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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 8147561" data-attributes="member: 67">Congratulations! I just concluded my first 1-20 campaign last night. I’m sure you already recognize this, but you’re definitely going to need to beef Tiamat up.Bring her numbers up to CR 30 standards and then multiply her HP by however many rounds you want her to last (possibly in the form of different stages). You know how much damage your party can dish out. Use that as a guideline.I’d personally also give her sorcerer-like abilities, but easier to run. My end-boss was a home-brewed Loki. He needed to be a sorcerer, but I wasn’t about to keep track of sorcerer points, so I gave him at-will metamagics, at least two spells of each level, and one spell slot per level that each recharged on a 6 (but probably could have been 5-6) to encourage a diverse array of spells cast during play. Definitely give her Time Stop and way to heal herself, of course.Tactically, she’s going to need allies, both to keep things dynamic, and to sacrifice when she needs a screen.As for terrain, I found that it was increasingly irrelevant at high levels. Not entirely, but the PCs have a lot of options for starting things out at great range and traverse distances very quickly, if needed. I would just have one dominant feature that potentially threatens an NPC population center (like a volcano, earthquake, falling sky, expanding sphere of annihilation, or whatever) and put a countdown of 3-ish rounds on it.At the end of the 3rd-ish round, disaster happens and everything changes; suddenly, the PCs have to start saving people while Tiamat is still trying to kill them.This all easier if Tiamat gets to choose her battleground. If she doesn’t, try to give her the opportunity to lead the PCs to a better locale. Again, sacrificing (dragon) minions is a good way to screen her “escape.”Good luck!</blockquote>

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