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ANCIENT BRONZE DRAGON: How to Defend an Island Lair
How to Use – Combat Encounter (difficulty 25) If the young and adult bronze dragons live along the seaside, the ancient dragon will position itself even better, inhabiting its own island. Getting close to the island will be no small challenge, let alone fighting the dragon once on the island. The dragon will have all… Continue reading
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ADULT BRONZE DRAGON & Fighting Alongside a Powerful Ally
How to Avoid Using As always, we’ll start an article about a good-alignment monster with a list of ideas as to how to avoid using. I.E. if there’s a good dragon in your campaign world, why isn’t it out there fighting the villain instead of the PCs? How to Use Having your players team up… Continue reading
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ANCIENT BRASS DRAGON: The Hidden King and His Deadly Domain
How to Use By the time a brass dragon is ancient, it’s established its reputation enough to be a king, or at least to be on the highest tier of society that it cares for. In some genres of fantasy, it has become accepted that the ideal king is someone who is friendly with even… Continue reading
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Dragon Homebrew: Ideas to Make Each Dragon Unique
While this blog is not meant as a homebrew blog, I feel that an exception is called for. D&D dragons are more or less identical, and while my encounters might be able to make up for that somewhat, they rely on the dragon being the main focus of the encounter, and sometimes even the story. … Continue reading
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ADULT RED DRAGON: Battle of the Burning City
Perhaps the most interesting place to put a red dragon is in the middle a city that it’s attacking. Fighting in the city forces the PCs to split their attention between the dragon, the fires, and any people that might need help. Let’s look at them individually. Continue reading
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ANCIENT GREEN DRAGON: Master of the Subtle Trap
By the time the dragon is ancient, it will set extremally subtle traps. (The adult might use these also, but the ancient will use them for sure.) These are traps where the trap itself is so well hidden that there Continue reading
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ANCIENT BLUE DRAGON: The Ultimate Boss Dragon
The ancient blue dragon maintains a tight watch over its territories, and the PCs should not be able to approach it (except magically) without it knowing about it well beforehand. Continue reading
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ADULT BLUE DRAGON: Defenses Inside and Outside the Lair
How to Use – Combat encounters (difficulty 18) The blue dragon has quite a number of tactics he might employ against his enemies. Among them are: Glass boulders: Glass is made by sand melting under extreme amounts of heat. Being struck by lightning will do it. Whether the dragon knows how to shape the sand… Continue reading
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PIT FIEND: Master of the Hells
Stage 1: When the pit fiend sees the PCs, I would have a number of other monsters be around. The pit fiend gestures to the other monsters to attack, and then climbs up to a high spot, where it can watch the fight like a Ceaser at a Roman circus. 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.