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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elephant" data-source="post: 1542684" data-attributes="member: 17431">In a recent game session, my level 8 party encountered a Young Adult Red Dragon.  Amazingly, we managed to detect him before we opened the door from a tunnel into his lair, so we had a minute to discuss our plans.  At first blanch, the group consensus was to flee (we'd already been through two battles that day, so we were low on spells), but the party fighter has an "ally of Good dragons" feature in his prestige class.  Accordingly, he did not listen to reason (even on a Diplomacy roll of 30 :/) and charged through the door as he slammed it open.  We did manage to win the battle, though our wizard was killed in the breath attack.My character is a Cleric of Tymora with a 21 Wisdom.  After counseling caution and discretion (honestly, in hindsight, the DM was being merciful - the dragon should have eaten us for breakfast), I was criticized by another player for not playing my character's role well.  He intimated that I wasn't being bold, as a follower of Tymora should be, and that I was being cowardly for not wanting to charge straight in (I had little in the way of spells left for the day - Silence was resisted, and the Bombardier Beetle I summoned didn't get to act).So, what does everyone think?  Was I right to counsel caution, seeking to avoid what I thought was a suicidal battle?  Or should I have been stupidly bold and charged in right behind the fighter?  I should note that a single Resist Energy (Fire) would have been enough to keep the wizard alive to the end of the battle.</blockquote>

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