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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9327855" data-attributes="member: 7044704">I'm reminded of a 4e adventure I ran where the PCs were escorting a tribute to a white dragon to keep it from raiding a settlement.&nbsp; Being the overconfident jerks they were they were contemplating just killing it and running off with the tribute right up until they discovered it only took white marble statuary in payment and the lightest piece in the lot was 600 pounds.&nbsp; At that point they settled for the payment they'd been offered and looting the bandits and smart-ish monsters that tried to stop their little wagon train so they could use the tribute to negotiate with the town or the dragon themselves.&nbsp; If they'd tried negotiating the bandits might have let them in for a cut of the extort-the-town scheme, but that wasn't a sure thing and they were in the mood for murder anyway so it didn't happen. Having an artistically-inclined white dragon instead of the usual crude, animalistic type was a nice change of pace, and having to deliver awkward treasure somewhere instead of trying to haul it back from the dungeon was another trope inversion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9327855, member: 7044704"] I'm reminded of a 4e adventure I ran where the PCs were escorting a tribute to a white dragon to keep it from raiding a settlement. Being the overconfident jerks they were they were contemplating just killing it and running off with the tribute right up until they discovered it only took white marble statuary in payment and the lightest piece in the lot was 600 pounds. At that point they settled for the payment they'd been offered and looting the bandits and smart-ish monsters that tried to stop their little wagon train so they could use the tribute to negotiate with the town or the dragon themselves. If they'd tried negotiating the bandits might have let them in for a cut of the extort-the-town scheme, but that wasn't a sure thing and they were in the mood for murder anyway so it didn't happen. Having an artistically-inclined white dragon instead of the usual crude, animalistic type was a nice change of pace, and having to deliver awkward treasure somewhere instead of trying to haul it back from the dungeon was another trope inversion. [/QUOTE]

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