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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kasmodian" data-source="post: 5222105" data-attributes="member: 91717">Soooo here's the deal. I'm new to DM-ing and I'm trying my best to work out a little idea through the game mechanics and not just DM hammer everything.This is all part of a set up for an adventure for the PCs. So here's the situation, a Bronze Dragon (great wyrm, venerated by the locals) takes the form of an elf to hang out, mingle with the peeps incognito. But he's unwittingly caught in a surprise attack where his significantly inferior physical stats make him vulnerable. What I want is for him to a) be alive, b) be incapacitated physically, mentally or both in such a way that he is either unable to or doesn't even remember he can switch back to his true form. One thing to keep in mind is the PCs won't be around for this so I don't know how detailed I need to get with this. anyway...So I looked at paralysis and that looked like a feasible way to go since it's a fortitude save (which he'll still have a monstrous huge save, I figure this is an attack from multiple, high level casters). But that leaves him with his mental facilities, so I wanted to, through some kind of nasty fall (again, he's a frail elf), knock his head and give him some sort of amnesia. It's somewhat awkward thanks to the fact he still maintains his mental stats, but I figured this situation is sort of the crossroads where physical frailty and mental function meet, you knock your head on a rock as a mere elf and all the brainpower in the world isn't going to mean much when you damage your noodle.Does this sound reasonable? Any other ways I might do this? If you were pulling this off would you even care about doing it this mechanically? Again... new to DM-ing. Any and all help is much appreciated!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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