally, don't play online. If i can't play in person, i would rather not play at all.

Oh, we try to do that. Every Sunday, 9:30-12:30/13. If at least 4/6 of us can make it, we play (unless DM is one of those that can't). But we have hiatus for winter school holidays (2 weeks Christmas till Epiphany plus week in late February) and when we have national holidays that connect with...

Life gets in the way. Death by inactivity. From personal experience, you get excited, play 2-3 weekly sessions in the row, then you get couple of week where someone can't play, then you play session or two, then again couple of weeks of no play. Before you know, that 6 sessions was spread over...

Sure. But 5e high level characters ( tier 4) are powerhouses. Now, depending on the type of setting you run, those kind of characters can be so exceptionally rare that everyone knows about them (think Hercules level) and only very brave and very stupid try to mess with them. In a setting a la...

I ran decent amount of 5e high level adventures. First off, characters are powerful. Real powerful. Creating chalenging encounters starts to be problem. If you throw one or two high CR monsters, if party is decently optimized, they can wipe it first round, eventually 2 rounds. What usually...

Depends on type of campaign and type of players. In casual h&s game, unless they can buy stuff that directly impacts their character performance, most players don't bother with other money sinks, cause it doesn't add anything to their play. In my personal experience, beyond level 3-4, gold...

Started rewatching DS9 after rewatching TNG. Skipped straight to S5 when Dominion War starts. Not that early seasons are not fun, it's just that Dominion war is most interesting part of DS9 for me. Pissed off, bald and bearded Sisko is best Sisko. It's only ST that depicts full scale war from...

But it has to have iconic whistling tune. :D Star Wars universe is great scenery for war movies. Be it big battles, be it commandos behind lines, be it regular people resisting corrupt and oppressive regime. So much opportunity to remove story from Skywalkers, Emperor, jedi & sith conflict and...

Rogue One is in it's essence partisan war movie set in Star Wars universe. Bad guy is the Empire as a system. That's part of what makes Andor also good. Struggle against oppressive regime.

Well, i try not to look to deep into stuff. Boba Fett got 6.5 minutes of screen time and 3 spoken lines in original trology. All that implied subtext that you are debating is something maybe attentive adult watcher will catch. But for kids, teens and casual watchers that didn't think too deeply...