I'm working on an adventure where a red dragon is the ultimate big bad of the adventure. I'm planning on modding it after the older versions where it has more of a spellcasting ability. I was pondering if it would make a clone of itself. Would it be so arrogant and vain that it would consider itself unstoppable? Or plan this as a contingency to further extend it's rule? I know it's ultimately up to me, just trying to see if it would make a choice like this based upon it's nature.
This feels too specific for a general answer to cover all or most red dragons, so I think you're justified in doing whichever suits your plot, but my gut instinct is that a younger dragon might be that arrogant, while an older one wouldn't reach that age without picking up a little healthy caution along the way.
I'm working on an adventure where a red dragon is the ultimate big bad of the adventure. I'm planning on modding it after the older versions where it has more of a spellcasting ability. I was pondering if it would make a clone of itself. Would it be so arrogant and vain that it would consider itself unstoppable? Or plan this as a contingency to further extend it's rule? I know it's ultimately up to me, just trying to see if it would make a choice like this based upon it's nature.
Well, it might be sufficiently vain to think that additional copies of itself are just the best thing ever.
I'm working on an adventure where a red dragon is the ultimate big bad of the adventure. I'm planning on modding it after the older versions where it has more of a spellcasting ability. I was pondering if it would make a clone of itself. Would it be so arrogant and vain that it would consider itself unstoppable? Or plan this as a contingency to further extend it's rule? I know it's ultimately up to me, just trying to see if it would make a choice like this based upon it's nature.
Well, it might be sufficiently vain to think that additional copies of itself are just the best thing ever.
Clone only makes a shell in 5e. It is dormant until the character dies.
Similacrum would create a living copy of the creature.
This is a personality-specific question: it doesn't matter whether "a" red dragon would. It only matters whether your red dragon would.
However, there's also the meta question: is it good for the game if your red dragon has done so. Will your player appreciate that the big boss, who they beat through blood, sweat, tears, cleverness, and a non-trivial expenditure of resources is just back with no real ill effects? Is that going to be fun for them, or will it feel like their achievement doesn't matter, that your personal plotline is just gonna go on its merry way regardless of what they do?
IT could go either way: the fight against an enemy who cannot be easily killed is legit. However, it probably needs to be foreshadowed in advance, and I think it fits the narrative of an evil wizard more than it does a dragon.
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I'm working on an adventure where a red dragon is the ultimate big bad of the adventure. I'm planning on modding it after the older versions where it has more of a spellcasting ability. I was pondering if it would make a clone of itself. Would it be so arrogant and vain that it would consider itself unstoppable? Or plan this as a contingency to further extend it's rule? I know it's ultimately up to me, just trying to see if it would make a choice like this based upon it's nature.
This feels too specific for a general answer to cover all or most red dragons, so I think you're justified in doing whichever suits your plot, but my gut instinct is that a younger dragon might be that arrogant, while an older one wouldn't reach that age without picking up a little healthy caution along the way.
Medium humanoid (human), lawful neutral
Well, it might be sufficiently vain to think that additional copies of itself are just the best thing ever.
Clone only makes a shell in 5e. It is dormant until the character dies.
Similacrum would create a living copy of the creature.
This is a personality-specific question: it doesn't matter whether "a" red dragon would. It only matters whether your red dragon would.
However, there's also the meta question: is it good for the game if your red dragon has done so. Will your player appreciate that the big boss, who they beat through blood, sweat, tears, cleverness, and a non-trivial expenditure of resources is just back with no real ill effects? Is that going to be fun for them, or will it feel like their achievement doesn't matter, that your personal plotline is just gonna go on its merry way regardless of what they do?
IT could go either way: the fight against an enemy who cannot be easily killed is legit. However, it probably needs to be foreshadowed in advance, and I think it fits the narrative of an evil wizard more than it does a dragon.