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This was 3.5 with all its splat books. But I pretty much soloed a dragon. I didn’t kill it though.
The dragon ambushed us with its breath weapon. In one shot he killed our pack animals and almost took out the entire party. First round the bard and cleric healed like crazy. I used a splat book spell called Emerald Planes which created a bunch a mini force walls in mid air where I want them. I used them to box the dragon in on all four sides and above. I had an extra plane so I used it to give some cover to the cleric.
Next round we went on the offense. The ranger started with arrows and everyone spread out. We did not want to get the breath weapon again. The dragon started to dig his way out of the force plane barriers. I used a scroll of Gate and opened a portal to the plane of air under him. He fell through. I dismissed the spell.
We then hunted for a dragon horde and met his mate. Which demanded my party turn me over for torture and death. So they DID! The jerks. I got out of it though.
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With the rise of winged beasties, I wanted to see who has killed dragons and how.
I myself recently during the Siege challenged the "Breaker" to combat and between myself and my familiar smote him down.What have you mighty pathfinders done? Cant wsit to hear.
Ahh, but if I recall you were slain quite swiftly when your familiar couldn't tank the dragon in
Perhaps my memory isn't quite perfect though, as it was hard to see while flying away at top speed.
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In one scenario, the party was facing a dragon, and the beast was brought to negatives by a sorcerer with a fireball with an obscene # of damage dice. I asked if the dragon was dead, or simply below 0 hp. The DM said it was still technically alive, so my rogue/sorcerer shot it with a ray of frost, and finished it off. From that day, he has been calling himself Sydesko the Dragonslayer! ;-)
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My fighter/bard grappled one (a white) and then carried it physically into a Flaming Sphere to finish it.
Note that he had neither Improved Grapple nor any defense against fire himself, other than just being a Real Man!
Venture-Captain, Texas—Waco
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I'd like to know which PFS scenarios have dragons- spoilered of course.
Hmmm, let's see. I haven't GM'd or played all the scenarios, but quite a few. Let's see how good my memory is.
1. An insane old dragon that you couldn't fight in a retired Season 0 scenario,
2. Many possible black dragons in an older Special if you were at the right sub-tiers,
3. A really bad dragon at the highest subtiers of a newer Special,
4. A white dragon in Season 2,
5. A blue dragon (or was it?) in Season 3,
6. An already-identified dragon that Sydesko "killed" at my table in Season 3,
7. A skeletal black dragon in Season 4,
8. A copper dragon in Season 4,
9. And a drake already in Season 5, it's pretty dragon-like.
I've intentionally excluded the fairy dragon from this list. And no, sadly there aren't any actual dragons in To Scale the Dragon.
So, how many did I miss?
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The dragon bellowed and crashed into me, grasping me within its talons. My response was to rain a supernatural firestorm upon it, setting afire its very flesh. It wheeled, tearing into me with tooth and claw, dropping me and snatching me up much as a cat does a mouse. My flames burned away more scales, and I added to the fire with a quickened fireball before hammering away with the holy long sword I have carried for so long.
Divine power coursed through me, and my assault was furious as I struck blow after blow at the roaring beast that was now plummeting with me toward the wall's crenelations. One particularly crucial hit caused the beast to shudder with pain and an explosion of renewed fire, and I knew I was close to victory when we crashed into the wall's stones. I rolled to my feet, sword in hand, and looked up in time to see the dragon breath a line of acid from its maw, grazing me and wounding a few of my companions.
I stepped forward and renewed my attack. It was as though the lords of flame knew how important this was to me, for I did not miss a single strike. So furious was my assault that I was not even aware that the beast had crashed to the stones before me a bare two strikes into my attack. Its corpse still smoldering from fire, my sword dripping with draconic blood, I cast my gaze out over the demonic horde, seeing so many more things that could be set afire this day.
- Venture Captain Del'lisan ap Drogon, Oracle of Flame, Slayer of the Woundwyrm known as Hopebreaker
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** spoiler omitted **
Dear friend, did it unleash it's breath weapon upon you, as the one whom I smote down with my ever faithful familiar by my side? His breath was a terrible thing, breaking almost every magical item I owned, leaving me a naked man with but a few rods and wands left.
If it did, then well upon you, if not, then you're a lucky individual indeed.
I paid almost twenty thousand gold to repair all my equipment. It was a horrific day indeed.
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** spoiler omitted **Dear friend, did it unleash it's breath weapon upon you, as the one whom I smote down with my ever faithful familiar by my side? His breath was a terrible thing, breaking almost every magical item I owned, leaving me a naked man with but a few rods and wands left.
If it did, then well upon you, if not, then you're a lucky individual indeed.
I paid almost twenty thousand gold to repair all my equipment. It was a horrific day indeed.
Apart from the acid, it did not. I have studied up on this beast since, and have come to the conclusion that fortune smiled upon me that day; that it was fated that I would win that battle. Perhaps it was that the beast was overconfident, or that it was under-prepared. Perhaps it was that every chance I took went my way. But, while it did great harm to me, I flew from its corpse still capable of joining the final assault the demons were bringing to bear upon the walls.
Part 2 of Race for the Runecarved Key had a dragon (or dragons) in it.
Where can we find the elusive Part 2?
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In my third ever PFS game, my then 1st level Sorcerer played up into the 4-5 tier of a scenario that contained a Young White Dragon, which was almost rolling as many dice with its breath weapon (6d4) as I had HPs (8). I was being super paranoid, and I managed to be out of the cone. Wouldn't you know it, I stepped in at the last minute after it was injured and took it out with a 1d4 Burning Hands. Which was good, because being that close to it, I probably wouldn't have been around much longer if it didn't drop. Sadly, that character just hit level 12 and has not encountered another dragon since. But he's still got one of its talons.
If only he'd had as much luck with harpies...
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My paladin killed a white dragon (sadly didn't get the killing blow, but he did the majority of the Evil-Smiting damage) in the subterranean ice chamber of a module whose name I forget. The barbarian claimed its head, but I dragged out the body up to the surface to use for White Dragonscale Full Plate later.
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My paladin killed a white dragon (sadly didn't get the killing blow, but he did the majority of the Evil-Smiting damage) in the subterranean ice chamber of a module whose name I forget. The barbarian claimed its head, but I dragged out the body up to the surface to use for White Dragonscale Full Plate later.
I hope you had help. If you are medium sized it would take a colossal sized wyrm to create a set of full plate armor. :-)
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The actual logistics of how much dragonscale the rules say is needed is irrelevant, since I can't keep the body anyway in PFS and I'm just going to buy it at full price. :P But no, it wasn't colossal, heh.
But in story terms, his armor came from the dragon he slew. :)
And besides, during the battle he LOOKED colossal.
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Back at the begining of Living Greyhawk during a Veluna battle interactive, a dragon tried to do a flyby attack against my paladin. As the judge moved the dragon, he realized why my Large Dire lion mount had readied an attack...pounce, grapple and the poor sod was brought to the ground next to our party...he didn't last long.
I've seen a low tier zombie dragon get owned a number of times in PFS now.
Looking forward to more....
