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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8871124" data-attributes="member: 6801845">When it comes to fighting ancient dragons,  there are a lot of assumptions. In the battle of Agincourt, the English fielded 5,000 archers. Able bodied Englishmen at the time were required to have and practice with their longbow, to the point where they actually deformed their skeletons.  Since we're talking real people here not D&D NPCs, what their level would be is a bit up in the air, but I would think they would be better than your standard commoner.So, is this a surprise attack? Have people had a chance to prepare? What's the location and terrain? How common are these kind of attacks?  A small town could easily be wiped out but if a dragon continues their attacks, an army will be raised.  Throw in potential countermeasures like ballista, even ones that are designed to just bring down a dragon so they could be attacked on land.  Many things weren't invented until they were needed, we didn't have flak cannons until we had airplanes bombing cities.  There's no reason to think that people would just sit around waiting to be toasted by a dragon if dragons were a real thing.  There's no historical anti-dragon weapons in the real world because there are no dragons, but if they were real people would figure out how to fight them.  Even without level 20 PCs running around to save the day.</blockquote>