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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mephistopheles" data-source="post: 1649515" data-attributes="member: 4460">If your characters are reasonably sure that it is a shadow dragon and they have some idea of what a shadow dragon is capable of I'd suggest some of the following. Use the counters for the abilities your characters know about, ignore the ones you don't know about, make sure you pack a pillow to bite on and hope for the best. Normally I'd tell you that you should also make funeral arrangements before you head off to fight it, but as Derren noted if you were able to defeat an old black dragon in your game then you might have a shot at an old shadow dragon.* Shadow Blend: Good use of daylight spells, possibly cast on the armour of your melee fighters who you expect to get within 60 feet of the dragon.* Negative level breath weapon damage: Death ward (or negative energy protection if you're playing 3.0), probably also on those with daylight on their items as they'll be closest and possibly most likely to catch the breath.* Dimension Door: Dimensional anchor. Your wizard should be able to make the ranged touch attack easily enough, there is no saving throw, and creatures don't get spell resistance against it. Should help to cut down the dragon's mobility a little and cut off some potential nasty surprise tactics it could pull on you with dimension door.* Spells: Pack a few dispel magic spells as the dragon only has a caster level of 9 so you will have decent odds of getting rid of any buffs and/or protective spells it manages to cast on itself.* Spell Resistance: Your casters will have pretty poor odds of penetrating its spell resistance so I'd probably sink all your magic into the spells listed in the above points (as suits your characters knowledge of the dragon's abilities), along with buffs and protective spells spread across the party to avoid having all your buff eggs in one basket.Good luck!</blockquote>

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