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I’m alright with not everything being balanced or even optimal. Provided the majority is and particularly things linked to key popular organisations. Sometimes folks want to embrace the randomness and see adverse effects as something they get to explore and enjoy rather something that stops...

The single biggest piece of advice about running a high level campaign though is to pick your players wisely. If they are the sorts to be using circle magic to extend the range of Animal Shapes to 5,000 feet radius and arguing with you at the table then the number of moving parts and toys that...

Some good ideas I think to address the imbalance between plausible demographics and sufficient high level threats would be things like… Full scale Githzerai invasion from the astral planes (there was a dragon magazine that discussed this) Discovery of hellstone/wyrdstone that has a strange...

The question is not whether it is possible to see 1000 feet. It’s whether there is terrain on the approach to the tower that the dragon can use to gain total cover. As I said the dragon gets hit by the first Tasha’s Laughter and then on its next turn takes cover behind a building or trees, or...

Yeah the two most unbalancing things in the game are ridiculous ACs and ridiculous spell/abilities DCs. Both trivialize the game to one extent or another.

I found one of my posts from a couple of years back about the Seven Maxims raised in AD&D’s High Level Campaigns accessory. It contained all sorts of weird and wonderful rules - 10th level magic etc. I still have my High Level Campaigns hardcover from AD&D. Ironically one of the few books i...

Well the main reason would be it can take years of play to do it. A few times it was mentioned to just jump to high level play. If you do that then option 1 isn’t a choice. Second reason would be a lot of published campaigns don’t have a structure that supports option 1. Case in point being Age...

The core problem is that the players can go anywhere. I think you have two choices. Up verisimilitude to 200% or up artificiality to 200%. So either establish boundaries because the PCs are so engaged with a setting they don’t want to go elsewhere or establish limits by stopping them going...

You could screenshot battle maps but It’s worth saying the BG3 wiki has every map saved as an image without keys.

You’ve had your answer do as you will, you were handed a branch to hold onto to pull you out. If you choose not to grab on that’s your call. I’ll be enjoying circle magic just fine. I really do suggest you consider going for a walk though. Look around and see how far you can actually see the...

Also, taking a caster dip, just to hope that you can use your action to hold concentration for another character? I just don’t see players building PCs like that. It relies on too many unknown variables - not least assuming that you know what the other player will regularly do or want to do.

You’re assuming Range is synonymous with Area. They aren’t. Earth Tremor’s radius is its area of effect because it emanates from you. Therefore you’d need to expend a slot and add 10’ to the range. You obviously don’t add 1000 feet. Same with animal shapes. It’s good but not ridiculous like...

It’s a very good point about verticality. If you play on Foundry there is the facility to use dual level tokens. I’ll probably be running printed battle maps. I think you just have to be clear with elevations. I quite like it when they are marked on the map in white text. Tomb of Annihilation...

Well the area is as big or small as you want to make it. I wouldn’t try and recreate the entire swamp. I would have a swamp battlemap for the redcaps and a teahouse battlemap etc. A classic location crawl. Some elements could also be condensed into random encounters.

I would definitely include mind powers as small buffs for those willing to enjoy the ick. I think that is quite interesting. As is the Dark Urge. I also think Netherese Orb, vampire, infernal engine, child of a grand duke make great backgrounds. Gith Knight and follower of Shar are a bit more...

I think it’s also possible to make them part of the quest. For instance you visit Crèche Zilleck with Laezel and she is taken prisoner by the Inquisitor. Not a DM PC but still present and engaged.

Could or couldn’t? My Maidstone group is unusual because one isnt into computer gaming and of the other three who are: one only plays console, one has no time and the other has a list a mile long of games and hasn’t gotten around to it yet. It’s like the universe is conspiring to tell me to...

I think this is a good way to handle equipment loot in general. Encumbrance rules plus make second hand kit from field worth a fraction of the price unless it’s magic or fine. I’m with you. I’d have the vendors replicate slices of regular PHB shopping with maybe the occasional magic item or...

Would you have the PCs set up a camp? I quite like the idea of a semi mobile group joining them. A bit like a wandering bastion. Could be a good way of recreating that with the Companion NPC idea. They’re effectively henchmen.

I definitely wouldn’t do pregen. I think that a very unsatisfying way to run a full campaign for experienced players. To constraining. I would like at the PC character choices - if the schtick of an origin PC could directly map to their design intent - then I would offer it directly. However as...