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<blockquote data-quote="Sagiro" data-source="post: 5750494" data-attributes="member: 726">I'd always known that Morningstar (and by extension the rest of the party) was going to be summoned back to kill a Big Bad Dragon.&nbsp; Now, at the very moment that I first mentioned &quot;The Slayer&quot; and &quot;The Throggun's ascension,&quot; I didn't know exactly what was going to be involved.&nbsp;&nbsp; (I remember having the idea at the time that the big dragon skeleton was going to turn out to be the one they'd fight, but I dropped that idea once the party fought the dracolich in the ravines of Il-Drosh.)To address Piratecat's question more directly:&nbsp; it was very early on that I decided that it would be a straight, no-moral-quandary battle royale with a dragon.&nbsp; And what led me to that decision was the party's collective certainty that there would be a moral quandary; as I'm sure you surmised, I enjoyed subverting player expectations from time to time. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil&nbsp; &nbsp; :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />I figured I'd let you all spend a few years worrying that you'd be called on to kill a bunch of dwarves, and then give you the (pleasant) surprise of a guilt-free draconic ass-kicking.&nbsp; Simplistic and neat?&nbsp; Yeah, maybe.&nbsp; But I figured the game hadn't lacked for moral conundrums over the years.As for the specific timing; I always knew I'd spring this one fairly late in the campaign, since I wanted it to be an extremely tough dragon, and so needed the PC's to be high level in order to stand a chance.&nbsp; I was waiting for a good secondary plot hook to come along, and the party's actions in Naslund gave me a very specific role the dragon could play.Edited to add:&nbsp; Oh, and you missed three other dragons:&nbsp; the skeletal dragon AND the dracolich from the ravines in Il-Drosh; and your very first dragon, the baby white from the Black Circle bestiary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sagiro, post: 5750494, member: 726"] I'd always known that Morningstar (and by extension the rest of the party) was going to be summoned back to kill a Big Bad Dragon. Now, at the very moment that I first mentioned "The Slayer" and "The Throggun's ascension," I didn't know [i]exactly[/i] what was going to be involved. (I remember having the idea at the time that the big dragon skeleton was going to turn out to be the one they'd fight, but I dropped that idea once the party fought the dracolich in the ravines of Il-Drosh.) To address Piratecat's question more directly: it was very early on that I decided that it would be a straight, no-moral-quandary battle royale with a dragon. And what led me to that decision was the party's collective certainty that there [i]would[/i] be a moral quandary; as I'm sure you surmised, I enjoyed subverting player expectations from time to time. :devil: I figured I'd let you all spend a few years worrying that you'd be called on to kill a bunch of dwarves, and then give you the (pleasant) surprise of a guilt-free draconic ass-kicking. Simplistic and neat? Yeah, maybe. But I figured the game hadn't lacked for moral conundrums over the years. As for the specific timing; I always knew I'd spring this one fairly late in the campaign, since I wanted it to be an extremely tough dragon, and so needed the PC's to be high level in order to stand a chance. I was waiting for a good secondary plot hook to come along, and the party's actions in Naslund gave me a very specific role the dragon could play. Edited to add: Oh, and you missed three other dragons: the skeletal dragon AND the dracolich from the ravines in Il-Drosh; and your very first dragon, the baby white from the Black Circle bestiary. [/QUOTE]

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