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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9537300" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I love dragons. This almost surely won't surprise anyone on this forum.So I intentionally made a game where dragons were exceedingly rare. I wanted them to be special.The party has encountered only, and exactly, three active dragons. The first that they knew of was Tenryu Shen (family name first, so friends call him* &quot;Shen&quot;), a gold dragon masquerading as a dragonborn priest in order to hunt down the second dragon on this list. Second, a black dragon, hiding in plain sight in the main city, trying to slowly keep it in a stranglehold under its authority. Third, a time dragon that got himself* caught on some complicated hyperspatial...stuff that surrounds the planet the PCs live on.No other dragons are present in the region where they live, nor for thousands of miles in any direction from there. No wyrmlings, no secret dragon lairs, nothing. Even the time dragon was only included because I wanted a suitably powerful entity that would make sense for getting &quot;caught&quot; on the higher-dimensional manifold barrier that surrounds the planet. I very intentionally excluded dragons as an option for lesser things, because I wanted every encounter with one to matter. Overall, I think I succeeded.(*Technically, gender is elective for my dragons, one of the ways they are partially-outsider-like, but two of the three they've met identify as male. There's a fourth, dormant dragon they haven't woken up yet, who identifies as female. The black dragon's preferred gender is unknown. When Shen knew this dragon, long ago, it identified as male, but this may have changed.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9537300, member: 6790260"] I love dragons. This almost surely won't surprise [I]anyone[/I] on this forum. So I intentionally made a game where dragons were exceedingly rare. I wanted them to be [I]special[/I]. The party has encountered only, and exactly, three active dragons. The first that they knew of was Tenryu Shen (family name first, so friends call him* "Shen"), a gold dragon masquerading as a dragonborn priest in order to hunt down the second dragon on this list. Second, a black dragon, hiding in plain sight in the main city, trying to slowly keep it in a stranglehold under its authority. Third, a time dragon that got himself* caught on some complicated hyperspatial...stuff that surrounds the planet the PCs live on. No other dragons are present in the region where they live, nor for thousands of miles in any direction from there. No wyrmlings, no secret dragon lairs, nothing. Even the time dragon was only included because I wanted a suitably powerful entity that would make sense for getting "caught" on the higher-dimensional manifold barrier that surrounds the planet. I very intentionally excluded dragons as an option for lesser things, because I wanted every encounter with one to matter. Overall, I think I succeeded. (*Technically, gender is elective for my dragons, one of the ways they are partially-outsider-like, but two of the three they've met identify as male. There's a fourth, dormant dragon they haven't woken up yet, who identifies as female. The black dragon's preferred gender is unknown. When Shen knew this dragon, long ago, it identified as male, but this may have changed.) [/QUOTE]

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