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Third, 15-16th level spellcasters have access to 8th level spells like antimagic field, dominate monster, glibness, and telepathy this adventure is designed with those sorts of capabilities in mind. mummy archivists, Lawful Neutral wight 'crypt servants', and an upgraded ghast called a 'lesser ghul') which is relevant to the 14th-level cleric's Destroy Undead (CR 3) feature. Second, the adventure will feature a fair number of CR 3 undead (e.g. First, it's for an Al-Qadim game I run and I anticipate the PCs being around that level when they confront the big bad evil guy (BBEG).

Let's pause and ask 'how did I get that number?' It's designed for roughly 15th-16th level PCs. What prompted me to post is a dungeon/adventure I'm working on called Krak al-Mazhar: Citadel of the Shadow in the Flame in brief, it's the secret lair of The Brotherhood of True Flame (think: evil arcane society) built into the ridge of a caldera. So the first step is actually doing something with the idea. What really makes an idea interesting is how it's developed. viewing/Sanctum_of_Water Strolen's Citadel: Sanctum of Water I recently got an error message that strolen's site is not secure, so I've deactivated the link. Secret Planescape Origin of Legendary Solo Monsters (my ENWorld thread)Ĭartographer's Guild: A Forum for Cartography Enthusiastsĭyson's Dodecahedron: Vertical Morphology Sly Flourish: Building Legendary Creatures

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Villain Builder: 7 part series by Wolfgang Baur Pathfinder to 5e Converter by Kryx/Mark LenserĮquating AD&D 2e XP to 5th edition CR (my thread on ENWorld) Possibly flawed assumptions, but interesting nevertheless.ĪngryGM has a good article covering 5th edition monster creation in detail, starting from the very basics USA Demographics Fallencoder does an interesting comparison of adventurers to US armed forces personnel, coming up with probabilities of encounter an NPC of #th level in the world, and in a number of combats. Not an unreasonable starting point.ĭ&D vs.

The Fifty Percent Rule MontyWild proposed a 50% rule for determining how many NPCs of a given level appear in a world. The Magic Tree Tanz deconstructs how many hypothetical NPCs would have 'the hero stuff' and survive long enough to do something with their class levels. Sly Flourish: Making Awesome Dungeons follows Rodney Thompson's advice about making dungeons 'familiar, functional, and fantastic'Īutarch's Adventurer Conqueror King Alex has a blog post 'The Demographics of Heroism' about assumptions of how rare individuals are leveled from 1st to 14th level. The Alexandrian: Jacquaying the Dungeon Highly recommended 7-part series about mapping like famous Jennel Jacquays Grognardia Old School Dungeon Design Guidelines (taken with a grain of salt, and a good sense of humor) Check it out!ĭeeper in the Game A 7-part article on dungeon designĬritical Hits Chatty DM's Re-examining the Dungeon Step 6: Dungeon Mapping - Part 4: Mapping in Three is sharing a 'sister' series called Fire and Water: Designing Themed Dungeons. Step 6: Dungeon Mapping - Part 3: Sketches Interlude: YouTube Design Chat, Audio Only Step 6: Dungeon Mapping - Part 2: Hand Drawn Maps Step 6: Dungeon Mapping - Part 1: Iterative Design & Rough Maps Step 5: Making Monsters - Part 5: Legendary Monsters / Villains Step 5: Making Monsters - Part 4: Hard-to-Convert Monsters Step 5: Making Monsters - Part 3: New & Converted Monsters Step 5: Making Monsters - Part 2: Monster Variants

Step 4: Verisimilitude & Foundational Questions Step 2: Room Lists, 'Massing', and 'Adjacencies This won't be structured like a normal article series or anything, more just me digging into the guts of my design process and sharing things as I create them. Lastly, I'll add that I love hearing ideas and discussing my designs on ENWorld, so I am happy for whatever engagement this creates. However, the scope goes far beyond these.

This thread merges a couple others, including First time making a serious dungeon and Creating The Bonfire Help with a BBEG. I want to offer my ideas on all of it, but with a focus on how it all works together in actual practice.

#SHADOW BEHOLDER 5E STATS HOW TO#

There are a lot of questions new DMs (heck, and experienced DMs like me as well) have about how to approach writing an adventure, designing a dungeon, creating/converting a monster or NPC, and how to make this awesome imagined villain actually be awesome in the game.

Shadow beholder 5e stats