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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nogray" data-source="post: 5853317" data-attributes="member: 28028">Not "missed," but rather intentionally changedAll of the "cataclysmic" dragons lack resistances and immunities, and instead mess with characters if they are hit with specific types of attacks. The purpose of this design choice was explained at the time as making the creatures more interesting instead of just taking longer to kill. I think the idea is that you still might want to avoid using cold attacks against the blizzard dragon, but not basing this on something that slowed down the fight (as resistances do), but rather on inflicting complications on the party if they use cold attacks when fighting a blizzard dragon.The volcanic dragon, as another example, causes everyone in its aura to take fire damage if it is hit with a fire attack. The blizzard dragon slides everyone in its aura two squares if it is hit with a cold attack. Having recently run a couple encounters with blizzard dragons, I can say that the sliding effect when it was hit with cold powers let the dragon set up its allies with flanking and get itself out of flanks more easily.</blockquote>