Thread:Transcendantviewer/@comment-26852465-20160304035846/@comment-25547106-20160304212654

Aside from the vampiress, there's also the White Dragon we had to kill.

We made our way into the lower networks of tunnels in the ice castle and found its lair. Now, it wasn't an exceptionally powerful dragon, we were only level 7, but it was a difficult encounter for our level. What happened was; Armstrong had just gotten his feature from killing the Vampiress. He now had Advantage on Initiative checks and could use his reaction at any time to rage at the start of combat in order to act normally during surprise rounds. Because of this, he went first. He rages and runs up to the dragon, beating on it with his maul. For the entirety of this fight, every time Armstrong would get hit by the dragon in any way, he'd chastise it. The dragon opens up with its Ice Breath. Armstrong resists all damage while raging, so he just shrugs it off and continues clobbering away, but not without a witty remark. "It's colder where I'm from!"

Next time, the dragon's breath is recharging, so it starts wailing on him in melee. It slaps him with its tail and attempts to bite him. The bite misses, but the tail strike hits home. So, I roleplayed it as him getting slapped across the face by the end of its tail and recoiling. He then glares back at the thing and responds "My mother hits harder!". Then, the dragon's getting tired of his shit, so it uses its Frightful Presence, which just makes it so he can't willingly move closer to it, and it uses its wing attack and knocks Armstrong down. He's already at disadvantage and the thing's already got Advantage, so I had him start swinging recklessly until the start of his next turn. The dragon pounces on him and just starts hammering away at him, and despite his fear, I had him play it off like a kitten was scratching him, saying "Stop! You're hurting me! Oh, you're hurting me!" And the wizard's been raining Fireballs all through this fight, so this thing's pretty hurt. It tries to run, and the archers finish it off. But as it runs, since Armstrong can't willingly move closer to it because of his fear, he just starts hollaring at it "Hey! Get back here and fight me like a man, you cur! Don't make me come after you!"