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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6360860" data-attributes="member: 4937">Considering that there are 'ordinary' merchants in FR that are 25th level fighters and practically every city on the edge of the sea of fallen stars has a city watch of some sort led by 7' tall giant of a man who is a 20th level fighter that duel wields longswords - and that's not even the real centers of power in the FR - being the Tarrasque in the FR does not strike me as being a cake walk.  If you are trying to lay waste to anything bigger than a hamlet, as a best case scenario you are facing at least a party of 18th level 'PC' types backed up by scores of 10th+ characters, backed up be thousands of 4th level fighters who has low spell-caster support in the hundreds.   And that's assuming you didn't make the mistake of thinking Shadowdale was a soft target.Actually, the 5e version appears to me to be a cake walk period, as it lacks virtually every feature from any prior edition that made it even slightly scary.  No vorpal teeth.  No regeneration.  No burrowing speed.  No ability to pull down fliers.  No hidden stat block presumably unknown to the players.  I can't imagine it surviving any high level PCs who did anything other than try to straight up fight it on its terms.That would be nice.  The FR has several problems as a setting, but the 'The NPCs will always be more special than the PC's' has long been its biggest problem.  I never really minded the fact that it threw away the trope that 'average NPCs are 0 level fighters', because Gygax had never really implemented that consistently anyway, but the setting just has so many DM PC's and Marty Sue's that its just out of hand.  I think the DM ought to be allowed one at most - not at least one in every single location of the setting.  Ed can't even blame the secondary writers for the problem - they are clearly just following his lead.</blockquote>

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