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<blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 3007411" data-attributes="member: 16221"><p>What are the chances of using diplomacy, promise of gifts, and other means to convince the Bronze dragon of helping you out?</p><p></p><p>I'm also interested in the possibility of getting past this dragon's strange aversion to all divination. If the dragon runs away after getting beaten down a bit (any smart dragon would, and as a GM myself, I know that PCs can have a knack for pulling last minute victories out of their rears in the face of overwhelming odds) then try this:</p><p></p><p>Put Arcane Mark on as many arrowheads as you can.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully at least one of these arrows will hit their mark.</p><p></p><p>Now then, when the dragon returns to its lair, use all the divination you can ON THE ARCANE MARK. Do so at frequent intervals while it's retreating, so if the lair is the cause for complete divination breakdown, you'll at least have a general idea of where to look next.</p><p></p><p>The neat thing is, if you find the lair, odds are oddly in your favor. Lairs are infrequently designed to favor the dragon, for some reason... they tend to be cramped, closed spaces where flight is not much of an option, and where at the very least, you can find bottlenecks and other ways to pin a dragon down.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>However, that's only if it runs away. To get it to DO that, I highly reccomend going the poison route. Get yourself a bunch of commoner or war1 flunkies, and equip them all with poison arrows. Have them all fire. If there's at least 20 of them, odds are in your favor of at least one hit. If there's 400 of them, odds are not only of at least one hit, but that there'll be a hit followed by the dragon rolling a nat 1 on it's saving throw. If you can get "Dragon bane" or "Dragon slaying" arrows in particular, all the better, but that'd get VERY expensive, very fast. Poison can be pretty cheap.</p><p></p><p>Classic dragon slaying technique, and the reason few dragons try taking out an entire city. Terrorizing tactics work much better for demanding tribute anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fieari, post: 3007411, member: 16221"] What are the chances of using diplomacy, promise of gifts, and other means to convince the Bronze dragon of helping you out? I'm also interested in the possibility of getting past this dragon's strange aversion to all divination. If the dragon runs away after getting beaten down a bit (any smart dragon would, and as a GM myself, I know that PCs can have a knack for pulling last minute victories out of their rears in the face of overwhelming odds) then try this: Put Arcane Mark on as many arrowheads as you can. Hopefully at least one of these arrows will hit their mark. Now then, when the dragon returns to its lair, use all the divination you can ON THE ARCANE MARK. Do so at frequent intervals while it's retreating, so if the lair is the cause for complete divination breakdown, you'll at least have a general idea of where to look next. The neat thing is, if you find the lair, odds are oddly in your favor. Lairs are infrequently designed to favor the dragon, for some reason... they tend to be cramped, closed spaces where flight is not much of an option, and where at the very least, you can find bottlenecks and other ways to pin a dragon down. However, that's only if it runs away. To get it to DO that, I highly reccomend going the poison route. Get yourself a bunch of commoner or war1 flunkies, and equip them all with poison arrows. Have them all fire. If there's at least 20 of them, odds are in your favor of at least one hit. If there's 400 of them, odds are not only of at least one hit, but that there'll be a hit followed by the dragon rolling a nat 1 on it's saving throw. If you can get "Dragon bane" or "Dragon slaying" arrows in particular, all the better, but that'd get VERY expensive, very fast. Poison can be pretty cheap. Classic dragon slaying technique, and the reason few dragons try taking out an entire city. Terrorizing tactics work much better for demanding tribute anyway. [/QUOTE]
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