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<blockquote data-quote="Xorn" data-source="post: 4266448" data-attributes="member: 61231"><p>As stated, the fighter started off the fight by hobbling it before it could take off. The dragon breathed on him and stunned everything on her turn, but could not flee from the fighter before he recovered. She tried to take off the next round, and suffered a horrendous OA (he's swinging around a maul), and got herself re-immobilized.</p><p></p><p>Then she landed two claws and a bite, and sitting behind my DM screen I thought to myself, "Self, this solo <em>brute</em> is trapped by this fighter preventing her from taking off, her breath weapon hasn't recharged, and in one round she inflicted 2/3 of his health in damage.</p><p></p><p>I decided the next round she'd just wail on him. The warlord healed him (and he second winded) and the next round the dragon tagged him again--and she still couldn't take off, or even shift, without getting whopped upside the head with that dwarf's maul again.</p><p></p><p>If a fighter is adjacent to you, and has you marked, your options get--limited. So it was kill or be killed, and unfortunately for my glorious dragon, it was the latter. I almost dropped them though--one more round and there would have been casualties.</p><p></p><p>These are the same players that developed a nice tactic of the rogue intentionally provoking OAs from things the fighter has marked. I actually declined to take the OA twice, as I was faced with needing to hit the halfing's 21 AC vs OAs (and he has second chance) which would give the dwarf a free swing. As the rogue was uninjured, he was GOING to get combat advantage and sneak attack, whether the OA hits or misses. But if I make the OA, then the dwarf is going to crack him in the skull, too.</p><p></p><p>My players have fought the young black dragon with pregens three times, and now fought a young white dragon with their actual characters. They've really gotten some good strategies developed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xorn, post: 4266448, member: 61231"] As stated, the fighter started off the fight by hobbling it before it could take off. The dragon breathed on him and stunned everything on her turn, but could not flee from the fighter before he recovered. She tried to take off the next round, and suffered a horrendous OA (he's swinging around a maul), and got herself re-immobilized. Then she landed two claws and a bite, and sitting behind my DM screen I thought to myself, "Self, this solo [i]brute[/i] is trapped by this fighter preventing her from taking off, her breath weapon hasn't recharged, and in one round she inflicted 2/3 of his health in damage. I decided the next round she'd just wail on him. The warlord healed him (and he second winded) and the next round the dragon tagged him again--and she still couldn't take off, or even shift, without getting whopped upside the head with that dwarf's maul again. If a fighter is adjacent to you, and has you marked, your options get--limited. So it was kill or be killed, and unfortunately for my glorious dragon, it was the latter. I almost dropped them though--one more round and there would have been casualties. These are the same players that developed a nice tactic of the rogue intentionally provoking OAs from things the fighter has marked. I actually declined to take the OA twice, as I was faced with needing to hit the halfing's 21 AC vs OAs (and he has second chance) which would give the dwarf a free swing. As the rogue was uninjured, he was GOING to get combat advantage and sneak attack, whether the OA hits or misses. But if I make the OA, then the dwarf is going to crack him in the skull, too. My players have fought the young black dragon with pregens three times, and now fought a young white dragon with their actual characters. They've really gotten some good strategies developed. [/QUOTE]
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