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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 4925233" data-attributes="member: 5890">The dragon is smart. The dragon is manipulative.It seems to me that the only time the dragon is likely to directly fight the PCs is if it is forced to for some reason. Ordinarily it will just fly away.So step 1 is, IMO:the fight never happens unless the PCs have a plan in the first placeIf the PCs just ask around town "where's the dragon", then front up to it's lair and knock on the front door, the dragon has left. Either word got back to it that people were looking for it, or it has some mechanism for detecting approaching foes.Naturally it's not going to leave it's treasure behind. It might, however, leave a powerful minion and a mocking note. Or some cursed loot. Or a booby trap. Or some sort of misleading evidence, pointing the adventurers towards one of it's foes.The only way the PCs will face the dragon is if they outwit it. And that suggests that they have a plan that's a bit more robust than "lets hope we can kill a dragon in open terrain".</blockquote>