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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6200502" data-attributes="member: 29398">Players (usually) know that.  Characters, on the other hand, might not - or might want to try it anyway.And if the players-in-character are dead-set on going after a dragon that's way too much for them, you-as-DM still have a few options:1. Put something else in their way and see if they bite on that instead - e.g. en route to the rumoured lair of the dragon you come upon an ancient ruin...or:2. They can't find (or catch up to) the dragon.  They keep hearing rumours about where it is, or was last seen, but by the time they get there it's long gone; what with flight being so much faster and more efficient than overland foot travel and all...or:3. Let them find the dragon, play out the battle, and - unless they get outrageously lucky (it happens now and then) - wipe them out.  Whereas I think I know exactly what to do at that point: play it out as one (or both) of options 1 and 3 I list above.  And while you might see this as the realm of absurdities I see it as not much more than just another night in the trenches. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lan-"a bored 1st-level party I once knew walked up to the front door of a tower known to be the home of a lich; an evening of rolling up new characters soon followed"-efan</blockquote>

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