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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5729369" data-attributes="member: 2067">I think dragons work best as <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/blogs/kamikaze-midget/" target="_blank">unique, major, campaign-altering villains</a>. Dragons aren't just sitting in their lairs waiting for people to come along and kill them. They're the most powerful creatures in the world. They ACT. Others are forced to react. Find out what your dragons want, and then move them to achieve that. Adventure follows nearly automatically in their wake.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> White Dragons want power. They fight brutally and angrily to achieve this power over others, to crush their enemies, to see them driven before them, and to hear the lamentations of their women. They set themselves up as despotic rulers and continually expand their empires, crushing opposition when it arises. They are rampaging barbarians, and they descend on unprotected villages with near-impunity. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Black Dragons want death. They don't worry much about authority or loyalty -- they'd prefer to sicken and kill others, weakening them, crippling them, and ultimately killing them. Sure, they might have the occasional reptilian cult, but this cult is bestial and ever-hungry, seeking death just as the dragon does, so that rotting bogs can spring up in the wake of the empty fields and towns. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Green Dragons want control. They want to be loved and worshiped and honored above all. They are vain and self-important, brooking no possible acknowledgement of their weaknesses or flaws. They want to look out over a sea of devoted sycophants, rather than a fleeing army or a field of dead and rotting bodies.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Blue Dragons want knowledge. They crave the arcane mysteries of the world, lost history, and forgotten ideas. They delight in having secrets no other creature has: the better to use these secrets against their enemies, to achieve dominance, and to be honored and respected. They would much rather be the power behind the throne than on the throne itself, and they would much rather keep their own agenda hidden then reveal their hand. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Red Dragons want wealth. The great treasuries and deep vaults of the world are theirs, and they will pursue them with the intensity and relentlessness of a man with a vendetta, and guard their hoards with a miser's attention to detail. Obsessive, they can't tolerate others having coin, gems, or even works of art -- though they only appreciate these for the material wealth it brings, for how much others would kill and debase themselves to get their hands on it. </li> </ul>So, with this kind of concept, you have White Dragons rampaging across the countryside in perhaps-seasonal wanderings of destruction. You have Black Dragons spreading disease and illness far and wide from their swampy stations, only to visit villages decimated by plague, and finish them off. You have green dragons leading cults in the thick forests, people who would do anything for their draconic god. You have blue dragons in hidden lairs protected by powerful illusions, empowering desert raiders and would-be emperors without getting their own hands dirty. You have red dragons sitting atop hoards of coins and treasure, seeking out the rarest and most precious of things, simply to own them, either through agents or directly. Those dragons are active, powerful forces in the world!</blockquote>

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