Vampiric Dragon in the Inner Region - If I lose the battle, do I roll for his stats again in my next turn?

By Demarki, in Talisman Rules Questions

Just being curious, I am taking the Craft route and yet I roll an 11 + 4 Dragon Scales = 15 Strenght Dragon, even harder than the end boss. So I have zero chance of killing him since my strength was at 9 at that time and again, this was the reason I selected the Craft route in the Inner Region since I had 13 Craft.

So as expected I lost the battle, but what will happen during my next turn? Will the Dragon keep his stats or do I get to roll for his stats again?

Demarki said:

Just being curious, I am taking the Craft route and yet I roll an 11 + 4 Dragon Scales = 15 Strenght Dragon, even harder than the end boss. So I have zero chance of killing him since my strength was at 9 at that time and again, this was the reason I selected the Craft route in the Inner Region since I had 13 Craft.

So as expected I lost the battle, but what will happen during my next turn? Will the Dragon keep his stats or do I get to roll for his stats again?

He keep his statistics, and you must fight the same Hydra Dragon again.

It's the same as the werewolf from the normal inner region.

Velhart said:

Demarki said:

Just being curious, I am taking the Craft route and yet I roll an 11 + 4 Dragon Scales = 15 Strenght Dragon, even harder than the end boss. So I have zero chance of killing him since my strength was at 9 at that time and again, this was the reason I selected the Craft route in the Inner Region since I had 13 Craft.

So as expected I lost the battle, but what will happen during my next turn? Will the Dragon keep his stats or do I get to roll for his stats again?

He keep his statistics, and you must fight the same Hydra Dragon again.

It's the same as the werewolf from the normal inner region.

Then I have to level both my Strength and Craft if I decide to go Craft route else it's pretty much game over. If that's the case then it's seriously flawed. It's not fair having to fight a 2d6 + Scales Strength Dragon on the Craft patch compared to the 4 + Scales Hatchlings on the Strength path.

Demarki said:

He keep his statistics, and you must fight the same Hydra Dragon again.

It's the same as the werewolf from the normal inner region.

Then I have to level both my Strength and Craft if I decide to go Craft route else it's pretty much game over. If that's the case then it's seriously flawed. It's not fair having to fight a 2d6 + Scales Strength Dragon on the Craft patch compared to the 4 + Scales Hatchlings on the Strength path.

Strength path has also the vampiric dragon, who can be deadly if you don't have enough followers.

Hatchlings can make it a bit difficult for strength based characters.

It seems that a character must level up both strength and craft if he want to reach the coc.