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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Havrik Stoneskimmer" data-source="post: 5666440" data-attributes="member: 6670929">Well, not quite. Several characters had been down, but they managed to pull together with the desperate administration of a healing potion to the cleric, who then could heal the other one who was in dire straits, etc. I think at the end of the fight everyone was conscious with three out of four of them bloodied.I don't think there would have been a TPK whether the dragon fled or not, though it was looking really close for a while. I think with a couple of better choices earlier in the fight (attacking the dragon instead of the kobold minions, maybe even using magic missile for automatic damage instead of missing with an at-will) they could have killed the dragon before it bailed from the fight.I wasn't fleeing to avoid a TPK; I had decided before the fight that the dragon's sense of self-preservation (you don't live to be over 100 by never running away from a fight) would have it bail out if down to 30 or 40 hit points left (out of about 250).</blockquote>