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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7021245" data-attributes="member: 20323">Well, if the dragon attack is basically "background color", then it sounds like the hit squad needs to be played up as a really deadly fight. I'd suggest the assassins use the chaos to their advantage to try and divide & conquer the party or put them in the classic dilemma of "you could kill him now, but those precious seconds might help save the people trapped in the burning barn." Ah, in that case, I'd expect to see:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Herd animals running wild through the streets, possibly on fire. Think a chaotic version of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Demihumans and poor up in arms against the Lords of Waterdeep, the flames of their discontent perhaps fueled by cultist demagogues.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Issues with water access. Perhaps the usually inconvenient water access of the Field Ward is made even more desperate by an attack on an aqueduct or water tower that floods one of the streets.</li> </ul>Have some NPCs that are known to the PCs but aren't crucial to the adventure path get picked up and dropped by red dragons from 200 feet, a height that would surely kill them. Then think of some possible ways the PCs might save the NPCs besides feather fall, like leaping onto a dragon's leg and grabbing the NPCs hand, shooting a magic arrow to pin them to a tower, using Action Surge to spur a winged mount to the rescue, conjuring a pool of water for them to land in, etc.</blockquote>

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