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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 6146708" data-attributes="member: 11821">First off,  I like the lair mechanics and flavor - those are pretty great.  However.I think it's kind of silly that a "Legendary" creature needs ***MAGIC!*** to break the action economy and be a telling threat to an entire party.  I think this sort of thing is unnecessary; some monsters can be scary and dangerous just because they are ... scary and dangerous.My next problem is that the dragon, at the end of the day, is still just a big bag of hit points that can deal damage and breathe acid.  Ho-hum.Now, the "fate points" I think can drive an encounter in an interesting direction, where a party needs to throw its small stuff at the dragon before trying to hit it with a big whammy.  (Like ... attacking as 5 robot lions for a while before forming Voltron.)  That's a pretty good narrative arc, as long as the party isn't packing two or more spellcasters.  (I really don't like that they're Daily though.  That makes no sense to me, game-wise.)  With all that said, it's kind of a band aid on what I think are the two bigger issues... (1) that a party would have enough save-or-suck stuff that a dragon needs to outright ignore all of it, and (2) that saving throws are seriously jacked up because of bounded accuracy.However, it's nonetheless still a more convincing-looking and interesting solo threat than most anything in 1e, 2e, 3e, or early (MM 1&2) 4e.-O</blockquote>