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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WampusCat43" data-source="post: 4752581" data-attributes="member: 12027">This has limited use to you, but I did something similar to this in my 3.5 game a few years ago.  The PCs booked passage down a large river on a big, fairly flat barge.  The crew was obviously experienced at whitewater, but what they didn't know was that three large spiders had set up camp above the first set of rapids.  Failing difficult Spot checks, their first inkling of danger was when the guy guiding the boat (the only person standing upright) went "Whuff" as he hit a large single strand of webbing across the river.  He was snatched up in the air, and the group watched in horror one of the spiders closed in and killed him.Right about then they realized two more things - no one was controlling the boat any longer, and two additional spiders just landed on it, tipping the raft and causing all the cargo to start sliding downhill.  What followed was a careening free-for-all as the players had to decide to either fight the spiders, control the boat, help the captain get to the rear of the boat, defend the passengers, or just hang on and not risk begin thrown off.I think you definitely have to consider what happens if the dragon grabs the boat and tries to flip it.  All I know is, to this day my PCs won't go near the water.  They sound like a variation on Chef's line in Apocalypse Now:  "Don't get into the boat...Don't get into the boat..."</blockquote>