Wee Jas said:
I came up with almost the same thing. Minus Spellcasting Prodigy... I'll reccomend that to shade. Spell Focus Evocation would help too.. seeing as Big A takes double damage from fire and Reflex is his worst save right?
Spell Focus and Greater Spell Focus are practically required if you want to do a significant amount of damage to Big A with Flame Strikes. He only takes double damage if he
fails his save. Otherwise, it's the normal half damage. At least, that's how I think the Cold Subtype works...
So the feats for the druid would be Spellcasting Prodigy, Empower Spell, Spell Penetration, Greater Spell Penetration, Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus.
That uses up all his feats, and he'll have to be a human or he'll be a feat short. And this is assuming he doesn't have any other feats he wants to take.
I guess it comes down to, does Shade want to build the ultimate "Kill Big A" character, or does he have a character concept he wants to go with?
So are we decided that round 1 Grumbar the fighter moves into attack and the hasted casters try to get as many dispel magics off as they can?
Don't have Grumbar move in and engage the dragon. The dragon will be able to unleash a full attack action from the get-go. You should delay and let the dragon come to you. It'll only get one attack that round.
Oh, I think someone else mentioned Stoneskin, but you should definitely have that spell on anyone who's going to meele the dragon. It'll improve their survivablilty dramatically, for as long as it lasts (probably only a couple of rounds, but every little bit helps).
