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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bgbarcus" data-source="post: 6629227" data-attributes="member: 6784891">I agree with the other people who are disappointed with dragons that are not scary enough.  In my game, an ancient dragon on home turf should be enough to make 20th level characters worry.The freefall, breath, fly away tactic can be very effective.  Feather Fall shouldn't be needed as the dragon can (at least my dragons can) break their fall with their wings by turning the freefall into a swoop.  Fire the breath weapon at the same time as opening the wings.  I would give the dragon advantage on saves for any spell attacks coming at him while he's free falling and give ranged weapon attacks disadvantage to hit him at that speed.  Since I also boosted all my adult and ancient dragon armor classes by 5 this makes them pretty hard to hit.  After that attack the dragon could climb and return for a second swoop attack while invisible making the same tactic good for at least two rounds.After that the dragon can assess whether it is worth attacking again based on how well the party handled those first two breaths.  It might have been enough for the dragon to let its minions move in and finish the party.If the dragon has access to boulders, it can pick up four and return to drop them from the air.  Hitting a man sized target like that isn't easy but the damage would be at least equal to a stone giant's thrown rock.</blockquote>