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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 1340598" data-attributes="member: 548">(Mucho Bastion of Broken Souls spoilers!!!!!!!!!!)The dragon had a few disadvantages built in to the module that most red great wyrms wouldn't have to deal with:1.  Lack of Mobility.  Ashardalon couldn't move around much in his cramped space, and the module specified an unwillingness to move.  This is a dragon's #1 advantage vs the PC's snatched away.2.  Inigo Montaya.  There was a way to earn 4 rounds of free buffing time where the dragon would avoid attacking a particular PC, and wouldn't attack the others unless he were attacked first.  At worst, 4 rounds of buffs.  At best, the "chosen one" might be the wizard that slaps down the Nasty Spells (tm) for those 4 rounds.3.  No Treasure.  Absolutely no bad side effects for Mordenkainen's Disjunction.  The party knows he's a red, so just Disjunct and throw in all those Maximized Cones of Cold, Empowered Cones of Cold, and plain old Cones of Cold that you prepared for the occasion.4.  Half-Fiend Template.  Aside from a few ability bonuses, Ashardalon didn't get squat for that template.  IMO it was just a way to pump up his CR a couple more notches without adding any additional challenge.  Really a CR 22 encounter disguised as a CR 27 encounter.My campaign's count:  Ashardalon dead in 3 rounds, the balor dead in 1 round (pre-3e balors were weak).  The party was 20th level, which is a lot different than 17th.  They were also 3.0e, so they had access to Broken Haste and highly-stacked crit ranges (15-20 for the then-paladin that was doing the lion's share of damage).</blockquote>

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