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Avernus was my first thought as well, but there's one key hang-up even besides the budget... any campaign, especially one with many eyes on it, has thousands of people who have played it and done their own version of the story. People probably feel pretty strongly about those stories. Instead...

Bonus points if there's a trans student with a rival bully named Kathleen.

Honestly it's hard to make generalizations based on anecdotes. My current game I put 60 options on the table for base species, and 3 of the 6 players picked options from the 2024 PHB (Aasimar, Human, and Tiefling). Another picked a 2014 Wyrd Gnome. We're playing online so the options being...

It does say something about the nature of the setting how rare it is to find a high level character. In some settings like Eberron high level characters are very rare and being level 15 means you're likely the strongest exemplar of your class for leagues... meanwhile in say Exandria, there's an...

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So before you start accusing other people of having poor relationships with their DMs maybe look into your relationship with your players because this seems a biiiit unhealthy.

As long as they don't try and make the Sorcerer Kings into Romantasy Shadow Daddies then I'll allow it.

What the hell are you talking about tho? Some of the most miserable game experiences of my life have come from broken d20 builds making combat basically a one-man show. Like you don't need to experience it to understand how soul draining it is to play a game of Gary Stu and his retainers...

Thinking about the thread topic, this is really two questions: 1. Is 5E better now than it was before Perkins and Crawford left. 2. If so, is it better because they left, or for other reasons? While I think the correct answer is that it's too early to tell at this point, my instinct is that...

I mean I agree that Heroes of Faerun has a lot of wild swing in terms of how powerful or overly specialized its content is... but I sincerely don't think that's a massive change from previous 5E books. It's just a step down from the 2024 PHB, which was made with 10 years of data on what needed...

True. If you're severely limiting options that should probably be said up front before people join expecting to play their hobgoblin artificer.

In my experience, worthwhile players are happy to work within my stipulations as a DM and choose ancestries that fit the setting, so if you have a bunch of players who insist on making characters that don't fit the setting... that's not a problem with their being options, it's a problem of the...

For 4 level 16 PCs you need at least 3 Balors for a deadly encounter. The last big fight we had in that Wrath of the Righteous campaign was a Balor, a Goristro, and Baphomet.

Using 5E with some supplement for the Mythic tiers. Not sure how that's relevant since the mythic tiers make us more powerful than standard 5E characters and thus harder to challenge.

What are you talking about bro. I'm literally in an level 18 Wrath of the Righteous game with Mythic tiers and we still have brushes with death on the semi-regular. It's not impossible to challenge high level parties.

Yeah Dark Sun's always had druids. They're really important in maintaining what's left of the ecosystem.

That's why you never just use one.

Honestly I like the idea of a heist scenario. Perhaps the target is a very secure vault, in a dangerous plane of existence like Carceri or Hell. The target, whatever it is, is in a place that only a team of level 16+ PCs have any hope of getting into. The players will need to both gather...

...or just make better combats?

...yes, out of their own disinterest. Not because WW2 is a mysteriously distant past outside of memory.