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the OP state a Wall of force protecting a sacred key. The first error would be to use Wall of force into the description to players unless a trained arcanist identify the effect. An invisible barrier leave some hope and interpretation both side of the screen. Then there are the mood and time...

I guess I could manage to play any half caster and pretend to be a mundane warrior. Favoring some spell and ability would help describe the fluff of mundane ability. A little help from the DM would be useful. On the same way, I would have no problem to pretend be a psionic powered character...

As I player my job is to describe what I want to do, and react to DM description. If my DM say : »you are dead« I would say stop! Let me first describe the scene of how my head is smashed away by the giant! I wouldn’t not argue about the DC or other technical detail.

We play from 3 to 7th level. Honestly if my DM tell me my monk don’t have his ki power due to an anti magic zone, I would interpret that my savage monk feel his instinct interfere by some wicked magic. As a player I would continue interpreting my monk according to DM description. That is...

Recently I play a monk into an orc and goblins adventure. I present it as an instinctive warrior, kicking, biting, striking vulnerable spot by instinct, I transform the monk into a savage brutal half orc. nobody around the table argue against that. mundane, magical, supernatural are highly...

That is DnD, writing those Lore and managing world with immortal or super heroic characters. Each DM will make his solution. If the game was managing and balancing everything it would be a lame.

Indeed switching to another plan allow to change the scale and the power level of the world.

For my understanding I rather use 1-4 minor league, in training, often disorganized 5-10 professional: warrior, wizard, criminal 11-16 Elite status. Special ops military, gifted wizard, uncanny assassins. 17+ Legendary. Best of his generation. Seen only once every ten years.

The problem with those assumptions and rule of thumb, they got derailled as soon as you are concretely playing high level on a regular basis. To sustain a high level adventure you need a immense amount of legendary characters or even only famous like a 12th level character. all of them will be...

The high level fighter ( or Captain America) is standing in front of the King with the rest of his party, what are your expectations of his possibilities? Same thing the on the sea side, his party need to travel oversea, what do you want Hawkeye the fighter to do?

Actually the game allow that. Players describe want he want his character to do. DM say: Yes, No, ask a roll, or rely on a precise game mechanic, then describe more clearly the result.

Written fantasy very rarely apply the logic and the pragmatism to would use players in same situation. But the result is what most viewers and readers want to be satisfied. Even based on true life story are usually highly wrap up to produce a good entertaining story. The same thing would be...

That is a cool and underused DM trick, using critical hit to shape the fight on favor of one side or the other.

Next time add a breath weapon, 30d6 force damage. that would help!

I like it, to have more flavor a DM can use the Balor, the Marillith, the Pit fiend as template to create a badass mighty warrior.

I think that one thing that fuel this war, is that people seek a rule set that fit perfectly their needs in term of challenge, play style, world building assumptions, etc. While the designers are trying to make a rule set that offer the greatest possible variety of challenge, play style and...

In 5ed there is no rules or even hint about the rarity or the commonly of high level character. On the other hand there is plenty of assumptions and tropes that come form older editions. A DM may put all his plots in a small kingdom, or into a tribal or post apocalyptic world. the social role...

Henry Calvil is huge fan a 40k universe, and a proclaimed Geek, but not quite sure he actually play dnd.

There are numerous way to describe a 20th level character, a kind of super hero that watch over the world, a agent or knight at the service of a powerful kingdom, or a trash character that sometime have problem to pay for a beer in a inn.

And I will add that this rule is base on the assumption that the players and the DM trust each other and will collaborate to create an epic adventure.