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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6947895" data-attributes="member: 37579">In the podcast recording of the <a href="http://gamingandbs.com/wizards-coast-gamehole-con-bbs017/" target="_blank">Gamehole Convention Panel</a> Mike Mearls mentioned how Volo's Guide to Monsters was not designed with high level threats in mind. Two reasons were give: because most people play at low levels, and because there are fewer iconic high level threats. They wanted to support the levels people play and they didn't want to artificially inflate the CR of threats. Now, most campaigns do end before reaching too high of a level. Or rather, used to - in past editions, high level play was frustrating, so ending before that made sense - but that *might* not occur in 5e. There's also a bit of a chicken-egg thing. There's limited high level support so fewer people play high level games. The above aside there is more salient problem: fewer iconic or established high level threats. I haven't much looked into this. What are some classic high level opponents for D&D that are CR 15+ that do not currently exist in 5th Edition? What monsters that could be added? Ones that have a history to the game and are interesting but aren't just a higher level variant of another monsters. And probably aren't just gods, archdevils, arch fey, and the like.</blockquote>