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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5003133" data-attributes="member: 59082">I just got Draconomicon: Metallic Dragons in the mail today and, while browsing through the "Hall of Fame," I was once more struck by how little damage monsters dole out. Take Bahamut, for example, who as a Level 36 Solo might be the highest level creature published so far. His attack damages are:Bite: 3d12+10, plus two healing surgesClaw: 2d12+10Disintegration Breath: 4d12+10, ongoing 15.Etc.Obviously those are no small potatoes, but for the most powerful dragon in the D&D canon? It just seems anticlimactic to say "The great platinum beast inhales deeply and lets out a blast of pure hellish fury, doing 36 HP of damage (which I believe is the average of 4d12+10). To an epic level character with HP in the 150-200 range that is barely a scratch.Or take the Tarrasque, whose most powerful attacks (Rending Bite and Tail Slap) do 3d12+16, or whose standard Bite only does d12+16! "The mighty 50-ft tall abomination tears into your flesh and does 22 HP of damage". Oooh, I'm scared.The campaign I've been running--and am now playing (and co-DMing)--has only made it up to 5th level, but I found this to be the case with many of the monsters they've been facing. It just isn't that scary to take 12 HP of damage when you have 50 from the final foe.What am I missing?</blockquote>