So we are just about to fight the young green dragon (as mentioned in the beastiary) and we skipped over most of what the dm had planned for us for the night. We are 4 5th Level characters
A Shield and Sword Fighter
A monk
Sorcerer
and a druid.
We are currently buffed with resist energy but we are about to leave the creatures lair to meet it outside...
wish us luck haha
So, who died - or almost died?
Well, we entered what appeared to be a shrine to the dragon, picture the scene from the PHB except we didn't find any dragon bane sword. It let out a mighty roar and we new we were in trouble. Early in the adventure the dragon had attacked a group of natives so we knew it was a green dragon. So we buff up, the Sorcerer (copper dragon bloodline) casts Resist energy on everyone but Druids cat, Which proved to be HUGE! and then mage armor on himself.
So the Fighter (Me) leads the party out, followed by the monk, druid then the mage. As we come up the stairs of the shrine and exit, it is flying 10ft in the air, angry at us and lets loose with a breathweapon. 31 Damage Total, 21 thanks to energy resistance. The Mage, Druid cat, and Monk pass there saves. Monk and Cat take no damage, Mage like 6. Then we all go. Druid heads over behind a tree, and begins casting call lightning, Druid moves up and does a jumping punch and misses, the mage casts Sorching ray and does some damage, and moves over by the druid, I move up to the dragon and attempt to demoralize it, Accomplishing the feat. Then it was the dragon's turn again, it moved into better position and hit us with the breathweapon again. 22, everyone fails this time, except the mage who was outside the cone range. So at this point most of us have a good junk of hit points gone. The next round was more or less rinse and repeat with only the druid and monk doing any damage. Dragon acts, casts entangle. Monk fails, druid fails, everyone else passes. Slows our movement though. then we start moving, trying to get out of what we think is going to be another breathweapon. Mistake by us. Everyone splits up and the monk gets the bite attack taking 15 damage. Mage casts magic missile, I move out of the entanglement, draw my bow, druid call's lightning again. By this time the mage is doing the most damage, dragon flys over and lets him have a bite attack 18 damage. Then it lands. Druid fails his last call lighting, mage magic missile, I fire my bow, missing, monk starts moving toward the dragon, same with cat. Dragon, another breath weapon, Everyone but druids cat fails, and I'm out of reach. Following round all attacks but magic missile miss, Dragon turns and fly's away from us.
End encounter.
Now had the dragon actually got a full attack on anyone we would have been screwed. But it seemed like he was trying to isolate us so much that we managed to get the uphand on him.
I'm sure that'll change next time
Finally hit points.
Fighter 25 out 63
Druid 9 out of 29
Monk 28 out of 43
Mage 6 out of 28