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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6788698" data-attributes="member: 5834">I could see a 100 archers with Sharpshooter and a 14 to 16 dexterity. Archery is power in intelligently built armies. In fact, I could see nations building dragon killing armies with 100 or double or triple that archer companies that are trained to spread out widely to avoid breath weapons preventing the ability of the dragon to kill them. Once a king new that even an ancient dragon could be killed by common archery, it would be his focus to maintain large archery companies specifically for dragon slaying. Archers supported by priests and mages with some contingents of footmen that take swings or throw javelins if the dragon decides to land to attack anyone. When a 100 archers are a threat to an ancient dragon, it means that a king or other ruler can very easily field an army large enough to repel an ancient dragon without employing high level adventurers. As far as Smaug goes, that doesn't happen because ancient intelligence, animal cunning, superhuman awareness, and aerial maneuverability tells it to stay away from human settlements because its very easy for them to die. Ancient Intelligence tells it that common archers can harm it.Superhuman awareness tells it that arrow fire shoots farther than its superhuman awareness and thus that awareness does absolutely nothing to help it against massed archery.Animal cunning is of no help to this creature considering it's ability to stealth is very low without magic and cunning doesn't help against massed archery. So it's best to stay away from human settlements because it will likely die.Aerial maneuverability doesn't help much against massed archery and in fact makes it a better target.I like Bounded Accuracy as well for many things, but not for dragon design. They made dragons too weak. I've fought a lot of them having gone through Tyranny of Dragons. They became quite the easy fight even in their lair when we hit about lvl 9. The only thing we had trouble against was massed dragons as in multiple at the same time. We fought  a dragon light of six young red dragons and that was dangerous due to the massed breath weapons. But by lvl 9 adult dragons were running from us in their lairs. We killed them in 12 seconds or two rounds or so. Pretty sad. We killed an adult green and an adult red in this fashion with relative ease at lvl 9. I figured dragons would be a tougher fight. I think they should be.</blockquote>

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