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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6860402" data-attributes="member: 6775031">The party is up to level 15, but they've already fought a lich and a titan and at least half a dozen adult dragons. I don't know if that counts as "high level" for you.As it's come up, nobody really notices. I don't narrate a Legendary save any differently from just succeeding on the saving throw (I mean, I've tried to narrate it differently, but it's hard to conceptualize the difference and put that into words). Everyone at the table knows that such a mechanic exists, and they can guess when it might come into play since the monster will be taking Legendary actions, but they don't try save-or-die effects against legendary enemies at all.When you cast a spell that allows a save to negate, you have to prepare for the likelihood that they'll make the save. They know that legendary monsters have good saves, so they're not going to risk everything on landing one of those spells, and they usually just resort to direct damage instead. Most of the legendary monsters I've run have been killed while they still had Legendary Resistance available.Magic Resistance is significantly underwhelming in 5E, because the monster will probably still fail its save anyway. A golem has a -1 bonus to Dex saves, and rolling twice, it still needs a 20 in order to dodge a fireball. For contrast, if they try to charm something with good Wisdom, then the monster was probably going to make that save anyway and the player probably isn't going to use the spell in that case.It does make the difference, very occasionally, but not in a reliable manner. Mostly it doesn't matter, because they were going to fail anyway and still end up failing.</blockquote>

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