To be fair, starting at around level 13 it becomes more challenging to, well, challenge a party without having dragons and shit everywhere. You can almost not build encounters with "normal" enemies anymore.

I mean this meme is built for strawmen that’s what it is

> And isn’t there The Tarasque who is basically a you fucking loose statblock Mostly. They really bungled it in the 2014 statblock. Other editions gave it some combination of ranged attacks, regeneration, a way to cancel flight, and a burrow speed. In 2014, it had none of these. A level 5 Wizard could borrow a Repeating heavy crossbow from an Artificer, repeatedly cast Phantom Steed to stay out of its range, and take it down on its own. Or instead of a wizard, use an Aarakocra from Elemental Evil Player's Companion with 2 levels in Rogue (so it can learn Cunning Action), and it will be able to fly faster than the Tarrasque. Unless you use Chase rules. In 2024, they have a ranged attack and a burrow speed, and they're significantly faster. It's hard to just attack from a safe distance and they can always just head underground. But if you can get 150 feet in the air, you're at an impasse where neither can hurt the other. And a high-level party has a lot of crazy tools at their disposal. The problem isn't enemies that are too hard or too easy. The problem is the GM not knowing ahead of time which it will be.

I like his weakness Also shouldn't his sire be Lilith?

"Have you seen Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?"

Caine congratulates you on making him laugh before killing you.

I feel like this is one of those "make sure people are on the same page before you start running the rpg". I've had players react very badly to their characters being maimed and stuff (a fairly normal Dark Heresy event), but I've also had some players want a severe tacticool experience. And some people want cozy vibes with some dice rolling. D&D does suffer from a lot of system/setting baggage as well as the expectation that the system works as well from level 1 to 20+. I want to play shadowrun again, for all its flaws

Heroic fantasy vs dark gritty fantasy. Give me heroic fantasy every time.

D&D 3.5 characters can scale pretty high

No one actually plays dnd like that though...

A wizard did it.

And brother, I brought matches.

Yep had a player like that. Would also be upset if he couldn't do literally anything he wanted.

This is Pathfinder, kiddo, we don't play around with silly D&D handwaves: Which wizard, and why?

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always TPK.

You say that, but IIRC there are official DnD statements that gods do not have statblocks because they are too powerful for mortals to even try to fight.

Things I have learned in 4 decades of DMing: 1) There is no encounter that cannot be cheesed by creative players 2) Same creative players will also party wipe by doing stupid things like trying to run on lava It's basically impossible to accurately scale encounters beyond astrology and good wishes. I've seen a party of 6th levels get wiped by seven starving goblins in a tower.

Old. Funny but repeated too often. I don't like DnD but even if they once gave stats to Cthulhu, I wouldn't name a game to be better. Why one? On which criteria? Also: I like World of Darkness. I have Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Changelin, and many add ons. But let's be honest (and troll a bit): Vampire the Masquerade is just a simulation of puberty. The system, when it was released, was awesome but it is way to crunchy for today's standards. If one should bash DnD, then do it with style with modern games: Blades in the Dark, Fate, Dungeon World, Ironsworn,... whatever from this century.

Not on a Superman or Wonder Woman level but I think you could make a strong argument that Wish fixes (or breaks) everything by itself.

My character that got most close to broken was a Master Of Many Forms druid, though I was playing with a group with two well skilled min-maxers who were ridiculous from the outset at level 3 Wish can't make you great, it can't do much more than the equivalent of about half a level, you need a broken character design from the start Of course there's also support for epic level progression taking you beyond level 20. A druid at level 20 could face an army and win