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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seaver" data-source="post: 91909" data-attributes="member: 3200">Thanks.  Sure, go right ahead.  I just remembered the other dragon encounter our group has had, although I wasn't there that night so my knowledge is second hand.In that encounter the players were warned by the DM that it would be a bad idea to mess with the dragon without their cleric, but did they listen?The thing is in that campaign (which we may be restarting soon <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />) the world exists, while we just play in it.   The rest of the players found out that there was a big dragon there and got money hungry.  The dragon was there whether we were ready to tackle it or not.  Apparently they weren't.  The group (Ftr 16, Rng 15, Rog 16, Wiz 17) went in, but not all made it out alive. Essentially what happened was that they tripped an alarm spell near the enterance to it's lair alerting the big green to their presence.  The creature immediately scried the area of the alarm and noticed the rogue, ranger, and fighter.  The wizard was outside of the scried area (and hence did't get to notice the scrying...this was completely coincidental.) This area by the way, was a corridor that was to the dragon as a 5 foot corridor would be to a size medium creature.The dragon responded to the intruders by teleporting in right behind all, except the wizard who was hanging back and now was facing the back side of something big, mean, green, and scaley.  (Yes I know there is no facing, but you have to set the scene and I'm sure you get the point.)Regardless  they were all surprised by the dragon's sudden appearance and it used the opportunity to, as my DM said yesterday, "Rip the fighter up one side and down the other."The wizard, seeing such a large target, unloaded his nastiest spells doing a very significant amount of damage (he was most definately a combat wizard.)  The dragon now realizing that it was surrounded and dealing with more than it initially thought teleported back to it's lair to heal (via items,) arm itself further with some additional items, and quickly reassess the situation.When it came back a few rounds later fully healed (the party didn't leave because the fighter and rogue were arguing for the dragon horde) it concentrated immediately on the wizard and shredded him in to little wizard bits.The group finally realized that they needed to leave NOW and the rogue remembered that an item the now dead wizard had in his possession allowed teleportation, which the rogue would hopefully be able to activate through Use Magic Device.  The fighter goaded the dragon into using up it's attack of opportunity so that the rogue could tumble under the dragon in relative safety to get to the wizard and the hopefully life saving item.  Imagine the rogue's surprise when the dragon took yet another AoO dealing a hefty amount of damage. What they didn't realize was that this particular dragon had the Combat Reflexes Feat and an item which gave it a +6 to it's Dexterity.  The DM told me that I inspired this idea due to my previous uses of Heal and Harm on the Dracolich and White Great Wyrm respectively.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />When all was said and done the rogue did get the item and the wizard's corpse while the ranger and fighter kept the dragon's attention, although the fighter did die in the effort as well.  The rogue did successfully activate the item (barely) and the party did escape...either alive or as a corpse drug along for the ride.   What happened to the dragon?  Well I assume it's now taking measures to deal with certain adventurers that know the location of it's lair, shoring up it's defenses, and adding two more scratch marks on the wall.</blockquote>

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