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<blockquote data-quote="Jubilee" data-source="post: 3754245" data-attributes="member: 36594">Our characters were about 15th level in a campaign where we had learned that Orcus himself was working on a ritual that would instantly kill us upon its completion.&nbsp; We had learned that there was a 'dungeon' of sorts leading to a portal to the realm of Orcus that we would have to make it through to get there.&nbsp; We also knew that the final room was guarded by a red dragon.Maybe it was because I had recently read the &quot;wight dragon&quot; story, or maybe it was because of the way the GM grinned when he said &quot;red dragon&quot; - but I was convinced we were not in fact facing a red dragon, but some other kind of dragon that had been mistaken as red.&nbsp; My character, an archivist, attempted alot of research on the matter, but couldn't find any evidence the dragon was anything other than 'red.'So we get there, and I make us immune to fire, and I think, electricity.&nbsp; We had a construct-elf who we've been carrying around in statue form that we finally activate, so we can send her in first.&nbsp; She steps around the corner and is immediately obliterated by a blast of pure force (I haven't mentioned until now, but the GM was running a 3.5 game but felt that Dragons really ought to do damage with their breath weapons equal to their current HP).So we start to rush into the room in an attempt to damage it sufficiently before it can recharge its breath weapon and obliterate the rest of us.&nbsp; Half of us get into the room when it erects a prismatic wall across the entry way.Prismatic Wall!&nbsp; Force Dragon!Turns out the force and prismatic dragons are on facing pages of the epic level handbook, and the GM kept going back and forth between the force dragon and the prismatic dragon (the &quot;red&quot; dragon was of course a force dragon with a &quot;red sheen&quot; to him). By some miracle, and a revify to the person who did get blasted when the breath weapon recharged, we made it to the realm of Orcus in one piece. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />/ali</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jubilee, post: 3754245, member: 36594"] Our characters were about 15th level in a campaign where we had learned that Orcus himself was working on a ritual that would instantly kill us upon its completion. We had learned that there was a 'dungeon' of sorts leading to a portal to the realm of Orcus that we would have to make it through to get there. We also knew that the final room was guarded by a red dragon. Maybe it was because I had recently read the "wight dragon" story, or maybe it was because of the way the GM grinned when he said "red dragon" - but I was convinced we were not in fact facing a red dragon, but some other kind of dragon that had been mistaken as red. My character, an archivist, attempted alot of research on the matter, but couldn't find any evidence the dragon was anything other than 'red.' So we get there, and I make us immune to fire, and I think, electricity. We had a construct-elf who we've been carrying around in statue form that we finally activate, so we can send her in first. She steps around the corner and is immediately obliterated by a blast of pure force (I haven't mentioned until now, but the GM was running a 3.5 game but felt that Dragons really ought to do damage with their breath weapons equal to their current HP). So we start to rush into the room in an attempt to damage it sufficiently before it can recharge its breath weapon and obliterate the rest of us. Half of us get into the room when it erects a prismatic wall across the entry way. Prismatic Wall! Force Dragon! Turns out the force and prismatic dragons are on facing pages of the epic level handbook, and the GM kept going back and forth between the force dragon and the prismatic dragon (the "red" dragon was of course a force dragon with a "red sheen" to him). By some miracle, and a revify to the person who did get blasted when the breath weapon recharged, we made it to the realm of Orcus in one piece. ;) /ali [/QUOTE]

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