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Hehehe - let me know how that works out for you. I think I'll tuck this away into my "potentials" folder and see if I don't use it as a campaign. Think it could be fun to have Thomas, Captain of the Guard, be the one 'employing' the adventures in the beginning. First, dealing with a small orc...

I am about to get extraordinarily wordy.... I’ll take the Adult red dragon (CR 15). We’ll call him Ard for short. I started out this idea already in a thread, but I’ll rework and retool it from here. I’m working in an area assumed to have several terrain types teaming with the typical...

Posted while I was constructing my last remabling post. Sounds like fun. :)

You talk about dragons being able to socialize...it depends what society you are refering to and also how the dragon attempting these socialization efforts. A city of dragonborn might have no problem with a dragon showing up in the local Tuesday Market to attempt to trade and sell some goods...

In 3e, to use caster items, such as staves, wands, and scrolls, one needs either to be a spell caster or to have UMD. Dragons were caster already, and so could use them. In 4e, we know wands and staves aren't working the same way as they did in 3e. They might be spell holders, true, but they...

It's much like the gray or green slaad entry which states they make and aquire magical items to increase their own spell casting, but have no feats, no magic items, and few items that would help them increase their power since they have little way of using wands or staves, being that they have...

Yeah, but they are supposedly making a lot of changes to it. Further, in a place such as Faerun, with so many power NPCs and with wizards tending to be the be-all, end-all of power, dragons would need magical power in order to survive at all. It seems that WotC is tuning down the power-level...

This is where DM styles differ. I buy the books for rules so that combat is organized, the classes are balanced, and I have a metric for judging what is an appropriate challenge and reward. I buy the book so that I learn how combat is done, how hard a monster hits, and what sort of power is...

I thought part of the PoL concept was that there were no sprawling kingdoms anymore. Villages, yes, and towns, and cities, and even city-states, but that the idea of a unified group of people spreading over many towns and villages was pretty much done. There are many dangerous things lying in...

Thanks for the reply. I more fully understadn now. It seems that what it all really comes down to is the intent the DM has for the dragon. It is difficult for a dragon to be the Puppetmaster/crimeboss type, but it is not impossible. A dragon has wealth and power, both of which readily...

True, but once charmed, someone is easy to shackle. Once imprisioned, someone is easy to break. Keep charming a Handeler of some sort to carry out your work, to keep them in line. Use something big and bad and mean. The position of power will eventually be it's own reward and you won't need...

Derren - I understand your point, but have a couple questions for you: If the MM had the line "Most dragons have the mental prowess and arcane ability to learn and use any rituals they can find," will that be counted as satisfacory for you? Also, you mention the Alarm spell often. I am...

As for the d8 in the stat block...I tend to agree with the idea that as levels increase, the number of d8 do increase. I know that the old industry standard was that d8 meant 1d8, but didn't WotC stop doing that, at least in 3.5? I feel like I haven't seen "roll d6" or something in a long...

Actually, I would say common sense leads to logic more along the lines of An elf has bonuses to wisdom and dex, which makes the race suitable to roles x, y, z. Roles x, y, and z are not strength dependent roles, and therefore most elves do not develope a high strength (shown not by some racial...

True. I think dragons should have magical abilites at their command, they just shouldn't be casting them like a sorcerer. I like that each dragon will play out differently and some will have a variety of actions to bring to bear and others will rely on only one or two. But moreover, I am glad...

My biggest probelm with dragons having spell casting it is became obvious every dragon should take the same spells for the most part. What dragon isn't going to make sure to invest in protection spells (after all, at such a low caster level, damage spells are going to be crap). In order for...

And here I was thinking players would be able to pick their at will/per encounter/per day spells, such as: at 5th lvl, you have 1 per day spell picked from the 3rd lvl spell list. At 6th lvl, 2 per day spells from the 3rd lvl spell list. At 7th lvl, 1 per encounter spell from the 3rd lvl list...

Most traps I create for monsters don’t perfectly mimic spells. I don’t need to explain to my players how the blue dragon managed to set up a permanent rain storm in the cavern passage. When they entered storm, they found it zapped one of them randomly with lightning and that thunder rumbled...

Yeah, you gave examples, but your examples were of generic powers any cleric or paladin might have. "Cauterize" doing what it does with hellfire could just as easily be called "Healing Spring" given by a water diety which causes a cooling spray of mist to do the task. "Scorching Steel" could...

Having all depictions of a race have the same hair style, especially in a book about the races not about a particular region (such as showing that the halflings of Greenmoss River often have dreads), would be annoying (I haven't seen R&C yet to know). The part about wearing boots makes sense...