I’ve been toying around with the idea of making a level 30ish character to serve as the bad guy .... like 15 fighter /15 rogue .... concept ..... has anyone ever tried this ?
In 5e no, but in other D&D editions I've done so many times. It's certainly doable, and honestly not even that hard to balance. Just remember, final CR is not a matter of "what is their level" or "what is their hit dice", it's a matter of "what can they DO". Rogue sneak attack only applies to one action per round, and unless you give them legendary or lair actions they're still limited by their action economy (bonus action, action, move, reaction) as far as how much they can do. Figure out their to hit, expected damage per round, etc, and just calculate it like any other monster. Please don't make the mistake though of having that one BBEG stand alone in a room and fight them because "he's so epic", if the party is getting say 4-5 actions per round, and he's only getting 1, and all it takes is a failed wisdom save to render him totally incapacitated, it's probably going to end poorly for him and be vastly underwhelming from your standpoint in terms of how much effort you spent building him up vs how much effort it took to tear him down.
Such an epic character surely is the leader of some sort of organization by now. Think about who he has in his organization, and how he would deploy the resources he has at his disposal. Balancing the overall Encounter, in such a way that it's not a slaughter on one end or the other, is going to be FAR more difficult than building that one 30th level BBEG, which highlights the biggest challenge that BBEG will pose- since he's such a disproportional weight in terms of the overall challenge of any encounter with him, the combat can turn quickly against the party if they focus on the minions first, and even an experienced DM with the best intentions will have a hard time making the encounter feel challenging but fair. If that's what you want to do though, go for it. It's doable. Good luck. Oh and by the way, in case you hadn't realized, the one thing which builds across both classes is proficiency bonus, and that's not specifically spelled out, but it's +1 per 4 levels, or +9 at level 30.
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I’ve been toying around with the idea of making a level 30ish character to serve as the bad guy .... like 15 fighter /15 rogue .... concept ..... has anyone ever tried this ?
In 5e no, but in other D&D editions I've done so many times. It's certainly doable, and honestly not even that hard to balance. Just remember, final CR is not a matter of "what is their level" or "what is their hit dice", it's a matter of "what can they DO". Rogue sneak attack only applies to one action per round, and unless you give them legendary or lair actions they're still limited by their action economy (bonus action, action, move, reaction) as far as how much they can do. Figure out their to hit, expected damage per round, etc, and just calculate it like any other monster. Please don't make the mistake though of having that one BBEG stand alone in a room and fight them because "he's so epic", if the party is getting say 4-5 actions per round, and he's only getting 1, and all it takes is a failed wisdom save to render him totally incapacitated, it's probably going to end poorly for him and be vastly underwhelming from your standpoint in terms of how much effort you spent building him up vs how much effort it took to tear him down.
Such an epic character surely is the leader of some sort of organization by now. Think about who he has in his organization, and how he would deploy the resources he has at his disposal. Balancing the overall Encounter, in such a way that it's not a slaughter on one end or the other, is going to be FAR more difficult than building that one 30th level BBEG, which highlights the biggest challenge that BBEG will pose- since he's such a disproportional weight in terms of the overall challenge of any encounter with him, the combat can turn quickly against the party if they focus on the minions first, and even an experienced DM with the best intentions will have a hard time making the encounter feel challenging but fair. If that's what you want to do though, go for it. It's doable. Good luck. Oh and by the way, in case you hadn't realized, the one thing which builds across both classes is proficiency bonus, and that's not specifically spelled out, but it's +1 per 4 levels, or +9 at level 30.