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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8135219" data-attributes="member: 6801845">If I do solo BBEGs I set it up so they have a chance of winning.  Restrain PCs, hit multiple with a single attack, focus on neutralizing PCs temporarily somehow.  Add in ways to get away and hide, split the party and so on.  So that dragon is going to use the environment to their advantage and wait until the group can't see far because of buildings, trees or cliffs then do fly-by attacks and take it's time.  The monstrous aberration is going to hide in the magical darkness or fog and grapple/drag an individual PC.  I don't do it very often, but if a BBEG is doing a sitting in an open space with nowhere to hide or retreat then it needs to be a tank, probably with lair actions and the willingness to just plow through people like a Fire Giant Dreadnought.  I think too often people just have the dragon fly down and land trying to go toe-to-toe letting all the PCs focus fire without any hindrance, or even much threat to anyone but a front line fighter or two.  Then DMs wonder why they die so easily.  The biggest difficulty for me is how to keep these fights tense and interesting without turning into slogs, so I'd rather have the BBEG with minions.</blockquote>