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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ccooke" data-source="post: 8234098" data-attributes="member: 6695890">Resurrecting this thread reminds me to tell this story (this may or may not be a good thing, of course).So, I took a group of coworkers through LMoP. I ended up adding quite a few details and changes, particularly an NPC hag who was unhappy that her favourite pub had been overrun by some nasties, and became something of an ally when the party cleaned out the pub, slaughtered the vampire spawn that was behind it and retrieved the deeds to the building for her. Yes, this is relevant.So they finally decided to deal with the dragon after the resolution of the main plot. Most of the party were a bit wary of actually fighting a dragon, but they latched on to "it's intelligent" and decided to... challenge it to a card game. While trying to take advantage of it with strong drink. Specifically, they contacted the hag (who now runs the inn they gave her the deeds to) and asked for some beer that could knock a dragon out. There was some negotiation involving the party barbarian offering the hag free choice of his ... eye collection (I don't know why the barbarian has an eye collection. I do know that it is quite extensive at this point. And lo, the hag did indeed take one of his eyes... but it's okay, she replaced it with one from his collection).So, the party ride in to the ruins on a custom wagon that consists mainly of a huge barrel of "special" beer, two smaller kegs of normal beer and a collection of custom beer mugs, one of which they had commissioned for the dragon. They blunder through the town and finally get its attention, where they flatter it and offer to work for it if it will play cards with them. Things resolve to a few rounds of cards where they agree that if they win, the dragon leaves and if the dragon wins, they get eaten. I ended up improvising something where they could try cheating (sleight of hand), playing honestly (Intelligence (proficiency in cards)), or playing randomly (untyped skill check), with drunkenness (particularly from the two party members who ended up drinking the special beer) granting levels of exhaustion.It finally came down to a two round clutch, where the players won a round that kept them alive, then the dragon finally failed its last CON save against the beer and fell asleep.And then they sold the dragon to the hag. For "parts".</blockquote>

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