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ShadowLord XT
Commander
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Plane of Shadow
 | | 07/28/2006 5:50 PM |
| This is for my Home Brew Adventure again. The PCs have to climb a mountain and get to a Silver Dragon to try to get a pendant they need.
As a DM how do I go about this encounter? Do I make stats just incase they attack it? Give it a high diplomacy check so the PCs will have a hard time talking him out of it? I don't know where to start.
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Lachlarlan_the_Mad
Sergeant
470 Posts
| | 07/28/2006 6:07 PM |
| First off. Yes, stat up the dragon. PCs have a knack for doing the dumbest things possible.
Second, figure out what the dragon would want in exchange for the pendant. Dragons, even the good ones, are extremely covetous of their hoards, so it shouldn't be anything easy to come by.
Third, if they PCs don't have the required item(s), have the dragon send them on a subquest to find it. | |
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ShadowLord XT
Commander
2646 Posts
Plane of Shadow
| | 07/28/2006 7:09 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Lachlarlan_the_Mad
First off. Yes, stat up the dragon. PCs have a knack for doing the dumbest things possible.
Is there a thing on the internet that allows me to create the stats for the silver dragon or do I have to have a specific book? | |
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wildmage
Sneak
123 Posts
| | 07/28/2006 7:18 PM |
| Here, try this "thing on the internet" (the D20 D&D 3.5 SRD in html):
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/dragonTrue.htm#silverDragon
The way to approach dragon entries is to pick an age class (which determines size, HP, AC, attacks, movement, breath weapon damage/area, abilities, etc.), then read from left to right across each of the tables for that age class. If you want, just copy this info onto a standard character sheet (or cut and past the webpage data into a Word document or similar). You might have to make some choices still such as spells it has available, other items it carries or has available, etc. Be sure to read through the whole entry, including the Combat section:
"Silver dragons are not violent and avoid combat except when faced with highly evil or aggressive foes. If necessary, they use fog cloud or control weather to blind or confuse opponents before attacking. When angry, they use reverse gravity to fling enemies helplessly into the air, where they can be snatched. Against flying opponents, a silver dragon hides in clouds (creating some with control weather on clear days), then jumps to the attack when it has the advantage." | |
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orcdoubleax
Sergeant
694 Posts
| | 07/28/2006 7:54 PM |
| Silver dragons are very good and noble. The dragon would likly give the party the pendent if they were using it agaist an evil foe. Since this doesn't make much of a plot development I would pose this question: How can the party prove that they are worthy to recieve the pendent?
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Can of the Cave Beer
Commander
2838 Posts
| | 07/29/2006 12:08 AM |
| Just because it's "noble" doesn't mean that it will part with any of its trinkets without reasonable compensation.
Silver Dragons are fond of Human food, no?
Perhaps there are some rare herbs for a particular dish it wants to try its talons at. Of course, such things are absurdly simple for Dragons (the fact that the PCs are not Dragons may or may have slipped its mind) and should only take scant effort and maybe a day or so (much more than three days and the herbs will have lost their freshness and special appeal).
Or consider the dragon to be well-intentioned but inept. Sure, the PCs can have the pendant, but only if the Dragon gets to come along (or one of its inept offspring gets to go in its stead). Mom or Dad of course expects the youngster back in one piece (and with minimal scarring)...The youngling will have a knack for causing/finding trouble in any situation and the PCs will be expected to not just let it go off on its own.
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King O Vrock
Sergeant
397 Posts
| | 07/30/2006 11:26 AM |
| | Draconimicon also lists example dragons for every color and every age class. | |
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