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Message: <blockquote data-quote="two" data-source="post: 1694126" data-attributes="member: 9002">It's not that the dragon 100% won't notice a bird flying overhead, or a toad hopping 100' away, or a snake or gopher or fox.  The dragon might see such a creature, after all.  But the dragon can't spend the whole day incinerating all living creatures, or retreating from every flopping fish.  Or spend all day with detect magic up!If all a druid wants is one round to cast a spell vs. the dragon (and that's all a druid needs to do every day) I can't see how barring some meta-gaming or the dragon sealing itself up in a cave, you can stop an inventive shapeshifting druid from doing this.  The druid casts a spell via natural spell (he might even win initiative) and then retreats via tree stride or burrowing or whatever.  Make sure the Druid has Freedom of Movement up, and that even stops any remote grappling dangers from the Dragon, if the Druid has to get that close.At the very least -- this is an adequate back story.  Tell the party of the harassing Druid, who used a different animal form every day, and on the 20th day cast Baleful Polymoph vs. the Dragon which worked, and transformed the dragon into a housecat.  Or something like that.  It's solid on a rules front, makes sense (never fight druids on their home court), but doesn't make dragons seem wimpy.  Dragons just have limitations, is all, which is fine.  We all do.</blockquote>