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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3992131" data-attributes="member: 22779">Just a point here.  Intrigue is what you do when you lack the power to do something directly.  You plot and scheme to get people to do what you want them to do.  Why, exactly, would a CR 15 Red Dragon bother?  If he wants you to do something, you either do it, or he eats you.  He has the power.  He has the power in spades.  That is incorrect.  D&D does not default to a high magic world.  Outside of a metropolis, you will not find double digit PC levels in the population.  Dominating a small city would be a simple thing indeed.  Flocks of archers don't work, because they can't see at night, and the dragon has low light vision.  He can see perfectly well on all but the darkest of nights.  Never mind that those flocks of archers need clerics to magic weapon up their weapons, and, even then, need close to 1000 magic arrows to be effective.  At night, they'd need 2000.  You simply couldn't do it.  Never mind an older dragon.</blockquote>