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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 1929988" data-attributes="member: 4910">For my players?  Painful.  And never to be taken lightly.  My players fully understand my position - when I run NPCs, monsters, etc, I do so in a fashion that is as faithful to the individual as I can make it, and to the best of that individual's ability.And with dragons, that ability is vast.  When I DM, I don't use random charts -exactly-.  I map out ahead of time what creatures are in the area, cook up a number of encounters that would be appropriate that incorporate the locals.  When the time comes for a random encounter, I either pick one if it's particularly pertinant, or just roll randomly if none of them present themselves as really cool and appropriate for the situation at hand.Memory serving, I've used a random encounter with a dragon a grant total of once.  White dragon, set on a coastal arctic plain.  Fly by, snatch a PC in heavy armor, fly out over open water while maintaining a hold on them, and let 'em drop.  They later recovered the (then half-eaten) corpse from the dragon's lair once they tracked it down.  Afterwards when I was going over my game notes, I came to the conclusion that yeah.. that was all perfectly in line with what a white dragon would've done, but all the same, it wasn't much fun for the bulk of the encounter set.  So, after that I've just made a point to keep dragons as more of plot points than just random monsters.</blockquote>