Step One: Take off your weapons unless you're a little girl
Step Two: Take off your magic unless you're a pansy
Step Three: Take off your armor unless you're a sissy
Step Four: Punch that dragon in the face until it dies

Sad thing is, in vanilla Skyrim that's more than plausible way to beat a dragon.

I've done that a bunch of times.

I prefer fork and knife, wearing a chef's hat.

What I don't understand is dragons at word walls. When I find new word walls that I haven't been to it's always a weak default dragon guarding it. When I return days later I actually do get a decent challenge from a frost or elder dragon. You would think going to new word wall it would automatically spawn a leveled up dragon instead of the weakest. Atleast make me earn these new powers- shouts.

I did it with two wooden swords from Heartfire.

Lol i conquered an ancient dragon recenly with a fork so this thread made me laugh