In my story there are two red dragons. One is the bbeg while the other is a young pawn. I was thinking of letting the players have the opition of a peacful solution with the younger red. I thpught it would open up with the pc hearing of this dragon and how strong it was, but also how it seemed more interested in taking dresses. Tugns out the dragon likes clothes and other human things, leaving the path open to redeemption. What do you think?
What does the younger RDragon do with dresses and with human things? Do you think your party is likely to try a peaceful means of conflict resolution with the younger one for some reason? A lot of more experienced players will just assume that Red Dragon = Evil to slay. How will you undermine the assumption enough for them to consider other solutions for...whatever the Dragon is doing to mess with humans?
The Dragon wears the dresses, I made it so Choromactics could polymorph as well. I was thinking that as the players try to find the Dragon they learn surprising things about it, like how it leaves people who surrender alive, or how she finds humans amusing. The group make up is a kind barbarian, a Redemption Oath paladin, and a bard who tries charming first. I can guess that they would try to talk first. Plus these people are pretty good at rp so I don't think they will make assumptions on meta knowledge.
I would hazard a guess that in most campaigns, red dragons are "evil". That being said, there can be times where their goals coincide with the goals of others, perhaps even "good" people as dragons can take a very long perspective on things.
If the younger one is a pawn, perhaps it's trying to usurp the older ones power. In so doing, it's effectively recruiting the party to be it's heroes in this fight against a "greater evil". It's even possible this is a rite of passage amongst red dragons where the older ones are determining which younger ones should live.
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"An' things ha' come to a pretty pass, ye ken, if people are going to leave stuff like that aroound where innocent people could accidentally smash the door doon and lever the bars aside and take the big chain off'f the cupboard and pick the lock and drink it!"
Seems to me you have the opportunity for a completely civil encounter with this younger polymorphed red dragon... at the market next to the dressmakers stand
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“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
It would help you to clarify for yourself (and later for your players) what the Dragons' motivations are in general and then narrow it down to what their motivations are relative to other Dragons and then vis-a-vis humans. What makes one Very Evil vs. the other one being redeemable? If humans are just amusing, in what ways? Also, is there even anything bad enough to "redeem" if this younger Red is just "amused", as you say, by humans? IOW, what does this younger Dragon do that is morally questionable from the POV of the humans? And what do these two Red Dragons think of themselves?
In my story there are two red dragons. One is the bbeg while the other is a young pawn. I was thinking of letting the players have the opition of a peacful solution with the younger red. I thpught it would open up with the pc hearing of this dragon and how strong it was, but also how it seemed more interested in taking dresses. Tugns out the dragon likes clothes and other human things, leaving the path open to redeemption. What do you think?
What does the younger RDragon do with dresses and with human things? Do you think your party is likely to try a peaceful means of conflict resolution with the younger one for some reason? A lot of more experienced players will just assume that Red Dragon = Evil to slay. How will you undermine the assumption enough for them to consider other solutions for...whatever the Dragon is doing to mess with humans?
The Dragon wears the dresses, I made it so Choromactics could polymorph as well. I was thinking that as the players try to find the Dragon they learn surprising things about it, like how it leaves people who surrender alive, or how she finds humans amusing. The group make up is a kind barbarian, a Redemption Oath paladin, and a bard who tries charming first. I can guess that they would try to talk first. Plus these people are pretty good at rp so I don't think they will make assumptions on meta knowledge.
I would hazard a guess that in most campaigns, red dragons are "evil". That being said, there can be times where their goals coincide with the goals of others, perhaps even "good" people as dragons can take a very long perspective on things.
If the younger one is a pawn, perhaps it's trying to usurp the older ones power. In so doing, it's effectively recruiting the party to be it's heroes in this fight against a "greater evil". It's even possible this is a rite of passage amongst red dragons where the older ones are determining which younger ones should live.
"An' things ha' come to a pretty pass, ye ken, if people are going to leave stuff like that aroound where innocent people could accidentally smash the door doon and lever the bars aside and take the big chain off'f the cupboard and pick the lock and drink it!"
Seems to me you have the opportunity for a completely civil encounter with this younger polymorphed red dragon... at the market next to the dressmakers stand
“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
It would help you to clarify for yourself (and later for your players) what the Dragons' motivations are in general and then narrow it down to what their motivations are relative to other Dragons and then vis-a-vis humans. What makes one Very Evil vs. the other one being redeemable? If humans are just amusing, in what ways? Also, is there even anything bad enough to "redeem" if this younger Red is just "amused", as you say, by humans? IOW, what does this younger Dragon do that is morally questionable from the POV of the humans? And what do these two Red Dragons think of themselves?
I read the title of this thread thinking it was a fantasy version of Red Dead Redemption and just wanna say that'd be rad