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rottenking82 04-27-04, 10:27 PM	I'm curious though to hear how dragons have played roles in your campaigns, whether you be a player or GM? How do you intend to use the new dawning year in the FR campaign (if you like to keep current with the setting)? edited by BigSister
Heron_Marked_Blade 04-27-04, 10:38 PM	I haven't read the book, although I've seen in on the shelves of my local B&N. My group is currently being chased by a very angry Great Wyrm red dragon whose name sends a warm trickle of fear down the legs of every Faerunian who lives in the Sword Coast North.... It's the first time dragons have played a role in our campaign; we're finally of a high enough level where we stand a chance against such savage and clever creatures...although not against this one.... :( Our DM is a :schemes: Fortunately we have many :fight!: and :mage: in our group. Unfortunately, I think we'll still be :banghead: Our DM is a :turkey:
Shemeska the Marauder 04-28-04, 03:02 AM	Well, the events of 'The Rage' and the Year of Rogue Dragons in general has been an unseen broadside for my own campaign actually... Let me explain. First of all I run a 3e Planescape campaign, though two of the PCs are from Toril and so there have been several jaunts back to Faerun (specifically Halruaa and the High Forest / Dire Wood) for a subplot or two. The campaign has also had a central metaplot running smoothly for the past year and a half since before the campaign began for the players. Suffice to say it's complicated to the point of needing a multipage flowchart for the NPCs, lots of (somewhat) pre-planned events to advance the plot in some areas, etc. Though don't get the idea that its a story and not a game. The PCs have significantly altered certain aspects of the overarching plot by their actions. And this is where the Year of Rogue Dragons comes into play. In an earlier part of my campaign, the PCs had been to a site in Pandemonium known as Howler's Crag. Unconnected to a series of murders among the group they were travelling with at the time, there was a portal at the site to a dragons lair in Agathion, the lowest layer of the plane. Inside was a Wyrm catagory Howling Dragon by the name of Paravashtacronox the Howling. Utterly insane by anyone's measure. Ten levels later one of the goody two-shoes PCs gets the brilliant idea of going out, finding random dragons, and killing them to get gold to fund his church and the militant wing of it that her serves within. Sounds fine I say, dangerous but fine. Then he lets it be known that he intends to go back to Pandemonium and kill The Howling... Thankfully the rest of the PCs went with him, he was originally going to go alone. It would have been over in seconds. But as it was, the first round alone nearly killed half the party, but they eventually killed the thing. Unfortunately for them, Paravashtacronox was there in that bubble in Agathion for a reason. Embedded in his forehead was a ruby gem carved into the shape of a burning eye, the holy symbol of Garyx the All-Devourer, the Cleanser of Worlds. The dragon was the artifact's guardian, its own insanity was the only thing keeping the artifact from taking over its mind and getting free. Imagine it like a sentient eye of Vecna for dragonkind, an artifact containing either the soul of a proxy of Garyx, or a fragment of the divinity of Garyx itself. Suffice to say, the artifact woke up and animated the howling dragon's body, making itself a host. The PC's didn't stick around thankfully in the condition they were in after seeing the corpse begin to twitch and stir as the eye of the artifact opened and illuminated the entire 2 mile wide chamber with a pale reddish glow. However back to 1373 DR... they've released this thing, and I'm fully planning on making it the catalyst of the events of the Year of Rogue Dragons. Perfect timing if you ask me to add in a random high level subplot for them as a break from their current mix of inner planar and lower planar adventuring. Absolutely perfect timing for me to be a merciless DM to spring this on them as something of their own making. :angel: I love my job...
Forsaken_Rocker 04-28-04, 07:42 PM	I had a very enjoyable epic campaign for me and my pcs, this was like lvl 30 chars that they have not used for awhile. So the story was that all of evil was gathering toghether for a final seige on mankind. This includes chromatic dragons. So humanity took refuge in a once-forgotten nearly impregnable fortress built by the dwaves thousands of years ago (this is in my own little made up world not faerun, but still a good example) it was impossible to breach, and nothing could blast through the walls exept dargons (that's on purpose) So a huge amount of heros gathered to take out the 5 great wryms that were on the enemy side (blue, black, green, red, white) while they were going through the planning, the great wyrm metallic ones showed up and decided to help them. It was fun. I also had a dragon war campaign. over all i usually use dragons as challenges, and when I am angry at my party.
protonik 04-28-04, 08:49 PM	I have been slowly bringing Dragons into my games, especially a White that will be a major antagonist in my next adventure. Called Snowbreeze by the locals, his real name is alrazadansanin and he is vicious. He hails from the Moonsea area and we are approaching winter 1372 so he will be flying high soon and ravaging the area... heh heh heh
rottenking82 04-28-04, 08:54 PM	Ha, hearing about white dragons brings back memories the time my players clocked a white wyrm in a round or two in the Nether Mountains region. I really intended for that to be at least challenging. I've never seen 5 characters critical hit all in one round until then.
Frostbite_Ravenheart 04-28-04, 10:00 PM	Well...lets...just...say...one...time... I had raised an army of half-dragons. Sound crazy? No? I was a PC! MUAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY CHILDREN RULED THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!! that was of course when no one showed up and I decded to play a bard with high Cha and a High Con (for looks) ;). -Frosty
Shylo Slick 04-29-04, 01:00 AM	After 21 yrs of game time/ 7 years of real time, I can finally unlease Inferno upon the world... The Draconian ToT has begun, Tiamat, Sammaster, and Inferno fight to control the future of the Chromatic race and more. Io sets the following restriction on all Draconian Gods, to invole oneself you must be cast down upon Toril in mortal form, destruction of their mortal avatar means destruction of their divine essence... Inferno reveals himself and his council of wyrms to all draconians and set's his plan in motion to rid this universe of Tiamat forever and any other draconian god who stands in his way, Draconians of all species begin a holy war that threatens to tear Toril apart, and it becomes impossible to tell whos on whos side even among the Metallics... Ao forbids all other gods from interfering directly that is...
WizO_BigSister 04-29-04, 03:56 AM	Can I remind you all to please read the updated Novels - Important Info - Read This!!!! (http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=185204)
Forsaken_Rocker 05-01-04, 01:19 PM	this isnt compleatly on novels, he asked us on how we use dragons in out dampaigns rottenking82, i have seen the more incredible. in our campaigns we have a rule that if you role a 20 and then role another 20 (for the critical hit) it is an instant kill. I had 3 pcs who were fighting mirror images of themselves (mages did it) they ill give you their roles. pc 1- rouge- 20..20 pc 2- fighter- 20..20 pc 3- barbarian- 20..20 all the mirror images died instanetly, ON THE FIRST TURN that is frigen amazing
Derren S. 05-01-04, 03:02 PM	Put that die(ce) on Ebay!
Forsaken_Rocker 05-02-04, 12:15 AM	i should, hmmm the dice of magical 20 rolling, d&d peeps across the world would pay MILLIONS I SAY....MILLIONS!!! MUHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA *gets dropkicked*