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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6678860"><p>You basically need to develop some kind of system for called shots and that depends greatly on what the character is doing with their hands.</p><p></p><p>If you're planning to have the dragon bite off the lich's hands, I would surmise it should go as follows:</p><p></p><p>Grapple with bite, followed by an a str v. con check.</p><p></p><p>Before you make the attack, get the player to establish how they are using their hands to spell cast. Are they holding them still while wigging their fingers? Lower DC on grapple. Are they waving their arms about in the air madly? Higher DC on grapple.</p><p></p><p>Assuming you're using the stat block from the 5E MM, you have a MASSIVELY overpowered party member. He will <em>obliterate</em> a young silver dragon. He doesn't even need the party to do this. Young dragons also lack legendary actions and legendary resistences. All your lich need do is cast Power Word kill and your dragon is dead, if miraculously that fails, backup: dominate monster, finger of death, disintegrate. </p><p></p><p>If you are <em>not</em> using the lich statistics from the book, please do say so. Otherwise what you have on your hands isn't a fight and there will be no valiant last stand. You'll have a massacre and you'll have a party that will very rapidly get bored as the lich steamrolls the next 10 levels of your game.</p><p></p><p></p><p>They have resist, but not immunity.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree. A stock 5e MM young silver dragon is no match for a full-bore lich. Even an ancient silver dragon would have some difficulty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6678860"] You basically need to develop some kind of system for called shots and that depends greatly on what the character is doing with their hands. If you're planning to have the dragon bite off the lich's hands, I would surmise it should go as follows: Grapple with bite, followed by an a str v. con check. Before you make the attack, get the player to establish how they are using their hands to spell cast. Are they holding them still while wigging their fingers? Lower DC on grapple. Are they waving their arms about in the air madly? Higher DC on grapple. Assuming you're using the stat block from the 5E MM, you have a MASSIVELY overpowered party member. He will [I]obliterate[/I] a young silver dragon. He doesn't even need the party to do this. Young dragons also lack legendary actions and legendary resistences. All your lich need do is cast Power Word kill and your dragon is dead, if miraculously that fails, backup: dominate monster, finger of death, disintegrate. If you are [I]not[/I] using the lich statistics from the book, please do say so. Otherwise what you have on your hands isn't a fight and there will be no valiant last stand. You'll have a massacre and you'll have a party that will very rapidly get bored as the lich steamrolls the next 10 levels of your game. They have resist, but not immunity. I agree. A stock 5e MM young silver dragon is no match for a full-bore lich. Even an ancient silver dragon would have some difficulty. [/QUOTE]
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