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Wow, lots of great responses here! While I absorb them, here is some extra detail as requested by posters. Statblocks for the Tl'a'ikith and the Kr'y'izoth Party Equipment My vague wording in the OP has caused some confusion on this front. When I observed that they had no magic weapons, what I...

Covered in the Sage Advice. In short, it's a fluff thing primarily, and if you and your DM are happy, then just ignore it. The narrative of the class excludes metal, not the balance, so it is fine to override that in your campaign world. It is very distinctive though, and losing it will make...

I can sort of visualise this as a tribe of Orcs rolling into combat, but that makes me more interested in a Nintendo Platformer Campaign Variant than anything else.

Yeah, I felt that just raising HP would make her more dangerous - it stops her being a glass cannon, and makes her just a cannon! As for the 4e style - I do tend a lot to Combat as Sport, if you know that term. I mean, not religiously, but in general that's how it goes. So while we can think of...

Yeah, they had a couple fights before, but they were not unduly challenged by them - despite one fight having four Githyanki Knights, a Beholder, and a Diviner! Right before this room they got a short rest, so they're looking fairly fresh.

Hey all, When the next session of my campaign takes place, we'll be rolling initiative for the most monstrously complex (and unfair) fight that I've put my players up against yet. I'm coming to you for help in ensuring that I made interesting and fun choices for the bad guys. Let me begin by...

Sure! Here is my notes file, which details the rules for the palace, the doors, and the traps. The traps use the houserule of rolling a Hide versus Passive Perception. I'm not that familiar with 3e modules, but the dungeon appeared to be monstrously complex and precise in its rules, so I tried...

Damn, I didn't realise this was a necro.

In combats with Dragons I've run, the question quickly becomes 'do I retreat and take OAs, or stick around and take full turns?' Flying around and avoiding damage seems all good and well, but the moment the Paladin gets into melee (which, to be honest, he should do eventually - it'd be boring...

I literally just converted this one, and am busy running it for my group of level 18s. The work involved was creating the special Githyanki variants (I mainly used toned-down Liches with Githyanki Knight traits for many) and adapting the traps and special doors. I sat down, made a list of it...

I found the poll a bit difficult to answer. Here's why. In my campaign, we do adventuring; virtually everything is revolving around them fighting, travelling to fights, or discussing fights with people. It's fairly combat heavy. However, I also wanted to integrate these demi-god level...

I've run Planar stuff using Planescape books, no problems.

A funny comment, coming from the person intently and aggressively demanding fine details over a mug.

Fun idea. Having allies along should certainly help establish that the players are not unsupported. Are you going to do a battle scene, or narrate that off-screen and focus on a dungeon delve for the party?

I vote for this option. Fighting in a giant Demon Lord arena is definitely going to classify as epic, you can easily condense down the adventure into the most vital, quickly-gameable parts (meet Vizeran, find components, set lure, have mega-battle). It might even be possible to move the whole...

There is an old adage, probably one that you're familiar with, but perhaps not the OP: "Don't game with people you wouldn't hang out with."

My main view on this issue - as a DM, so different than yours as a player - is that there is no golden lasso tying your characters together. I mean, unless you're doing a Fated To Save The World plot or whatever. So if new characters join who turn out to be crazy killers, then your characters...

Gracklestugh is famously tough to run. I've not run the adventure, but from all accounts and purposes it shares the same role - and the same problems - as Vallaki in Curse of Strahd; a central and big town with loads of factions and loads of plots that you're somehow expected to understand and...

Interesting thought. I assume that he must then ask for only general instructions at the start of the round. So 'I'll cast a spell', not 'I'll cast Hold Person on the third minotaur'. That way everyone knows ROUGHLY what they are doing, and can take advantage of the extra time to contemplate it...