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Little Keep on the Borderlands - is it really a low-level adventure?
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<blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 7095486" data-attributes="member: 6803664"><p>You sound like my friend Tom. That's not a good thing btw.</p><p></p><p>I once opened a 3x campaign with a huge green dragon attacking (and sinking) the river barge the 1st lv party was traveling on.</p><p>They saw it coming & had a round to react. 2 were already below deck, 3 weren't. One guy ran & hid in the wheel house, one jumped over board, one passed his fear save & reached for a crossbow. Crew ran to & fro screaming/trying to hide/abandoning ship..... </p><p>It swooped in ignoring the crossbow fire, swept it's tail through the wheel house (knocking debris & the 2 characters on deck into the water), landed on deck (sinking the whole boat), seized a horse and flew off.</p><p>Then out of spite it circled back & belched chlorine gas on the survivors bobbing in the water. Once again, the PCs saw the approach & had a round to swim/dive out of the AoE. All did. And then the dragon flew off up-steam with its' tasty horse snack.</p><p></p><p>Total length of encounter? 6 rounds. Total damage done to the party? About 12 pts divided between the two PCs who got caught in the destruction of the wheel house.</p><p>Total interaction between PCs & dragon? 1 ineffectual crossbow shot & having some minor collateral damage inflicted upon them.</p><p>And now the adventure truly begins as the PCs have to help the surviving NPC crew foot slog through miles of hostile terrain. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>The players all agreed that that was a pretty cool opening sequence & had a great time with the rest of the session as well.</p><p></p><p>My friend Tom, who wasn't playing, just hanging out there at the shop that evening, proceeded to rant at me afterwards about how dragons really act. It'd do xyz, blah blah blah, that's a CR whatever challenge & completely inappropriate for lv1s, how it could kill 1/2 the party in one round without its' breath weapon, etc.</p><p></p><p>Eventually he quit. And was bluntly reminded that <strong><em>I'm the DM</em></strong>. That<strong><u>I</u></strong> have complete 100% control over what the dragon will do. This isn't a video game script. The dragon doesn't do anything on its' own....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ccs, post: 7095486, member: 6803664"] You sound like my friend Tom. That's not a good thing btw. I once opened a 3x campaign with a huge green dragon attacking (and sinking) the river barge the 1st lv party was traveling on. They saw it coming & had a round to react. 2 were already below deck, 3 weren't. One guy ran & hid in the wheel house, one jumped over board, one passed his fear save & reached for a crossbow. Crew ran to & fro screaming/trying to hide/abandoning ship..... It swooped in ignoring the crossbow fire, swept it's tail through the wheel house (knocking debris & the 2 characters on deck into the water), landed on deck (sinking the whole boat), seized a horse and flew off. Then out of spite it circled back & belched chlorine gas on the survivors bobbing in the water. Once again, the PCs saw the approach & had a round to swim/dive out of the AoE. All did. And then the dragon flew off up-steam with its' tasty horse snack. Total length of encounter? 6 rounds. Total damage done to the party? About 12 pts divided between the two PCs who got caught in the destruction of the wheel house. Total interaction between PCs & dragon? 1 ineffectual crossbow shot & having some minor collateral damage inflicted upon them. And now the adventure truly begins as the PCs have to help the surviving NPC crew foot slog through miles of hostile terrain. :) The players all agreed that that was a pretty cool opening sequence & had a great time with the rest of the session as well. My friend Tom, who wasn't playing, just hanging out there at the shop that evening, proceeded to rant at me afterwards about how dragons really act. It'd do xyz, blah blah blah, that's a CR whatever challenge & completely inappropriate for lv1s, how it could kill 1/2 the party in one round without its' breath weapon, etc. Eventually he quit. And was bluntly reminded that [B][I]I'm the DM[/I][/B]. That[B][U]I[/U][/B] have complete 100% control over what the dragon will do. This isn't a video game script. The dragon doesn't do anything on its' own.... [/QUOTE]
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