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<blockquote data-quote="Larry Fitz" data-source="post: 192615" data-attributes="member: 3949">It's not called Dungeons and Well-prepared AdventurersThe Dragon won the first encounter, but it's a dragon and it's smart enough to know that anytime a few adventurers get away, they will come back with more and superior forces and a plan to counter the Dragon's ORIGINAL plan....&nbsp; so the Dragon needs a whole new plan. He shouldn't move, the occasional flow of adventurers mistakenly thinking they will be the ones who kill the Dragon is how it increases it's hoard, and gets some occasional variety in it's diet. As an undead Dragon it no longer needs to breathe, it could literally lay in ambush in the water and set up a diversion or even an illusionary Dragon deeper in the lair, seemingly in the same place it was when the adventurers came the first time. Their friend's items could be apparently on his corpse lying on the hoard. They fight the illusionary dragon, defeat it, believe they have won, go to retrieve or raise their friend, as the Cleric stands over the body to begin his raise dead or resurrection spell, the Wight rises and attacks, as the dragon comes in through a wall (Deep Dragons burrow, do they not?) and various other undead rise from beneath the hoard. The Hoard chamber could be protected from Teleportation so they must go out again in order to Teleport away, the dead friend could 'play possum' until they leave the hoard where the dragon awaits invisibly, once outside the hoard room the undead friend attackls drawing all their attention then the Dragon attacks while they have their backs to him and are essentially flat-footed. Larry&quot;Ah yes, Draconis Mortis, an order of Priests, Paladins, Mages and Warriors, dedicated to the eradication of Dragons. I'm afraid they hit a major setback, they actually met one...&nbsp; unfortunate really.&quot; -Tarben Xsi, Rogue and wry commentator on things Draconic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Larry Fitz, post: 192615, member: 3949"] [b]It's not called Dungeons and Well-prepared Adventurers[/b] The Dragon won the first encounter, but it's a dragon and it's smart enough to know that anytime a few adventurers get away, they will come back with more and superior forces and a plan to counter the Dragon's ORIGINAL plan.... so the Dragon needs a whole new plan. He shouldn't move, the occasional flow of adventurers mistakenly thinking they will be the ones who kill the Dragon is how it increases it's hoard, and gets some occasional variety in it's diet. As an undead Dragon it no longer needs to breathe, it could literally lay in ambush in the water and set up a diversion or even an illusionary Dragon deeper in the lair, seemingly in the same place it was when the adventurers came the first time. Their friend's items could be apparently on his corpse lying on the hoard. They fight the illusionary dragon, defeat it, believe they have won, go to retrieve or raise their friend, as the Cleric stands over the body to begin his raise dead or resurrection spell, the Wight rises and attacks, as the dragon comes in through a wall (Deep Dragons burrow, do they not?) and various other undead rise from beneath the hoard. The Hoard chamber could be protected from Teleportation so they must go out again in order to Teleport away, the dead friend could 'play possum' until they leave the hoard where the dragon awaits invisibly, once outside the hoard room the undead friend attackls drawing all their attention then the Dragon attacks while they have their backs to him and are essentially flat-footed. Larry "Ah yes, Draconis Mortis, an order of Priests, Paladins, Mages and Warriors, dedicated to the eradication of Dragons. I'm afraid they hit a major setback, they actually met one... unfortunate really." -Tarben Xsi, Rogue and wry commentator on things Draconic. [/QUOTE]

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