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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xorn" data-source="post: 4140354" data-attributes="member: 61231">Did your players just continue to sit there in the darkness?  Every time I've run the dragon (6 times now) I blast em with acid (and I roll her stealth at +5 for total concealment) and she gets surprise if they don't notice her.Then the next round I always drop darkness.  And every time my players scatter like roaches, both to avoid clustering for the breath weapon, and to keep her from utilizing the darkness.  It doesn't move with her, so she ultimately has to drop the darkness if she wants to put it elsewhere.After they scatter I usually have her roar, as it's her longest range ability, and try to take one of them down.  But honestly, she has to get pretty close to her target, so if they just stay the hell away, the darkness becomes less of an issue.  Once you get away from the darkness she drops, she has to forgoe attacking in order to drop it down again.But yeah, if you just stand there in one spot, the darkness is deadly.And as a reminder--the party is supposed to lose, usually.  It's an 875 xp encounter for a 400-600 xp party.</blockquote>