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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bloodstone Press" data-source="post: 2117593" data-attributes="member: 12468">I've seen several groups do that. I blame it on meta-game thinking. The players think that the DM won't put anything in the game that they can't beat. Several groups have had to learn (and re-learn) that that's not the way I run games. I like games where low level characters and high CR monster cross paths. As for fighting a dragon, the old rule about catching them in their lairs is still the best rule. In fact, I can remember about 8 or 10 different battles with dragons over the past 20 years of gaming. Of those, I can only think of one dragon being killed when the battle took place outside. Any other battle with a dragon outside ended with the dragon surviving. The majority of dragons I've killed as a player and all of the dragons killed when I DMed  were cornered in their lairs or other confined space.  I've had one character, a paladin, who attempted to stand up to a dragon single-handedly(outside, BTW). I had a huge magical sword/lance thing but even that didn't help.  I've also had a drow archer who almost killed a dragon single-handedly (with some help from the other party members). Back in the days of 2e, he made 2 called shots to the dragon's eyes with his bow, blinding it and inflicting tremendous damage.</blockquote>