I'm just bummed I've never had a dragon sneak up on me.
I generally notice them while they're circling and have more than enough time to prepare to mee tthem face to face. . . I would love, just once, to just be cruising down a path and suddenly, "Ah crap I'm fire!" picked up and carried off, or something.
For intelligent creaturesa, these dragons have little by way of guile.
Oddly enough, this just happened to me. I was out in the middle of bumble [censored] nowhere, it had just turned to night, ( I try not to travel at night for RP purposes, and was looking for a place to set up "camp") and an "enemy blip" shot across my compass. That was "scary" enough because I hadn't seen anything in front of me. Before I had a chance to think, it had landed behind me and set me on fire. Nearly soiled my pants. And because I was caught unaware, it turned out to be the most challenging dragon fight yet.