Savage Rifts: Tales of the New West

Game Master EltonJ

"Setting fires in the forest. Fires are helpful to the forest, and there are probably no people there. Still the area might be safer if we take it out."

Do we have anything that links a dragon's type to it's predisposition to do good or evil? Are dragons generally intelligent?

Dragons, especially dragons from Palladium games and Rifts, are intelligent. They are also shapeshifters, and can take human form. The Savage Worlds version of the Rifts dragon is still intelligent and dangerous, but not overpowered like in Original Rifts (a dragon had a mega-damage body).

You all have a choice. You can either try to reason with it, or hide from it and let it continue it's rampage, or you can fight it. Of course you may have fourth and fifth options come to mind.

In this case I present you with a problem, its up to you on how to solve it.

Can they tell if it's a hatchling or adult? Because adult Rifts dragons are ridiculously strong.

Also how close are we to the forest that's our destination? Is it any danger to the place we're supposed to be delivering this stuff to?

Frankie turns to look at Agate. "Take it out? It's not a wolf or a bandit, it's a friggin' dragon." He shakes his head. "We should back off a mile or two and go around."

Can they tell if it's a hatchling or adult? Because adult Rifts dragons are ridiculously strong.

Also how close are we to the forest that's our destination? Is it any danger to the place we're supposed to be delivering this stuff to?

Frankie turns to look at Agate. "Take it out? It's not a wolf or a bandit, it's a friggin' dragon." He shakes his head. "We should back off a mile or two and go around."

Sorry, pressed the wrong button.

You are at Promontory Point, where the the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met. So you are halfway. The dragon is a juvenile. About the same age as a Pathfinder Dragon's juvenile. I'm using the Savage Worlds' version of the Red Dragon for this encounter. After all, Pinnacle didn't come out with a good bestiary for SW Rifts yet.

EltonJ - thanks for the info, that really helps with our decision-making!

"My armor's pretty tough - I could go out and try to reason with it, see why it's burning the forest. Anybody got better armor?"

I know this is meta, but my Toughness is 15(6)...

EltonJ - thanks for the info, that really helps with our decision-making!

"My armor's pretty tough - I could go out and try to reason with it, see why it's burning the forest. Anybody got better armor?"

I know this is meta, but my Toughness is 15(6)...

It's not metagaming. yet.

Yeah, I'm trying to provide you with more info.

"The bigger they come ..." Agate says with a wink at Frankie's comment. "It might be good to make friends with it if possible. But in that case, more than one of us should go, maybe just leaving Malachi, Björn, and Johanyn behind."

Johanyn nods. "By all means, I don't want to put myself in danger."

Frankie gestures at their cart. "We've got a job we're supposed to be doing. Nobody's paying us to make friends with angry dragons."

Malachi mutters, "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are tasty and good with catsup."

"Ok, so let's hide behind the rocks and hope it doesn't head our way."

Kara starts walking in that direction, keeping an eye on the direction of the dragon's movements.

Cower behind rocks and protect the shipment, I can do that

Stealth: 1d4 ⇒ 1
Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Agate finds a rock that is big enough to hide her. She peeks out now and then with her imaging goggles on full telescopic to see what it's doing.

stealth: 1d6 ⇒ 6
stealth, Ace: 1d6 ⇒ 1
Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Björn
stealth: 1d6 ⇒ 4
Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Wild, ace: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Malachi and Björn hunker down as well.

EltonJ?

What does the dragon do?

The dragon is looking around. It's still angry, on a rampage, and has made the wildlife flee.

Dragon notice: 1d10 ⇒ 5
Notice wild die: 1d6 ⇒ 3

It smells that something is off. Like he's smelling you, but can't see you. So it sits down and will check it's notice again next round.

Agate begins fiddling with her tools and gizmos. "I can make something that each of use could use to burrow underground, which should make us harder to detect. Or I could make something that would produce an illusion of something like a dust cloud to give us extra cover."