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<blockquote data-quote="Mesh Hong" data-source="post: 4880746" data-attributes="member: 73463">A long time ago I ran an encounter with 2 black dragons, one at level 10 (standard) and one at level 8 (non standard - didn't have cloud of darkness power). My level 10 group made mincemeat of both of them (even level solos being a completely different discussion I know)&nbsp;As I say it was a long time ago but I seem to remember that they let it play hide and seek for a while, readying actions to pagger it whenever it stuck its head out of the cloud then when it was bloodied (which wasn't that long) they showed it who's boss. Basically the Warlock was able to use Howl of Doom to push the dragon out of its darkness and the rogue was able to use Positioning Strike to move it away from the darkness, then the paladin used Crown of glory to effectively lock it down by slowing it.&nbsp;A bloodied, slowed and surrounded black dragon hasn't really got that much to gain by spending its standard action activating its cloud of darkness, it would be much more interested in desperately trying to take any of its murderers with it to the grave.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mesh Hong, post: 4880746, member: 73463"] A long time ago I ran an encounter with 2 black dragons, one at level 10 (standard) and one at level 8 (non standard - didn't have cloud of darkness power). My level 10 group made mincemeat of both of them (even level solos being a completely different discussion I know) As I say it was a long time ago but I seem to remember that they let it play hide and seek for a while, readying actions to pagger it whenever it stuck its head out of the cloud then when it was bloodied (which wasn't that long) they showed it who's boss. Basically the Warlock was able to use Howl of Doom to push the dragon out of its darkness and the rogue was able to use Positioning Strike to move it away from the darkness, then the paladin used Crown of glory to effectively lock it down by slowing it. A bloodied, slowed and surrounded black dragon hasn't [I]really[/I] got that much to gain by spending its standard action activating its cloud of darkness, it would be much more interested in desperately trying to take any of its murderers with it to the grave. [/QUOTE]

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