How frequent are dragon encounters in your game?

[KB9JMQ]

Calcryx the small white one in the beginning of 3E (can't remember adventures name) was the only dragon I have used since the Red Box days.

I never really wanted to run a small / young dragon and I have never had players play long enough to take on an old one IMHO.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I always felt dragons were portrayed that way. Dragon Mountain (2e adventure, dragon had many minions and used polymorph to spy on the PCs), many 3.x adventures and the 4e "mini-adventure" gave me that impression. (The latter probably to get the PCs low on healing surges before facing the big monster.)

I think there's a qualitative difference between the Chamber in Eberron and draconic villains who conceal themselves and/or their true identity in order to weaken the PCs.

Eberron gives dragons a civilisation of their own, but explains why that civilisation doesn't just a) enslave everyone else or b) ignore them utterly.

It's the typical D&D idea of a dragon who lives in a lair high up on a big mountain and dominates the humanoids for miles around into serving her that I don't care for.

 

[frankthedm]

definitely not enough dragon blood spilled by the PCs.

 

[Blackrat]

Very very rarely. I think in all these years I've thrown in only two dragon encounters. One was social encounter with a Golden Greatwyrm, and the other was a battle with Old White and it's hatchlings.

EDIT: Oh frag... I forgot Prankster, one of my favourite dragons ever. A very young Copper dragon who pestered the party to no end for a while. So that's three

 

[DeusExMachina]

Only once, actually, which was last session, where I had no inspiration for my plot and decided to run a session length solo battle against the 4e young green dragon.

Ity was pretty fun actually, although I did have combine the encounter with some crazy terrain and a ritual/skill challange to make things interesting enough for a whole session...

 

[el-remmen]

Last dragon that appeared in one my campaigns ended up being the simulacrum of a much more powerful dragon.

Oh wait, take it back - in my current campaign the party fought a crafty orphaned wyrmling that managed to escape them when critically wounded.

Before that there was a very young red dragon and a young adult black dragon in two different 2E campaigns. . . that's it.

 

[Wombat]

Once or twice per campaign.

Sometimes none at all.

 

[Phaezen]

At least one per campaign, I do try to make them important encounters though. No canned dragon hunting in my games

Phaezen

 

[CsonTep]

Until my current game I have used dragons rarely, I can only think of one encounter (a wyrmling black in 2e). In my current game I've stuffed the setting with dragons (1 red, 1 green, 1 black, 1 blue, 1 gold, and a nest of wyrmling whites). The PCs have seen the red and the blue (but they didn't know that at the time) and know where the black and the whites lair. They have a vague idea where the green lives (with the elves), but have no knowledge about the gold dragon (except his name, and they think he's an elf)

KDM27

 

[Calico_Jack73]

To tell the truth I can't remember the last time I had a dragon encounter.