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<blockquote data-quote="kenjib" data-source="post: 410651" data-attributes="member: 530">Re: Re: Re: Re: Green Dragon stuffActually, I found the Hobbit to be quite a good read and the slaying of the dragon was fun, exciting, and a really great story.&nbsp; I think using one special arrow is actually more exciting than using a pile of random magic equipment with no history or context just to boost up your powers to the point where you are a super-hero (okay, there's my baggage showing -- too many super powers in D&amp;D for my taste).A classic motif of old myth is finding the creature's weaknesses and playing off of it to succeed.&nbsp; Fight smart.&nbsp; Find that soft spot in the armor.&nbsp; You've got one shot with that mythical arrow of dragon slaying that you spent a week questing for.&nbsp; Get true strike, do your best.&nbsp; Hold your breath, cross your fingers, draw and release.&nbsp; If you miss, well, deep doody.&nbsp; That sounds like a good story to me.I was a bit hasty when I said &quot;cheap shot.&quot;&nbsp; Sorry about that.&nbsp; It was rude of me.&nbsp; You do need a bit of Deux Ex Machina to pull this off though.&nbsp; A dragon has an a vast and inhuman intelligence.&nbsp; He's not going to get suckered by some standard little ambush trick.&nbsp; You're gonna need some kind of ace up your sleeve to pull it off.&nbsp; Even then it's quite likely to fail, but at least you have a better than 1 in 10,000 chance.&nbsp; Also, I'm curious -- why doesn't the silver dragon help out more?&nbsp; You're playing dragonlance.&nbsp; Get a saddle and tell that sorry dragon to get off of it's butt and help out.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="kenjib, post: 410651, member: 530"] [b]Re: Re: Re: Re: Green Dragon stuff[/b] Actually, I found the Hobbit to be quite a good read and the slaying of the dragon was fun, exciting, and a really great story. I think using one special arrow is actually more exciting than using a pile of random magic equipment with no history or context just to boost up your powers to the point where you are a super-hero (okay, there's my baggage showing -- too many super powers in D&D for my taste). A classic motif of old myth is finding the creature's weaknesses and playing off of it to succeed. Fight smart. Find that soft spot in the armor. You've got one shot with that mythical arrow of dragon slaying that you spent a week questing for. Get true strike, do your best. Hold your breath, cross your fingers, draw and release. If you miss, well, deep doody. That sounds like a good story to me. I was a bit hasty when I said "cheap shot." Sorry about that. It was rude of me. You do need a bit of Deux Ex Machina to pull this off though. A dragon has an a vast and inhuman intelligence. He's not going to get suckered by some standard little ambush trick. You're gonna need some kind of ace up your sleeve to pull it off. Even then it's quite likely to fail, but at least you have a better than 1 in 10,000 chance. Also, I'm curious -- why doesn't the silver dragon help out more? You're playing dragonlance. Get a saddle and tell that sorry dragon to get off of it's butt and help out. ;) [/QUOTE]

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