Re: Dragon-slaying

> One other thing. Aside from being rather monomaniacal, the wizard I'm
> thinking of is extremely intelligent, and very experienced. (No use
> testing a trap with runts.) That's why I'm pulling out every trick
in the
> book to use--if this were just any attacker, setbacks such as the
> Repulsion would probably be enough. In fact, I stated in my original
> message that an incautious wizard would almost certainly fall victim
to
> the trap, and that some of the proposed countermeasures relied on a
> measure of inside knowledge about the trap.
>
> I don't buy into the DM school of: "I shot you with my gun." "Yeah,
well I
> was wearing body armor." "Yeah, but I had explosive shot." "Yeah,
but my
> force field stopped it from detonating." It's just that any attacker
with
> time on his hand should, if he was wise, be as paranoid and patient as
> possible. If one probe fails, don't rush it, just try again another
day.

As long as the equally intelligent dragon is played the same way I
agree completely.
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