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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Dragon" data-source="post: 6252085" data-attributes="member: 1115">My epic campaign is currently quite dracocentric, and I wondered why a dragon with a sufficiently high caster level would not select Antimagic Field as one of his level 6 spells.Give a dragon this spell, and play him properly as a DM, i.e., according to the dragon's high intelligence score, the creature would kill even an epic party in most encounters. I am asking because my group of 6 epic PCs (level 25) will encounter a very old dragon with potential access to Antimagic Field soon...The chance to dispel an Antimagic Field for a caster with CL 25 is just a mere 25 %, and only possible with Mordenkainen's Disjunction when cast OUTSIDE the Antimagic Field!Take a very old red dragon: CR 21, size G, CL 13, grapple +56, attack +40, maybe it has taken the standard dragon-related feats which are snatch and fly-by attack.Antimagic Field is an emanation with a radius of 10 ft, duration 10 min/CL. A gargantuan creature like the very old red dargon covers a space of 20x20 ft, and would fit into the AF (using common sense by assuming that the dragon is not a Borg cube...). In the open field, the dragon attacks the party after casting AF, aiming his attack to the guy who is not obviously heavily armored or carry big keen weapons. The chance of failing in the attack is just 5% (rolled a 1), the same holds for a failed grapple attempt... In the next rounds, the dragon just circles away with one adventurer in his grasp, who is now waiting to be eaten. Once this is done, the dragon returns...Rinse, repeat... until the remaining party either fled by magical means or was killed. In tight spaces where the dragon cannot fly, AF still takes out the party casters, and the dragon would focus all attacks on the fighter types: attack, grapple, chop suey (because the cleric can't heal the grappled guy because of the AF).The only reason for NOT giving AF to old dragons is probably gameplay and fun... unless the DM wants to force a TPK.Any ideas for other useful and/or appropriate spells, but that make old dragons not deadly outright?</blockquote>

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