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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 4266328" data-attributes="member: 61155">I think the monster is perfectly free to be run into any manner the DM desires. But are you honestly criticize someone who ran a session that, apparently, delivered the perfect experience to the players? Are you advocating he would have been better off having the monster spend the entire combat flying overhead, with the wizard and ranger plinking away at it while it spends round after round of doing nothing, waiting for its breath weapon to recharge?I understand your point, sure - why would a mobile monster allow itself to be cornered like this? But several reasons have been given - it is a brute, not artillery, so melee comes naturally to it. It is a dragon, hence arrogant - it enjoys going toe to toe with these puny mortals, and certainly wasn't going to spend the entire fight flying overhead. Once it had landed, any attempts to fly away would have resulted in several OAs, which was an aggravation it didn't want. I mean, no one is saying you can't run your dragons in whatever fashion you desire. But clearly the way he ran his was perfectly reasonable and perfectly successful from a gaming standpoint, and that really counts for everything.</blockquote>