[BADD] My dragon story

[Dagger75]

so did your CR7 dragon hurt the lvl9 party enough to use up 25% of their resources? ... if it did I think you did a good job,

dice, blech! ... I'm so fed up with my 20 sider that I went and bought a new one ... we'll see how that works out this weekend.

I did more than that. The druid and the cleric ran out of almost all there spells. They were out of them after they healed the party. I also forgot to mention the party had bane vs dragons scimitar (+3 with the bane) that NEVER struck the dragon

As for snatch, my party does not know the rules and I was going to let the dragon them and drop them anyway

 

[Astragoth]

oooh nice combat... can't wait to get to a lvl that I'm capable of fighting such a monster as well......

currently my first D&D character is a 4th lvl druid.... so no dragons for me yet please..

 

[kengar]

Sounds like you did fine.

One thing I thought I'd mention is that with 3e dragons, you should probably treat them as +1-2 CR. SKR mentioned somewhere that the CR's of dragons are screwy in the MM because the assumption (never stated in any book) is that players won't just stumble across a dragon, they will "go after" one and be better prepared for it than a random encounter. Kind of a stupid assumption, IMHO, but that was apparently the thinking at WOTC.

 

[Codragon]

Right out of the SRD, a young adult white is Large, and has 142 hit points. How did yours have 210 hit points, and how could it have Snatched people of Medium size?

The 142 hit points is an average so you don't have to roll hit points for every monster. A young adult white dragon has 15d12+45 for hit dice, which means 60-225 hit points. It is perfectly rules-legal that the white had 210 hit points.


-Dagger75
I don't think you played this dragon poorly, the party lost losts of its resources and the dragon got his licks in. The poor rolling by you and the great rolling by the party also played a large part. As another poster said, perhaps you could have had the dragon fly away when it got significantly damaged and maybe returned later for an ambush. However, this type of behavior is often frustrating to PCs. TOO BAD I SAY! Self-preservation and cowardice are prominent traits of the Chaotic Evil White Dragons!!