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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheLordWinter" data-source="post: 4660315" data-attributes="member: 63181">I had two big fights over the past two weeks, one good and one very bad. The bad: The PCs were ambushed in a narrow defile. Four Orc Archers (a ranged monster I made based around the Kobold Slyblade but at ranged) peppered the group with arrows while two Orc Raiders charged the group. The valley had steep walls that were three squares high and required a climb check. The battle seemed to drag on forever and neither the party nor I had any fun. The good: The party reached a massive fortress where a priestess of Ioun was held. After scouting it out they saw the orcs leader was a green dragon, along with a half-dozen orc minions and three orc raiders. Rather than stumble in as if they hadn't planned at all, the group called it a night and spent a week devising a plan. They had the ranger and rouge sneak in the back while the rest of the party provided a distraction. As they slowly made a fighting retreat back out the door, the two sneaky party members helped the priestess escape and then the party dumped an 1,000 lbs. of rocks in front of the doors via Tenser's Floating Disc. The dragon flew up and began a very tense fight, constantly diving down to attack and bite the PCs and then getting stuck in a pincer as the other PCs road around the side. I followed some great advice from these boards and saved the dragon's action points until almost the end. Every PC was almost completely out of healing surges, the wizard went down to nearly negative bloodied and the paladin and rogue spent the entire fight trying to stay just above the bloodied mark. The last three rounds had the PCs debating whether or not to flee, but they pushed on and brought the dragon down. The orcs then fled and attacked on the run, leaving the PCs feeling especially triumphant. It was agreed upon by all that it was exciting, and everyone felt like their characters had really done something to contribute to the battle.</blockquote>

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