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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8715429" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>In most campaigns, dragons are used rarely. When they are, I generally decide their behavior based on type and age.</p><p></p><p>As a general rule, PCs are far more likely to interact with young dragons than any other age category. Young dragons are still naive in many ways, prone to excesses and overconfident. Much like soldiers, there are old dragons, there are bold dragons but there are very few old bold dragons. The older a dragon, the less likely it is to be encountered because you're talking about intelligent creatures that have survived threats not only from adventurous humanoids but also other dragons.</p><p></p><p>A big reason I rarely use them is that if run intelligently they can be much more threatening than their CR indicates. They are <em>not</em> brutes who will land and duke it out with the PCs. They'll pick fights in terrain where they can fly in, breath fire and then disappear over the ridge. Rinse and repeat. They possibly switching up tactics to snatch up a PC only to fly a significant distance away or simply out of eyesight and then drop the hapless PC to their death. If you try to run away, their spies and allies (or just creatures cowed into cooperation) will slow you down and give away your position.</p><p></p><p>I <em>did</em> have a campaign that involved dragons recently, an ancient red dragon decided to go after a big prize, claim to be the reborn emperor of a fractured nation. Many of his elite troops were half dragons, monstrosities created for the sole purpose of being his shock troops. Funny thing is, the PCs never actually directly engaged this dragon cum emperor. Instead they found out that he had enslaved his own mother and was using her blood to create his troops. The PCs freed dear old mom and <em>she</em> took care of her son. Someday I'm going to have to revisit this story. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8715429, member: 6801845"] In most campaigns, dragons are used rarely. When they are, I generally decide their behavior based on type and age. As a general rule, PCs are far more likely to interact with young dragons than any other age category. Young dragons are still naive in many ways, prone to excesses and overconfident. Much like soldiers, there are old dragons, there are bold dragons but there are very few old bold dragons. The older a dragon, the less likely it is to be encountered because you're talking about intelligent creatures that have survived threats not only from adventurous humanoids but also other dragons. A big reason I rarely use them is that if run intelligently they can be much more threatening than their CR indicates. They are [I]not[/I] brutes who will land and duke it out with the PCs. They'll pick fights in terrain where they can fly in, breath fire and then disappear over the ridge. Rinse and repeat. They possibly switching up tactics to snatch up a PC only to fly a significant distance away or simply out of eyesight and then drop the hapless PC to their death. If you try to run away, their spies and allies (or just creatures cowed into cooperation) will slow you down and give away your position. I [I]did[/I] have a campaign that involved dragons recently, an ancient red dragon decided to go after a big prize, claim to be the reborn emperor of a fractured nation. Many of his elite troops were half dragons, monstrosities created for the sole purpose of being his shock troops. Funny thing is, the PCs never actually directly engaged this dragon cum emperor. Instead they found out that he had enslaved his own mother and was using her blood to create his troops. The PCs freed dear old mom and [I]she[/I] took care of her son. Someday I'm going to have to revisit this story. :) [/QUOTE]
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