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YOUNG COPPER DRAGON: The Comedian and the Crumbling Cliff
How to Use While the copper dragon is officially classified as good, I fail to see it in the flavor text description. Based on that description, I’d classify the dragon as neutral. This is not a dragon that will help vanquish evil, unless it is in its most direct self-interest to do so. On the… Continue reading
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ADULT BRASS DRAGON & Uses for a Powerful Non-combatant
Reasons it Won’t Join the Quest I begin my article with reasons why the dragon doesn’t just do the quest instead of the players, this being one of the most common problems with good-alignment monsters. How to Use – Neutral friendly The brass dragon is a non-combatant when possible. There are numerous other ways to… Continue reading
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SHADOW DRAGON: Unleashing terror From Amidst the Darkness
In the last post, I mentioned that shadow dragons keep their presence hidden, and enjoy spreading a dark unknown fear instead of announcing their strength the way every other dragon does. Before going into the details of how it does that, I felt the need to discuss how to use horror in D&D. Now is… Continue reading
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ANCIENT WHITE DRAGON: Weapons of the Artic Cold
How to Use Combat Encounter 1: Iceberg (difficulty 23) The players are on top of an iceberg. Perhaps their ship crashed into it and they needed to evacuate onto the iceberg, perhaps the white dragon sank their ship via dropping boulders, perhaps there’s a quest object or something that they wanted to investigate. (Icebergs aren’t… Continue reading
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ADULT WHITE DRAGON: Defenses of the Frozen Lair
How to use The dragon’s lair (exploring the various obstacles of the dragon’s lair, and how to use them.) I’m going to split the lair into three parts. Reaching the lair, reaching the dragon, and fighting the dragon. Reaching the Lair The entrance to the dragon’s lair will be high up on a mountain. The… Continue reading
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To Fight a Dragon: Part 2. How to Kill a Dragon
The second part of this article and mini-campaign is to provide a way in which the players can fight back against the dragon, and kill it. Continue reading
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To Fight a Dragon: Part 1. Survival
Let us suppose that a dragon is after you. Perhaps because you killed its young, perhaps you made the mistake of taking something from its hoard. Continue reading
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ANCIENT RED DRAGON: HOW TO FIGHT WITH FIRE
While the red dragon is known to despise strategies as tools of the feeble, an ancient red dragon is old enough to know that they’re sometimes a necessary evil. Either that, or it’s grown tired of fighting off fools, Continue reading
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YOUNG RED DRAGON: How to Use Brute Force Properly
The red dragon is of the worldview that strength (meaning might) is the only important attribute, and that clever approaches are the methods of weaklings. This means that any interesting encounters with them will require either the use of homebrew, or convenient terrain. Continue reading
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On a Quest for an Evil Dragon
For the next article of how to use a dragon, we’re going to have the dragon be the quest giver. Continue reading
About Me
I’ve been a DM since I was about 10 years old. (Not of D&D, admittedly, but still.) After growing bored of fights that were all the same, dungeons heavily populated by one monster type, and a general shortage of ideas, I figured I’d embark on my own trip through the Monster Manual, one monster at a time. Feel free to join the quest.