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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8781859" data-attributes="member: 58197">Most of Sauron's powers from LotR are exercised at a scale far larger than anything that can be accomplished by D&amp;D spells. Take the attraction of Mordor to evil creatures--that influence is exerted at ranges in the hundreds or thousands of miles. Antipathy/sympathy has a range of a couple hundred feet, and that's an 8th-level spell.So the first thing to do is ask yourself what, exactly, the power does; and then look for the appropriate tool to model it. The attraction of Mordor to evil creatures, and Sauron's ability to control Orodruin, look much more like Lair Actions and Regional Effects than spells.Sauron is never seen in person in LotR, so to get an idea of what his &quot;in-person&quot; abilities are&nbsp; like (i.e., what do the PCs have to deal with if they fight him), I'd lean heavily on the Silmarillion.Edited: Just looked again and saw that you wanted to &quot;build&quot; him, as in, using the PC rules? In that case the answer is a flat no, you can't. Sauron's abilities go far beyond what D&amp;D allows PCs to do, even at very high level. The only way to model him in 5E is as a legendary monster.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8781859, member: 58197"] Most of Sauron's powers from LotR are exercised at a scale far larger than anything that can be accomplished by D&D spells. Take the attraction of Mordor to evil creatures--that influence is exerted at ranges in the hundreds or thousands of miles. [I]Antipathy/sympathy[/I] has a range of a couple hundred feet, and that's an 8th-level spell. So the first thing to do is ask yourself what, exactly, the power does; and then look for the appropriate tool to model it. The attraction of Mordor to evil creatures, and Sauron's ability to control Orodruin, look much more like Lair Actions and Regional Effects than spells. Sauron is never seen in person in LotR, so to get an idea of what his "in-person" abilities are like (i.e., what do the PCs have to deal with if they fight him), I'd lean heavily on the Silmarillion. [I]Edited: Just looked again and saw that you wanted to "build" him, as in, using the PC rules? In that case the answer is a flat no, you can't. Sauron's abilities go far beyond what D&D allows PCs to do, even at very high level. The only way to model him in 5E is as a legendary monster.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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