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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1328037" data-attributes="member: 5171">Chiming in a bit late, but I'd be fine with my party wanting to go back and kill the monster, but not fine with them using OOC knowledge about Shadow Dragons to max out their tactics.  If they made their good Knowledge:Arcane checks, cool. If they paid a sage to give them a lot of information about Shadow Dragons, cool.  If they went back and scouted more and watched what it did to an intruder, cool.But if they are just going, "Huh, shadow dragon, drains energy levels and does this with its breath weapon", and did not verify any of that information in-character, I would have no problem at all changing things.That said, there's always the possibility that the dragon put up a ward around its lair.  Maybe it hired an evil cleric to slap up an Unhallow on there with a targetted Dispel Magic on any non-Shadow-worshipping person who enters the chamber.  That's not you reacting to the players by specifically having it prepare "This Party"-killing traps.  That's just you playing the monster smart.Failing that, Unhallow with Silence was a veritable party-killer back in 3.0, although I don't know if it's been altered for 3.5.  Watching the party wizard and cleric try to regroup and replan while the monsters unloaded their biggest, nastiest spells was always fun.</blockquote>