Best way to kill a dragon?

[Jeremy]

Actually, I'm forgetting your biggest advantage, apparently you are in good with Mystra.

So here's what you do, you hit the ground praying, you think up the most painful sacrifice of money, time, effort, magic, and experience and you double it and offer that as payment as you request one of her Planetar's aid you. Use a Planar Binding spell to get the celestial to you. Tell the Planetar with every ounce of humility you've got what's going on and ask it to gate in a Solar to aid it in helping you. If Mystra's on your side, then the Planetar (who is a 17th level cleric minimum) will be able to cast gate and now you've at least got a shot.

 

[Conaill]

Sneak attacks:

- People, remember he's an Arcane Trickster 7, and thus gets 2/day Impromptu sneak attacks, i.e. he can just declare it's a sneak attack, and he gets one!

- Sneak attack damage for a Rog3/Atr7 is only 5d6, NOT 7d6. The "Sneak attack +3d6" at 2nd level Arcane Trickster is a mistake, you get one extra d6 at every even level (check the Official D&D Game Rule FAQ).

 

[Henry]

ok people, thanks for the advice and all. but the only thing I am asking for is good combo's for spells. My character is in an enraged state oover the loss of a companion, and is blindly going into battle. His only purpose on this world is to fly up and slay the beast. No reasoning will change his purpose.

With that said, I ask again. What are some really good tactical spells I could use?

You are an arcane trickster, going alone against an ancient wyrm. To quote Austin Powers, "Fook Yu, meet Fook Mi."

That said, your best hope are sneak attacked ray spells, and spells that are effectively "save or die." And most importantly, NOT GETTING ANYWHERE near his melee or breath range. Your character has no chance unless the dragon is run by the DM like a dinosaur. Your protection from fire spell will likely go away after one or at most two breaths, and that's being generous.

 

[Jeremy]

You could always teleport in and kick him in the junk and call it even.

 

[Nvvyn]

Due to a magic item, I have evasion and improved evasion which will help, i'll never take more than half dmg from breath weapons. and I do have the 2 impromtu sneak attacks, forgot about those. and our game supports the 7d6 sneak attack as a house rule. so i get 7d6 sneak attack ty

 

[javadragon]

Well at least your DM tried...

It's always nice to see a DM try to avoid a TPK. In this case I have to imagine he decided to have to red dragon go grieve for a time.

However, since you've decided to follow her I'm pretty sure she'll come back and annihilate the party after she finishes you. I think the biggest thing everyone here forgot to tell you is that facing a dragon in it's own home (you think it's in it's lair right?) raises it's CR by quite a bit. A dragon that old probably has a doormat that can finish you off. Home is where the magic horde is. An ancient red has enough traps to protect the horde to destroy a 15th level character even when it's not home.

I can’t see the DM even coming up with a probable way to let you off the hook here.

Don’t forget that you just killed her mate; she is as pissed as you are. It might best to attack now though. Since she isn’t rational she might kill you quickly, which is much better than the alternative. If you run away now, you’ll spend an eternity in hell when she catches you.

 

[Nvvyn]

Can mordenkainen's Faithful Hound be used to flank the dragon while I sneak attack the dragon? Keep in mind I have improved invis. The hound is invisible, the hound cannot be attack in anyway, only dispelled. And the hound would last 12 rounds.

 

[ForceUser]

Can mordenkainen's Faithful Hound be used to flank the dragon while I sneak attack the dragon? Keep in mind I have improved invis. The hound is invisible, the hound cannot be attack in anyway, only dispelled. And the hound would last 12 rounds.

Dude! How many times do we have to tell you? Dragons have BLINDSIGHT. Blindsight circumvents all visual illusions - including invisibility!! Invisibility - mirror image - blur - displacement...all useless verses a dragon!

 

[Nvvyn]

ok, not too familiar with blindsight, but now that your first priority(proving me wrong) is complete, can you actually answer the question that I asked? it would be VERY much appreciated. I'll even re-state it for you. Can mordenkainen's faithful hound effectively be used to allow me to flank the dragon?

 

[javadragon]

Best strategy...

Is to kill it in one surprise round, otherwise I imagine you'll be dead in one round from Harm, or slay living.

Don't forget that anything you summon will just be enclosed in a wall of force. Also don't forget that the dragon will have things like golems in it's lair to help guard the lair so what ever you summon will have to deal with those as well.

And the thing that will be the final death blow for you in this endeavour will be dispel magic's and antimagic fields. A 12th level wizard will never win a mage duel with an ancient red. The idea is to have a party that can keep it too busy to just counter everything you try. And even if it wanted to play the mage duel game don't forget it has every spell that you do and then some more. Oh and it also has all of it's clerical spells, so it'll just keep on healing and healing.

I think the best strategy available is to have your character suddenly realize that throwing his life away in no way serves his dead lover. Then have him go back and help the party run for the hills.

They are going to have to find away to hide themselves from this thing until they can up in levels enough to deal with it. Oh and don't forget to hid all of the people that you care about because after killing the dragons lover you can be sure it will annihilate anything you guys have every cared about in this world.