dave2008
Legend
Responding to a couple of points:
The Ancient Red's breath weapon does about 30% more fire damage than the Meteor Swarm--seems clear that it is actually hotter than a Meteor Swarm. Unless you're planning on the ancient red actually vomiting out stones onto the party for extra damage, it doesn't seem right to count the bludgeoning damage when trying to find an analogy for how hot the dragon breath is.
True, but I was looking at purely damage. From my perspective on this topic it doesn't matter what type. I thought we just discussing monster damage relative to PC damage.
Then you probably want to remove Dragon Sorcerer from your campaign as a class. If dragons aren't magical spellcasters, then why would having a dragon ancestor make you a magical spellcaster?
Well, not me (I like spell casting dragons), but I get your point. That would make sense thematically.
You too!Good gaming to you too Dave!