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<blockquote data-quote="Kaji" data-source="post: 1391830" data-attributes="member: 7738">Lot's of folks have pointed out a perceived problem with the fact that I forced the party to dea with evil creatures. I'll ad some details:First, all the party were told was that an object/item/information they needed was near/possessed/guarded or known about by said evil dragon. They were bright enough to go to sages to get info about the dragon, but they did not know why they were seeing her. So they wandered off into the desert to find her, using Wind Walk to canvass a large area where they figured she hung out. When they found a likely spot to explore, they hopped out and started to wander around, with little preparation, investigation, or plan. They are not to be commended.Second, the whole point was to present a challange where their first instinct was going to be attack/attack/kill, but this was a dragon several CR's above them (party is 15th level, dragon is CR 27). Not designed to be an attack encounter, and I hinted at that several times. (I'm actually a pretty nice guy, but I keep it secret <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). Plus, they did not yet know if they were looking for information, goods, a prisoner she had, whatever. Killing her was not going to help. But, it is a complex world, and sometimes we have to make hard choices. If they dealt with evil to get what they needed to stop a greater evil, it might still be an evil act, one that might require fasting, meditation, alms giving, and other goods deeds to atone. More on this later, work calls...So they just wandered off and got smacked by a dragon</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kaji, post: 1391830, member: 7738"] Lot's of folks have pointed out a perceived problem with the fact that I forced the party to dea with evil creatures. I'll ad some details: First, all the party were told was that an object/item/information they needed was near/possessed/guarded or known about by said evil dragon. They were bright enough to go to sages to get info about the dragon, but they did not know why they were seeing her. So they wandered off into the desert to find her, using Wind Walk to canvass a large area where they figured she hung out. When they found a likely spot to explore, they hopped out and started to wander around, with little preparation, investigation, or plan. They are not to be commended. Second, the whole point was to present a challange where their first instinct was going to be attack/attack/kill, but this was a dragon several CR's above them (party is 15th level, dragon is CR 27). Not designed to be an attack encounter, and I hinted at that several times. (I'm actually a pretty nice guy, but I keep it secret ;) ). Plus, they did not yet know if they were looking for information, goods, a prisoner she had, whatever. Killing her was not going to help. But, it is a complex world, and sometimes we have to make hard choices. If they dealt with evil to get what they needed to stop a greater evil, it might still be an evil act, one that might require fasting, meditation, alms giving, and other goods deeds to atone. More on this later, work calls... So they just wandered off and got smacked by a dragon [/QUOTE]

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