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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6612525">Dragons are full of misconceptions, and Silver Dragons while generally thought of as champions of the law are in reality champions of lawfulness.  A good test would be for your players to be placed in a situation to determine what is right as opposed to what is the law.  Silver dragons, like all dragons are creatures of ego and therefore what the dragon thinks is right may be far flung from what the local law says is right but they are, unlike their cousins, aware of the stark difference in the way mortals view the world and the way dragons view the world.This leaves your party with three obvious positions:Follow the law of the land.Follow the potentially ephemeral thinkings of the dragon.Follow what they think is right.The answer to the puzzle should be somewhere in between, demonstrating the ability of the players to recognize the authority of the law, even when it wrong, the "big picture" thinking of a dragon on what should be right and their own immediate needs in the right now.  Following the law is easy.  Why the law exists and how the law can best be served is not.  To demonstrate true lawfulness the party should have to demonstrate they can understand the law, why it's necessary and how it can best serve the people and the people serve it, not simply pass or fail.I imagine that's quite possibly more than you intended for the players to bite off, but set up a small town nearby with a "Sheriff of Nottingham" sort of situation.  The taxes exist for a reason (to get good King John back from the French), but the people don't understand this and the Sheriff hasn't tried very hard because he's not really good at talking to people.  Meanwhile the lack of taxes is leaving the town in disrepair, which further upsets the people, but part of the problem is the Mayor is incompetent and isn't investing the money well.  The party must step in and raise awareness that the law is necessary for the good of all, and help the sheriff find less aggressive methods of getting the taxes and perhaps locate some contractors to help fix up the town.The players must demonstrate undersanding of how the law works.  Proper implementation of the law, and general goodie-goodieness of a real desire to help others.  All traits Silver Dragons are fond of.  This quest of course, cannot be given by the dragon(in dragon form at least), because then it would all be done out of self interest of the party to get the dragon's stuff.  Fortunately, Silver Dragons love to be cooky old men and beautiful babes, both great motivators for quests.</blockquote>

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