As campaigns attain mid to excessive ranges, characters come into their very own. An enormous array of uncommon and legendary magic gadgets await treasure hunters. Spellcasters acquire entry to diverse and highly effective spells. High-level class talents provide game-breaking powers.

On the opposite hand, at excessive ranges, recreation masters discover themselves with dwindling sources. There are fewer revealed adventures, monsters, and traps appropriate for difficult high-level gamers.

While designing Dungeon Delver’s Guide (on Kickstarter now) I wished to be sure that we supplied instruments for operating higher-level dungeon adventures. Typically, GM sources begin to skinny out round degree 10 or so and change into fairly sparse by degree 20. Dungeons, nevertheless, ought to march steadily down into the earth, turning into extra harmful, terrifying, and unfamiliar as you descend. You can’t change into too highly effective for dungeon adventures: there’s all the time a deeper dungeon degree to plumb and an even bigger problem to be confronted.

What does a high-powered dungeon journey even seem like? In Dungeon Delver’s Guide, We’ve obtained plenty of recommendation on find out how to take care of adventure-altering character talents like teleportation, planar journey, and divination. Besides that, in our random dungeon generator we provide pattern encounter teams for each degree, starting from pace bumps to adventure-defining confrontations. Need a minor random encounter for sixteenth degree characters? We’ve obtained round 50 such encounter teams, together with acceptable minor treasure. Need a degree boss to be the capstone of your Twentieth-level dungeon delve? We’ve obtained round 25 to select from, every with a particular piece of terrain or different rule to make it distinctive—plus forty Twentieth-level treasure hoards to behave as rewards. Using the random generator, you would play by a half dozen dungeon-centric campaigns from degree 1 to twenty, and by no means repeat a fight encounter, treasure, or room description.

If you’d like some construction to your high-level adventuring, you’ll be able to hit our premade three-level dungeons. We’ve obtained three adventures of degree 10 or larger, with Maze of the Mountain King our highest at degree 18. And our Underland locale is particularly designed for characters of at the very least eighth degree, and is populated with fight challenges for adventurers as much as degree 20.

Traps are an integral a part of dungeons! When constructing high-level dungeons, GMs can typically really feel stymied by a shortage of revealed traps. To fill that area of interest, we’ve obtained twenty-five traps or entice variants of CR 11 or larger; a number of them are elite traps appropriate to be used as memorable set-piece encounters. For occasion, elite traps from CR 18 to twenty embrace chaos crystals, the necromantic bridge, the balor entice, the obsidian vine entice, and the floating sphere of annihilation.

Finally, you’ll be able to’t outmatch highly effective gamers with out highly effective monsters! Here’s our tackle Cerberus, the three-headed guard canine of the underworld. The cerberus guardian, a assemble of bronze, iron, and stone, can function a sentinel for liches, princes of Hell, and anybody else highly effective sufficient to assemble it. It’s a CR 23 monster. According to Level Up encounter tips, that makes it an acceptable encounter for adventurers of at the very least sixteenth degree.