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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 2050835" data-attributes="member: 24969">Defence in depth. Have lots of minions around. Perhaps it animates other animals into zombie or such and uses them to scout out and harrass anything that comes within a days march of its lair. Once the party is detected by various animated wildlife such as, then it send in the bigger guys. Zombie birds to watch for intruders with zombie squirrels and chipmunks to eat and despoil their food and water in the night. Undead wolves and snakes to attack their horses. Eventually, they'll realise that everything is dead around them and that nowhere nearby is safe. Once they get really close they'll have even more smaller fights leading up to the dragon, perhaps some evil clerics. Hopefully, by then they'll be wounded and have run through a decent amount of spells. If they try and rest they'll continue to be harassed as the dragon has small undead attack every hour to make sure nobody gets any sleep. If they retreat, they'll have to start all over again from the begining.Before the big final battle hit them with an illusion or a much lesser undead dragon that is intended to be mistaken for the real thing. Hopefully the party will dump their big spells and once per day special abilities  in the few rounds it takes to knock out the imposter. Then they get hit with the real thing.Even if they succeed, they're still in a forest filled with now uncontorled undead animals and must get back out. Undead squirrels are normally just harassment but at this point, they may be in such a state that even small battles are worrisome.</blockquote>

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