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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dieter" data-source="post: 19473" data-attributes="member: 144">For the record.Ok, I'm getting on the bus a little late in the journey, but I AM the DM who ran this game. I've found the comments quite entertaining since everyone thinks that this was s a troll. I can confirm that this was a real event.I have to comment on what had happened, because afterall, I was running the show.1) The battle had all the characters ready for an ambush, despite a few hints given out along the way. I've never run a dragon using 3e rules, so I thought what better way to introduce them into the game with a nice ambush. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />2) The dragon emerged from the murky water and used its breath weapon on two of the 4 party members (the cleric and rogue). I rolled 27pts of damage, not bad on 10d4. That was pretty much a surprise action, so I didn't want to go too hard on the PC's on the first turn. Remember, this was a CR 8 creature with 152 HP. Had I known his save vs. polymorph would have failed, I would have pressed the issue of the dragon going all-out on its first turn.3) During the same round, the flying wizard casted polymorph on the dragon. Now this is what was NOT mentioned by my players (Glaurung and Thorntangle). The wizard was a specialist in transmutation, giving him a significantly higher DC for me to roll against rather than the normal check.  The dragon in question had a FORT save of +13 and I had to beat a DC 24 (yes, Virginia, 24!) to save vs. polymorph. The odds on it working were about even and I wasn't too worried about the dragon making the save. So I rolled a damn 4...this stuff can and does happen in games. 4) Of course I can honestly say the battle was anticlimactic and that I was pretty damn pi$$ed. If you were in my DM-shoes, wouldn't you be??  5) I took it on the chin and gave the wizard the necessary kudos for a well-executed spell. I was bitter, but fair about the situation.Thorntangle is an excellent player of spellcasters.6) For the record, next round I was planning on casting darkness, then using the feat spring attack to jump up on to the island, use my six attacks, they slither down into the water on the other side of the island. Combine that with a breath weapon attack 1 round later, I honestly think there would have been a much different outcome.7) Lesson learned, the hard way.</blockquote>

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