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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fastjack" data-source="post: 6345463" data-attributes="member: 6747838">ManipulationI really like the idea of having the dragon try and manipulate the party, however I am not clever enough to come up with a dragon's plan (at least one my players don't see through immediately).  I'm hoping someone else might be able to give me a few ideas or perhaps some examples of draconian manipulations past?  I'm thinking something playing on the pregen human from Thundertree's emotions, promising the town will be restored and he will be the town hero for helping everyone (and their descendants) come home after all the years that have passed.  I also want to have the cultists already working for the dragon in some capacity since it seems lame for the party to arrive while the cultists are there but before they have made contact with the dragon (how does the dragon not know they are there?).  I'm thinking that the dragon became aware of the druid snooping around and has sent the cultists to look for him and bring him  to the lair so that he can be made an offer he can't refuse.Any ideas or descriptions of what you are doing with the dragon would be great.  I did read the blog post about expanding some of the areas but honestly the ideas therein (whole new dungeons and so forth) are more work than I want to put in.  I'm looking more for motivations to make Thundertree's ecology more interesting possibly with a few new encounters.</blockquote>