Help with tactics

Toj

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I am getting ready to continue an adventure today for my players. Here is where we left off:

The players have cleared out and taken over a lich's castle. The lich had already been destroyed by some previous adventurers, but the lich's treasure was never found. My players heard about the castle and wanted to go clear it out and search for the treasure.

The castle was overrun with kobalds, including a kobald chieften and kobold wizard, and they had some dire badgers and 1 dire bear.

Anyway, the party took over the castle. The castle is in the middle of a large forest. There is a green dragon in the forest who has been watching the castle. The dragon was unsure if the lich had returned and sent two groups at the castle. The first group was a group of lizardfolk, and the second group was ogres. The party and their henchmen repelled the attacks, and figured something was sending them. The party went out and searched for the 'cause' of the attacks.

They ended up finding the green dragons lair, or at least they found the lake that led to it. The dragon had 2 chimera as allies and protectors and the chimera attacked the party. The party was sort of winning win the green dragon came out of the lake. That's when the party ran.

So now the party is preparing their castle for an attack. They plan on trying to draw the dragon to their castle, to get him away from his lair. They are going to use ballista and nets etc to try and ground the dragon.

My question.... what are some suggestions on how the dragon will react and attack. I know they are going to try and do something harsh to it's lair in order to get the chase on.... they are sending one person with a teleport spell to draw the dragon and then teleport back to the castle. They figure they will have 10 minutes before the dragon arrives.
 
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Depends to a great extent on the age level of the dragon, how many (and what kind of) remaining allies it has and exactly how much it knows about the party. Also, what's the reason for the dragon's interest in the castle?
 

What are the PCs' henchmen? What's the dragon's spell list? For a plan I'm thinking of to work, it would nead clearvoyance or sumtin . . .
 

It also depends on what exactly the dragons goals are. If it just wants the treasure, or the castle. I would assume that an exceptable would be it's lair. Depending on what they did to it. But again this depends on the afore mentioned variables such as age, ect.

You should have the dragon shapechange, into something non threatining like a female gnome to get inside the castle and destroy them from within, he could even do some recon while he/she was in there to determine it's worth or not.
 

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