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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SilverfireSage" data-source="post: 6375616" data-attributes="member: 6778313">I think that a lot of newcomers would be more gung ho about attacking a dragon since they don't know how powerful their characters are versus it, but I can say from an experienced player's standpoint there is nothing that would make me go up to attack that dragon besides knowing it was an "unwinnable" encounter. My DM was desperately trying to get us to go up there, but come on. It's an adult blue dragon. There's no way we'd be able to make a dent before it murdered the lot of us. And making it attack the NPCs exclusively is just plain stupid. I realize the point of both of those encounters. They are supposed to be a "look how scary this thing is!" so the characters can feel the limits of their strength and be more cautious in the future. But the dragon just acts like an idiot. I ran it instead as the dragon is on its way to start retreating, and just as the characters make it up the stairs, it uses its breath weapon one last time to fry a bunch of guards in front of them before it flies away. That way they can see "holy crap, that thing just killed five guys at once" without making it seem like the dragon is purposely avoiding the PCs so as to not have a TPK.</blockquote>