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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2725136" data-attributes="member: 63">I'm surprised there was almost no mention at all of good, metallic dragons. Everyone seemed focused on the evil ones which must be defeated.Except Roudi. He entertained the hell out of me.Amethal also, with his short description of his dragon battle, did a good job. I like the image of a savage monster giving its opponents just enough respect for it to flee, disgruntled.So I'll send out Steam & Steel and EOM: ME to these two.But first, my dragon post.Almost as defining as the ferocity of dragons is their treasure. Few creatures make for better guardians of hoards, and every dragon's hoard should be unique.In one of my games, the party was looking for a vampire who had taken a hostage and was hiding in a maze lined with mirrors. The maze was hundreds of years old, created by a wizard with a fascination about glass, and they knew that a powerful artifact they were looking for -- a bottle of amberglass holding a miniature version of an airship -- was kept somewhere in the maze.All manner of fun combat ensued -- including basilisks with their gaze attacks -- but when they finally got to the center of the maze, they found a bridge of crystal crossing a room filled with a lake of crystal-clear acid. In the center of the bridge lay the mutilated body of the hostage they were looking for, its body scarred with acid. There was no sign of the vampire, but on the far side of the bridge was a door, and from the crack beneath the door came the glow of golden light. Treasure, everyone thought.The group started cautiously crossing the bridge. Then a creature burst up from the lake beneath them, swooping through the air, its wings singing like chimed crystal bells. It swooped and landed in the middle of the bridge, blocking their path, planting its claw on the corpse protectively. Nearly invisible in a room of countless reflections, it was a dragon made of glass.The dragon took no immediate aggressive action, and the group was startled by its appearance, so they actually asked if it had seen the vampire. When it responded, it made no sound, but its words appeared in the air next to it, rotating into view like something out of Wheel of Fortune. Like echoes, the words were reflected by the mirrors.It said that no one had ever made it past it, not since it first charmed the builder of the maze to erect this temple to it, to provide a proper home for its hoard. But the dragon was more vain and intellectual than violent, and the group eventually convinced it that the vampire must have snuck by it, invisible because it had no reflection.It agreed to let them into its hoard and take one item if they brought out this supposed invisible thief and allowed it to tear the thief to bits and burn him in the acid pool. Which they proceeded to do.Sure, the party probably had a good chance of taking the dragon in a stand up fight, but they understood and respected what the dragon wanted, and they were afraid of it. I was proud of that.</blockquote>

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