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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CRG" data-source="post: 252693" data-attributes="member: 5867">The entrance to his lair was underwater - go through underwater tunnel (long swim).  We did our planning, had water breathing, etc.  Organized a synchronized attack.  We could sort see something moving up ahead out of the water.  I have to say here, we were probably APL 9.  We had done quite a bit of  planning and prepwork cause we figured "Hey, black dragon - shouldn't be that tough".We knew the dragon was smarter than normal.  We knew he was somewhat of a sorcerer.Round one, people rushing out of the cave and spreading out through the obscuring mist right into a couldkill the dragon had cast as he sees us enter (from a scroll - he was a sorcerer/wizard type).Cough, cough, sputter, NPCs and henchmen start to die.Acid.  Neatly drops the wizard, hurts a fighter.Meanwhile, we still haven't found him.By round three, we find him as he clobbers the warrior and retreats into the water.Pursue him into the water, he doesn't last much longer but he's already dropped several folks (not dead-dead on most of the PCs mind you, but hurt severely).  We expected the fight to be tough, but really, the cloudkill on top of obscuring mist really got us.  We were thinking acid all the way and, like most players who have it too easy too long, underestimated the kinds of magic he'd have to use against us.</blockquote>