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A good thing that the cleric has access to Gentle Response (I hope?).

Although dragging the corpse probably won't work. Guess they have to dump some ore (and compensate the dwarves for it).

He has Gentle Repose, so there should be no problem casting it every day on the way back.

But in regards to dragging it, why should it not work? Did I read the rules wrong?
An Adult Black Dragon is only a Large creature, and following the Bulk of Creatures table on p. 272 would weight around 12 Bulk.
And dragging on the same page states:

In some situations, you might drag an object or creature rather than carry it. If you’re dragging something, treat its Bulk as half.

So, to drag the dragon would only be 6 Bulk. All 4 Characters have a strength modifier of +4 currently, with two of them even having the Hefty Hauler feat. Without any equipment on, each of them, while then under penalty due to the weight, could even carry it, as they have a bulk limit of 14 or 16 respectively.

Thank you for your responses.

So I will go with around 240 gp worth of dragonhide for now, as this seems to be more reasonable.

If they can get the amount needed for high-grade armor from an Ancient Dragon is something I have to consider when we get there. But as the campaign will be close to over by then, it would not matter that much anymore.

And yes, they would not even be able to craft the item level 19 dragonhide armor, but what would stop them from selling the hide? So staying with the standard-grade for now seems to be a good idea, to not break the economy in their current hometown/city too much.