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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 6636759" data-attributes="member: 53980">If the DM is being unmerciful, you might have to spend your first action making a Perception check to find a valuable item. Then you have 5 more move actions (or more, if you're a rogue or have other movement boosting capabilities) to grab the treasure and leave. That's 150' movement for Joe Average and 240' for a rogue or buffed character. Heck, 2 Dimension Door spells will get you anywhere you want to go and back again, before the average breath time is up.Having a dragon strafe is smart. Having a dragon strafe with its breath weapon and then just fly around waiting to recharge is boring and not a smart tactic at all except under very specialized circumstances. Presumably, the dragon doesn't know the party's capabilities. Therefore, it doesn't know how strong they are at range. And the recharge is RANDOM. On average it will recharge every 3 rounds, but in a particular combat it might be 10 rounds (if the DMs luck is poor). I've had that sort of thing happen to me while DMing creatures that have recharge abilities. If the DM wants to play the waiting game with me, then you better believe I'll be using that time to my advantage. Probably by demonstrating to the dragon what a poor idea it is. Even if I can't reach the treasure, I can probably Shatter it. I've heard many complain that money is useless in D&amp;D. It's pretty useful for making a dragon angry!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 6636759, member: 53980"] If the DM is being unmerciful, you might have to spend your first action making a Perception check to find a valuable item. Then you have 5 more move actions (or more, if you're a rogue or have other movement boosting capabilities) to grab the treasure and leave. That's 150' movement for Joe Average and 240' for a rogue or buffed character. Heck, 2 Dimension Door spells will get you anywhere you want to go and back again, before the average breath time is up. Having a dragon strafe is smart. Having a dragon strafe with its breath weapon and then just fly around waiting to recharge is boring and not a smart tactic at all except under very specialized circumstances. Presumably, the dragon doesn't know the party's capabilities. Therefore, it doesn't know how strong they are at range. And the recharge is RANDOM. On average it will recharge every 3 rounds, but in a particular combat it might be 10 rounds (if the DMs luck is poor). I've had that sort of thing happen to me while DMing creatures that have recharge abilities. If the DM wants to play the waiting game with me, then you better believe I'll be using that time to my advantage. Probably by demonstrating to the dragon what a poor idea it is. Even if I can't reach the treasure, I can probably Shatter it. I've heard many complain that money is useless in D&D. It's pretty useful for making a dragon angry! [/QUOTE]

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