Just a cool and funny story about my party's shennanigans. For those interested, I have started asking my players what cool things they want to happen, and I give them the oppurtunity to do them. I also found a cool 5e statbox for the fang dragon.
So, my party; a ranger, nature cleric, barbarian, wizard and, the focus of this tale, the oath of conquest paladin - who had decided she wanted to buld an army and have it with some actually cool units- all walked into a small mining town in the highlands. As is the way with these things, the party had wandered in the day that Loexedar, the fang dragon, would be 'gifted' with prey. A group of fit, intelligent and swift townspeople would be sent off from the town with the understanding that they would be hunted down and killed, if they were found, they would be eaten, and the skull would be returned to the family. Especially cunning individuals would also earn a payment for their family. Escape was unheard of.
The town leader convinces them to take on the task of outrunning Loexedar. It's important to point out that the leader is a young man, and he said that the dragon arrived when his grandparents were young. Point of interest, my mother became a grandmother at 43.
Fast forward six hours, and the party had tricked Loexedar into a cave. Their, the party learned two things: firstly, Loexedar was a young dragon, and second, even dragons should always count the number of enemies they face, each time they lose or gain sight of them. No sooner does Loexedar hiss out "Where is the other prey?" Than a heavily armoured paladin perform a flying press from the top of the cave.
I had planned on having the paladin have a griffon or something similar later on, and had given them a custom item to control a low-ish CR mount. You can guess where this is going.
My paladin now has command over a fang dragon, a skilled and consumate hunter of humanoids. It isn't a perfect control, as the dragon becomes an adult, it will be to powerful for the item to completely overpower. But, so long as the dragon's pride isn't too offended and he is given tasks worthy of the mighty Loexedar, he will be obedient. Sadly for the paladin, this means no rides, but it does mean the party has a ready made head hunter of considerable power. This could be very useful later on.
Tell me what you think!
P.S: The title is a reference to jurassic park, as there were a lot of dinosaurs in the area and they were meant to be hunted.
i like it when party members role play into something completely absurd, because it makes the game interesting. it would be fun to see how appeasing the dragon changes the choices the party makes as a whole, not wanting to lose that powerful of an ally.
ps, the VERY first thing that popped into my head with your thread title was Mouldoon with his rifle, sneaking through the jungle, hunting raptors....
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Just a cool and funny story about my party's shennanigans. For those interested, I have started asking my players what cool things they want to happen, and I give them the oppurtunity to do them. I also found a cool 5e statbox for the fang dragon.
So, my party; a ranger, nature cleric, barbarian, wizard and, the focus of this tale, the oath of conquest paladin - who had decided she wanted to buld an army and have it with some actually cool units- all walked into a small mining town in the highlands. As is the way with these things, the party had wandered in the day that Loexedar, the fang dragon, would be 'gifted' with prey. A group of fit, intelligent and swift townspeople would be sent off from the town with the understanding that they would be hunted down and killed, if they were found, they would be eaten, and the skull would be returned to the family. Especially cunning individuals would also earn a payment for their family. Escape was unheard of.
The town leader convinces them to take on the task of outrunning Loexedar. It's important to point out that the leader is a young man, and he said that the dragon arrived when his grandparents were young. Point of interest, my mother became a grandmother at 43.
Fast forward six hours, and the party had tricked Loexedar into a cave. Their, the party learned two things: firstly, Loexedar was a young dragon, and second, even dragons should always count the number of enemies they face, each time they lose or gain sight of them. No sooner does Loexedar hiss out "Where is the other prey?" Than a heavily armoured paladin perform a flying press from the top of the cave.
I had planned on having the paladin have a griffon or something similar later on, and had given them a custom item to control a low-ish CR mount. You can guess where this is going.
My paladin now has command over a fang dragon, a skilled and consumate hunter of humanoids. It isn't a perfect control, as the dragon becomes an adult, it will be to powerful for the item to completely overpower. But, so long as the dragon's pride isn't too offended and he is given tasks worthy of the mighty Loexedar, he will be obedient. Sadly for the paladin, this means no rides, but it does mean the party has a ready made head hunter of considerable power. This could be very useful later on.
Tell me what you think!
P.S: The title is a reference to jurassic park, as there were a lot of dinosaurs in the area and they were meant to be hunted.
i like it when party members role play into something completely absurd, because it makes the game interesting. it would be fun to see how appeasing the dragon changes the choices the party makes as a whole, not wanting to lose that powerful of an ally.
ps, the VERY first thing that popped into my head with your thread title was Mouldoon with his rifle, sneaking through the jungle, hunting raptors....
Rogues do it better from behind....