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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 9311920" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>As a player, I honestly don't recall the last time I saw a dragon encounter.</p><p></p><p>As a DM, no, I think the few I've run tended to wind up more frustrating than fun for the players. The first ones I ran were in the old 3.5e Red Hand of Doom as an inexperienced DM. Had a couple of encounters with them early-ish (Very Young black and Young green IIRC) and followed the module's guidance to the letter, which meant they were easily able to escape once they decided to retreat. Brought the green back later to give them another crack at it and it got away again. When they got to the final lair, they had to go up against both of those plus the blue dragon that normally lives there, and got TPK'd.</p><p></p><p>About the only dragon that's shown up since then is the mechanical Chardalyn Dragon from Rime of the Frostmaiden. First time I ran that campaign I did it by the book, and the party cornered it at the second-to-last town to be trashed, and it got crippled with successive strikes of Tasha's Mind Whip, barely managing to do anything before it was dropped.</p><p></p><p>Second time around, I made it part of the encounter at Sunblight fortress. That fight was tense and exciting, resulting in the dragon barely getting away, but the means by which it survived was using its Commanding Presence to order party members to attack each other, which tends to be annoying to players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 9311920, member: 40176"] As a player, I honestly don't recall the last time I saw a dragon encounter. As a DM, no, I think the few I've run tended to wind up more frustrating than fun for the players. The first ones I ran were in the old 3.5e Red Hand of Doom as an inexperienced DM. Had a couple of encounters with them early-ish (Very Young black and Young green IIRC) and followed the module's guidance to the letter, which meant they were easily able to escape once they decided to retreat. Brought the green back later to give them another crack at it and it got away again. When they got to the final lair, they had to go up against both of those plus the blue dragon that normally lives there, and got TPK'd. About the only dragon that's shown up since then is the mechanical Chardalyn Dragon from Rime of the Frostmaiden. First time I ran that campaign I did it by the book, and the party cornered it at the second-to-last town to be trashed, and it got crippled with successive strikes of Tasha's Mind Whip, barely managing to do anything before it was dropped. Second time around, I made it part of the encounter at Sunblight fortress. That fight was tense and exciting, resulting in the dragon barely getting away, but the means by which it survived was using its Commanding Presence to order party members to attack each other, which tends to be annoying to players. [/QUOTE]
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