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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 832610" data-attributes="member: 114">Another interesting possibility, especially since your players love roleplaying, is to have an encounter where they have to *roleplay* their way past the challenge of the dragon.More like Bilbo Baggins than Dragonslayer, if you get my meaning.One of the strongest archetypes for dragons is that of cunning and manipulative creatures. What if they need to find information from it (or bring a proposal to stop its marauding) ? The dragon itself can be one which is happy to talk first (being over-confident in its ability to smack anyone it meets without trying too hard).This way your party can have a very memorable *encounter* with a red dragon, a challenge which they overcome, without actually fighting it (this time). Then in a couple of levels time the dragon reneges on its promise (or works out that it can release itself from its promise by killing them) giving a good reason for a dust up between it and the party when they are more likely to survive its tender ministrations.This way you get the best of both worlds.Cheers</blockquote>