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This new DMG is the first time I actually read through the information of all the planes. A lot of them just bother me, and feel like they are too close in theme to the others. Weirder still to me, is how they are all supposed to be where the souls of all creatures go, but people live in those...

I get where you are coming from, but tier 4 PC's have so many features and abilities to regain HP, gain temp HP, gain resistances, increace AC, make enemies roll at disadvantage. Having played quite a bit at high level, the average DPR a monster is calculated with, rarely ever makes contact with...

Fighter was still the right pick, trust me.

Fighters are really hard to banish. The fighter in our test just used indomitable to succeed every time. After that it was already game over.

No-one was using the best tactic possible. The fighter didn’t use maneuvers or even weapon mastery for most of her turns

Yeah that’s something I could have done, but that would greatly decrease it’s damage per round. Also one of them had an ioun stone of absorption. And it has word of recall, so I could have left any moment. Even better, I could have it submerged in the lava at the end of its turns. I decided to...

Whoops. I could have sworn I read otherwise. I just kept cycling through them. Yeah, if they don’t use them more than once, they are lackluster. I totally agree with you then. Still, their numbers and design works a bit better in some cases. They deal a lot more damage, for a start.

Eh, I think you misunderstood. Villain actions can be used multiple times per fight. I thought it would be weaker to only do something off-turn once, but it actually speeds up the game because I interrupt the turn flow less. My players enjoyed that too. Listen, I don’t like everything about...

Why do you say that? I have had great success with them.

Same for me!

Why? Because I believe in the game at the table being different than the game discussed here on the forums. Testing helps me run better games. And solo fights are classic. I want them to be possible in D&D. So far only MCDM seems to have figured out how to do it well.

Alright! I tested the new Ancient Gold Dragon today against a kitted out group of 3 20th level characters. I rolled up a list of totally random itemsbased on the magic item tracker sheet. The PC's also had most resources reduced by 1/3rd to simulate some adventuring beforehand. We had a Circle...

Am I calculating something wrong? A lvl19 PC has a High budget of 17,200. Times 4 = 68,800 68,800 - 65.000 = 3,800 left. So it's without lair actions, right? EDIT: Oh, the gold dragon lair doesn't have lava :devilish:

Alright, since you guys have been arguing about it: tomorrow I will test the dragon agianst a 19th level party. To even out the initiative, I will add 4 Metallic Peacekeepers. I'll use the Red Dragon lair from Fizban's, but I haven't decided on much else. Any advice to make this gold dragon...

Talking more about age. All who said yes had to be born in the 80's or earlier.

Woah, this says a lot about the demographic of ENWorld :o

Sure, they should be able to defeat it, I'd just prefer it to be a tense fight. I will be testing 4 lvl19 PC's against one this weekend.

I mean, if you fight in the best way for a fighter to fight it, sure. But the dragon can use its reach. Maybe try a sharpshooter build.

Hmm, characters teleport around a lot and don't tend to instantly die at tier 4. I'm gonna test him out this saturday in the Red Dragon lair from Fizban's against a lvl16 party.