Is this a Bug?

JSPCHIEF · Post by **JSPCHIEF** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 8:56 am

I'm in Ch 6 and decided to kill the red Dragon before I go fight Bohdi. No matter what I do, Firkaags first attack kills my char. He uses breath weapon and my NPCs get injured but not killed. I even had Edwin cast Otiluke's Sphere on me and I still die instantly. My Swashbuckler is lvl 24...so it's not like he's weak. We killed the shadow dragon in about 1 second. Does anyone know what's up with this? By the way I checked my saving throws and I'm a seven for breath weapon with -5 in parenthesis. Why the negative five? My equipment doesn't appear to affect this.

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 9:41 am

This would be a major bug. the -5 should come from items that give you better saving throws. Or it is a class ability

JSPCHIEF · Post by **JSPCHIEF** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 9:55 am

So is that -5 five a good thing? Is breath weapon avoided by prot. from fire? Maybe I'll try that.

Phantom Lord · Post by **Phantom Lord** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 12:31 pm

-5 is good, making the save probably halves the damage taken.

IIRC correctly, a venerable red AD&D dragon breathes for something like 20 W20 fire damage, giving an average of 210. Anyway, this shouldn't kill a lvl 24 char on the spot if he makes his save - at least not always. Prot from fire could help. Other wise there are about 500 threads about dealing with dragons hidden in the depths of this board. A search could help.