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Some of the more epic stories involve antagonists that share the protagonist's morals and beliefs, but to the fault of duty. There's no more memorable fight than "I know why you do what you do, but I cannot allow you to do it." Maybe it's just me, but there's an awesome story to be told here, and there's no reason to let alignment mechanics ruin it. Unless this is PFS (where you guys have your own set of rules), I'd say go by the rule of "You RPed that well - kudos!" or "You didn't even try... Allow me to make your shield reflect your value. Enjoy your +2 lead Shield of Useless - Signed; God."

I like the sound of it, just for a home game, but I'd treat it kind of like a story feat.

That's also assuming you don't have an actual oracle in your game... If there's an oracle, you'd kind of be ripping off his flavor.

We do group playtests, it's just not until the weekend. The last group playtest was my hunter, a skald, and a brawler. It ended with the other two all but twiddling their thumbs while I walked through our encounters - it really only helped me that there were more people to beat up on the battlefield and a bonus from the skald. Nothing lasted long enough for the brawler to do a whole lot, but it was a lower level playtest.

We'll try out a frost giant, soon, if we do another solo test. In the interest of this not being a playtest for weapon qualities and it being vulnerable to fire, I'll make the bow +2 instead, to keep things more fair.

Maybe the dragon shouldn't have landed in front of me, but with a solid survival check, I had found a depression in a cliff face, which is where I made my camp (a pseudo-cave, of sorts), so it was land or don't engage. The playtest wouldn't offer too much information if we went with "don't engage."

The Desert's Thirst would have been a cool idea, but I was loaded with comparable cure spells, anyway.

It seems the biggest problem is that the dragon landed... Should we have maybe run the same encounter with a frost giant? It's the same CR. Or even keep the blue dragon, no pseudo-cave. I could just use a tree canopy for stealth and hide until it lands or leaves - its perception isn't that great. Flying as fast as it does and trying to do the drive by tactic, I'm sure I'd break line of sight in relatively short order.