So I'm a new DM, and I don't really know what is good for a side encounter. I'm planing for a dumb druid NPC to come running into town yelling about his home burning. Turns out he likes to get really close to nature, so he built his home next to a dragon's cave.
I'm having my party of 4(and maybe an NPC) fight a Young Green Dragon, and if they defeat it, they get some magical items and money. Is this a good encounter, or should I remake it?
If the druid home is burning then, maybe go for a red dragon as it is fire based and green dragons are poison based or for some "out of left field" options ....
Have kobolds pretending to be a green dragon and they burned down the druids hut. Have them covered by an illusion cast by a witchdotcor/shaman Sorcerer style caster to make them look like a dragon when they leave the cave, maybe give the party a way to solve things diplomatically so they live in peace with the druid.
The Dragon has gone, the hut is smoldering ruins but the cauldron is still steaming with the druids last cooking experiement composed of numerous highly hallucinagenic mushrooms and druidic magic, coming within 10ft of the miasma around the cauldron produces a random effect, casting any magic in the area causes a wild magic surge.
Go for a Don Quixote style, the party traval to the hut and find a cave nearby with stalagmites and stalagtites making it look like the open maw of a dragon, occasionally plumes of smoke and gas erupt out of the cave from a gyser some where inside and occasionally a loud rumbling "roar" echoes out. Upon seeing it the druid attacks the cave entrance thinking it to be the dragon who is sleeping. If the party investigate the inside of the cave you can have some cave delving or entrance to the underdark and insert some random encounters or have a Hill Giant or Troll hibernating inside, the "roar" is its snoring.
So I'm a new DM, and I don't really know what is good for a side encounter. I'm planing for a dumb druid NPC to come running into town yelling about his home burning. Turns out he likes to get really close to nature, so he built his home next to a dragon's cave.
I'm having my party of 4(and maybe an NPC) fight a Young Green Dragon, and if they defeat it, they get some magical items and money. Is this a good encounter, or should I remake it?
Thanks.
you should maybe look at wyrmlings
If the druid home is burning then, maybe go for a red dragon as it is fire based and green dragons are poison based or for some "out of left field" options ....
Have kobolds pretending to be a green dragon and they burned down the druids hut. Have them covered by an illusion cast by a witchdotcor/shaman Sorcerer style caster to make them look like a dragon when they leave the cave, maybe give the party a way to solve things diplomatically so they live in peace with the druid.
The "dragon" is actually swarm/colony of magma mephits (https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/magma-mephit) that were awakened by the druid.
The Dragon has gone, the hut is smoldering ruins but the cauldron is still steaming with the druids last cooking experiement composed of numerous highly hallucinagenic mushrooms and druidic magic, coming within 10ft of the miasma around the cauldron produces a random effect, casting any magic in the area causes a wild magic surge.
Go for a Don Quixote style, the party traval to the hut and find a cave nearby with stalagmites and stalagtites making it look like the open maw of a dragon, occasionally plumes of smoke and gas erupt out of the cave from a gyser some where inside and occasionally a loud rumbling "roar" echoes out. Upon seeing it the druid attacks the cave entrance thinking it to be the dragon who is sleeping. If the party investigate the inside of the cave you can have some cave delving or entrance to the underdark and insert some random encounters or have a Hill Giant or Troll hibernating inside, the "roar" is its snoring.