I was attacked by a dragon while on top of the mage school. Needless to say, things got pretty epic. The best part, the dragon skeleton is now a nice ornament in the mage school courtyard, seems to be permanent too, as after another 15 hours of gameplay its still there. I love it!

A dead dragon spawned in Solitude and I got a free dragon soul! That's epic.

There's a bounty for a dragon south of Ivarstead. It's a huge watchtower on top of which there is a word wall. The dragon, myself, and Lydia were locked in battle atop the towering structure. The dragon spouting forth waves of frost and I peppering him with flaming arrows. Eventually he perched on the side of the tower where I slew him, his carcass hurled to the ground and I absorbed his soul from 10 stories up. I felt like Highlander.

Slaying dragons in cities or not really far is very funny cause u just have to fire a few arrow and it is done.

I killed a dragon with a bear , a mammoth and a giant !!! Don't know why the dragon targeted them instead of me so I crounched and lower all of them till the dragon was dead. After that I killed them all using the ice breath ... well not all just the bear then I just run , I'm afraid of giants since I got OS by one.

Mine would be when I was in Dawnstar and two dragons attacked the city at the same time. I was on the docks shooting arrows at them, they never landed. Just swooped down and blew fire at the ships and the people. Eventually they both died, along with a lot of guards lol.

I have 2

The one with Krosis. I saw a dragon and started to sprint towards it and while i watched it fly up into the air i was greeted by a "WTF did half my health" fireball from a dragon priest.

The second is when I chased a frost dragon for an hour, battling him while he killed and ate wolves, bears, and forsworn. My first encounter with a non regular dragon. Was quite epic

It'd have to be the only battle with a dragon that surprised me, as it started with me getting Unerelenting Forced off of a tower (No Music, Dragon Ambush!) I had been looting, which nearly killed me.
Apparently, a pair of frost trolls decided to murder my recently hired mercenary and had no trouble. Worst of all, frost dragons don't do [censored] to frost trolls, so the three of them were having a great time trying to murder me.

I've only had one random encounter with a dragon so far, and it was on the way to High Hrothgar.

I was climbing the 7,000 steps, when I spotted a meditating pilgrim. As I approached, a large shadow passed over me. Before I had any time to look up or react, a dragon landed right between me and the pilgrim. I wasn't even aware random encounters were possible yet, so of course I nearly crapped my pants.

It was a long and bloody fight, but we were victorious; the dragon was slain.

As I absorbed the fallen wyrm's power, the lone pilgrim said, "If I hadn't seen it for myself, I never would have believed it."

Uhh that would be my horse taking on not one...but two dragons at a time while I peppered them with arrows, but before either one died we were ambushed by a group of Forsworn...What does my horse do? Kicks one dragon in the face and kills it and turns onto the group of poor, unlucky Forsworn. I finished the second dragon and sat there and watched the Forsworn fight a hopeless battle against my demonic god horse. Glad I give him carrots to keep him from murdering me.

Riften - even though I didn't land the killing blow myself, there was so much going on what with guards firing arrows at it and the townsfolk running all over the place - and the body drew a huge crowd! I don't think there were any casualties either

I was dashing across the tundra, towards a bandit camp. I was just planning on clearing the place for a bounty and some loot. Suddenly, a massive shadow passed overheard, thinking quickly I sprinted to a rock to get a vantage point, and drew my bow. The rock was right beside the bandit camp, and they drew their weapons to attack me, the moment the dragon smashed to the ground among them, biting and killing a bandit. The bandits, seeing that we both had bigger fish to fry, turned on the dragon and started hitting him with all they had. I did the same, sending volley after volley at it, as the bandits slowly thinned out, until only the mage survived. We managed to do enough damage to make him take off, when the bandit turned on me.

An arrow rectified that problem.

The dragon landed again, nearby a small river. I heard several sharp howls, and a group of three wolves dashed up, pouncing on the dragon. It made quick work of them, but he was distracted long enough for about five mudcrabs from a pond right beside him to attack several times. I joined the crabs, continuing to shoot the dragon. That was short-lived, as the dragon flew up and away, coming back to strafe me and the crabs with fire. It killed the crabs and damaged me a fair amount, so I began to move to cover, shooting arrows at the dragon as it circled for another strafe.

The damn thing finally took enough damage, and began to lose altitude. It crashed into the ground, kicking up dirt as a I continued to shoot arrows into it. When it finally skidded to a stop, it was mere yards away from me, and quickly recovering. I traded my bow for a sword and shield, and charged in for the kill, slashing the dragons head several times. It spewed fire onto me at least twice, and I had to resort to using potions to keep myself alive.

In the end, I slashed him in the head, performing a finishing move where I climbed onto his neck and slashed his head over and over again.

Looking back, I think that dragon must have been a fairly high level compared to me, because he took a beating.

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I was doing a quest for the Mage College and I was sent to Winterhold to defeat the 10 ice creatures that were attacking the city after Ancano did something crazy with the Eye of Magnus. I get down there and start getting my ass kicked by the ice creatures. After ten minutes I had only managed to kill 3 of them on expert difficulty and was running low on health potions. All of a sudden a blood dragon lands and starts tearing the ice creatures to pieces. I pretty much just kept constantly running and healing myself while the dragon cleaned up the ice creatures. After that it was a 1-on-1. I ran back to the college courtyard and summoned an atronach and used all of my scrolls (fireball, lightning bolt, storm atronach) and after ten minutes or so I was able to take it out. Just like the thread starter, I know have a big skeleton in the courtyard of the college.

my second one, i was trying to kill a mammoth, while standing on a rock where they couldnt reach me, when suddenly i saw a dragon fly above me. then like 2 giants and 3 mammoths ran off in all different directions (this was still because they couldnt reach me so they get scared and run) i jump off the rock and get on my horse and started to chase the dragon instead. but the 2 giants and 3 mammoths saw that i jumped of the rock and came back to agro me again. so it kinda turned into a train lol. after a while the dragon reached some structure where it started to attack bandits and thats when the most epic battle ever started. giants VS me VS dragon VS bandits VS mammoths. fire and flying corpses everywere xD

I was doing the mage college quest to get the books back when I noticed a dragon head symbol on the top of my screen. so I fallowed it and saw a dragon and thought "Woo time to launch a sneak attack" so I hit RB instead of duel casting firebolt and he comes after me I dodge his ice and hide behind a rock all of a sudden BAM! there goes 3/4 of my health. by then I am freaking out I cast a instant heal and Fus Ro Dah the dragon.

I then launch a series of firebolt duel shots at him and take him down; while being happy about surviving ( I was level 7 mage 100hp ) blam I get hit by a fire ball so i duck behind some rocks and heal myself franticly looking for the second dragon in the air when sudenly BOO! a dragon priest named Krosis pops out from behind the rock I was hiding in.

By then I realised that it was not another dragon attacking me when I fought the frost dragon it was him.

then came the 14 min fight with me popping out to hit him with lighting bolts to drain his mana and sprinting up and using Fus Ro Dah on his to stagger him for some quick bolt attacks on him.

in the end I used up 24 health potions 19 mana potions ( the 25 hp / mana potions )

I looted him and was giddy when i saw the mask I was jumping for joy then Roar bear kills me from behind when i am at 30hp and 10 mana.

When I fought a dragon, a dragon priest and two cave bears at the same time............................................... and winning.

Mine would be the one where I had to spend about 20 minutes waiting for him to come down from the sky.

Or maybe the one where I waited like 15 minutes...

or the one where I waited so long that I ended up giving up and just riding away.

Yeah .... I hope they're just a bit glitched, but I have a feeling they're just a pain in the ass for a pure Melee character like the one I'm playing right now. :brokencomputer:

Well this is more of an epic fail I guess.

I was making my way to the College of Winterhold and I ran into an Ice Wolf who hit me three times and I was dead. Being the smart fellow I am I decided to go the long way after I reloaded my game. I made my way up by the mountains and then there is a rumble. Then I think it was some fire. Then me panicking and getting caught on every rock I could. Then an odd silence. I look around and see the dragon going after my ice wolf friend.

After watching for about 15 seconds I decide to just make a run for it and sneak by them. Nope the big bad wolf decides to attack me instead. He gets one or two shots in, I smash my mouse trying to get a couple restore health spells in as I am running. Three black things appear in the distance and I have no clue if they wanted to eat me or not and I didn't want to find out. Funny thing is I am pretty sure I survived the whole thing.


tl;dr This game rocks.

No idea. Would be nice if they showed up in my game.

At a very low lvl I was strolling south from the dragon burial site where Delphine found out I was a Dragonborn.

I was riding my horse and suddenly heard a howling. Unmounted the horse and went to a higher surface. My first 1vs1 fight with a dragon.

Dragon was going to breath a full broad on me. I didn't run anywhere, I just glazed the dragon to the eye pulling my ward. Didn't do any damage. I didn't have any fireballs at the time so I beat the beast with a bare one handed sword at expert difficulty (I was a light armour battlemage breton girl so it took a WHILE). After time the dragon fell to one of those small ponds of water. Tried to freeze me, but I kept the ward on. Jumped like a ninja from a cover and hacked the thing down.

Cool place for a dragon skeleton where you can see it every time you go by. After that I put a third mark to the map on my wall to the very spot. I am used to do that. Now I'm about lvl 18 and have a dozen marks on that map.

I had one outside of the College. It was pretty epic. Fire and lightning flying around everywhere.

im currently level 43

when i was level 13 i encountered my first random dragon while i was doing my dark brotherhood quest

i was busy picking a lock to my target's house and all of a sudden the music changed, to the.. barbarian choir

at first i didn't really know why.... then as i pursued to pick the lock, i heard a SCREEEEEECH and omfg, when i looked up the thing was already blowing fire in my face

it took me ... 2 days and 1 night (in game time) to take it down with my bow.... i was using a hunter's bow with iron arrows... and i would have to duck in-and-out of the house to land an arrow or two when he was overhead.

i have to say, one of the best fights i've experienced in any game thus far.

the dragon AI was extremely adaptive, there was sort of a flight pattern but that changed a lot depending on if the dragon can target you or not, most of the time he'll be up there flying in circles and trying to roast you. He will though, in his pattern, hover and spew out flames and he will also perch on buildings to try to cook you up...

the hardest, or rather, longest part of the encounter was his flight patterns, i would have to wait for him to hover or perch to shoot in ONE arrow... and 2 if im use a certain technique.... after it landed however, since my sneak was so high, at 50, and he was relatively far away, he didn't really spot me... so i had 3x damage bonus sneak attack like.. 10 shots in a row... so that was pretty nice

i would have cried if i died towards the end.

p.s. while i was figuring out how to best defeat it or by coming up with strategies, i died by the bucket loads, it was terrible but in the end it was all worth it

EPIC

I was heading up Eldersblood Peak, a frost troll up the road was about to charge me until a dragon used its fire breath to kill it, making its body fall down the mountainside. I had to keep sprinting behind rocks to dodge its breath and plummet it with dozens of poisoned arrows since it was all I had as a stealthy type. Probably nothing special to most but I really enjoyed using the environment to my advantage.