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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 4924858" data-attributes="member: 63">Use the same tactics humans did to defeat pterosaurs: drop a meteor on them and wait a few million years.It's kind of a dick move to have a dragon just drop on the party on an open field, so usually the players should have an inkling that there's a dragon around before they fight it. In that case, they can do a bit of research, try to figure out where the thing lives, and make a plan to fight it. That plan could just be 'get a bunch of bows and hire archers to come with us.'Of course, making a plan doesn't matter if the thing lives in a featureless plain. In the real world, no solitary creature does that because it's too open to attack and the elements. Even bushmen on the savanna have huts. I think it's a flaw of the rules that ambushes aren't more effective. At best you might be able to coup de grace a sleeping dragon (if you're a bad-ass at sneaking), which could never kill it. And hot or cold weather could never kill a dragon. So yeah, RAW there's no tactical reason a dragon needs to sleep in a cave, except if he wants to keep his treasure protected.I'd recommend giving it some sort of lair, just for the sake of making things interesting. I mean, he wants to have some place to meet with his minions, right?</blockquote>