-
NOW LIVE! Into the Woods--new character species, eerie monsters, and haunting villains to populate the woodlands of your D&D games.
Dragons are kinda boring...
- Thread starter Reynard
- Start date
(Psi)SeveredHead
Adventurer
Derren said:
Red dragons can blow off your fire resistance with their breath weapon.
Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
How common is any kind of resistance in the first place? I seem to remember a power that generates Resist all 10 (?) until the end your next turn, and that Warlocks have level based fire resistance. But what else is there?(Psi)SeveredHead said:
Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
Oops... off course i meantRechan said:
Thanks.Derren said:
There seem to be more lasting kind of resistances then I expected initially. (But I don't know yet how common they will become in actual play...)
How much do Dragons rely on dealing energy damage?
Mustrum_Ridcully said:
That would be good to know, thats why I have asked for a example dragon statblock.
But if the Pit Fiend is any indication then resistances will reduce the damage by a large amount.
Fire resistance 15 already reduces the damage a Pit Fiend can do by about 50% and the damage a PF can do against a equal level Tiefling with an Amulet of Health is only a shadow of its former damage output.
Fallen Seraph
First Post
Well, for one example the Red Dragon has:
5 Abilities not based on Fire (though Bite does gain a additional fire damage bonus) out of 8 (one is simply the Bloodied, free Breath Attack).
So, I'd say it still has some fair options available, even if the party was immune to fire for example.
5 Abilities not based on Fire (though Bite does gain a additional fire damage bonus) out of 8 (one is simply the Bloodied, free Breath Attack).
So, I'd say it still has some fair options available, even if the party was immune to fire for example.
Xorn
First Post
My players fought a young white dragon Sunday. To quote the fighter during our wrap-up, "Everything the whole adventure felt... heroic."
The dragon fight was pretty spectacular--the dwarf tried to leap across a frozen pool, didn't jump far enough, and almost fell as he slid to solid ground. Miraculously he managed to keep his footing, ran around a natural stone pillar and blew his action point to hit the dragon with a hobbling encounter power. The rogue took up a position using a corner for cover and used his hand crossbow, while the range got out to extreme range behind a corner and started using Twin Strike to devastating effect. The warlord leapt over the same icy lake at the narrow end and charged the dragon.
Immediately, the dragon breathed frost over the dwarf (marked by him, and I really needed to get him off of her), the blew an action point and used Frightful Presence, stunning the dwarf and rogue. Over the next turn she proceeded to claw the crap out of the warlord (landing two claws, allowing a free bit attack) then lay back into the fighter. Pretty soon though, she was flanked and marked by the fighter, flanked by the warlord and rogue, and taking damage rapidly--by bloodied she was literally in a frenzy, ignoring everything but the fighter (as her tactics indicated she would fight). In the end the warlord was out of heals, everyone had blown their action point and dailies, and everyone (except the ranger) was ready to drop if they were hit one more time. It was brutal. The rogue finally finished the dragon off with a sneak attack, though the ranger scored a crit on her previous round, almost stealing the glory.
I think it would have been hard for this fight to be cooler, honestly.
The dragon fight was pretty spectacular--the dwarf tried to leap across a frozen pool, didn't jump far enough, and almost fell as he slid to solid ground. Miraculously he managed to keep his footing, ran around a natural stone pillar and blew his action point to hit the dragon with a hobbling encounter power. The rogue took up a position using a corner for cover and used his hand crossbow, while the range got out to extreme range behind a corner and started using Twin Strike to devastating effect. The warlord leapt over the same icy lake at the narrow end and charged the dragon.
Immediately, the dragon breathed frost over the dwarf (marked by him, and I really needed to get him off of her), the blew an action point and used Frightful Presence, stunning the dwarf and rogue. Over the next turn she proceeded to claw the crap out of the warlord (landing two claws, allowing a free bit attack) then lay back into the fighter. Pretty soon though, she was flanked and marked by the fighter, flanked by the warlord and rogue, and taking damage rapidly--by bloodied she was literally in a frenzy, ignoring everything but the fighter (as her tactics indicated she would fight). In the end the warlord was out of heals, everyone had blown their action point and dailies, and everyone (except the ranger) was ready to drop if they were hit one more time. It was brutal. The rogue finally finished the dragon off with a sneak attack, though the ranger scored a crit on her previous round, almost stealing the glory.
I think it would have been hard for this fight to be cooler, honestly.
Similar Threads
