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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 7115770" data-attributes="member: 2011">The party's biggest issue was that the Monk and Cleric could not get into range that often. I had Iymrith flying around in that large room staying out of range of most PCs and trying to pick groups of them off with spells or breath weapon (and anyone who flew in close got a taste of claws, bite, tail and wings). Even Harshnag had issues and I stupidly forgot that he could throw rocks like other giants, so he would get close, throw his axe (which I allowed), and then go run over and pick it back up. At the end of the fight, even after she Polymorphed into a Storm Giant (for more hit points and the ability to head to the Oracle room which the PCs prevented), they were whittling her down, so Iymrith ended up grabbing Harshnag's axe and teleporting away (she was down to about 100 hit points, I never let my dragons die in a fight unless the PCs manage to pour it on in the last round and they die accidentally).This resulted in some fun as Harshnag has NOT been a happy NPC since then. The PCs gave him an adamantine giant club they found, but to him, it's not the same. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm    :-S" data-shortname=":-S" />The real issue is the size of the room. The PCs could spread out and although the dragon could fly down and beat on one of them (or beat on them, grab them, fly them to the ceiling and drop them; always fun <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />), large rooms have historically been bad for dragons because it limits the number of PCs that can get caught in breath weapons or area spells. The action economy of 7 PC/Harshnag actions vs. 2 or 3 Dragon actions per round eventually catches up.I even gave the Dragon a 9th level Mage pet with a Wand of Fireballs sitting on a saddle on her neck to even out action economy a bit. That Mage died in round one and he even had defensive spells up. It was SO sad. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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