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<blockquote data-quote="Arbiter of Wyrms" data-source="post: 2926130" data-attributes="member: 18021"><p>When I first created my campaign world years ago, the city where the campaign was focused included no less than three dragon NPCs in human form: </p><p>• A great wyrm gold dragon who appeared as an aged human wizard served as a sponsor to several groups of adventurers.</p><p>• An old silver dragon who poses as a priest of Dionysus and sometimes raises eyebrows with his heterodoxical doctrines.</p><p>• A young adult steel dragon (Greyhawk dragon) who, generally unaware of his true form, served as the city's mayor. </p><p>Because the steel dragon was so fully immersed in his role as a human, the other two initially dwelt in the city to safeguard him against potential draconic enemies with he would not have realized he was able to cope. </p><p>As it turned out, a group of PCs took a contract from a thieves' guild/cult dedicated to a deceased black dragon to assassinate the steel dragon. One overconfident halfling rogue versus the (presumed human commoner/expert) mayor while the half-orc mulcher stood guard outside. The human form was easily dismissed with a single sneak attack/coup de grace, leaving a somewhat surprised halfling rogue facing a dragon by himself. The dragon was even more surprised, though, to remember that he was in fact a dragon, and not a human being. A series of abberrant roles, my inexperience as a DM, and the complete abscence of challenge ratings in AD&D left the halfling victorious and with an even more inflated self-image than he had before.</p><p>The gold dragon's patronage of advaenturers has lead him to all sorts of new embroilments, but functionally, I play him as I would any other human archmage benefactor - mysterious, omnipotent, aloof, but kind.</p><p>The silver dragon, disheartened by the failure to protect the steel (an endangered species) and bored with his role as leader of a large congregation of humans and elves, prepares to move on to a new identity and a new community.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arbiter of Wyrms, post: 2926130, member: 18021"] When I first created my campaign world years ago, the city where the campaign was focused included no less than three dragon NPCs in human form: • A great wyrm gold dragon who appeared as an aged human wizard served as a sponsor to several groups of adventurers. • An old silver dragon who poses as a priest of Dionysus and sometimes raises eyebrows with his heterodoxical doctrines. • A young adult steel dragon (Greyhawk dragon) who, generally unaware of his true form, served as the city's mayor. Because the steel dragon was so fully immersed in his role as a human, the other two initially dwelt in the city to safeguard him against potential draconic enemies with he would not have realized he was able to cope. As it turned out, a group of PCs took a contract from a thieves' guild/cult dedicated to a deceased black dragon to assassinate the steel dragon. One overconfident halfling rogue versus the (presumed human commoner/expert) mayor while the half-orc mulcher stood guard outside. The human form was easily dismissed with a single sneak attack/coup de grace, leaving a somewhat surprised halfling rogue facing a dragon by himself. The dragon was even more surprised, though, to remember that he was in fact a dragon, and not a human being. A series of abberrant roles, my inexperience as a DM, and the complete abscence of challenge ratings in AD&D left the halfling victorious and with an even more inflated self-image than he had before. The gold dragon's patronage of advaenturers has lead him to all sorts of new embroilments, but functionally, I play him as I would any other human archmage benefactor - mysterious, omnipotent, aloof, but kind. The silver dragon, disheartened by the failure to protect the steel (an endangered species) and bored with his role as leader of a large congregation of humans and elves, prepares to move on to a new identity and a new community. [/QUOTE]
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