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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 735639" data-attributes="member: 151">Two things to consider:  One, Calcryx is NOT smart.  Cunning, perhaps, but not terribly clever.  Remember, he's a WHITE dragon, and unlike their smarter brethren, the whites are often described as the closest to bestial.  Unlike say, a red dragon, Calcryx only has an Int of 6, not 10.  To give another comparison, he currently has the same Int as an Ogre.  It's not unreasonable to believe he's not long out of the egg.  He's probably mastered speech, and most likely knows some Draconic and Common.  He might be smart enough to try and trick them, but it won't be a cunning plan.  Mind you, convincing them to go to the Forge is a pretty solid tie-in, and it's a simple enough trick that it is well within his mental range.  Remember the adage, Keep It Simple Sunless. <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=":)" />Second, if you do use this as a linkage piece to the forge, make sure that you either keep Nightscale as is (possibly an egg thief who sold Calcyrx off, for some reason) or modify the environment that Nightscale is found in.  I say this because Nightscale's entire encounter is based on her environment (i.e. the water), and a White Dragon doesn't HAVE water-breathing, making her much more vulnerable to attack, and generally changing the threat-level of the encounter.  It also makes it harder to understand how Nightscale gets in and out of the mountain, if she doesn't swim.  Then, you end up either making a big visible cave that the PCs may stumble upon at the beginning (which is BAD), or a logic gap that may or may not be a problem for your group.</blockquote>

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