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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hopeless" data-source="post: 5867894" data-attributes="member: 36349">My plan was to have the PCs stumble across a remote monastery that is slowly becoming a ruin as it has only one monk who will help them with some shelter and provisions if they need it but eventually they'll learn he knows about an ancient dragon which if they follow this up will learn he is actually the last surviving member of an order of knights and the only being known to have faced, survived and bound the "Red Death" an ancient and enormous red dragon. He'll try to persuade them out of hunting down the wyrm but if they do they'll learn he bound the dragon within himself which is why his descendants have the ability to turn into dragons and have been using this ability to defend the PCs homeland unfortunately as a result they were targetted by both the invaders' but also the natives of their homeland who see this as a means of achieving great power ignoring the fact it places everyone in grave danger. This particular dragon only appears when desperately needed and the collateral damage involved is why the former knight has chosen to exile himself for the safety of everyone however his extended lifespan means sooner or later he will be discovered.  Hmm how about its foraging and is blamed for an incident that it wasn't responsible for so your PCs use this incident as the reason they prepare themselves to hunt down their presumed nemesis?  Make a country of your campaign setting use the dragon as their heraldric symbol it doesn't even have to be the same dragon only something thats a constant reminder of its existance perhaps even a noble family whether one of your PCs or an eventual enemy something you can add the occasional detail to explain exactly how it came to be that way.  There might have been several dragons in the area one or two years and their eventual fight for their hunting ground is why there was a famine maybe throw in that it happens say once every fifty years and its about that time that the dragons fly to mate and the resulting babies eventually grow up and their feeding is what causes the famine until they're old enough to fly away and establish their own homes elsewhere provided they survive that long. What if they've being hunted to extinction? Humanity is spreading out far too fast and thats why there have been more encounters but there has to be a reason why humanity persists with this draconic menace, what if they're essential to the local ecosystem and if they're wiped out thats what cause the famine maybe even have a gradually growing desert to represent the damage slaying all of the dragons is causing?  Hmm have the dragon take precautions because its intelligent? Perhaps it has allies within the community who in return for its aid protect it from those that would strip their home of a powerful protector? Maybe its been befriended by a ranger and isn't a threat however an enemy is using a polymorph spell to force the locals to move against it thereby granting the spellcaster and their allies the means to seize power and slay the one foe that stands in their way? What if one of the PCs befriend a baby dragon unaware that their relationship has earned their home town a secret protector but a rival dragon is seeking to kill the baby and its mother and is trying to coerce the villagers to finish the task it can't do since the dragon trusts the locals?</blockquote>

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