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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Jeff" data-source="post: 3063565" data-attributes="member: 3687">Second Edition days, circa 1997, Forgotten Realms. True Story.The Unlikely Company goes adventuring in the north. AS a DM I knew of a multitude of plots up there, including the Zhentarim spy dragon Hrondalbar and his human female rider & consort. I made up a random encounter chart for the party, using a d30 for the entries. I put that encounter, worst one of all, as #30.First day into the north, and I ask one player Scott to roll a d30. He rolls a 30. I smile for a few seconds, end everyone starts getting nervous. "Roll it once more" I asked. He did, and promptly rolled another 30. "Well, it's fate" I said, and began desribing the flight in of the dragon, who they knew of, and knew it wouldn't let them...known foes of the Zhentarim...escape alive. So begins the battle.It doesn't take long. With a well-place fireball in the second round, one of the players takes out his consort-rider. I decided that triggered the dracorage thing Forgotten Realms used to make 2nd Edition Dragons a real pain in the butt. DOUBLE claw, claw, wing, wing, bite, tail slap, etc. etc. round after round, and in a few more rounds the 10 NPCs the group spent the whole past session and interviewing were slaughtered and half the regular party was in negatives. My wife's resilient diviner Moondown was alive only through a demonpact.The female consort had a staff of power, IIRC, and one player, Phil, knew what to do. His Bard Torren ran, grabbed the staff as thrown by his wife's barely living character Tallia, and taunted the dragon. It bit him full and hard, dropping him to single digits in one bite. Torren then snapped the staff while in the dragon's mouth. I paused. The table paused. A full horrid 10-20 seconds of silence as all eyes went wide, and I made a horrible squishy-explosion sound and described Torren, and the dragon's head and neck, "visiting the Planescape setting by way of DEATH".Needless, this story has been retold about 500 times in the intervening years and no doubt gets more glorious as time goes on, but it certainly counts as our group's memorable dragon encounter.-DM Jeff</blockquote>

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