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<blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 7354709" data-attributes="member: 6775477">As a player, I've only fought against about 3 dragons. The most notable was the white dragon lair from the Tiamat AP (DM lifted it for our campaign). The lair was a series of ice caves, and the local human tribes periodically offered him tribute to keep him from destroying their villages. I don't remember what he had for lair guards, but there were a few minor encounters before we found the dragon himself. The battle was rough, because flight is a powerful ability, allowing him to choose weaker targets to attack, then move up and away with wing buffet Legendary Action after the next turn. Not to mention to mobility to hit most of the party with his breath weapon.As a DM, I've had several dragon encounters, not all of them fully combat related. In one, a copper dragon abducted our dragon sorcereress, because he wanted information, and it was easier to get it from a single PC than risk facing all of them at once. I used the green dragon encounter from LMoP, and that led to a TPK as the players went in with the mentality &quot;the adventure wouldn't have it if we weren't meant to kill it.&quot; I had a mated pair with wyrmling in a feud with several cloud giants, and the PCs got caught up in the middle (PCs were WAY too low level to face either group, and worked both against each other to kill each other).Dragons can create the most challenging encounters, but also the most fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shiroiken, post: 7354709, member: 6775477"] As a player, I've only fought against about 3 dragons. The most notable was the white dragon lair from the Tiamat AP (DM lifted it for our campaign). The lair was a series of ice caves, and the local human tribes periodically offered him tribute to keep him from destroying their villages. I don't remember what he had for lair guards, but there were a few minor encounters before we found the dragon himself. The battle was rough, because flight is a powerful ability, allowing him to choose weaker targets to attack, then move up and away with wing buffet Legendary Action after the next turn. Not to mention to mobility to hit most of the party with his breath weapon. As a DM, I've had several dragon encounters, not all of them fully combat related. In one, a copper dragon abducted our dragon sorcereress, because he wanted information, and it was easier to get it from a single PC than risk facing all of them at once. I used the green dragon encounter from LMoP, and that led to a TPK as the players went in with the mentality "the adventure wouldn't have it if we weren't meant to kill it." I had a mated pair with wyrmling in a feud with several cloud giants, and the PCs got caught up in the middle (PCs were WAY too low level to face either group, and worked both against each other to kill each other). Dragons can create the most challenging encounters, but also the most fun. [/QUOTE]

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