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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4599565" data-attributes="member: 19675">Hmmmm, building on some of the previous stuff...Perhaps the ship has entered a harbor for repairs and restocking of supplies.&nbsp; Unbeknown to them, the island is home to a nesting Black Dragon female whose clutch hatched earlier that year.&nbsp; (Break down the dragon you were planning to use into a clutch of equal or 150% of the mother's HD.)Mama is either dead or called away for some reason, leaving the juveniles alone to fend for themselves.&nbsp; The largest of the bunch is tired of hunting down the local fauna and has an itch to test herself against more challenging prey...and maybe just see one or two of her fellow hatchlings get offed in the process.Because of their youth, they don't have the experience to use top-notch tactics, though one or 2 may stumble upon something good.&nbsp; Because there are several baby drakes, attacks could come at any time from any direction.&nbsp; At least one of the drakes should be smart enough to try to escape once the encounter goes south for the scaly side.A TPK is extremely unlikely.In addition, if the PCs slaughter the dragonets and Mama isn't dead, you suddenly have a BBEG...er...BBEM with a motive to kill them.&nbsp; A personal motive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4599565, member: 19675"] Hmmmm, building on some of the previous stuff... Perhaps the ship has entered a harbor for repairs and restocking of supplies. Unbeknown to them, the island is home to a nesting Black Dragon female whose clutch hatched earlier that year. (Break down the dragon you were planning to use into a clutch of equal or 150% of the mother's HD.) Mama is either dead or called away for some reason, leaving the juveniles alone to fend for themselves. The largest of the bunch is tired of hunting down the local fauna and has an itch to test herself against more challenging prey...and maybe just see one or two of her fellow hatchlings get offed in the process. Because of their youth, they don't have the experience to use top-notch tactics, though one or 2 may stumble upon something good. Because there are several baby drakes, attacks could come at any time from any direction. At least one of the drakes should be smart enough to try to escape once the encounter goes south for the scaly side. A TPK is extremely unlikely. In addition, if the PCs slaughter the dragonets and Mama isn't dead, you suddenly have a BBEG...er...BBEM with a motive to kill them. A [I]personal[/I] motive. [/QUOTE]

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