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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 2147887" data-attributes="member: 3854">First thing to think of is very few things are one lone element. Think of the "dragon plot" as a package, not as a set piece encounter all by itself. I mean, really, is a CR 15 dragon just hanging out in his lair all alone, just waiting for some 15th-level adventurers to come along and slay it? Nope. It's got stuff going on. It's got allies, minions, flunkies, etc. scattered hither and yon. Some high level, some low level.If the dragon is hiding, then probably the PCs do have to discover it layer by layer. Like getting to the master of the crime syndicate. But it may be that the dragon is well known, and the PCs don't want to tackle it at low level. Like the general of an army.Again, it's a package. The dragon is not "the original status quo element". It is one element of an overall status quo organization. The organization exists as a package. The PCs may know that the raiding parties work for the dragon, and they specifically work their way up to the dragon by taking small bites at first of the peripheral raiding parties. Or the PCs may not know that the dragon is behind the raiding parties, and they piece the evidence/clues together as they capture/kill raiding parties over a period of time.It also may be that the PCs move to this area of the realm when they are 15th level. The package/plot/organization still exists as it is, and the PCs may decide to go straight for the dragon as their first move. But the low-level raiding parties out in the land still exist, it's just that the PCs chose to ignore the piddly stuff and take out the dragon.Quasqueton</blockquote>

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