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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7000614" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>I love green dragons as described in the Monster Manual and I stay pretty true to the description. Green Dragons are smart, manipulative planners. To me, they would not be dumb monsters encountered in the forest that fight you until they are dead. </p><p></p><p>In my campaign, green drags play an important part in the political intrigue that the party has to deal with. So far they only encountered one in person. It was a young-adult male who laired in the border lands, far enough from civilization to avoid unwanted attention, but close enough to be able to gather intelligence. </p><p></p><p>His lair is a cave behind a waterfall. He has a main cave and then a small network of caves inhabited by kobolds who serve him--providing food, grooming, cleaning, and acting as lookouts and informants. </p><p></p><p>Upstream a ways from his cavern is dimond mine run by a large kobold community that serves him.</p><p></p><p>A nearby tribe of lizardmen provide muscle and protection to the kobolds (or, more accurately to the green dragon's interests). </p><p></p><p>Below the water fall is a large lake and on the other side of the lake is a ruined city, below which is a Yuan-ti city. The dragon/kobolds provide mined diamonds to the Yuan-ti who take a share and return a share as finished gems, works of art, and diamond dust. </p><p></p><p>Here is how the party discovered and approached it. They first were hired by Dwarven merchants to find out why the kobolds have stopped trading dimonds with the dwarves. Diamond dust is important for a number of industrial purposes for the dwarves and the supplies of diamond is drying up. </p><p></p><p>Two party members had infiltrated the kobold mines and followed a heavily guarded shipment (by barge) from the kobold mine to a cave behind a water fall. They watched the area for a couple days and saw one of the crates from the mines being lowered down the waterfall to a Yuan-ti barge that came from across the lake. The Yuan-ti take possession of it and connected a chest to be raised. As it was being lifted, the two party members used stealth and a little magic to cause the rope to break. The chest fell, smashed on the rocks below and the party saw it was full of finished gems and diamond-studded luxury items. They returned to inform the merchant. </p><p></p><p>Later in as a party of six, they returned, planning on stealling one of the shipments from the Yuan-ti barge. The sorcerer was underwater and used animate objects to make the check fall into the water and start moving to shore. Things seemed to be going well...until the green dragon came up from the under him in the lake and chased him to the shore edge. </p><p></p><p>Rather than engaging the party in battle, the dragon opened negotiations. In exchange for whatever information they could give him on topics he was interested in, along with a magic ring a party member had, he gave them a portion of the diamond dust that was in the shipment they were trying to steal. He promised that he would have other opportunities for the party if they were to willing to provide their services to him. </p><p></p><p>I thought this was a good lair and good encounter for a green dragon. The cavern is where he may go to to be groomed and to meet with his minions. But they can breath underwater. Perhaps that would be a safer or more comfortable place for him to sleep. Or at least it makes sense that he may keep watch on his treasure shipments from below, in the water, than from above, from a cave. </p><p></p><p>I think any green dragon lair would have perhaps a cave/cavern/dungeon for loot and minions, but would also have a sizable body of water like a lake, large river, maybe a moat, but nothing brackish like a swamp (that's black dragon habitat). It would also have a lot of forest. Either old growth forest that it protects for its selfish purposes, or perhaps it also has minions managing the forest for lumber. </p><p></p><p>Green dragons are my favorite Chromatic dragons to use as a DM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 7000614, member: 6796661"] I love green dragons as described in the Monster Manual and I stay pretty true to the description. Green Dragons are smart, manipulative planners. To me, they would not be dumb monsters encountered in the forest that fight you until they are dead. In my campaign, green drags play an important part in the political intrigue that the party has to deal with. So far they only encountered one in person. It was a young-adult male who laired in the border lands, far enough from civilization to avoid unwanted attention, but close enough to be able to gather intelligence. His lair is a cave behind a waterfall. He has a main cave and then a small network of caves inhabited by kobolds who serve him--providing food, grooming, cleaning, and acting as lookouts and informants. Upstream a ways from his cavern is dimond mine run by a large kobold community that serves him. A nearby tribe of lizardmen provide muscle and protection to the kobolds (or, more accurately to the green dragon's interests). Below the water fall is a large lake and on the other side of the lake is a ruined city, below which is a Yuan-ti city. The dragon/kobolds provide mined diamonds to the Yuan-ti who take a share and return a share as finished gems, works of art, and diamond dust. Here is how the party discovered and approached it. They first were hired by Dwarven merchants to find out why the kobolds have stopped trading dimonds with the dwarves. Diamond dust is important for a number of industrial purposes for the dwarves and the supplies of diamond is drying up. Two party members had infiltrated the kobold mines and followed a heavily guarded shipment (by barge) from the kobold mine to a cave behind a water fall. They watched the area for a couple days and saw one of the crates from the mines being lowered down the waterfall to a Yuan-ti barge that came from across the lake. The Yuan-ti take possession of it and connected a chest to be raised. As it was being lifted, the two party members used stealth and a little magic to cause the rope to break. The chest fell, smashed on the rocks below and the party saw it was full of finished gems and diamond-studded luxury items. They returned to inform the merchant. Later in as a party of six, they returned, planning on stealling one of the shipments from the Yuan-ti barge. The sorcerer was underwater and used animate objects to make the check fall into the water and start moving to shore. Things seemed to be going well...until the green dragon came up from the under him in the lake and chased him to the shore edge. Rather than engaging the party in battle, the dragon opened negotiations. In exchange for whatever information they could give him on topics he was interested in, along with a magic ring a party member had, he gave them a portion of the diamond dust that was in the shipment they were trying to steal. He promised that he would have other opportunities for the party if they were to willing to provide their services to him. I thought this was a good lair and good encounter for a green dragon. The cavern is where he may go to to be groomed and to meet with his minions. But they can breath underwater. Perhaps that would be a safer or more comfortable place for him to sleep. Or at least it makes sense that he may keep watch on his treasure shipments from below, in the water, than from above, from a cave. I think any green dragon lair would have perhaps a cave/cavern/dungeon for loot and minions, but would also have a sizable body of water like a lake, large river, maybe a moat, but nothing brackish like a swamp (that's black dragon habitat). It would also have a lot of forest. Either old growth forest that it protects for its selfish purposes, or perhaps it also has minions managing the forest for lumber. Green dragons are my favorite Chromatic dragons to use as a DM. [/QUOTE]
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