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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henrix" data-source="post: 6394293" data-attributes="member: 3587">You're aware that we are talking about the difference between flavours of D&D, not between reality and D&D?Anyway, as I said, the differences are small, on the whole.The story is that big honking dragons swoop down on the poor villagers who desperately try to organise defences, because, hey, it's better than not trying - and they probably have some sort of militia anyhow.The odds of them dying is ridiculously high no matter what flavour of D&D you play. In their best case scenario they just have to get off some hundred arrows when the dragon is at a reasonable distance (150' if they have longbows) and probably swooping down at them, killing them automatically with it's breath.The only ting they know about the odds is that it's pretty darned slim. In other words, don't sweat it.Go check out some of the Forgotten Realms novels and see if you can spot the difference between AD&D and 3e*. (Or, even better, between the 3e era books and the 5e books. Things have changed in the world, back and forth, but the descriptions of how the world works is the same.)* But skip the 4e era books. The world changed dramatically there, and magic worked very differently. And it is hardly relevant when comparing 5e and PF.</blockquote>