So, I am going to have the players climb a yeti infested mountain to return the white dragon wyrmling from the sunless citidel to it’s mother, so it’s mom doesn’t freeze down the players’ home village. I need a good segway from the one adventure to the other. I was thinking maybe it’s mom just straight up gives them the quest when they are gonna go to the dungeon, following one of the default story hooks.
Perhaps they could be looking to collect a bounty on the person that also happened to steal the wyrmling/egg, and they end up following them into the sunless citadel. It might help if I knew more about your campaign and what's going on, I might be able to give more specific advice.
Generally I want my story hooks to be personal if I can, the home village thing is a good start to that. The player's probably aren't strong enough to contend with this Mother Dragon, so it should be easy to motivate them once they know what's up.
Could you make the wyrmling young enough that the PCs might naturally on their own think to reunite the baby with its mom? Like maybe he's only 1 year old and they've killed everything around it that could take care of it so they want to find its mom. And then the one PC might know rumors of a white dragon who's been on the rampage when she's normally been kind of aloof and leaving the village alone for the most part. Which might make a PC realize that she's probably raging because someone stole her baby.
This scenario would really depend on your PCs so if they're not the types who would care about a baby animal that's been separated from its mother then you'll have to come up with something else. But any rangers or druids in your party might naturally be inclined to see that the harmony of nature has been disrupted by the kobolds taking this baby from its mother and they would want to restore that harmony. If they're part of the Emerald Enclave (assuming your adventures are taking place in the Sword Coast) they would object to anything that disrupts the natural order, including unnecessarily killing a dragon. They would not see anything needful in slaying or abandoning the wyrmling because it is young and has not made any provocation against another creature.
Could you make the wyrmling young enough that the PCs might naturally on their own think to reunite the baby with its mom? Like maybe he's only 1 year old and they've killed everything around it that could take care of it so they want to find its mom. And then the one PC might know rumors of a white dragon who's been on the rampage when she's normally been kind of aloof and leaving the village alone for the most part. Which might make a PC realize that she's probably raging because someone stole her baby.
This scenario would really depend on your PCs so if they're not the types who would care about a baby animal that's been separated from its mother then you'll have to come up with something else. But any rangers or druids in your party might naturally be inclined to see that the harmony of nature has been disrupted by the kobolds taking this baby from its mother and they would want to restore that harmony. If they're part of the Emerald Enclave (assuming your adventures are taking place in the Sword Coast) they would object to anything that disrupts the natural order, including unnecessarily killing a dragon. They would not see anything needful in slaying or abandoning the wyrmling because it is young and has not made any provocation against another creature.
Only one PC would really care, the Dragonborn paladin of Tiamat, who has a strong bond with all dragons. All my other PCs, given what my friends are like, will probably be murder hobos. But, yeah... also, any ideas for encounters leading up to the lair?
Could you make the wyrmling young enough that the PCs might naturally on their own think to reunite the baby with its mom? Like maybe he's only 1 year old and they've killed everything around it that could take care of it so they want to find its mom. And then the one PC might know rumors of a white dragon who's been on the rampage when she's normally been kind of aloof and leaving the village alone for the most part. Which might make a PC realize that she's probably raging because someone stole her baby.
This scenario would really depend on your PCs so if they're not the types who would care about a baby animal that's been separated from its mother then you'll have to come up with something else. But any rangers or druids in your party might naturally be inclined to see that the harmony of nature has been disrupted by the kobolds taking this baby from its mother and they would want to restore that harmony. If they're part of the Emerald Enclave (assuming your adventures are taking place in the Sword Coast) they would object to anything that disrupts the natural order, including unnecessarily killing a dragon. They would not see anything needful in slaying or abandoning the wyrmling because it is young and has not made any provocation against another creature.
Only one PC would really care, the Dragonborn paladin of Tiamat, who has a strong bond with all dragons. All my other PCs, given what my friends are like, will probably be murder hobos. But, yeah... also, any ideas for encounters leading up to the lair?
You'll be climbing up a mountain so you could (just for flavor, I wouldn't necessarily advocate pitting your PCs against a frost giant if they're still tier 1 levels) they could hear frost giants in the distance. An avalanche? Mountain goats. Yetis. The monster page here on D&D beyond can be filtered to arctic environment so you could pull appropriate monsters from that.
So, I am going to have the players climb a yeti infested mountain to return the white dragon wyrmling from the sunless citidel to it’s mother, so it’s mom doesn’t freeze down the players’ home village. I need a good segway from the one adventure to the other. I was thinking maybe it’s mom just straight up gives them the quest when they are gonna go to the dungeon, following one of the default story hooks.
Perhaps they could be looking to collect a bounty on the person that also happened to steal the wyrmling/egg, and they end up following them into the sunless citadel. It might help if I knew more about your campaign and what's going on, I might be able to give more specific advice.
Generally I want my story hooks to be personal if I can, the home village thing is a good start to that. The player's probably aren't strong enough to contend with this Mother Dragon, so it should be easy to motivate them once they know what's up.
Could you make the wyrmling young enough that the PCs might naturally on their own think to reunite the baby with its mom? Like maybe he's only 1 year old and they've killed everything around it that could take care of it so they want to find its mom. And then the one PC might know rumors of a white dragon who's been on the rampage when she's normally been kind of aloof and leaving the village alone for the most part. Which might make a PC realize that she's probably raging because someone stole her baby.
This scenario would really depend on your PCs so if they're not the types who would care about a baby animal that's been separated from its mother then you'll have to come up with something else. But any rangers or druids in your party might naturally be inclined to see that the harmony of nature has been disrupted by the kobolds taking this baby from its mother and they would want to restore that harmony. If they're part of the Emerald Enclave (assuming your adventures are taking place in the Sword Coast) they would object to anything that disrupts the natural order, including unnecessarily killing a dragon. They would not see anything needful in slaying or abandoning the wyrmling because it is young and has not made any provocation against another creature.
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Only one PC would really care, the Dragonborn paladin of Tiamat, who has a strong bond with all dragons. All my other PCs, given what my friends are like, will probably be murder hobos. But, yeah... also, any ideas for encounters leading up to the lair?
You'll be climbing up a mountain so you could (just for flavor, I wouldn't necessarily advocate pitting your PCs against a frost giant if they're still tier 1 levels) they could hear frost giants in the distance. An avalanche? Mountain goats. Yetis. The monster page here on D&D beyond can be filtered to arctic environment so you could pull appropriate monsters from that.
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