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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6455026" data-attributes="member: 15700">perhaps a few points of clarification.  The ceiling was high, and the dragon did fly once, but it was more of a hop because there wasn't a lot of room.  It also wasn't surprised.  It knew we were there, but was monologueing  while we moved up, and couldn't see us because it was in the back treasure room.  So the cleric fireballed it, at which point it screamed "It's on!" and flew out.  Right past me and my AoO  <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=":-)" />and we were wounded pretty bad.  I had AC 20 with 58 HP and heavy armor mastery (-3 dmg) and finished with 17 HP.  The only thing saving the cleric was his warding flare ability (impose disadvantage).to answer the earlier question, we would have a really hard time doing any medium battles afterward because we were spent.  All superiority dice gone.  Only a couple level 1 spells left. Action surge and second winds gone with all 3 fightersit did use lair actions (fog to damage and blind the archers) and legendary actions.  The only thing that kept my halfling from flying from a tail swipe was that I was already against the wall ;-)the point of ky OP wasn't to say that the rules are broken because a party of 7th level beat a CR13 creature, but to say that there were a lot of factors in our favor, stacking the deck, and to notice that a single creature of the same encounter difficulty of several low CR creatures is easier, so keep that in mind when designing encounters.  If that dragon had even 2 CR1 minions, we probably would have lost easily as we'd have to deal with them</blockquote>

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