Post date: Oct 2, 2014 1:16:20 AM
The player agreed to try again.
This time we used Dungeon Crawl Classics' "funnel method". Twenty 0-level peasants arose as a mob to end the threat of Black Fang once and for all.
Long story short: seven survived. It was touch and go because every round, the dragon was dispatching two or three PCs! Because of some critical hits, and a big wallop from the Dragonbane sword (wielded by the 0-level caravan master), they even killed the dragon. The Pathfinder Beginner Box said that the dragon is supposed to flee in the middle of the fight, and I was getting ready to have it fly away, but they just killed it. That was surprising and satisfying.