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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kreynolds" data-source="post: 840622" data-attributes="member: 2829">First, let me just say that you should check out <a href="http://baddragon2.tripod.com/index.html" target="_blank">this site.</a> Now that that's out of the way, here's what I constitute a properly run Dragon, in summary. A dragon will never fight in a confined space if it can avoid it. A dragon will always use flight to its advantage, if possible. The strength of any party lies in its numbers, but a dragon can easily separate them by swooping in and snatching them out of the fray one at a time. If presented with a true challenge, a dragon is not likely to follow pride and wade into the fray. They are highly intelligent creatures that know everything there is to know about survival and longevity. Keeping this in mind, and I'm not joking about this at all, a properly run dragon will have a true CR much higher than normal; from as low as 5 to 8 points higher as a wyrmling and from 25 to 32 points higher as a great wyrm.Dragons are ugly in a fight, and from my experience, they rarely, if ever, fall. However, put one in a confined space and its toast. In my group, I have only seen a dragon successfully played out (in actual PC to dragon combat, not a behind the scenes or cinematic type thing) twice; once by myself and once by a fellow DM. The fellow DM was running a game in which I was playing a Song Dragon, and let me tell you, even dragon versus dragon, they are frickin' ugly in a fight. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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