I am conducting a homebrew campaign with excessively high CR creatures, everything is custom, including creatures and classes. Anyone know how i should approach class creation for high CR bosses without sacrificing difficulty in the early game?
Well, specifically in 5E only players have classes. Monster's, Bosses, and NPC's might have some similar abilities but ultimately they just have whatever the DM needs them to have.
If you want to homebrew I would always suggest to use as much of the rules as written as possible. Baby steps are the best way to go. Give the actual game a shot and then tweak things here and there. You will find that there is plenty of room in 5e for epic adventures. Especially at 15+ levels.
If you are really insistent on having some crazy high powered adventures then maybe a different rule-set would work better? Take a look at DnD 3.5, Pathfinder or 4e. The books for those editions are still fairly easy to find and deal with epic level play. Or you can look outside of DnD at Exalted. Exalted is a game that is about as gonzo as you can get.
I am conducting a homebrew campaign with excessively high CR creatures, everything is custom, including creatures and classes. Anyone know how i should approach class creation for high CR bosses without sacrificing difficulty in the early game?
Well, specifically in 5E only players have classes. Monster's, Bosses, and NPC's might have some similar abilities but ultimately they just have whatever the DM needs them to have.
If you want to homebrew I would always suggest to use as much of the rules as written as possible. Baby steps are the best way to go. Give the actual game a shot and then tweak things here and there. You will find that there is plenty of room in 5e for epic adventures. Especially at 15+ levels.
If you are really insistent on having some crazy high powered adventures then maybe a different rule-set would work better? Take a look at DnD 3.5, Pathfinder or 4e. The books for those editions are still fairly easy to find and deal with epic level play. Or you can look outside of DnD at Exalted. Exalted is a game that is about as gonzo as you can get.
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