Gruesome, I know.
I'm running a campaign for my husband which started off with the Beginner's Box adventure. The party (of two) failed utterly to harm Blackfang and ran away, but have since tracked him down after completing the Raven's Watch adventure (also in the beginner's box) and just managed to kill him. In the least heroic way possible, mind you (poisoned him, he fell unconscious and was coup de grace'd).
So, the idea my husband wants for his character is that he's an elven lord/whatever whose family was killed as a child, and wants to take an army to reclaim his heritage. Obviously he'd need a lot of money for this.
Which is where the dragon corpse (which, by the way, was a young dragon, not adult) comes in - I've been looking at the Dragonslayer's Handbook and it appears that dragon's blood, at least, can be sold as a raw ingredient for 60gp per 1lb . How do I work out how much blood they could get from the corpse, though? Then it seems the other parts of the dragon such as stomach acid and scales should be worth something, though I can't see any prices for those and again, no idea how much there would actually be.
Further, he'd like to sell the actual skeleton too.If anyone can point me to any resources regarding the cost for the raw components or how much is on a dragon, that would be fantastic. Thank you! I'm completely lost here. :)
An average adult body with a weight of 150 to 180 pounds will contain approximately 4.7 to 5.5 liters (1.2 to 1.5 gallons) of blood.
That's for a Medium Creature. Then I'd use the average Size Increase when casting Enlarge Person if the Dragon is larger than Medium Size:
This spell causes instant growth of a humanoid creature, doubling its height and multiplying its weight by 8.
And you just extrapolate a bit from that, not that much complicated using this system.
Now... usually there are rules somewhere saying what you get from each dragon, according to its size.
From Special Material:
One dragon produces enough hide for a single suit of masterwork hide armor for a creature one size category smaller than the dragon. By selecting only choice scales and bits of hide, an armorsmith can produce one suit of masterwork banded mail for a creature two sizes smaller, one suit of masterwork half-plate for a creature three sizes smaller, or one masterwork breastplate or suit of full plate for a creature four sizes smaller. In each case, enough hide is available to produce a light or heavy masterwork shield in addition to the armor, provided that the dragon is Large or larger. If the dragonhide comes from a dragon that had immunity to an energy type, the armor is also immune to that energy type, although this does not confer any protection to the wearer.
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Weekend at Burnie's. Dress the dragon up so no one knows it is dead.
...sorry, I couldn't resist.
Reminds me of the time my DM gave us a big list bod parts that could be sold as potion ingredients, which pretty much served to set up an encounter with some very high level brigands who make money by kidnapping people turning them into various things and selling their parts for money. (Mostly elf blood for longevity potions). Eventually this led to the others joking about killing my "useless" sprite companion and using him to get some more money, as then he'd "actually do something" We were deep underground at the time that idea first started, so I don't really know how that'd be implemented...
As for the actual question, I have no idea. Thanks for the excuse to ramble though! :)