Yes there's always the quivering knees tactic too http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

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Why?

The summoned beasties are just to give the Dragon something other than a party member to munch on.

Actually i beat him rather easy...just casted magic resistance on him and surrounded him with the group...then the idiot got confused and couldnt decide where to cast his spells??? didnt take long before he was down hehe...so much for the Wisdom of the Ancient Dragons

Here is my famous dragon slaying strategies.
It depends on your playing confidence(how good you are with D&D) and your party exp+composition.

MUST USE PROTECT FROM FIRE, a 10d20 red dragon breath kills!

1) Suitable for melee heavy high exp party
Hack and slash the dragon. MAKE SURE you have very low save vs. breath and spell throws.
Good idea to cast defensice harmony and summon some elementals (fire). Cast protect from fire on all characters

2) Mage heavy low/high level
Cast lower resistance and away with magic missiles/chain lightning..etc.
No summonered animals allows you to use the deadly skull trap and cloud kill spells.

3) Summon + Mage
Use summoned animals to tie the dragon up whilst you fire non-area effect spells.

NOT DRAGONS ARE IMMUNE to fire(red) and acid...but NOT poison.


Firkraag has a low THAC0 -ve 2 or something
Uses insect swarm aginst your mages and used red dragon breath once, fatal.
It has some 300HP and an AC 0f -11.

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Well I always use melee to bring down dragons. After the first time I killed Firkraag, I've been able to drop him only a few rounds. Heres what I do:

Take three fighters (rangers/paladins etc)
> Frost or Fire Giant STR potions
> Haste
> Aid on all fighters
> Bless
> Chant
> Resist Fire/Cold if you have them on your cleric/druid

Surround the son of a gun and volley magic missles at him while all your fighters attack. NOTE: This way tends to make him use his breath weapon on your mages. So you've been forewarned.

A great way to beat up on a dragon LOL.

Of course, I start the battle by casting magic resistance on the dragon, to lower his. Then A Nice Insect Plague spell works wonders. The dragon can't cast spells in it, the dragon takes 1 damage every 2 seconds, AND most of the time the dragon runs in fear because of the swarm.

I kill that red dragon that way every time. My warriors are hitting it, my mages are magic missiling it, and my clerics give it nice summoned monsters to hit.
I always have my clerics put fire resistance on all my people before hand. The dragon usually only gets one chance at a fire breath before he dies, so that initial protection makes sure my guys don't get toasted by 60-100+ damaing breath.
And magic missile spell sequencers work wonders! You'll throw a zillion magic missiles at the dragon, it will look like a pincushion when you are done.

So want to see a scared dragon, just cast magic resistance on it, then start the battle by insect plaqueing it (if you have a druid). Youll grin in victory.

A few summoned creatures and my archer + minsc (hasted) made VERY short work of both Firkragg and the Shadow dragon. Just about to go after the Black Dragon when I finally kill that damn demi-liche.

I sent my invisible thief in to backstab him which did around 70 hp of damage, then used my cleric to cast lower resistance, summonded creatures to attack him while my characters got into position (all the while my magic users are hitting him with lightning bolts) and once all the summonded creatures had been blown away I attacked from all sides at once. EASY!!!

This is assuming you don't want to use any cheese methods at all, like surrounding the dragon before you even start the fight.

Summon creatures to tank for you.

Basically acting as punching bags while your party members hack/shoot/slash/stab/impale/etc... ... the dragon

Cast as many defensive spells as possible before the fight, starting from the longest duration ones. Make sure you have either Remove or Resist Fear.

Haste is a nice spell too.

As you engage, spread out your melee combatants, summoned creatures in front and at the sides of the dragon, melee party members at the back and mages/clerics/ranged fighters just within shooting/casting range.

As summon creatures get unsummoned/killed, summon more. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif Make sure they occupy the dragon at all times.

Cast these if you have them, Breach, Insect Plague, Lower Magic Resistance.

Shoot these if you have them, Arrows of Biting.

Good luck! http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif