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Sorry... you said 'three campaigns in a row', which I thought meant you had three straight campaigns with 4 out of 5 members being full casters. That's what I meant by "every group", thinking you had three groups for three campaigns. If you actually meant one group but you went through 3...

What you are saying is the exact opposite of everything that has ever been said about WotC and 3rd Party companies. One of the entire points of opening up D&D was so that 3PPs could make material that was for the niches of the player base that WotC wasn't making stuff for because there wasn't a...

I would not agree with your suggestion. People not playing high-level does not automatically mean that high-level is unfun. There are countless other reasons why people would choose not to play high-level games. Some of course might not find them fun... but its just as easily to believe its...

My apologies for not taking your numerical suppositions as actual substantiated fact. But besides, my point stands... if there was money to be made with high-level adventures, more companies would be selling them. Regardless of the size of the company. And not to mention... if these...

Are you talking to me, or was this a transitive property of conversation where you were actually talking to the person I was talking to as well, but through a Reply to my post? Your post makes it sound like you were talking to me, even though I wasn't talking about myself.

The charity would be if there's not enough people who actually want high-level stuff (which of course we already know because WotC has told us that) to make the writing and publication of said material actually worth their time. Time they otherwise would spend designing other things that would...

Why? So that you can tell your DM you are using it no ifs-ands-or-buts and they have no choice in the matter? Why does it matter which book the rule is in? Aren't you all going to be working together to decide which variant rules you're going to use anyway?

And if anyone wants this more complex system of downgraded control effects depending on the number and size of the targets... then one can just make up a system themselves. And then sell it on the DMs Guild if they think other players might want it too. But they don't need to sit on their...

Does where its found really matter though? If it's in the Player's Handbook the players are going to think they get to make the choice to use it with or without the DM's say... and if its in the DMG then the DM thinks they get to decide whether or not it can get used at all. But in both cases...

If you keep running games where every group goes full caster heavy and uses their spells for everything... my guess is that your particular style of DMing makes those choices make the most sense. The players are taking what you are giving them. Now if you are generally cool with all of that...

Anyone could easily make high level adventures, but none of these people or companies are charities. It doesn't matter how big or small they are. Just because a few people might want something doesn't mean anyone else needs to spend their money to give it to them out of the kindness of the...

This right here I think is the real issue. You've hit the nail on the head. High-level campaigns have 12 to 17 levels of previous campaign material and stories that have occurred over the course of however many months / years the game has been running that an adventure needs to insert itself...

Which I think is a fantastic house rule and a wonderful way to play the game... ...right up until we remember there are a bunch of players out there that for some reason only allow themselves to play by RAW and then get mad at WotC that they write their books in such a way that the players are...

Because D&D is not a board game. It's a story. And you can have a thrilling combat that is narratively satisfying to all the players AND the DM without just "trying to win". The DM was "trying to win" by removing two of the players out of the fight in any meaningful capacity. That to me is...

Good for you. But my comment wasn't made for you. I was addressing the original poster.

Or they chose not to fix it because they perhaps don't think there's anything to fix. But regardless, that's beside the point. The actual point is that the book has been printed. The rules are what they are. They aren't changing. So why waste time going on about why WotC didn't "fix it"...

That's why you as the DM wouldn't run the encounter that way either. There are thousands of shades of grey between what actually happened and your statement of "boss played weak so the characters could win easy." Yours is a poor counterargument to my point because you've asserted that only the...

If it matters that much, then change it for your game. And don't worry... we'll all keep quiet about it. ;)

And you know what your story actually upholds of my opinion? That the D&D board game can be really stupid sometimes and being beholden to the board game rather than the story means a whole lot of crap happens that never should have. Your experience here highlights that. That was a bad end to...

If 3rd party producers won't make high-level adventures due to the possibility of limited sales... why would you think Wizards of the Coast would be happy to do it instead? Because they should create material for small groups of the playerbase just out of the goodness of their hearts? Do they...