Hi Pi! Welcome to the Board!
Well there are a zillion ways to do it and everybody has their own opinions about it. It might be a good idea to use the search option of the forum and you will find a lot of useful information on killing Big Red.
A summary:
Relatively "easy" ways to do it:
- use a thief (like Yoshimo) with sufficient points in 'set snares' to put as many traps around the dragon when he's still "blue". Rest and repeat the process until he's surrounded by traps. Now attack him with a ranged weapon so that he turns red and....watch the fireworks!
- keep the rest of your party well back and send an improved invisible mage with a Wand of Cloudkill in. Cast a few cloudkills just at the edge of the 'fog of war' (the shady dark area where he can't see you) to soften him up a bit. If you repeat it enough times he'll die.
If you really want it to be a proper fight, then these tactics will be handy:
- make sure you summon LOTS of creatures; elementals, monsters, fiends whatever. They can serve as fodder for the Wing Buffet attacks.
- make sure to have Jaheira or another druid memorise some Magic Resistance spells. You can cast those without Firkraag turing red and they will actually *lower* his magic resistance. The mage spell Lower resistance is good as well but it will turn him red.
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