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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5789497" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>In my memory there has never been a truly great dragonslaying adventure in D&D; there have been pretty good ones, but not a true classic that explicates the core archetype of:</p><p></p><p>a) angry/old dragon terrorizes land and/or destroys city, probably dwarvish</p><p>b) fearful villagers/king call for adventures to help, and/or adventures hear about the rumored great dragon and its treasure in Mount X, "From which none have returned..."</p><p>c) adventurers realize they need a magic weapon(s) or artifact(s) of some kind(s) to slay the dragon, go on side quest for such item(s).</p><p>d) adventurers travel to dragon's layer, perhaps face its minions, eventually face the dragon itself.</p><p></p><p>(Or some variant of the above; you might have noticed that I'm combining elements of the early 80s movie <em>Dragonslayer--</em>an underrated classic fantasy movie, imo--and the late 80s fantasy comic, <em><a href="http://www.atomicavenue.com/atomic/titledetail.aspx?TitleID=14670" target="_blank">Adventurers</a>, </em>an unknown masterpiece imo--the best fantasy comic I've ever read, at least the first sequence).</p><p></p><p>I've been wanting to run such an adventure for a while and would actually love to make it into an adventure path, one that could theoretically span ten or more levels, from 4E's mid-Heroic to Epic. Ideally someone has done some of the legwork already - are there any good examples of this sort of classic dragon quest, whether in single adventure, mini-campaign or adventure path format?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5789497, member: 59082"] In my memory there has never been a truly great dragonslaying adventure in D&D; there have been pretty good ones, but not a true classic that explicates the core archetype of: a) angry/old dragon terrorizes land and/or destroys city, probably dwarvish b) fearful villagers/king call for adventures to help, and/or adventures hear about the rumored great dragon and its treasure in Mount X, "From which none have returned..." c) adventurers realize they need a magic weapon(s) or artifact(s) of some kind(s) to slay the dragon, go on side quest for such item(s). d) adventurers travel to dragon's layer, perhaps face its minions, eventually face the dragon itself. (Or some variant of the above; you might have noticed that I'm combining elements of the early 80s movie [I]Dragonslayer--[/I]an underrated classic fantasy movie, imo--and the late 80s fantasy comic, [I][URL="http://www.atomicavenue.com/atomic/titledetail.aspx?TitleID=14670"]Adventurers[/URL], [/I]an unknown masterpiece imo--the best fantasy comic I've ever read, at least the first sequence). I've been wanting to run such an adventure for a while and would actually love to make it into an adventure path, one that could theoretically span ten or more levels, from 4E's mid-Heroic to Epic. Ideally someone has done some of the legwork already - are there any good examples of this sort of classic dragon quest, whether in single adventure, mini-campaign or adventure path format? [/QUOTE]
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