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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8407647" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>Well I'll have to see what the legendary actions of the Ancient variety are before I really opine on the overall design, but I will say that, whatever the actual mechanical strengths, the lore and lair/regional effects are giving me campaign ideas. I've discovered in my most recent campaign how useful the Dream spell can be for exposition, for villain monologuing, and for highlighting non-face characters in a social interaction, and having a powerful being who can use similar communication at-will on anyone sleeping in its domain has all sorts of potential.</p><p></p><p>Having local portals in and out of the Feywild bound to its life also suggests a whole set of plot hooks and potential difficult character decisions. I'm a little tempted to have a Feywild campaign start with a party overleveled for the encounter easily mopping the floor with a "strange green" Dragon, taking its horde of mithril and platinum, and then discovering that the portal to the Feywild they unknowingly stepped through to get to its lair has closed because they killed it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, I think if someone is using them primarily as a monster to fight, rather than as an NPC to interact with and/or a being whose regional and lair effects have worldbuilding impact then they've missed most of the potential.</p><p></p><p>Not that you couldn't have an awesome campaign based around slaying a moonstone dragon, but as a big boss it is a threat more for its ability to manipulate the party and others while being elusive and at a distance than for being particularly strong in a straight-up fight.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I was thinking of just porting in the Sleep breath of equivalently sized Brass Dragons. For this adult that would mean a 60 foot cone of DC 18 con save or sleep for 10 minutes, ending otherwise like the Sleep spell. Recharge 5-6, of course. The DC seems to be based on the Adult Brass Dragon's constitution and proficiency bonus, which are the same as this age of Moonstone Dragon, so it works as a direct copy paste even for those concerned about setting "mechanically correct" DCs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8407647, member: 6988941"] Well I'll have to see what the legendary actions of the Ancient variety are before I really opine on the overall design, but I will say that, whatever the actual mechanical strengths, the lore and lair/regional effects are giving me campaign ideas. I've discovered in my most recent campaign how useful the Dream spell can be for exposition, for villain monologuing, and for highlighting non-face characters in a social interaction, and having a powerful being who can use similar communication at-will on anyone sleeping in its domain has all sorts of potential. Having local portals in and out of the Feywild bound to its life also suggests a whole set of plot hooks and potential difficult character decisions. I'm a little tempted to have a Feywild campaign start with a party overleveled for the encounter easily mopping the floor with a "strange green" Dragon, taking its horde of mithril and platinum, and then discovering that the portal to the Feywild they unknowingly stepped through to get to its lair has closed because they killed it. Yes, I think if someone is using them primarily as a monster to fight, rather than as an NPC to interact with and/or a being whose regional and lair effects have worldbuilding impact then they've missed most of the potential. Not that you couldn't have an awesome campaign based around slaying a moonstone dragon, but as a big boss it is a threat more for its ability to manipulate the party and others while being elusive and at a distance than for being particularly strong in a straight-up fight. Yeah, I was thinking of just porting in the Sleep breath of equivalently sized Brass Dragons. For this adult that would mean a 60 foot cone of DC 18 con save or sleep for 10 minutes, ending otherwise like the Sleep spell. Recharge 5-6, of course. The DC seems to be based on the Adult Brass Dragon's constitution and proficiency bonus, which are the same as this age of Moonstone Dragon, so it works as a direct copy paste even for those concerned about setting "mechanically correct" DCs. [/QUOTE]
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