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<blockquote data-quote="Arbiter of Wyrms" data-source="post: 2357031" data-attributes="member: 18021">The Vulture's Talon was a last-minute creation.&nbsp; One of the PCs has a warp marble, an unbalancingly powerful magical item carried over from 2nd edition that has been holding a white wyrmling in stasis for sometime.&nbsp; He wanted to get rid of the dragon without having to put it down or raise it himself.&nbsp; In the course of the story, the marble was stolen from him in a very railroady kind of way, and a monk NPC figured as a minor character earlier in the campaign.&nbsp; I decided to insert the monastery of the Vulture's Talon en route to the order where the 'good guy monks' live so that I could manage a combat encounter.&nbsp; I was going to go with ghosts or a banshee, but decided to use a gray linnorm instead.&nbsp; It was a seat-of-the-pants DMing session, but I always try to weave as many plot hooks as I can.They ended up killing the linnorm, taking its treasure and walking all night up a staircase to the new monastery, where dwells the Perching Dove order, a good-aligned order grown from the surviving members of the Vulture's Talon, and headed by a level 20 gestalt monk/wizard zenythri with a slew of exhalted feats including vows of poverty, non-violence, and peace.&nbsp; He had an acolyte steal the warp marble so that he could give the wyrmling to a local crystal dragon with whom he is allied.&nbsp; The side benefit is that it brings the PC to him for an audience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arbiter of Wyrms, post: 2357031, member: 18021"] The Vulture's Talon was a last-minute creation. One of the PCs has a warp marble, an unbalancingly powerful magical item carried over from 2nd edition that has been holding a white wyrmling in stasis for sometime. He wanted to get rid of the dragon without having to put it down or raise it himself. In the course of the story, the marble was stolen from him in a very railroady kind of way, and a monk NPC figured as a minor character earlier in the campaign. I decided to insert the monastery of the Vulture's Talon en route to the order where the 'good guy monks' live so that I could manage a combat encounter. I was going to go with ghosts or a banshee, but decided to use a gray linnorm instead. It was a seat-of-the-pants DMing session, but I always try to weave as many plot hooks as I can. They ended up killing the linnorm, taking its treasure and walking all night up a staircase to the new monastery, where dwells the Perching Dove order, a good-aligned order grown from the surviving members of the Vulture's Talon, and headed by a level 20 gestalt monk/wizard zenythri with a slew of exhalted feats including vows of poverty, non-violence, and peace. He had an acolyte steal the warp marble so that he could give the wyrmling to a local crystal dragon with whom he is allied. The side benefit is that it brings the PC to him for an audience. [/QUOTE]

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