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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6519829" data-attributes="member: 6787650">No wonder you hate the idea of "burning through legendary resistance"--apparently no one has ever explained to you how to do it!See the trick is, you don't cast spells for the sheer sake making it burn resistance. Instead you cast spells that help your party AND target a weak save. I thought that was obvious but apparently not. For example, Acid Splash targets DX but does nothing important even on a failure: don't use it. Blindness does something important but targets a strong save for dragons: don't use it. Faerie fire give advantage on attacks (fairly important, depending on party composition) and targets a weakish save (DX is +5): you can use it. Phantasmal force CAN do important things if you can think of any (create an illusion of an air elemental to do minor damage and soak attacks--unless your DM metagames it to ignore the elemental; or create the illusion of a half-size Web spell to hold it in place) and it targets a weak save (Int is -1): you can use it. Etc. It's a lose-lose proposition for the dragon.Two other notes:1.) Legendary resistance is not a metagame ability. According to the MM, it is explicitly the creature's choice (not the DM's) to use this ability. So smarter creatures will be smarter about how they burn resists. White dragons are dumb.2.) RE: staff of power and spell DC, I'm AFB, was thinking it increased spell DC as well as to-hit. Maybe that's only the Robe of the Archmage though, which means you'd just have to live with a mere 80% success rate instead of 90% (depending on stats/level). Good odds either way.</blockquote>

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