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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 6413265" data-attributes="member: 3649">A lot depends on the setting. The phrase 'mithril golems' really threw me for a loop because in my mind, there might be at most one such thing in the world, not acting like guards for a city, even a city of dwarves. They certainly don't have armies of Iron Golems. Perhaps if this was Eberron, but not the 'normal' sorts of D&D worlds I think of.To my mind, a huge ancient red dragon utterly decimates a dwarven city. Or any city, really. Almost all of the city defenders drop their drawers at the Frightful Presence, and get in the way of those very few who do not go mad from fear, hampering any possible response - you've got a handful of thousands of trained warriors (and this only because dwarves are traditionally a very martial culture), trying to wade through screaming mods of tens of thousands. Never underestimate the power of a mob of people literally insane with terror. For a human city, I'd say that in and of itself would be enough to effectively destroy the place. There might be a literal handful of people in the entire city even capable of dealing with such a threat (ie, PC-level characters). It rips open the main gates like an anteater with a termite mound, and devastates the place with it's breath weapon, melting stone and shattering buildings.</blockquote>