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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonkeezOnFire" data-source="post: 6934781" data-attributes="member: 6784845">Black dragons have a swim speed, meaning that they are quite comfortable in the water. Perhaps your black dragon has decided to make its lair in an underwater cave system underneath the swamp and is only accessible by diving to the bottom of a lake. The lair could have been carved out by a tribe of lizardfolk that the dragon has dominated. The lizardfolk act as guards in the lair itself as well as messengers that get sent out from the lair to other creatures in the swamp. This will create an interesting investigation for the PCs. First they'll have to find the lair's location, and since it's at the bottom of a lake that could prove quite difficult. The PCs will have to interrogate some lizard folk or find some hunters that have noticed that strange things gather in the swamp. Of course, to make things difficult those hunters are missing and are held captive somewhere in the swamp. Next the PCs have to infiltrate the lair. They have to find a way to breathe water which isn't a huge problem for high level PCs but it still gives off the feeling that the PCs will be out of their comfort zone. And should something find a way to disable their water breathing they'll be in trouble. Once inside the lair there should be plenty of pools of water that occasionally have a lizardfolk ambush waiting for them. When the PCs are suitably paranoid the next pool contains the dragon which uses its breath weapon and then immediately dives back in, retreating through labyrinth-like water tunnels. So that's the first thing that came to my mind when you mentioned black dragon. As for the rest of your campaign, I'll make the suggestion that you could change up the type of dragons that the PCs will go hunting. Perhaps the next dragon is a dragolich or a shadow dragon. You thought a normal dragon was bad? How about an undead one that can only be killed by destroying the mcguffin? Or add a dragon turtle into the mix. Fighting a dragon turtle while on a very vulnerable ship sounds like a tense situation. Wyverns can also make good, thematic minions to the big dragons.</blockquote>

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