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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beefermatic" data-source="post: 9763527" data-attributes="member: 6670757">Oh, not at all, between The Epic Handbook, and Immortals Handbook, there are plenty of creatures to challenge my party with. Now with ChatGPT, I can think of whatever idea I want, and Chat can make whatever creature or enemy I need or want on the fly, it might be a bit off, but doing monster design for 15 years makes me able to easily compensate.Moreover the best thing for powerful parties is to use their effective power level, not their level. You get this by testing the party against powerful enemies, and seeing what they can comfortably fight or what outright defeats them or gives them trouble. At this point my party can effectively fight creatures at about CR 22 without too much trouble. Which is good, Gods are the main threat they'll be fighting.My party has first time players and veterans mixed together. Admarris for example, it's his first gaming group and he started when the party was level 10. A lot of it is knowing your players and playing to their strengths and knowing when to and who to pull punches with. At the end of the day it's about having fun, interacting with a grand storyline and feeling like you won a truly hard fought victory.Weak official monsters are only generally weak due to how their used. Look at pooches above, he started out as a CR 1/3 monster and ended up, using official templates and rebuild mechanics a tremendously powerful threat, able to contend with I'd say at least a Lesser Deity, and it's a fuxking dog.So, throw some magic weapons on them, give them better feats, Class levels, or use Gestalt rules with enemy's natural HD and you can make some extremely formidable monsters, and you can do it pretty easily anymore again using AI.Let's say i wanted to put the party against a succubus, not this party of course, but a say CR 9 party. I could put some +2 or +3 gear on her, give her some good items, and let her i think 8 outsider levels stack with levels of let's say Druid, now, suddenly, she's summoning monsters, entangling the party, zapping people with lightning etc. It makes for a far more compelling encounter and allows us as DMs to use the tools we have, longer, and more effectively.</blockquote>

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