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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 6930434" data-attributes="member: 467">In my current campaign, there is just one dragon: Zaskettr, an ancient red wyrm. It is a long story, but 50 years before the campaign begins, one of the land's many warring barons sought out the (sleeping) dragon and slayed it. The combination of the treasure from the dragon's hoard and the prestige for killing it allowed him to become High King. He reigned for 40 years until inexplicably* the dragon returned. It not only killed the High King but leveled the capital city and took up residence in the smoldering ruins. For the 10 years since, it has raided other cities, attacked herds and overall made a destructive nuisance of itself. It is a force of chaos, causing civlization itself (this is an island nation) to collapse.So Zaskettr is not really a villain or even an enemy (except possibly in an end-game kind of way, given that it is such a powerful foe). It does not present adventures -- those all happen in the ancient ruins of the island, in the courts of the mercurial elves, or in the machinations between the barons fighting over a melted crown. It's role is to create the world in which the PCs adventure and represent entropy -- both slow degredation and sudden, violent calamity. It does not possess special knowledge. it can't be engaged in politics or riddle contests. It is a hurricane or volcano in scaled form.How do you use dragons in your campaign? Do they have a special place, or are they "just another monster"?</blockquote>

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