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[Shadowlord]

Fighting a dragon is just a longer, more drawn-out fight with a rat, where the rat has a bigger picture with wings and scales and fire.

This shouldn't be. Dragons can and should be *smarter* opponents than most other monsters, especially rats. They should have better AI routines (knowing who is attacking them and targetting specific ones, such as the one doing the most damage, for instance) and several special abilities to make them into extremely dangerous enemies. In addition to their breath attack, they should be able to perform a wing buffet (flap their wings to produce a powerful gust of wind which is likely to knock everyone nearby to the ground, stunning them), and should also have a repertoire of spells that they employ against their enemies.

In short, dragons should be something that, upon seeing, you usually RUN AWAY IN TERROR, even if you're in a group, unless you've come specifically prepared to counter their abilities and fight them - and they shouldn't have to go HURR ONE-HIT KILL EVERYONE to make people run away from them.

[Zironic]

Why dragons, Why not have a terrifying humanoid mastermind that constantly sends assassins to kill you, until you defeat him in his heavily booby-trapped base.