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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wolff96" data-source="post: 87977" data-attributes="member: 342">Re: Coloring DragonsI had a wily old (Very Old, technically) blue dragon do something similar in a campaign I was running...He altered himself to look like a bronze dragon. Whenever he needed to actually ACT like a bronze dragon, he could use his lighting blast or simulate (most of) its abilities with his sorcerous abilities. He loved the high sea cliffs near this human city, but didn't want to be constantly bothered by people trying to hunt him down and kill him. So by pretending to be Bronze, he gained acceptance from the humans and even wealth -- he worked a deal with the town that he would protect their shipping from pirates if he got to keep anything he found on the pirate ships or anything he could salvage from ships that wrecked or ran aground. The humans were happy -- he really helped their shipping. The dragon was happy, since he got to keep whatever he found on the pirate ships, and he could often delay just a bit and let the pirates get the stolen goods aboard their ships before he would swoop down and save the day... or use his hallucinatory terrain abilities to make ships run aground. (Hide the real rocks and create an image of them elsewhere.)Time passed and the city became more and more prosperous -- a harbor protected by a dragon! What could be better? And the dragon's coffers grew fatter and fatter as the increased trade brought more and more criminals in to try and tap the wealth flowing through this city...Of course, when actual pirate attacks would get rare he would occasionally destroy a few legitimate ships to keep the cash flow going -- and founded the legend of an uncatchable, nearly invincible fleet of pirates that later brought the PCs into the area. (After all, if a DRAGON couldn't defeat, or even find, these pirates, they must be INCREDIBLE, right?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)That was one of my favorite story arcs. They never did figure it out. Just because you're evil doesn't mean you're stupid.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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