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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thaumaturge" data-source="post: 6376411" data-attributes="member: 1927"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />Um... I wouldn't note that because I didn't really read the OP. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" /> I kinda skimmed and then jumped in.Fortunately, I was replying to someone else's comments. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I can see what you're saying. For me the dragon's motivations are spelled out clearly enough that him leaving after a crit/some damage doesn't feel like "just because". It feels like a dragon. I've read for years about dragons, especially chromatic ones, being capricious allies who only look out for themselves. To me, this encounter sells that. He has no interest in throwing down for Greenest. He doesn't care.The PCs don't have to get him to a stalemate position; he has put himself there. The PCs just have to give him an excuse.This is, essentially, how I plan on playing most of the first episode. I'll probably lean more heavily on the idea that they are gathering forces and such, because you make some good points. And your scenario sounds really cool. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I agree. I just disagree that the dragon leaves "because plot", I suppose. For instance, if one of the PCs figures out a way to make things personal with the blue dragon (presumably because the PC is crazy and ready for death), things, at my table, change. If things get personal, the dragon becomes vested in the fight. If he's vested, he is going to paint the town blue. And red. And the situation becomes the "run away from Godzilla" scenario you mentioned above.And there are enough hooks to give me a connection to episode 2, that I have no problems reducing Greenest to ash, if I think the PCs interacted with scenario in such a way as to make that the likely outcome.Thaumaturge.</blockquote>

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