Next time fire salamanders

 Give helpers. Tiny fire elementals… a bunch!! Surround. +2 flanking. Maybe +4 flanking special. 

I think give resistance to slashing??  MaybE.   Think fire lava children and their resists physical attacks  

Small fire elemental https://www.imarvintpa.com/dndlive/Monsters.php?id=348

• Smallies maybe can mob attack to auto hit or burn  
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• *maaaaybe ill have the small ones merge into a biiiig one, and itll speak once (rare) in a voice of all 10 little ones together. Deep and weird.
•  OOORRRR all the smalls hold them at bay while far away, giant bonfire, drow summon another fire Huge fire elemental. Use 3.5e elder stats. DMG REDUCTION 10. +18 to hit. BLINDFIGHT. 
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• Imprint on ur party mind of the ElderElementalGod - the elementals yell out the n many voices-at the moment of merging the smaller elementals into the LARGE MINI i have
• Statblock for elder fire elemental https://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/elemental.htm
• 35 ft tall!!!!
• Blundsight on 2 biggest
• Two darkness cast on it drom drow to hide it and more darkness cast on party
• Cast light spell to counter… arcana knowledge check

***note in 2e dnd, gotta summon elementals. The Drow did it!!  A big fire pit with them coming out. 

* 2e had 3 sizes, and biggest were 18 hitdice! Bigger or same HitDice than a dragon. Was +15 to hit (thAC0 was 5 on that one).