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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robertliguori" data-source="post: 4661542" data-attributes="member: 47776">How many people has the draconic family wronged in the acquisition of their horde?  Might the original adventuring party want a set of sleeping armor to go with their draconic full plate?  Given as the Seven Mounting Heavens are explicitly knows about the threat the Snarl poses and the limited number of Prime agents doing something about it, aren't there kind of a literally arbitrary number of higher powers willing to do unto the dragon before the dragon does unto V?It is exactly the idea of the independent game world that is being strained.  There are an infinite number of powers and forces that might choose to involve themselves; stopping at the dragon and not at the dragonslayers eager to avenge the wrongs inflicted in the black dragon's centuries-long life of evil, for example, seems rather arbitrary.The point is not that it's bad that arbitrary things happen, though.  Sometimes the highest power involving themselves in a situation is evil.  My objection is to the claim that there is some form of logic or justice in the events presented.  The dragon's frankly-unjustifiable paranoia about the ability of the Azure Fleet to respond to boat-smashy is the reason that said fleet is still intact; if the dragon had decided "Screw waiting." and made with even the most basic, conservative, low-risk repeated attack plan, we'd have the exact same situation.  V's choices (other than his choice to become an adventurer and follow Roy) simply don't lead to the current situation by any standard other than that of blatant metagaming.Of course, given that we've seen V make use of such to farm XP with the large devil, and that he recognizes Elan's prowess is related to plot-use, we may see V level in the prestige class Plotomancer, enabling him to gain new abilities as the story demands and ultimately die at the point of maximal dramatic tension.Alternately, his four words might end up being "Destiny can **** itself.", and he may well acquire four more wizard levels, then brute-force his way past the necromantic binding and murder of his family and splatter the black dragon over three separate planes of existence.(I'm hoping for that last one.)</blockquote>

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