Job
2008-03-06, 10:51 PM
I’m DMing a game and to round off a long dungeon crawl I’m considering sending my players against a young adult black dragon (large size CR 9) that had preciously menaced them.
The fight would take place in the dragon’s lair when the players discover a back entrance the dragon is not aware of. So with any planning they should be able to attack when the dragon goes to sleeps.
Party consists of 6-7 players, mix of levels 5 and 6 non-optimized
2 barbarians
1 fighter
1 druid
1 cleric
1 paladin
1 wizard
I would like to ask for advice on how I should run the dragon, or any other helpful information concerning an encounter of this type. I want it to be difficult and would be comfortable with killing one of two during the fight (they have access to a resurrection spell back at their home base). On the other hand I’m afraid they might simply overpower the dragon on the first round with appropriate debuffs etc.
The fight would take place in the dragon’s lair when the players discover a back entrance the dragon is not aware of. So with any planning they should be able to attack when the dragon goes to sleeps.
Party consists of 6-7 players, mix of levels 5 and 6 non-optimized
2 barbarians
1 fighter
1 druid
1 cleric
1 paladin
1 wizard
I would like to ask for advice on how I should run the dragon, or any other helpful information concerning an encounter of this type. I want it to be difficult and would be comfortable with killing one of two during the fight (they have access to a resurrection spell back at their home base). On the other hand I’m afraid they might simply overpower the dragon on the first round with appropriate debuffs etc.