In my campaign setting, dragons are in their late decline period and they're all just kinda doing what they can to survive. There's a green dragon in an uneasy cold war living underneath a dwarven stronghold for example, because there's a young copper dragon that lives with those dwarves. She needs to have kids but has very few options, so short term (on the dragon/dwarf scale) it's better to play nice until she can get an egg clutch, and then phase two will be raising the resulting kids in an evil and cruel way.
The players had a mysterious benefactor who turned out to be a silver dragon Bhaalspawn, trying to circumvent the curse/prophecy by manipulating the heroes into killing other Bhaalspawn for heroic reasons instead of for murder death god reasons (did not work).
One of the regional terrors was a "blue dragon" who was polymorphed into being a blue dragon by a different blue dragon. She used to be a drow, who tricked another dragon into thinking she was just into polyplay while trying to make some half dragon babies, and when the mate learned the truth he cursed her with a polymorph to cover up the evidence that he was tricked.
None of those ideas came from the book telling me what I can or can't make up.
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u/Applejaxc Dec 19 '23
In my campaign setting, dragons are in their late decline period and they're all just kinda doing what they can to survive. There's a green dragon in an uneasy cold war living underneath a dwarven stronghold for example, because there's a young copper dragon that lives with those dwarves. She needs to have kids but has very few options, so short term (on the dragon/dwarf scale) it's better to play nice until she can get an egg clutch, and then phase two will be raising the resulting kids in an evil and cruel way.
The players had a mysterious benefactor who turned out to be a silver dragon Bhaalspawn, trying to circumvent the curse/prophecy by manipulating the heroes into killing other Bhaalspawn for heroic reasons instead of for murder death god reasons (did not work).
One of the regional terrors was a "blue dragon" who was polymorphed into being a blue dragon by a different blue dragon. She used to be a drow, who tricked another dragon into thinking she was just into polyplay while trying to make some half dragon babies, and when the mate learned the truth he cursed her with a polymorph to cover up the evidence that he was tricked.
None of those ideas came from the book telling me what I can or can't make up.