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#1 moghue May 27, 2011 5:50:25	We played one campaign from level 1-5, it was a weekly effort that ended with us finding the eye of vecna, I of course being a new player and a Holy Paladin of Bahamut, put it in my skull. We did 2 more weeks on this campaign where then i succomb to  th eye. In our world, there are very few dragonborn, even fewer dragonborn that are good. There is no bringing back to life in our campaign so i fluffed a story as to how Bahamut brought my sould back to end this undead menace that is threatening the land. A high inquisitor was raising an undead army and sending someone to get the eye, we intercepted the letter and sought it ourselves, we got there first. Now we are playing an evil campaign where said inquistor has imprisoned us with necklaces that bing us together, meaning if 1 of us die, we all die. We basically act neutral to eachother, the inquisitor has us take a different kind of necklace and capture other war heroes or important objects. In one of the adventures we found a clutch of 5 dragon eggs, The vampire in our group (this campaign idea coming from the heroes of shadow book) wanted to kick them into the lava, My character, The brought to life Version of the dragonborn paladin, still with the eye of vecna, decides to keep the eggs, knowing with the imprisonment of the necklaces and his training in nature/mounted combat/ ritual casting, as well as his want to be superior to everyone would take one of them as a steed. In a larger city a bit further from where the inquisitor is keeping us, we had a day to kill, my character went to a library and found a book on dragons and the like. I homebrewed a ritual that could take a newly born dragon and bind its soul to me through a dragons horn and a few other components costing approx 18,000 gold. So the clutch was close to hatching, we used the corresponding powers to their reistances to hatch them, Ie. i used cold dragon breath to hatch the white one (the one i wanted as a mount) with the newly hatched wyrmlings I imprisoned all of them in large chests, Once i released the white one and incopacitated it, i performed this ritual on it, binding it to the horn, and to me. Upon blowing the horn, no sound was emmitted that any of us could hear, but a blue mist rose to the sky, and a large white dragon flew down and tackled my character. after rolling it licked my face, (sorta like a puppy) its lvl 7 so its in young adult hood, it only speeks draconic, and only speaks to me, (the only person who can speak to it, because of knowing draconic) The DM liked my story telling here and accepted me having this white dragon as a mount, I scaled it down to a normal mob having aprox 76 hp at lvl 7, as well as making the skills it would have scale down and become either encounter or daily(icy tomb) Since we are trying to keep secret, all i can give it as of now is a saddle. (I can call it back into the horn Pokeball style after this, appearing as a blue mist, this is at will yet it emits a sound after its first use in a day(to make it so i cant be in a dungeon and call it and not alert everything)) Reading the various mount rules, I was wondering if this is tremendously overpowered, keeping in mind that most of the time we are in cities killing diplomats, or caves capturing leaders of small organizations, so we can't very well have a dragon everywhere.
#2 pluisjen May 27, 2011 6:02:17	If you are using regular level 7 monster stats for the dragon (hp, attacks, defenses, actions, etc) then it's no better then any other flying level 7 mount so I'd say it's fine and not overpowered in any way.
#3 moghue May 27, 2011 6:10:44	If you are using regular level 7 monster stats for the dragon (hp, attacks, defenses, actions, etc) then it's no better then any other flying level 7 mount so I'd say it's fine and not overpowered in any way. Yes im using the moster builder adventure tools, i took the lvl 9 adult dragon and scaled it back to lvl 7, basically reset its stats, and added a few to 1 of my choice, i was testing it b4 i let the rest of the party try the same deal, the only op thing i think is the icy tomb where it can encase somehting in ice, though its a dialy power (fluffed)