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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5590466" data-attributes="member: 20323">Has the group faced a volcanic dragon yet? That might make an interesting starting place. The gold dragon dishes out the weakened condition which for your setup is kinda pointless. I like the growing heat power/aura of the volcanic dragon, because it introduces a time element; if you start with the Elder version (20 elite) the aura deals 10 and the explosion deals 3d10+4 and ongoing 10 fire (save ends)... for a solo you could even up that. Plus a brute makes more sense for condition the dragon is in, as opposed to a cunning controller. Also since conditions and forced movement will be especially useful in your encounter, I would give the dragon a couple of nasty powers...1. When it attempts to fly, it can't cause of its wounds and instead pulls all characters within 5 adjacent and knocks them prone (encounter power).2. Some way for the dragon to shake off conditions and a kid stun-lock, like when a character provokes an opportunity attack from the dragon it removes one condition (effective with the aura and pull combo)3. I've always been of the opinion the dragons should have the ability to grab with a bite or restrain with a claw, so... here are two examples of how I'd do that:Pin Down; encounter; free actionWhen the dragon hits with a claw attack it may opt to grab the target, knocking the opponent prone and restraining them. As long as the grab is maintained the target is prone and restrained. While a target is grabbed this way, the dragon can't use Doucle Attack, and if it moves or is forced to move the grab ends.Grasping Chomp encounter; free actionWhen the dragon hits with a target with a bite attack it may opt to grab them in it's maw, restraining the target, lifting them off the ground, and inflicting ongoing 5 damage until the grab is escaped (I.e. a save doesn't end the ongoing damage). When the dragon moves, the grabbed target slides to a square adjacent to the dragon of the dragons choosing. When a target is grabbed the dragon can't use bite attack or breath weapon. If 200+ damage is dealt to the dragon in one round, it drops the grabbed target.Oh and of course it'll need to toss the characters around or into zones so...Fling Like A Ragdoll; requires a grabbed target; minor actionToss the target up to 6 squares and it falls prone. Make an attack vs Reflex or Fortitude (targets choice?); on a hit the target takes damage and is dazed; on a miss half damageHave fun <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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