If many DMs find themselves struggling with particular high level abilities, does that mean the abilities were a mistake, or that the game needs more advice about running games with those abilities in it?
One thing that we’ve seen over the years is that D&D does dungeons quite well at lower levels. Dungeons may not be the answer at higher levels, but do DMs have skills to handle them? Do adventure designers?
There is one glorious feature about dungeons. They’re self constraining, giving predictable paths. That starts falling apart later. How good is the DM at handling non predictable approaches to an adventure?
And predicting “the players will mess up this adventure design” is not a useful prediction, however accurate! ;)
Of course, in published high level designs, things get even worse since you don’t know what the party makeup will be. So, you’re running an adventure that presumes the party has a wizard with teleport, and yet the party are all fighters and barbarians? Huh!
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
