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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavyG" data-source="post: 80517" data-attributes="member: 431">I feel the players did nothing wrong, so all the cries of 'How DARE they even think of attacking a dragon ?  Kill them all !' on this thread are way out of line.  The DM made it obvious that the goal of the adventure was to slay that particular dragon so you can't exactly blame them for trying their best to do so.Sure, they could have said 'Screw this.  I'm not attacking a dragon.' and gone home, which I feel most of the posters here would have really liked to happen, but it's not much fun for the people concerned.I think this situation is mostly the DM's fault, here, and so I wouldn't punish the players for his mistake.If he wanted the players to metagame the way you (Wolfspider) seem to suggest, he should have point blank told them, out of character and before the game, 'Guys, you won't able to take that dragon on without levelling up first so I suggest for go through all of the adventure, okay ?'Or, he could have simply had the teleport fail for mysterious reasons.Now, sure, logically, the dragon would probably go after them.  After all, it has demonstrated the ability to scry, so it can find them.  If it has teleport, logically, the PCs are screwed.  If it doesn't, well, it can probably not find them unless they happen to be somewhere it knows (i.e. near it's lair).  Either way, it's clear that the dragon will do something.  At the very least, it will arrange so it's lair is no longer accessible via teleportation and will put its minions on alert for a possible attack.  I'm all for retaliation, but most of the suggestions in this thread go way too far.  They may be realistic, but hardly fun, or fair,  for the players.</blockquote>

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