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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3106829" data-attributes="member: 22424">I agree with almost everything you said (I don't like the current Epic rules at all, so for me, the cut-off would be 20th level).Personally, I don't see the point in making the higher levels feel like the lower levels to extend the 'sweet spot'. If they feel just the same, what's the point? Why not simply play at lower levels? Either stop giving out XP, give out less XP to slow progression, or end the campaign and start over.There are a couple of things I really dislike about high-level play: the way many encounters come down to "who fails a save first", and the proliferation of save-or-die effects and corresponding ease of Raises (but that's a flavour thing - I would prefer less frequent, but permanent, death). Still, each of these are blemishes, rather than fundamental flaws in the system.Where high-level play falls down for me, though, is that by the time a group has reached high-level they are almost guaranteed to be tightly tied to specific events in the campaign. This, coupled with the relative scarcity of high-level adventures, makes finding a match significantly harder than at lower levels. This means, of course, that the DM has to do almost all the prep-work and adventure design himself, and at just the point where the stat blocks become most complex and balance becomes least well understood (and, of course, also at the point where the DM hits those parts of the system with which he has least experience).Now, I'm not averse to doing prep work. However, I do think more could (and should) be done to help support the DM in that work. I've mentioned it before, but I think some sort of computerised stat-block generator is a must at that level (and it really needs to support all the WotC books at a minimum, and be easy to use - the existing tools I've tried have all fallen short for me).So, I support your call for a high-level MM, a DMG3 and/or an equivalent to the old "DM Option: High Level Campaigns" book. But, the book must be full of solid and useful tools to help the DM prepare adventures of that type, and not just more magic items and prestige classes, or advice essays that sound good but don't actually provide an iota of real assistance.</blockquote>

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