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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaelommiss" data-source="post: 6627303" data-attributes="member: 6775925">I think that the biggest impact on a dragon fight is the level of intelligence it uses. A half dozen level 6 PCs will destroy a young dragon in a striaght fight with minimal losses. They'd likely win against an adult dragon, though there would be more casualties. Bump up its strategy a bit. Now it'll blast the party with a breath weapon, vanish down a tunnel in its lair, and wait for it to recharge. It'll then appear at another tunnel entrance and blast them from a new direction. A young dragon doing this will be extremely dangerous. An adult will kill them without much risk. Readied spells consume slots even if not used, so spellcasters will be unable to take direct action against the dragon. Melee characters will be equally useless. The party would have an easier time fleeing in this situation.Suppose that the dragon is outside. If it flies a half mile above the party and has access to the Feather Fall spell (variant spellcasting dragon), then it can start a turn by folding its wings, falling to just above the party, cast Feather Fall on self, breath weapon everyone, then fly 80 feet away. Repeat every few minutes to waste party resources. If they split up, fly down to one, grapple, shred with multiattack, and drop. A sharpshooter in the party will stop this working entirely, but an average party would be easily defeated by a young dragon. An adult would likely be too much.Of course, that only matters if the dragon is fighting by itself. Everyone else is correct in saying that the easiest way to make the fight possible, but still hard, would be to add some additional enemies to a young dragon. Alternatively, giving a young dragon a surprise round would balance the increased party size.</blockquote>

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