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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Linke" data-source="post: 8168699" data-attributes="member: 6873682">The 100 archers, A, are all in range of the dragon, D. The circle the represents a 630' radius around the dragon's center. The backward facing D at the top could represent the dragon's starting position before making his move. The D is roughly to scale, though the A are much larger than scale. The archers are dispersed 60ft apart! Really seems silly to me that more than maybe the dozen or so archers right in front of the oncoming dragon would be subject to this fear aura, or feel in any way that the dragon is about to "fly overhead".[ATTACH=full]131122[/ATTACH]Charging, on the other hand, is actually a game mechanic, with rules given on page 66 of the DMG.  It doesn't at all resemble "flying aggressively toward people".  Further, page 53 indicates the adult blue dragon will be forced to land and fight on the ground, where he has only a 9" move. once he sustains 26 hp of damage, and will fall to the ground, uncontrolled, if he manages to sustain 38 hp of damage.Once on the ground, the dragon COULD charge, if he could manage to put more than 1"  (10 yards) of distance between him and any enemies, but the archers would get a +1 bonus to their attack rolls against him when he did so.To recap (also for Lanefan below)1. The dragon can not charge while flying2. The dragon can't "fly overhead" all of the archers unless he was in range of their bows to begin with (edited because original text was wrong)3. Even if the archers underperform their average damage, the dragon will sustain enough damage to be grounded, before even being affected by the dragon's fear aura.4. Given the formation pictured, the blue dragon's breath weapon would only kill 5 or 6 archers at a time, and he can only use it 3 times a day.</blockquote>

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