The Red Dragon's lair is where?!

[Three_Haligonians]

Hey all,


Starting up a new campaign, one of the main adversaries is going to be a Young Adult Red Dragon [One that focuses on the fire and physical combat more than the planning and spells.. ahh the energy of youth!]

Anyway, I was thinking about his lair and I started to look at the basic "up in a mountain area, in some deep caves.. maybe some lava.." [No Save]. But then I got bored, so I'm trying to think of a new place such a dragon could be. What other "hot" terrains and locations can you think of that such a dragon might like? This is a real bruiser/bully of a dragon [heck.. I even gave him the Jotunbrud feat], but he is a Red one so fiery is a must.

I was thinking of something with tar pits [they seem interesting, could make some fun terrain encounters.. etc.] but I don't know exactly what kind of terrain they show up in naturally [other than La Brea tar pits..but those are in L.A. and I can't see that as a proper terrain type... yet].

Anyway.. where can this Dragon go?

J from Three Haligonians

 

[blargney the second]

The Fire Swamp.
-blarg

ps - He's the RDOUS.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Ever been to Yellowstone?

I think a maze of boiling mud, scalding hot springs and geysers would fit a red dragon quite well. Only thing that would fit it better is a gold dragon which you could have lurk under the scalding water, but red definitely works.

In fact you could easily rip Yellowstone off directly. A large bowl-like valley in the mountains with unusually active hot features. Plenty of decent maps online to pull off and use for your game Hell it's big enough that more than one dragon could lair there, you might have the YA red and a younger Brass or Gold that skulks around the edges of the region and is antagonistic toward the larger red. Or it's young adult, just old enough for that first clutch of wyrmlings to be gallivanting about.

 

[Dross]

Hhhmmmmm,
Hot springs (as in, just below boiling point).

Although maybe not quite suitible, i've often wondered about the reflective powers of ice and snow. Have some terrain (bowl type, ravine, mesa etc) where the sunshine is reflected to a particular point (think mirrors and solar panels) to keep the area hot. Artic to desert temps within a short distance.

Friends/master to larger fire elementals?

 

[KrazyHades]

On the Plane of Fire (if they can survive there; I can't recall)

Living in the furnaces beneath a palace

 

[QuaziquestGM]

In a Mexican cantina.
In plain sight.
His table is in the corner and his hoard is in his room on the upper floor.
They serve really spicy food.
He likes the music and the colorful dresses of the dancing girls, as well as the local spicy style tequila.

This village is the only arable land and only major water source in the area.
He's the mucho grande hombre who walked into town one day and informed the locals that he is in charge and owns the place.

They have no where to go, so it's "Si, Senor Draco Roho"

He is often out of town hunting in the mountains, but when he is home he expects it to be fiesta time except during siesta, and then you'd better not make any noise and wake him.

 

[Yalius]

How about a decades-old underground coal fire?

Centralia, PA

Steaming cracks in the ground, sinkholes, choking smoke that erupts from the ground without warning, and that's all before you even enter the caverns with hellish temperatures, treacherous footing, collapsing tunnels.

Just how much damage would you take if a thousand-ton pale of burning coal collapsed on you?

The smoke burns your eyes, there's only ten feet of visibility, breathing is a chore.

And once you slog your way through hellish conditions that would make a Balor feel right at home, then you get to fight a dragon that savors every single grimace if pain and discomfort.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

On the Plane of Fire (if they can survive there; I can't recall)

They can, they're even on the random encounter charts for that plane along with brass dragons.

Living in the furnaces beneath a palace

Now this is starting to give me an idea...it needs to percolate a little but I can tell it'll be a good one.

 

[Piratecat]

I love the idea of a dragon sticking his head up from a pool of lava or boiling water, breathing fire on the party, and diving back down again -- only to surface at a different pool a few rounds later.

 

[Dioltach]

He's the mucho grande hombre who walked into town one day and informed the locals that he is in charge and owns the place.

They have no where to go, so it's "Si, Senor Draco Roho"

They missed a fantastic opportunity when they made The Magnificent Seven ...