I know this is nothing new to all those who have been "playing fair", but I was so happy that I managed to kill both the shadow and red dragons without using a single trap yesterday.
In the shadow dragon fight, Minsc and Jaheira got killed; in the red dragon fight, my bf died. I don't understand why Minsc, Keldorn and Jaheira were walking around in fear for the second fight, though. After all, I did cast resist fear which helped my PC, bf and Jan remain in action.
Both times, my PC the kensai-mage got the final kill after a series of lower resistance, pierce magic, breach and lightning bolts
Poor bf, he was actually pretty heroic after all but no credit was given to his contribution of 3 holy smites. :~( The greatest surprise was that Jan was still alive; thought he'd get killed outright with so low hp compared to the others.