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Message: <blockquote data-quote="J-H" data-source="post: 8929631" data-attributes="member: 7020951">"What kind of adventure should we design?" seems relevant to "How do we design a good adventure for high level characters?"If I rephrase your question as "How do you design a dungeon or set of adventures so they are actually challenging and fun for high level characters?" would that be more accurate?If so, my notes above are still my thoughts on it<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> plus have opportunities for meaningful progression (diplomacy, city-building, noble titles, war, etc.).  Individual dungeons or encounter areas should be thematically appropriate.  10 sessions from now, when you say "X" you want your players to remember X.... not "zombie filled pit number 10."Examples:The Darkness/necromancy temple is full of magical shadow except for a narrow path - the enemies there can see, but the party can't without expending resources or abilities.  The shadow jaguars there can step through the dozens of mirrors scattered around with just 5' of movement.  The altar casts Finger of Death once per round at the closest enemy, unless someone's actively interfering with it (god-slaying sword stabbed in it, Channeling Divinity at it, etc.)The storm god temple is surrounded by a lot of water, open to the air above, and has a driving rainstorm going by round 2 that reduces visibility to 30', with lightning striking a large area every round and the altar casting an 8th-level Ice Storm AOE at the closest group of enemies.The earth temple is a giant cube of rock, with the altar at the bottom center.  Every round, the altar generates cracks under people that are 1d10x10' deep, Dex or fall in.  The previous cracks slam shut, trapping people underground if they fail, while there's also a giant devouring earth monster that bites a lot and does some other nasty stuff...and the high priestess can bring it back at half health with an action.Note that with all 3 of those, there are objectives (altars), hostile environmental conditions, as well as enemies.  No big flat open boring areas.</blockquote>

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