Sometimes its tough to remind yourself...."hey...I dont have to run in hacking to that area of angry poisionous plant tendrils..." You get so conditioned to just running in a hacking the stuffing out of everything in site, that you forget you can just stay put,let the dragon sit in her little zone of death and hurting, pouting cuz your not sending anything but little summoned creatures into her but one at a time, just to keep her mildly occupied, while you pelt her with distance attacks and the aforementioned cloudkill(though she can turn theses summoned creatures against you...either that or they just get mad at you cuz your sending them into a cloudkill zone...but you can handle them). Eventually, shell come out to get you, but from my experience, she doesnt do that nasty plant thing again. If youve gotten her down to about "injured" status, by the time she moves out, applying a full party beat down now with hastened fighters should do the job the rest of the way. Shes really not that tough. Not as tough as the other dragons, or even a pack of mind-flayers. Id take this dragon over a 5 pack of illithids and some umber hulks any day.
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