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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hakkenshi" data-source="post: 310624" data-attributes="member: 5457">Hello all,Just a curious little anecdote I'd like to share, and maybe get some feedback on. It happened a while ago, so it's not exactly a breaking story, but hey...I was DMing a game in which the PCs had to climb an enormous tree. By enormous, I mean that its trunk was about the width of a modern city block.Now, as the characters knew (from several eye-witnesses), a large Green Dragon (adult) had taken up residence in this tree. So while they were climbing (a task very similar to climbing a mountain), the Dragon swooped down and attacked them. During the course of combat, one player triumphantly announces that his next action is to throw a Tanglefoot Bag at the Dragon. Now, I know from reading the PHB that this thing is meant to entangle a Medium-sized creature. But apparently this player has a plan: he wants to strike the Dragon in the wing joint to make it plummet. I duly warn him that his character (being of slightly above average intelligence and having fought a couple Dragons before) deduces that such a powerful creature can't have its flight hindered by such an insignificant thing. The player insists on carrying out his plan.And he rolls a natural 20 on his to-hit roll aiming for the wing joint. One other player rejoices with him, and the others just shake their heads uncaringly. I explain (after successfully rolling the Dragon's saving throw <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> ) that the Dragon's wingbeat falters, but it keeps flying normally. The two celebrating players erupt in cries of dismay. The floodgates of argument open, drowning out the rest of the session.I'm curious to know how other DMs might have ruled the matter.</blockquote>

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