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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CombatWombat51" data-source="post: 1410647" data-attributes="member: 10473">The PC's were all staying at a particular roadside inn, and otherwise had nothing in common. Also staying at the inn was a group of thieves, though this was unknown to the PC's. The thieves had stolen the eggs from a particular mother gold dragon, and the dragon wasn't pleased. Through scrying, the dragon was able to discern the location of the eggs as being in this inn. So she came over and immolated the place, natch. She planned on simply burning everything to a crisp, and knew that her eggs would survive her fiery wrath. She wasn't out to kill everyone within, just root out her eggs. LG or not, a mother's ire isn't to be taken lightly and collateral damage is the price of war. Unfortunately for the dragon, the thieves conveniently left, with the eggs, shortly before the dragon came in the middle of the night and torched the place. The inn burned, people died, the thieves had long escaped, and the PC's were among those who survived. All the survivors wisely fled, as did the PC's who were no fools.After she didn't find her eggs, she again attempted scrying, but found that her eggs couldn't be located (the thieves met up with their wizard ally). She flew along the road until she came to the PC's and the rest of the survivors, and basically told them the situation in the form of a warning which carried the tone of "if I find out that any of you are hiding my eggs, you're toast." She then flew off to search.The PC's took it upon themselves to find the eggs ASAP, so to not give the dragon the idea that frying them was a good precautionary measure. The beauty of it, as my players and I saw it, was that while they were railroaded out of the inn, they weren't railroaded into going after the eggs. It just seemed like a good idea. This also had special impact with my long-term players because I'm quite a member of BADD, and dragons are extremely rare IMCs, and I don't think they'd ever seen me use a gold in all our collective years of gaming. And at first level as their first encounter, it was all the sweeter  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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