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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6474865" data-attributes="member: 5834">You mean one time? He only gets to give the rogue an extra sneak attack one time. Since we have no rogue and he couldn't make it into melee, it didn't happen. I hope you have to fight a dragon played in an intelligent fashion. When it's moving 80 feet a round flying with reach strafing you, I want to see how you deal with that. You seem to think it is quite easy when not optimized for ranged attacks. I'm very doubtful that you will find it so.Your idea of built for offense and my idea differs. I guess you consider a Great Weapon Mastery Fighter with Great Weapon Fighting Style built for what? Or are you going to make some conceited, exaggerated comment like the one above concerning what every player should choose when playing a fighter or optimizing for offense. A barbarian is not a better defensive build than a paladin focused on armoring up. Not getting hit is always better than taking even half-damage. A dragon can wander off waiting for the rage to drop, which is quite easy to do prior to a barbarian being able to maintain rage without striking his opponent or taking damage. You seem to think rage "just works" or lasts long enough to outlast the dragon moving. It doesn't. It's a nice ability, but not limitless. Reckless also gives the dragon advantage. They do a lot of damage even when it is halved. I will grant you that a barbarian is better than a fighter combining offense and defense. Any melee would have been nigh useless with the dragon maintaining distance and using strafing attacks. You keep overlooking the reduced visibility as well from the fog clouds and the ice walls. The dragon was looking for a party member to rush, so he could cut that member off and kill them alone. Sorry, but fighters and barbarians are not going to beat dragons by themselves in melee combat.</blockquote>

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