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<blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 419186" data-attributes="member: 743">Absorbsion from Tome and Blood might help. I don't know if it works on effect type spells either though. If it does, your dragon just got a free 6 levels it can use to cast a spell.Obscenely high touch ACs also help. These can be gained vai shield, haste, shield of faith, cat's grace, Mantle of Egregious Might, Blazing Shield, etc. Heck, give the dragon a level of monk so it gets its (presumable high) wisdom modifier to its AC. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Question: does this particular dragon have access to clerical spells, or is it arcane only like the poor green dragon? If it has access to divine spells, then it seems logical that it would choose Miracle as a 9th level spell. Miracle should be able to counter disintegrate, even if you just use it to say &quot;the next disintegrate ray targeting me will rebound on its caster&quot;.As for a more general answer to disintegrate, I agree with the &quot;give it magic items&quot; route. Most parties are loathe to destroy their loot. In my Return tot he Tomb of Horrors campaign link in the sig) the party has disintegrated or polymorphed several Moilian zombies because they are insanely difcult to kill permanently. However, if the thing seems to be carrying loot, they instead beat it down and then wail on it with a Mace of Disruption.Another good counter is Astral Projection. If you are never actually physically in a battle, being disintegrated is just a minor nuisance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James McMurray, post: 419186, member: 743"] Absorbsion from Tome and Blood might help. I don't know if it works on effect type spells either though. If it does, your dragon just got a free 6 levels it can use to cast a spell. Obscenely high touch ACs also help. These can be gained vai shield, haste, shield of faith, cat's grace, Mantle of Egregious Might, Blazing Shield, etc. Heck, give the dragon a level of monk so it gets its (presumable high) wisdom modifier to its AC. :) Question: does this particular dragon have access to clerical spells, or is it arcane only like the poor green dragon? If it has access to divine spells, then it seems logical that it would choose Miracle as a 9th level spell. Miracle should be able to counter disintegrate, even if you just use it to say "the next disintegrate ray targeting me will rebound on its caster". As for a more general answer to disintegrate, I agree with the "give it magic items" route. Most parties are loathe to destroy their loot. In my Return tot he Tomb of Horrors campaign link in the sig) the party has disintegrated or polymorphed several Moilian zombies because they are insanely difcult to kill permanently. However, if the thing seems to be carrying loot, they instead beat it down and then wail on it with a Mace of Disruption. Another good counter is Astral Projection. If you are never actually physically in a battle, being disintegrated is just a minor nuisance. [/QUOTE]

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