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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NNCSavage" data-source="post: 6203083" data-attributes="member: 6682577">Figured I should check back in after the encounter.First thing i did was change the NADs (most had a +9 to attack those and I wanted a 10 to hit) so: Fort 19; Reflex 20; Will 18The group searched but since they had fought in the previous area, the dragon-lich made a perception check to notice them and hid.The knight searched so I ran an opposed perception/stealth check and the dragon-lich won by one.First round the melee focused group mostly moaned about the ranged, but the druid charged ahead smartly using fire hawk but missing.the dragon threw down 2 patches, one hit the knight and he was knocked prone.he was first up in the 2nd round so I said as he got up that the central pillar from the Icy Snort shatters and a few pieces look about the size and shape of spears (not so subtle hint).The knight thought this was great and wanted to use them, but barbarian brought up that improvised attacks were weak.I flat out told them that the spears were not your standard improvised attack, otherwise I was afraid they would miss out on them.The blackguard has saved 3 alchemist fire from a previous encounter and used them, first was a crit which helped.The druid rolled 19 twice on fire hawk just missing - that would have made this significantly shorter.The first round dragged a bit (as expected) but at 0 hp the fun happens.I was able to catch 4 of the 5 in the breath but rolled horrendous. highest d20 was a 6 on the cleric which ended up being a hit.I rolled 23 dmg and said that if it missed they still took half damage.2nd round initiative for the dragon-lich was good on the re-roll.Was able to tail drag the barbarian to get the solo attack boost and hit with both on the double attackHad another later on where I rolled 16 and 17 for damage on the knight.the blackguard hit, doing 29 damage and bloodied this form so he action pointed and crit doing another 30 some leaving about 17hp left.the dragon-lich went after the blackguard and did some damage but shortly was brought to 0, 2nd breath time!I was able to catch 4 of them again (not surprised with 4 melee and the semi-ranged druid) but they were low and I took it easyAlthough the knight has used his "-5 to attack all but me power" defend the line maybe?I managed to hit all 4, but I dropped the dmg to 2d6+5 otherwise it might have taken out 2 or 3 and I was afraid that was a bit rough.I did get in a couple retaliations on the druid for the ranged attacks, but nothing big.on 3rd form i had bad luck on initiative re-roll, 4 of the 5 got to go before the dragon-lich got a turnand paid for it - they dealt 90+ or so damage. I got in one flank attack.the dragon-lich flew around to drop it's 3rd breath weapon, think i was able to catch 3 this time, and provoke 2 OAsdragon-lich was at 21hp but I was going to leave it alive to at least breathe once, but both missed.the breath hit big, taking out the knight and the blackguard and left the cleric at 4hp, barbarian was next in order and in retrospect I might have been better served leaving her in the blast.the barbarian hit for 15 but then took a big double attack and she was in single digit hp.the cleric healed the barbarian up, one made death save, a nat 1 on a death save for the knight.The druid was able to finish off with a 8point fire hawk.I completely forgot about the action points and draconic fury in the 3rd stage which might have turned the tide.But I think the balance was pretty good even though I did some on the fly updates to help it both ways.The breath gives a good way to tune the dmg output. first round output was low so i let it hit at full.2nd was starting to hurt so i tuned it down. 3rd was latch ditch effort so I let it go.Players said they loved the fight and they actually thought this was the "baby" and that mama was going to come down.Especially after it was "bloodied" at 65hp. "That's seems early for bloodied, I dread what is coming next"</blockquote>

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