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<blockquote data-quote="Persiflage" data-source="post: 5268880" data-attributes="member: 73597"><p>You're all going to die, unless your DM plays this dragon like a total twit. Dragon CR's are out of whack anyway, and it's never more true than at the lower end of the level range.</p><p></p><p>Rampant pessimism aside, you either need to develop a good ranged capability <em>fast</em>, or you need to get this thing to join you on the ground by finding cover it can't burn through with its acid.</p><p></p><p>If you had time to prepare and acquire new spells, you might try the following: buff (<em>Protection From Energy</em> (acid) and/or <em>Resist Energy</em> (acid) would seem like good places to start), get the dragon on the ground by retreating to the cover of trees, cast <em>Entangle</em> (assuming you've got high enough Wisdom for a single bonus spell), hit it from range until it gets free, then melee and hope like hell. </p><p></p><p>The Cleric will hopefully have <em>Spiritual Weapon</em>, making the above significantly easier. If you can get the tactical positioning right, you can slow the dragon down for two rounds' worth of ranged-attacking mayhem even if it makes two successive DC20 Strength checks (very unlikely, but hey). Chuck flasks of alchemists' fire: the range penalties will suck, but the dragon's touch AC whilst <em>entangled</em> is only 8.</p><p></p><p>Oh yeah, and don't stand in a line.</p><p></p><p>Good luck <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Persiflage, post: 5268880, member: 73597"] You're all going to die, unless your DM plays this dragon like a total twit. Dragon CR's are out of whack anyway, and it's never more true than at the lower end of the level range. Rampant pessimism aside, you either need to develop a good ranged capability [I]fast[/I], or you need to get this thing to join you on the ground by finding cover it can't burn through with its acid. If you had time to prepare and acquire new spells, you might try the following: buff ([I]Protection From Energy[/I] (acid) and/or [I]Resist Energy[/I] (acid) would seem like good places to start), get the dragon on the ground by retreating to the cover of trees, cast [I]Entangle[/I] (assuming you've got high enough Wisdom for a single bonus spell), hit it from range until it gets free, then melee and hope like hell. The Cleric will hopefully have [I]Spiritual Weapon[/I], making the above significantly easier. If you can get the tactical positioning right, you can slow the dragon down for two rounds' worth of ranged-attacking mayhem even if it makes two successive DC20 Strength checks (very unlikely, but hey). Chuck flasks of alchemists' fire: the range penalties will suck, but the dragon's touch AC whilst [I]entangled[/I] is only 8. Oh yeah, and don't stand in a line. Good luck ;) [/QUOTE]
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