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<blockquote data-quote="azmodean" data-source="post: 2105976" data-attributes="member: 26590"><p>As for the disguised color suggestion, how about expanding it a bit. </p><p></p><p>Dragon is color #1, alter self or similar spell to make it look like color #2, and mundane use of disguise skill to make it look like color #3. So totaly unprepared adventurers see color #2, adventurers who have true seeing up or otherwise penetrate the spell see color #3, and only adventurers who somehow penetrate the mundane disguise as well as the magical one see the true color. The tricky part might be selecting the combination of colors that would be most beneficial for the dragon.</p><p></p><p>Also with an area effect spell, the caster gets no direct information on wether the target saved or if the damage was lessened somehow (except if it was beaten by SR?), so the dragon is free to pretend to be fully hurt by the attacks the caster thinks should work.</p><p></p><p>This strategy is more suitable for a silver or some other highly sociable and/or trickery-oriented dragon, but I don't think it would be totally out of the question for any adult dragon.</p><p></p><p>And don't dismiss the confusion and panic factor introduced when the party encounters what they thought was going to be a white dragon and sees a red, especially if you have it do something minor to back it up, like casting a fire spell when the party can't see it so they think it breathed fire.</p><p></p><p>My group ran into an adult blue and turned tail (they were pretty beat up after a fight with a purple worm and a grey ooze). When they got around to taking it on and saw a red dragon, the panic was immense, "Crap, I already cast all my resist elements spells! Half my attacks are fire-based" Luckily for them, the psion had true seeing up, so he was able to disabuse them of their misunderstanding. And the ghost possessed the dragon, but that's another story...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="azmodean, post: 2105976, member: 26590"] As for the disguised color suggestion, how about expanding it a bit. Dragon is color #1, alter self or similar spell to make it look like color #2, and mundane use of disguise skill to make it look like color #3. So totaly unprepared adventurers see color #2, adventurers who have true seeing up or otherwise penetrate the spell see color #3, and only adventurers who somehow penetrate the mundane disguise as well as the magical one see the true color. The tricky part might be selecting the combination of colors that would be most beneficial for the dragon. Also with an area effect spell, the caster gets no direct information on wether the target saved or if the damage was lessened somehow (except if it was beaten by SR?), so the dragon is free to pretend to be fully hurt by the attacks the caster thinks should work. This strategy is more suitable for a silver or some other highly sociable and/or trickery-oriented dragon, but I don't think it would be totally out of the question for any adult dragon. And don't dismiss the confusion and panic factor introduced when the party encounters what they thought was going to be a white dragon and sees a red, especially if you have it do something minor to back it up, like casting a fire spell when the party can't see it so they think it breathed fire. My group ran into an adult blue and turned tail (they were pretty beat up after a fight with a purple worm and a grey ooze). When they got around to taking it on and saw a red dragon, the panic was immense, "Crap, I already cast all my resist elements spells! Half my attacks are fire-based" Luckily for them, the psion had true seeing up, so he was able to disabuse them of their misunderstanding. And the ghost possessed the dragon, but that's another story... [/QUOTE]
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